The escape function

March 27, 2008, 8:43 AM

So... I've been killed while trying to escape because it freezes your characters in place once you've been allowed to retreat. Seems they implemented the same shitty quirk the original game had where you have to stand still until being attacked so that you can escape.

It's a bit irritating when you lose about an hours worth of effort due to a horribly shitty gimmick.

Anyone else hate it with a burning passion?

March 27, 2008, 10:04 AM

hasnt happened to me yet, but it fecking annoys me! i'm standing there and the guy barrages me with bullets! i don't even think they play the damn game after they are done to see the flaws in the system. their testers suck!

March 27, 2008, 12:04 PM

how DO you escape in the English version? i've not found out how.

The whole battle system isn't as good as the original FF games.

I want turn-based back!!! it worked so damn perfectly. Now when i try to cure myself, i can be dead AS IM CASTING CURE. It sucks.

But other than that, the game is amazing

March 27, 2008, 12:08 PM

You run to the edge of the battle area until it makes you freeze in place and get hit or possibly die.

March 27, 2008, 12:21 PM

i tried escaping like that, same thing happened to me... i cant believe there isnt an escape option...

March 27, 2008, 5:34 PM

I've never really attempted to run away or really needed to, all you really need to do is get behind the enemy and hit attack for a critical, or just barrage them with tons of magic from a distance (both usually work) The game isn't exactly had, at the well...hardest of times. Still a brilliant game though

March 28, 2008, 9:23 PM

agree totally

whenever i try and escape i get hit 2-3 times

frikin retarded - dnt mind the lack of turn based

why dint they just put it into the control bar thing that u attack and do spells with in the bottom rest

April 2, 2008, 12:23 AM

ye you have to run out of the battlefield, and then get hit one time by the monster and then u have escaped, although ive never died trying to escape because i never run when im dying, i usually just heal or die.

April 10, 2008, 12:34 AM

I don't get hit when I try to escape... but the best way to (almost) always make an easy escape is to drag your enemies to the opposite side and keep dashing against the wall. Not only wil you escape faster, but the enemies will take longer to reach you, and attack you,

(Of course you need the dash materia for that,

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EDIT: By the way, instead of trying to escape, try to not eneter battles if that's the idea, you know exactly where "random" battles occur due to the area being wider and usually rounded or squared, just hug the correct wall and you'll almost always avoiding unwanted battles,