This appeared in my mailbox last Thursday!
The box!
Why is Lightning on the cover?
The soundtrack, with only 10 tracks. =P
Two l’Cie stickers! They’re not even transparent. =(
Three character cards, print on both sides, cheapskates!
They claim that to be an artbook, 57 pages of CG and screenshots.
Meh. =P
I’m only 6-7 hours in the game and it feels somewhat recycled. First of all the cast. Lightning, ex soldier, sword, quite grumpy and wants to be left alone. Sazh, chocolate skin, a gunner bro with a nice and bouncy afro. The fist scene starts with a train and there’s a lot of flashbacks going on during my current playthrough. Story advancement is very linear, just right now and cut-scene heavy. Voice acting is much better than Final Fantasy X and not as cheesy as Final Fantasy XII yay!
Fighting is fun, there’s something called Paradigm Shift, which is a mix of the FFX grids and FFX-2 job-system. Jobs can be changed anytime during battle, but then you change jobs it’s for everyone in the party, not individually. Each “job group” will have its own name, my current favourite is “Bully”, Vanille de-buff targets and the two others attack. You can only decide the actions of the party leader and you are not yet able to choose who you want in your party. If Lightning should die, it’s game over.
So far so good, I enjoy the music, Paradigm Shift and the story is quite decent. Graphics are nice, though the Xbox 360 version is downgraded and the game is on 3 discs. If I ever should need a break from the game, I can play Bayonetta, which I borrow from the library. Nyarhar!
Sazh and Chocobo!
