Was 4WoL worth picking up? I never bothered with it, but people elsewhere were jizzing over the rumor, before it was formally announced.
it tries really hard to play like classic final fantasy,the music is all retro,there is a job system a-la FF3,the plot includes highlight like "rescue the princess from the evil dragon" and also it looks really pretty
most people seems annoyed by the fact that each character can only carry 15 items (this include equipment and also spells as you need a book to cast the relative spell) and also by the fact that for the first bit of the game character leaves and enter your party quite often (which make the 15 items only even more annoying) but personaly the real problem i have with the game is that it just doesn't do a good job at being classics
i put the blame on the combat system,you see there are no MP and instead each character gets 2 action point each turn and each action they do consume a certain number of AP,this ultimately translate into spamming all the special skills you want and in fact after getting a certain job,you barely have no reason to not just murder everything in your path
the way you develop the jobs is also very annoying,each job needs a certain number of gems but there are quite a lot of different kind of gems and it's not uncommon to end having something like... 20 rubies and not a single emerald or shit like that
the boss are totaly unbalanced,there are a lot of gear to protect you from elemental attack but the way it's done,it's ridiculous,a character with the right equipment will receive a great total of 1 damage from every boss attack while the remaining party member will die as soon as the boss fart,it's really really really stupid and this might be the first game where sometimes going solo is EASIER than using your full team
i guess if you really really really like classic final fantasy you might want to bite,it's bound to be better than that stupid FF4 half-assed sequel at least
