Just curious, I have never played it.. is it worth getting?

For the record my favorite is 8 followed by 10 and then 7.. does it compare to those? how's the battle style also, by the way

In short...yes.

It is very comparable to those. It is many people's favorite FF. The story is a little more light hearted and has more comedy than 7 8 and 10, but it is a great game.

I'd say it's the most final fantasy-y final fantasy game. This is what the creators had in mind when they thought up FF.

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It's a great game, it brings back the classic style of the first 6 games but with a totally refreshed look similar to 7, 8 and 10. It combines elements of the older games with elements of the newer games (newer as in new back then lol).

About the battle style it's like in most of the first 6 games, each character has a fixed role (black mage, warrior, summoner, etc) you can't customize all your characters to use magic, physical attacks or whatever like you can in 7,8 and 10... and it's turn based like all of the first 10 FFs.

^ Yeah but it's not turn based, it's Active Time Battle. Only the first few FF games are turn based, the rest are ATB or some variant of ATB. The battle system itself is much more comparable to 7 and 8 than any other. 10 is more closely related to a turn based game than 7 and 8(even though 10 isn't a pure turn based either).

This post was edited by Lublar on Apr 4 2012 10:03am

well not 100% turn based because there's a time bar that relies on your characters' speed, but I meant the time bar tells you when you can have a turn.

I love 10's turn system. If each character had it's own job, it would be my favourite battle system in the FF universe

My favorite

well thanks yall
definitely gonna pick this up then

It isn't 100% turn based, But it is definitely turn based to a massive extent.

Anybody who rubished 9 has never played it fully, Its an amazing game. It has an atmosphere that very few JRPG's have matched.

Glad you're going to get the game.



It's not turn based at all. It looks aesthetically the same, but the system is fundamentally different. In a real turn-based game, every character and enemy is going to have the EXACT same number of turns in the battle(barring a death obviously). After all the actions are used on the field, a new turn starts again and expires again when all the actions are used. In turn based games, speed(or agility or w/e you wanna call it), only determines who gets to perform actions first during a turn.

Active time battle on the other hand doesn't have turns at all. Characters are able to act when their status bar is filled up. This is purely based on a character's speed or agility stat, the higher the stat, the more times they can act during a battle. Thus, there can be an uneven amount of actions between characters on the field. Some ATB games can, in a sense, stop time while you are selecting an action, and some will keep time flowing while you are navigating menus. Some even have an option to select for either one.

The two systems are fundamentally different, the game is either turn based or it's not lol.