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Did two playthroughs. One blind on normal where I got the bad ending and a next fear where I got the good+ ending. This is one of the best horror games ever made. Unsettling environments with no jumpscares. Just some good horror and an intriguing story. The controls are a bit janky but if you're used to the old resident evil's it's not such a big deal. I can't wait to see how SH2 will top this.
Oh boy. this game is hard to rate as it has many ups and downs. I wouldn't say that this game is better than 4 or even 3 but it's a unique experience i still consider worth playing. Many of the games problems stem from its gameplay rather than its story. This game took me over 10 more hours to finish than the other ff games and not for a good reason either. The game has a multi hour long segment in the end that feels like padding. You have to collect the 4 mcguffin tablets to unlock the 12 sacredly awesome weapons. I can't help but feel that this is a step back from ff3 where the awesome weapons were in an optional dungeon you could choose to skip. Its not even like theres a lot of story going on during the mcguffin collection its just filler. The games difficulty curve is all over the place. you will destroy enemies in previous areas only to go to the next one and suddenly get destroyed for no apparent reason. The biggest issue with the gameplay I feel is the ability points system. It's cool in theory and in practice but the thing that makes it a slog is just how slowly you get given the stuff. I mean for the majority of the game battles will give you at max 4 and often times 1 and when the games enjoyment hinges on getting cool abilities it can be a massive slog. The big problem as well is that later on in the game you start fighting enemies with extremely specific ways to kill them. If you didnt invest in the right class before these moments you have to GRIND to get the right ability to kill that enemy easier. This problem could've been solved by 1. making ABP easier to obtain overall and 2. Designing the enemies so they have many equally valid ways to defeat them without brute forcing them via grinding. overall i think this game is exactly middle of the road in my rating of these games so far. It's better than ff1 and especially ff2 but it has at times severe gameplay issues that hold it back which I believe makes it worse than ff3 and ff4.
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HOLYYYYYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT. This game is somehow even better than FF3! Ok lets start with this games many positives. Level ups are even quicker in this game than in previous games while still making a quite large difference in the power of your character between levels. The story is insane just for it being the first FF game with a REAL story. The previous games all attempted stories but this is the first one with an ACTUAL story. Characters, Motivations, Betrayal it's all here and makes for an insanely entertaining and gripping story especially in comparison to FF1,2 and 3. This game was also the introduction of the active time battle system which ditches the more traditional turn based system for a system that combines turn based actions with real time elements such as when the enemy attacks. I feel that this system works incredibly well in this game. Even though i initially thought it was too chaotic at the start of the game, I grew to enjoy the system and especially the improvements made in other areas. The world is even bigger than in previous games while still being more densely packed with content. In FF1 you would often have several minutes of walking between locations especially with random encounters included. This game opts often to shorten the distance required to get from location to location which is refreshing. Another massive thing that I love about this game is how non-existent grinding is. As long as you fight every random encounter you will be very ready for the final boss. This game's pacing overall is immaculate there is practically never a dull moment in the game and its also a bit shorter than other FF games. My completion time for this game was 3 hours shorter than FF3 but It felt like there was even more things going on than in that game. With all of that said I have to unfortunately talk about the one bad point in this game... the final boss. Not only is it way too easy (I literally beat it while forgetting phoenix downs and having 3/5ths of my party dead near the start) the character who ends up being the final boss gets very little setup. He basically shows up in the last hour of the game and is like "Yo guys im here now" and It really reduces the impact of the final boss. Personally no matter how cliche it would've been i really feel like Golbez would've been better as a final boss. He is set up the entire game as this formidable unbeatable foe yet you never get to fight him proper. Every "fight" with him is a cutscene where you all get your ass beat. It would've been immensely gratifying to kick his ass in a final boss battle. In conclusion, if the story of the NES era games really doesn't do it for you than i can actually recommend this game as a starting point. It's an absolutely unforgettable experience and an insane improvement over the previous games.