I would have liked it to be more like Crystal Chronicles.. A kinda free roam type game.. Not set to grids.. Thats what i find is boring.. But its addictive..

 

same here o.O
it bores me

 

The Bazaar system is one of the most annoying things in any video game. You can't ever upgrade your characters because you can't buy new weapons.

 

So, I played the hell out of FFT and FFTA. So I had a lot of hopes and expectations going into A2.

First off, the quests. For the most part, they're the same as before, but with some nice additions. The whole clan skills thing is new, and really only serves the purpose of determining if you can accept certain quests. But at the same time, there are a lot of unique quests devoted to increasing those skills. And with those, you also gain clan abilities. Overall, I think it's a nice touch to the quest system.

The job system is mostly the same, as well. But having to unlock certain jobs via quests is nice, and a pain. For the most part, unlocking a job happens when you won't even be planning on changing to it yet anyway. Yet, you have to try to do as many quests as you can at a time to ensure you are unlocking the jobs as soon as possible. Kind of a pain if you're not sure how to open a job.

I've seen a lot of talk about the Bazaar. Personally, I see it as another good/bad thing. Before, you would just have to wait for the shop to get new equipment in. And that kind of sucked. But at least now you have a -little- bit of control over it. Since you can now make the new weapons, you have a bit more control over finding new abilities to learn. But at the same time, if you don't have the materials gathered from quests, you're not really going to be getting many new pieces of equipment. Also, I'm scared to sell of ANY bazaar loot until I've created everything. I really don't even like having the option to sell that stuff knowing I could potentially sell off my chances at an ability.

Story wise, it looks like the first FFT wins again. Sure, these "sucked into a book" stories are kind of interesting, but the full fledged story of FFT was amazing. So at this point, I see the quests as a trade off of the story. But I have to admit, I'm liking Luso a lot more than Marche (even though I liked Ramza even more). I'm only about 15 hours into it so I can't get into too much detail about the story, but so far, it's good enough I suppose.

Without going into a full on review, I'll just say that I'm completely enjoying this game. Very good stuff.

 

I'll try mine!

The story line ... If you liked the first one, you'll probably like this one. If you don't know the first one and aren't annoyed by title mission like : Kill the angry tomatoes, that should be fine also.

The game play : it's a good 'traditional' tactical. you got nearly everything you hope from that kind of game and add one or two things more. For example, the hated/loved law. They're less pain it the ass than before and now, could really be a nice challenge if you try to follow them and not that annoying if you don't. And the way that you get the new weapon seems more due to you cause you've to find the materials (One thing that bother me is, it's you that do all the searching and when you got one, you still have to buy it !:-

 

I haven't had as much time to delve deeper into this game as much as I want to, but I can pretty much tell that I enjoy it, even if the storyline has great potential to suck. PuyoDead calls it as soon as the "sucked into a book" storyline is mentioned, and I can only think of something: Couldn't they think of a story deeper or more... involving, I guess? Just because the characters are all mini and cute and whatnot on a DS doesn't mean the story has to kind of match. I'm not completely hating on FFTA and FFTA2 (because I played FFTA pretty throughly and I'm enjoying FFTA2 currently), but they could do better on the storyline... especially on these handhelds. Are the main characters kids on the DS on purpose, or what...?

Gameplay: I think that despite the Laws, they can be overlooked in A2 compared to how I originally felt about them in FFTA. Everything seems more balanced overall, and there is a huge job list and stuff to get... although one thing; there isn't a way to rotate the screen around like in FFT is there?

 

I still like Final Fantasy Tactics better.~

 

Even worse is "No targeting of adjacent units". I ignore that one completely every time. I don't have enough good mages/arches/etc for that just yet. But overall, the law system is a million times better than FFTA.

 

No-one else seems to have the same problem as me. Every time I start the Tomato mission, it freezes roughly a minute in. I've tried it 6 times on different occasions to no avail. I'll try and re-transfer the ROM or something.

So far though, it's just as good as the last FFTA. That's all that can be said really, it's practically the same as its former. It's still an awesome game though! I'll play from start to finish, even if it takes me a year!

 

there's something wrong with your brain

the original is a billion times better than the latest ones