LOVE IT. The battle system was fresh and entertaining, the story was interesting, and characters were mostly lovable. I was obsessed with the License Board and collecting Espers for Ashe. I only wish the plot part of the game had been a little longer.

Love it, I love the refreshing battle-style, licenseboard. And I love the deep political storyline wich is different but good. Altough I am just ehaded for the Henne Mines to find Marj. I am just sure that there will be some plot-twists

having played and beaten every final fantasy game including ffxii i have to say i was disappointed with most of the game. i found the espers to be useless at best, never used 65% of the weapons or armor cuz i didnt need to, most spells early on are only somewhat useful you're better off hacking your way through the enemies, balthiere is the only interesting character and the only well voiced one at that, it just felt like the game was one big sidequest. the license board was so-so as was the gambit system but ill attribute my feelings on those to the fact that im so used to classical rpg style play. all in all i feel let down by this game and hope that ffxiii and its offshoots are better.

p.s. final fantasy xi rocks WoW blows!
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i think the story was a bit dull but the battle system was really good

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I loved it because of the battle system, it was something new, beating the crap out of the old Runescape style attack and wait to die thing.. Also Seeing Frans ass occasionally cheered me up.

i really love it, its well balenced in gameplay and graphics. and t battle system is not that bad either. but could do better.

Woah, I have seen so many views on this one in most places. As for me, I never liked this for several reasons. First we had the License board. Sure, it seemed nice and all at first, even though it was really small. What I did not like however, was the fact all the characters was like blank pages, ready to be filled in with your own likings. We saw a little bit of it in FFX, although they still managed to maintain the individual feelings to the characters, as you had more options to customize them as you liked. Besides, all of them already had a "roll" to begin with. Rikku, thief, Auron, Warrior, Lulu, black mage, etc.

Here they had different weapons, yes, but that was all.

Another things I disliked was the constant running the whole time. Passing long fields back and forth the whole time really made it more of a pain than before. I suppose that the Gambit System was supposed to put up a bit for that, but I never liked it. It seemed like an excuse for being lazy? Sure, the battles could get monotonous, but if I was tired because of that I would just shut off my PS2, get my drift?

The characters, hm, could it get less personal? I am not after som tradtional cheesy love story between the characters. That is not my point. What I mean is that they show no emotions whatsoever. Some might blame the lack of character devolopment on the fact that they might have been fully developt when you started. Sure, fair point, but thats not what Im looking for when I want to play a RPG. Although I can understand that some people like the characters, but they were not to my liking, sorry.

The story was not interesting enough to keep me interested in the game. I can suppose those who thought it was a nice change, a new twist, so to speak. But politics has never made me interested and never will.

But as I said, I fully respect those who like it, and praised it. I guess I never found it appealing enough to begin with.

I love FFXII. The story is great and just the ending alone is worth playing for. It has interesting characters (for the most part) and well written dialogue.