Recently though, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age was brought to Game Pass. Trust me, no one is more disappointed in me and my early gaming tastes than me. Knowing me, I probably traded the game in to buy Fahrenheit or The Bouncer or some other game that equally signifies my wrong’un behaviour. Final Fantasy XIIĭespite enjoying the game as a teenager, one fateful incident involving a late-game dungeon and a party that just weren’t equipped to deal with higher level foes ultimately led to me quitting the game entirely. Micromanaging your team is more fun when it’s done for you, obviously. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Final Fantasy game without a party of characters backing you up, but FF12 changes the formula up with the Gambit system, which allows you to program your party members to attack specific targets, use certain abilities to exploit a monster’s weakness or heal your teammates, all without having to navigate the menus.
You have to wait for your attacks to charge up before you can use them, but it’s still an incredibly engaging combat system that scratched my itch more than just sitting and waiting to attack each other. Instead of randomly encountering enemies and selecting attacks every turn, you’ll instead see monsters out in the wild and you fight them in real-ish time. His name’s Cloud, right? Final Fantasy XIIĪs a fresh-faced teenager, a good chunk of my PS2 days were spent playing Final Fantasy XII, which threw away the turn-based battle system for something more akin to a single-player MMO. Yes, I finished it as a kid, and no, I had no idea what was going on or who the blonde ghost boy was.
The only Final Fantasy game in the series that I’ve ever managed to finish was Final Fantasy X-2, which should give you some kind of idea about how much of a wrong’un I really am. Lame excuse, sure, but I’m sticking with it. Final Fantasy XV wasn’t turn-based, and while the combat did seem fun, a brief 8 hour stint with the game was all I could manage before the un-ending maw of content and new games forced me to move on.
Maybe it’s my aversion to turn-based combat that a lot of the series is defined by, or maybe it’s because I just have bad opinions. For whatever reason, I’ve never really been able to gel with the Final Fantasy series.
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