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By: FFVII: It is finished « The Idler

FFVII: It is finished « The Idler — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:03:43 +0000

[…] (and it was written for teenagers, to be fair). There are a few of us, understandably who find the materia and character management cumbersome, but that is sort of a JRPG thing to do. Also, the last cutscenes don’t have any voice acting […]

By: Gavin Craig

Gavin Craig — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:46:39 +0000

In reply to Daniel. Blue mages are just useless unless you keep them in the party all the time and you let them take hits and wait and hope that someone uses a special attack on them. And that they survive it. And why would I keep someone useless in the party? It's a vicious cycle.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:17:28 +0000

In reply to Gavin Craig. The nearest thing I got to liking a blue mage is the Enemy Skill materia in FFVII. At least you could equip that to different players. Man, I miss the switching on the fly.

By: Gavin Craig

Gavin Craig — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:48:08 +0000

I’m with you 100%. It’s a great deal of effort to de-equip a character’s materia before taking them out of the combat party, and far, far worse when you forget to do so and then spend a great deal of time in an area that doesn’t let you make changes to the main group.

And I loved switching on-the-fly in FFX. It was a bit inconvenient to try and get everyone into every battle so that they’d level up, but I could switch Kimahri in, let him take a hit, and then send him back to the bench. (I didn’t love Kimahri. I don’t love blue mages.) Compared to FFVII, it’s a breeze.