The original PS2 release of this game is what put me off the franchise for a while. I did not like the gambit system and watching the game play itself. Thankfully I turned around on this game a little more than a decade later when the Zodiac Age remaster came out that fixed just about every issue I had with the gameplay.

I still wish the main party got to know each other more and that Vaan and Penelo mattered more. There are a lot of things this game was setting up that it couldn't fulfill due to development woes. Really curious what this game would be like if they could have implemented more of what they had originally planned.

Reviewed on Jan 18, 2024


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