This means, for those first couple of hours of Final Fantasy XII, you’ll feel like you’re playing as fairly bland characters that are rather insignificant to the events that are going on around them.
FF12 SLEIPNIR SERIES
Based on the history of the Final Fantasy series (and JRPGs in general), you would assume that you are in control of important characters here, given that they are the first characters you connect with through the magic of a game controller, but actually that’s not the case at all, and this gives the game an interesting flavour in its first few hours.Īgain, you won’t play as the tutorial character ever again after that scene’s done, and while Vaan and Penello remain in the core team of characters that you build up, they do become largely peripheral characters in an ensemble cast that does feature far more important heroes. Without giving away spoilers the first character you control is only for the tutorial, and then you’re put in command of Vaan and, later, Penello. None of the first three characters you control are the major players in the story
I’ve come away from my time with the game just as positively as I did from the first hands-on session – this really is my favourite Final Fantasy – but there are a couple of things I wanted to note for people who were either stepping into the game for the first time, or last played it so long ago that they’ve largely forgotten about it.
I’d already had the chance to play a couple of select scenes from the mid-game ( you can read my thoughts on those bits and pieces here), but this was the first chance I’ve had in around a decade to play through the very start of the game.
FF12 SLEIPNIR FULL
I’ve had the opportunity to have another preview session and get stuck into the game, playing its opening acts in the leadup to the full game. Final Fantasy XII, remastered into glorious HD with Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, isn’t long away now, and for many people it’ll be the first opportunity to play a game that had been previously restricted to a console that has been long retired.
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