During the 90's I began to become an RPG junkie. I loved role playing games of all types. It was Final Fantasy II (IV) that got me hooked. I had so many RPG games for the SNES, that now I am baffled as to why I never played this game during that time. Even more baffling is the fact I had never even heard of it until two or three years ago. I desperately wanted to play it, but to find a cart of it, meant having to pony up 150 dollars plus, which was a bit too steep. However, I have finally gotten to play this game thanks to an emulator and it was a really fun game. Not quite as good as I was expecting, but overall a good experience. The game is typical of many role playing games in that it starts out great, but kind of finishes a bit weaker than the blazing start. So, for all its quirks, it sadly retained that trait. Still, it was a nice diversion.
The story has you as a little boy named Ness, or whatever you want to name him finding a meteorite up on a hill. A strange fly, named Buzz Buzz joins you and explains that a terrible future awaits the world as Giygas terrorizes the world in the future. Ness must join forces with three other kids and go out into the world to claim a power that can defeat this awesome foe, and try to correct the evils that are being released due to Giygas. Pokey, a next door neighbor, has plans of his own as your group must overcome many obstacles on the way to your clash with Giygas.
The battle system is turned base; however, there are no random encounters as you see the villains on the map. If you are way more powerful than the foe you run into, you do not even have to combat them as you will simply get the win and the experience that goes along with it. The game is lighthearted and funny for the most part and they really did a nice job creating the world. The big cities all named after numbers look great and have a lot going on in them. After you traverse Fourside city though, the cities become vastly less impressive as the places you run into after it get smaller with less things going on in them. Kind of a disappointment as Summers is like the last really nice city you visit. The world, up to that point is just more fun to explore in that it interconnects so well and it is fun traveling by car to the next place, but then the place seems more like you are going somewhere not connected.
As fun as the game is, the other problem I had with this one is Giygas. It most certainly looks disturbing when the final showdown arrives, but it seems like it does not fit the story. I was under the impression that Giygas was an alien invader and he controls various other aliens in an attempt to rule the world. One town is overrun by zombies and ghosts that Giygas has brought forth. The last battle, though, kind of indicates he was kind of a mindless entity that is simply evil. Pokey, too, is also kind of a mystery. Just a couple of plot holes in the story.
Overall, this game is a very good one. I would rank both Final Fantasy II (IV) and III (VI) higher than it, but compared to a lot of RPGs released these days it is great! I wish they would go back to this style more when creating an RPG and be less concerned with super realistic character designs and cinematic scenes and worry more about creating a fun world to traverse and explore. While this one, was not quite the game I thought it was going to be, it was still very entertaining and I am glad that I finally got to play it.
The story has you as a little boy named Ness, or whatever you want to name him finding a meteorite up on a hill. A strange fly, named Buzz Buzz joins you and explains that a terrible future awaits the world as Giygas terrorizes the world in the future. Ness must join forces with three other kids and go out into the world to claim a power that can defeat this awesome foe, and try to correct the evils that are being released due to Giygas. Pokey, a next door neighbor, has plans of his own as your group must overcome many obstacles on the way to your clash with Giygas.
The battle system is turned base; however, there are no random encounters as you see the villains on the map. If you are way more powerful than the foe you run into, you do not even have to combat them as you will simply get the win and the experience that goes along with it. The game is lighthearted and funny for the most part and they really did a nice job creating the world. The big cities all named after numbers look great and have a lot going on in them. After you traverse Fourside city though, the cities become vastly less impressive as the places you run into after it get smaller with less things going on in them. Kind of a disappointment as Summers is like the last really nice city you visit. The world, up to that point is just more fun to explore in that it interconnects so well and it is fun traveling by car to the next place, but then the place seems more like you are going somewhere not connected.
As fun as the game is, the other problem I had with this one is Giygas. It most certainly looks disturbing when the final showdown arrives, but it seems like it does not fit the story. I was under the impression that Giygas was an alien invader and he controls various other aliens in an attempt to rule the world. One town is overrun by zombies and ghosts that Giygas has brought forth. The last battle, though, kind of indicates he was kind of a mindless entity that is simply evil. Pokey, too, is also kind of a mystery. Just a couple of plot holes in the story.
Overall, this game is a very good one. I would rank both Final Fantasy II (IV) and III (VI) higher than it, but compared to a lot of RPGs released these days it is great! I wish they would go back to this style more when creating an RPG and be less concerned with super realistic character designs and cinematic scenes and worry more about creating a fun world to traverse and explore. While this one, was not quite the game I thought it was going to be, it was still very entertaining and I am glad that I finally got to play it.