Too Many Summons?

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The game has -reportedly- more than 40 summons in it, do you think thats too many? You have to consider that you have to raise and train each summon - for example, theres baby shiva, adult shiva, and another form of Shiva. Are 40 summons too much for the player to master? Or will some outlive their usefullness and never have to be used again after obtaining other summons?
 
I think the more summons the better myself. Itll give the game more length and more exciting i think. If i play this ill definitly try to get all the summons and i like the idea of raising the summons from a baby to and adult. Anychance theres a teenager Shiva xD
 
You don't train your monsters, they auto level to what your levels are. You only really train your main characters. Each version of "shiva" is just a separate summon monster that you can unlock. You can summon all three types if you want.
 
It seems that with every single new Final Fantasy game - spin off or not, Square-Enix tries to do something new somehow or some way.

And there's always a debate or arguement on which way is better or worse and never a settlement on which is better or worse.
 
WTF? Over 40? Now that's just ridiculous. Seriously. I suppose they just wanted to please everybody by going over the top.

Oh, any idea on how Ifrit looks? I hope he doesn't look wussy, otherwise that will disappoint me.
 
*sigh* They aren't summons. You see, when you start a battle each character will get two of their set esper, or more than two depeneding on how many people. The amount of espers doesn't matter, because say you get a Chocobo esper. That's a melee esper. Then say you get an Ixion esper. That's also a melee esper. You won't be using the Chocobo esper anymore because you got Ixion. Get it? And you get auracite from every battle (except 1... or at least I've only done 1 where I didn't get any auracite), and auracite is used in this grid called the Ring of Pacts. There, you forge pacts with the espers, starting from the middle four. (Vaan, Kytes, Filo, Penelo) So as you go on, when you get... say a flying character, Filo's espers are able to be used to the flying characters. 40 isn't much. You won't even use half the espers you get.
 
Espers and summons are the same thing - they're called Espers in FFVI and you "summon" them. They're called Espers in XII and you "summon" them. So if people want to call them summons, I don't see a problem. It's a popular term people use.
 
I don't think the problem with Espers is that there were too many, because options are always a good thing to have for every situation. I think the problem was that each summon only had a couple paragraphs of backstory, and they don't have any real influence on the game. Most people just pay attention to Quickenings and all that.

Plus, it was cool to have an Esper for every Zodiac symbol. :]
 
Alot of the yahri/espers were pretty weak really so once you advance throughout the game you don't really use them much if ever, I didnt think that it was too many realy considering the elements and the whole flying/ranged/melee shizz

Plus it gave you summat to do....
 
i just consider them allies in battle. by the way, there is a male shiva that is a teenager: Shivar who is shiva's boyfriend.
 
The thing is, the summons/espers in RW are used more like rank soldiers. They aren't meant to be uber-powerful summons, but the expendable soldiers of your battlegroup. The lower rank "espers" look just like ordinary FF monsters, actually, such as the mandragora. The main characters are the leaders of their squads, and every squad can have so many espers. The idea is that these "troops" are used in a tactical manner, and that they can be re-summoned via summoning gates.

Odd and unconventional, but fun.
 
I don't think it is too much. I even wanted a few more, like Rank II Non-Elemental Range type Esper. I never really realized there are more than 40.
Never really counted them though...

Though, it is annoying that it is impossible to put all of them to a good use.
For example, I haven't used many of the Rank III ones.
 
I think there are a bit too much, and that's not too bad. The only problem is you'll just find yourself hardly ever using some of them, which seems a little pointless.
 
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