Tbf, if I hadn't already played the game and enjoyed the mostly mediocreness of it, I'd totally buy this for a nicer looking version + FFXV demo. But no interest in touching this game with a 10 foot pole and I ain't payin' $60 for no demo.
I'm pretty surprised at the reviews giving it 8s (average is a 7/10 right now), it's only an 8/10 in the "everything below 9/10 sucks" scale either that or it gets bonus points for being a non-FFXIII sequel FF. Personally I'd give it a 6/10.
Same; I'd give it around that too. I'm not really surprised with the scores, though (even though they look more mixed than positive to me). I was talking to someone else about much of the hype / lack of hype surrounding both FFXV and Type-0 and he felt as though much of is essentially, "Well, at least it isn't Final Fantasy XIII." Going off on that basis, I wouldn't be surprised that many players' impressions are influenced by how they felt about that game. You and I can say that Type-0's combat doesn't have much depth at all, but since it's designed differently from FF13 (going from chapter-based/cutscene-based to mission-based/chapter-based with SO missions), I think that's what drew a lot of people to it initially and may influence how they feel in the long-run.
That said, going by player impressions of the fantranslation, impressions of the game seem fairly mixed. We'll see how people feel about the HD version, since it should be improved control-wise, framewise, and hopefully balance-wise. I didn't see them fixing the first playthrough/second playthrough thing, though.
I'm not getting it yet, so I'm bumming the FFXVersus demo off of someone else. I played Type-0 not too long ago, anyhow, and would rather focus on stuff I haven't played right now. And maybe finishing Legend of Legacy.
After playing more Trails in the Sky series, I just can't get excited about FF anymore. They're all flashy, a mish-mash of ideas and sub-systems where some are brilliant and others suck, and they're never satisfying in the end and usually end with an ending that makes you go WTF.nonsense and then credit roll. I love me pretty graphics, but there's just so many better rpgs than these FF disappointments so it's hard to care anymore. Will still play XV when it comes out, but don't care if it never comes out at this point. More excited for KH3.
Did you play Ao yet? I liked that one a lot when I blitzed through it last summer. Liked it more than Zero, and I went in thinking that I'd like Zero more. Both are super-cool, though.
Kiseki is a different beast that relies more on its ongoing narrative and keeping its systems consistent with minor upgrades per subseries, while FF relies quite a bit on making every game different playwise and technological feats. I'd say that there's room for both since they are quite different, and a consequence of playing Kiseki is simply that it speaks more to your needs than FF does. But I do feel similarly because I get more excited for a new Kiseki than I do a new FF lately
because of how it's designed and how the narratives are written in those games (especially since they are fairly reminiscent of certain Konami IP with an ongoing narrative that Konami doesn't care about anymore).
Part of it is probably because I've become a little jaded towards newer games, though. Kiseki just feels like a blast from the past that I've been pretty comfortable with since Sora FC, and they just keep getting better.
I'm still looking at what SE does and if their games are going to be to my liking, hence I want to see how the FFXV demo feels like, at least. I just hope that it's cohesive and balanced enough so I can play around with its systems in stupid ways like I did with other FFs.
Ah, now that I think about it, I guess my desire to replay Type-0 so soon diminished is because I finished Sen II a few months ago and that was basically another school game, albeit pretty fun!
