Well I picked this up two or three days ago and went to play it where I stayed ont he weekend only to find to my utter dismay that the person who packed my Wii up forgot to put the wiimote in. -.-; So I finally logged a couple hours today and well… I have a mixed opinion.
I looked forward to this game from the moment I hear dit was coming out and then lo and behold there it was on the shelf at Best Buy… where I was only supposed to be getting FFT-Lion War… Couldn’t help myself and bought it. >.<;
It’s nice to have another game in… what am I supposed to call the merged world? Tethalant? Silva’all? Sithelant? I don’t know, anyway, there’s some nice ideas with the people from the two worlds not getting along with eachother. I will say the english voice acting is atrocious as ever… Though Lloyd’s new (I think) va is even more annoying than his old one. Though Marta’s I like, but I like Marta all around. Lime… I mean Emil… annoys the hell out of me. He even one ups other apologitic characters who apologize for apologizing. He apologizes, get’s told he does so too much, starts to apologize, stops himself… then apologizes for almost apologizing after being told he apologizing too much. Yeah… and he’s just… annoying… Which is in total contrast to his crazy battle self.
Some other things annoy me. As one would expect it’s all crappy voice acting, recycled voice actors and things of that ilk.
On a plus note, there’s a wonderful new battle feature! Hold down Z and you can run, anywhere you want! So nice to be able to actually run the hell away when you want to.
The whole ‘monster raising’ aspect of the gaem I’m not sure if I like or not. I’ve only ‘caught’ the two you’re forced to ‘catch’. You can’t name them the game does that randomly for you. Lime… I mean Emile’s character design annoys me. Androgynous guy + a tight fitting shoulderless outfit = Oh crap that’s a guy?!
Marta on the other hand. Manages to somehow do twintails without actually tying her hair up. The flowers in her hair I don’t really care either way about… but the DFC is defenitely a good thing. ;p Characters attitude too, she bounces between archetpyes all over the place. The knife thing confuses me as it looks clearly to be something you should be throwing… but she wears it like a bladey glove…
But Lloyd is evil apparently… now anyway. I wonder how that happened. :s They work the main premise of their storyline well I think. ‘Ratataosk’ Was the king of the monsters (Gojira?!) prior to when the world was split in two. When that happened he apparently went into a jewel like dormant “egg” state. Now that the worlds been fixed his sleeping is screwing things up.
Of course somehow his ‘egg’ attached itself to Marta’s forehead. (Knowing how eggs work I can’t help but ponder how one would fertilize the egg in that location. 
) He had these little underlings called Centurions and they too usually sleep in crazy little jewels aka cores aka eggs… they’ve been called both. There’s more confusingness that goes on but it’s not important. Well some of it is but >.> I can’t blab about everything.
Controls are pretty good. Two or three different ways to run around, using the wiimote and holding B, or usign the nunchuks joystick. You NEED a nunchuk to battle properly, unless maybe if you use semi -auto or auto mode.
Amongst other things.
New skill system… kind of cool. As you level you learn skillz… then you use SP points to turn them on or off.
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