Final Fantasy XII Nets A Perfect Famitsu Score, and everybody gets a little bit hopeful. This is the sixth game to achieve such a score from the magazine, the other five being: Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Vagrant Story, Soul Calibur, and… Nintendogs.
…yeah, I remain cautiously optimistic.
Final Fantasy XII is just one short week away from release in Japan, and today, the first review scores became public as early copies of this week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu, Japan’s most well-known gaming magazine, went on sale. The verdict? A perfect score of 40 out of 40.
Each of the four reviewers praised the graphics, scenario and game system extensively, in particular the freshness that the latest entry has brought to the Final Fantasy series. Interestingly enough, this is the second time a Yasumi Matsuno game received a perfect score from Famitsu; he was also the director of the critically-acclaimed PlayStation epic, Vagrant Story. Although he’s no longer being credited as the man in charge of Final Fantasy XII, his influence is still very obviously prevalent throughout the game.
I didn’t beat 8, and I didn’t beat 9, despite my best efforts to actually give a shit. And of course I didn’t play 11, because it sounded pretty fucking stupid. This one, however looks like it might be fun.
Still, this brings me back to the “faggotizing” of game characters that I discussed on Link’s birthday a couple of weeks ago. Ever since these games went 3D, Square has seen fit to effeminize the main character by exponential values in each game. First there was Cloud, who had the gay run-ins at the bath house and a crybaby attitude. Then you’ve got metrosexual Squall, with the Maverick-style bomber jacket, and an even bitchier attitude. Soon afterwards we’ve got the chibi-style pirate guy with the tail… do I need to say anything here? Let’s just move on. Finally we’ve got Tidus from 10, a glorified soccer player who waxes his bleach-blonde body hair. Could it get any worse than that?
Apparently it can.
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*clings lovingly to presale ticket*
omg…the looks like one of those gay japanese \”lady-boys\”when did the ff series become fag-only?
feminizingI have a feeling they’re aiming to model the bodies after typical asian body types. Everyone over here under 35 is thin as a rail and nearly as fruity as uh, a gay guy. I guess. Or something.