Taking one for the team

[zoifox]

In other news, I picked up Final Fantasy Tactics A2 today, chiefly to see if they balanced the various unit types/races out somewhat - or at least made the Viera less broken and the Bangaa less useless. Since they've apparently gone and added a couple more races in addition to the aforementioned two, Moogles, Nu Mou, and Humans, I'm not that

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[chibikaie]

Mmmm. Let me know how it goes? I really think it could have been a good game if they hadn't been so blazingly stupid about viera. You really shouldn't have a race that gets high speed, complete evasion of normal attacks, the second strongest magic set in the game, the only race-restricted armors in the game, the ability to inflict status ailments (including petrification) from a distance with over 90% success, access to the only means to restore HP without using Holy, and probably about six other benefits that I've forgotten about. Arrrgh. I really, really hate viera.

[zoifox]

...the Sniper/Assassin combo... the Red Mage/Any Other Magic User combo... Yeah. Meanwhile, your Bangaa and Nu Mou units would still be struggling to even get into position by battle's end. At least the Moogles had it a bit better. They really didn't balance the races well at all.

(There was also the part where I hated pretty much every story character who wasn't a moogle or Cid - the latter largely by virtue of being "just there" - by the end of the game, but we won't go there.)

[chibikaie]

The story and all the story characters sucked. Seriously. The moogles were cute; Babus was kinda cute but entirely too cowed; I guess, yeah, Cid was there. Otherwise - well, there were multiple reasons why I traded my copy in fairly quickly. Lack of an interesting plotline and any sympathetic characters were definitely high on the list

[zoifox]

Yeah, the story was excruciating. Although kind of interesting if you decide to treat Marche as the villain of the piece.

I pretty much felt the same way about Babus. Wasn't too fond of Ezel. My copy of FFTA currently keeps the dust out of my Game Boy Player.

I'm looking at the FF wiki right now, and it looks like the viera have picked up two NEW jobs. Eesh. Meanwhile, the two new races have four jobs each. And one of the new moogle jobs is... Chocobo Knight. Basically, they capture a chocobo in battle and ride it around and/or use its abilities. Their stats seem to be based on that of whichever chocobo they're riding. (The other new class? Uses cannons. For support magic. Yeah.)