Square-Enix FF: Type-0

My honest opinions on the game so far.

-Combat is fun. It can be mashy at times but other then that I think it's good for a JRPG.
-Being able to play as not only all your characters but switch them on the fly AND there's 14 of em? Something that has been missing in Square games for a while
-I am PAINFULLY uninterested in the story so far. I think the infodump at the beginning really turned me off
-I don't know anything about the characters I'm playing as except for Machina and Ace but hopefully this changes
-That "strategic" mission thing? Absolutely dreadful
-There's also a lot of red and brown. I hope this changes because it's a little barf inducing.


Also Square, I dunno what you were thinking putting Chapter 1 on one disc and the rest on the second but it's not the 90's anymore.

 

well you should, it's regarded as one of the best FF games ever
EVERRRR

 

it's also an advanced version of Crisis Core in terms of gameplay. It pushed the PSP beyond its limit, graphically, level up system is... I dunno... kinda reminiscent of FF8? And the story is -kinda- reminiscent of FF12 (or an Ivalice game, at least)

 

Pissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssed.

I have been following the Doomtrain fan trans since (almost) the beginning. I was super pumped when they said it was gonna come out in August. I haven't checked in a while cause I figured I wouldn't need to and then I saw THAT.

Ok so I am not really that pissed...but I am mad that it literally took them THIS LONG to say that they are making it. I hope they stuff that crap full of extra goodies on top of the HDness because LORD KNOWS I HAVE WANTED THIS GAME SO BADLY I JAIL BROKE MY PSP GHETTO STYLE.

>.>

(I had to come back and post this because no one in my family would understand)

 

There's quite a difficulty spike early in the game.
Not a problem of course but it's quite jarring considering the mass amounts of "HIT HERE TO INSTANT KILL" going on

 

I was so excited when they annouced for PS vita.. but then they took it back >_<

 

Currently playing now. I'm loving it. The infodump was a little off putting. But lots of games/literature start off that way. I learned that the best thing to do is to keep on. Eventually the earlier info will make sense.

I always had a thing for lore. Be it FF or Greek Mythology, so I suppose that helps me stay in the focus.

I mostly play as Ace/Machina/Eight. But mostly Ace cause I like how he makes me feel like Byakuya (from Bleach) must feel when he fights.

Tl;dr
Take all my money Square Enix.

 

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I HOPE he's more like Zidane than, say, Tiz
Bryce doesn't exactly have huge range from what I've seen though

 

I'm pretty sure they did it late because Sky gave a fake release date for the patch (early August).

Not like this will change anything of course. Anyone who wanted to play it probably has it by now

 

To Square's credit, they had to figure out what the hell to do with this game. I've been basically sitting on a full localization since a couple months after it came out in Japan, but the PSP up and died. I'm sure they considered just putting on the Vita marketplace, but I'm also sure they waited to observe how well the Vita was selling first. Turns out, not very well. Like I said, they probably didn't know what the hell they were going to do with Type-0 until a couple months prior to the announcement.[DOUBLEPOST=1405806244][/DOUBLEPOST]

Listen, it's not like a cease and desist was completely unreasonable here. Wait, you mean there's an emulator that can give them the game free, at lower res albeit, and in English and run on basically any PC? And we're releasing this game? Like, it's not like they stopped them immediately. They stopped them when they figured out they were going to still release Type-0. The whole spheal he gave about "IS THIS HOW A COMPANY TREATS ITS BIGGEST FANS?!?!?!" can actually suck my nuts. It's so entitled to another company's intellectual property that I shudder to think of this person ever getting in a concept of ownership debate. Yes, you did work Square-Enix is doing and going to sell. You got told to stop. Get over it.

Implying Journos should play and research games so they get their facts straight? HA!

 

I' m not sure how the PSP being officially retired for a few months would have hurt the sales, but for some reason their western marketing departments disagreed. They did wait to see how well the Vita would fare and, well, poop. They also checked how well the game would look left as is on PS3, but the proportions of the hub and the menus looked weirdly huge on a HDTV. So did the characters since the camera was super close to them. I' m pretty sure I wouldn' t have gave a damn, but Tabata is a perfectionist and that didn' t slide with him. And he didn' t mention it in the interview I just summarized but the original camera controls were simply horrid, and that I do mind.

If that doesn' t teach SE that localization should be an intrinsic part of the development cycle, not an afterthought, I don' t know what will.