Quick recs etc.

[canis_m]

"Twice the River" by issen4 (Hikaru no Go x Spirited Away crossover, avoids the obvious. 9 parts and ongoing, at 31_days)

"Come to Lie on the Fire" by liriaen (Peacemaker Kurogane, BLACK METAL AU, lolololol a thousand lols)

EDIT: Okami x mystery fandom fanart by kidneythief (to say more would be spoilers JUST LOOK AT IT OKAY

Comments

[canis_m]

Bland is the perfect word for it! So far, anyway. Idk I'm terrible at describing battle systems because I just haven't played that many games, but this one makes me feel really disengaged, like I'm not doing anything--like it minimizes player participation. It's boring! I mean, I know some people made that complaint about XII, but with XII you could be as involved or as auto-pilot as you wanted to be. In XIII instead of "gambits" there are "paradigms," but they're more like the AI in P4 than the gambits in XII--like, you can set a paradigm for everybody to attack, or for one party member to act as healer, one as stat booster, or whatever. It's also more like P4 in that when you engage an enemy you go to a separate battle screen, and within that battle screen you can't physically move the characters around (or if you can, I'm so dumb I haven't figured out how to do it yet)--they move, but they do so on their own; it's out of your control. This is still driving me crazy.

Keep in mind though I'm literally unable to read some of the submenus, so maybe this is all more customizable than I realize. Also I am a slow learner! XD; At the mo I'd say it sucks donkey balls compared to XII ahaha, but let me play some more and report back.

Also there are a million cutscenes. More cutscene than game??

[amei]

ah ok thanks for the info! So it's more like a traditional FF. (eg hit a lot of x, watch shiny things happen) XD

It's a little after the fact, but FFXIII was developed by an entirely different team from the guys who did FFXII. Which would explain the differences. :U

(actually, half the FFXII guys worked on The Last Remnant, not sure what they are working on now?)

[canis_m]

Oh, I wasn't expecting them to be alike, necessarily, it's just that I have so little to compare to. There is definitely a lot of watching things happen. Occasionally some hitting x. ._.;