So like many people I picked up FFTA2 last week.  Three hours into the game I made a dumb mistake and lost my save file *sigh*.

It's been too long since I played the first FFTA, so I can't do too much comparison, but I found the game to be pretty fun and oddly addictive.  In fact, about 80% of the battles/quest I'm currently getting myself into has nothing to do with the storyline.  I guess that's one of my rants about the game.  I tend to get caught up in trying to get more raw materials to make new weapons at the bazaar and what not, that often times I forget that there's an actual storyline.  You could argue that you could skip all these quest and just do the storyline quest, but who doesn't want to learn those new classes or get those new weapons to learn new skills?  I'm currently about 14 hours into the game with minimal storyline quests done.  This is going to be one long game.

My biggest rant by far would be the main character's clothing of choice.  It is one UGLY looking outfit.  I know Square-Enix usually doesn't do this bad with the outfits.  I remember when I first saw Vaan in FF XII, my eyes were already starting to hurt, but this is beyond ugly.  The colors all clash.  Come on, what are they thinking about by putting a red hat with that green clover/sash thing?  Is it Christmas or something?  As you may know there's a class system where you can change classes of the characters.  I was praying hard that his clothing would change with the class like all the non-main characters do, but no...he keeps this ridiculous clown outfit.

All I'm asking Square-Enix for are some decent looking outfits.  I mean I do have to stare at this guy for the whole duration of the game.  Hey, maybe I should be glad he's not a blonde, huh?

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written by Kamakaze , July 02, 2008

woah this game came out already, time to fire up the ole R4DS!

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written by BevoBoy , July 02, 2008

looks like your standard tetsuya nomura deign to me. he has seriously gayed up every single male protagonist in every recent Square Enix game. I honestly think the guy sits there on the drawing board trying to think of the most ridiculous outfits that cosplayers would have to wear. must have chuckled to himself imagining some otaku in vaan's outfit.

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written by chefie , July 03, 2008

the protagonist always looks like a 13 year old boy that's still in his awkward looking phase...janky clothing doesnt help

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written by m00k , July 03, 2008

wow..that guys outfit does look a bit ridiculous lol

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written by Forrest , July 03, 2008

Man, I thought the same thing. At the beginning he gets sucked into the book and they put him in that clown get up. He says "cool" or something, and I was sitting there shaking my head.

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written by Kwanz , July 03, 2008

I am so far extremely disappointed by this game.... The PS1 FFT had one of the best storylines that I've ever seen in a video game, and my heart sank when FFTA2 opened up with some anime kid in school getting sucked into a magic book and trying to find his way home... I mean come on.

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written by gameh0lic , July 03, 2008

kwanz:
I have to agree with you.. for the most part, I liked the gameplay but the plot does nothing for me. I loved the religious overtones and political backstabbing found in the original FFT. There's not much we can do about it, since the DS has a younger target audience compared to the PS1.

We can however look forward to the upcoming Disgaea port

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written by Jus_LLS , July 04, 2008

Hmm. . . he's wearing high heels with stocking or something like it. . .this is wrong on so many levels.
Still have yet to play the game though.

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written by Eclesius , July 08, 2008

how long is this game?

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written by Lan Party Socialite , July 11, 2008

Tactics games can be as long as you want them to be

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