Maybe it's the fact that I expect so much from this studio. Maybe I expect too much. Because now on its second title, Mistwalker has failed to deliver a meaningful game yet again. Let's start with the manner in which it decides to deliver you the past of your main character. The dreams. The first couple of times, I said, "Ok, this is kind of cool. It's a little retro, but I can take it". By the tenth dream, I stopped bothering. Uncompelling writing and cliche delivery on most of the stories made them too boring to bother. On to Gameplay. The camera is just retarded. Why? Why in this day and age would someone have a fixed camera? And what the heck was the purpose of the zoom? Did this add something that I just didn't notice? Because they tell you when you find something of interest in the field, so why bother zooming? Combat is boring and uninspiring and the spell system ended up making the whole thing to tedious to bother. Sure it was an attempt at something, but whatever they were going for failed to hit home with me. On to the story. From what I played (onto the second disc), the thing was like a telegraphed punch in a fixed fight. I saw ever twist coming a mile away. Chalk that up to failing to defy convention. Which from someone whose whole legend is built upon defying the convention of the game, is rather sad. Graphically, its about what you should expect from the 360. It's not going to make you drool, but it isn't going to make you groan. Music seemed like it was trying to hard to be a FF game, but couldn't be bothered to try to be better.
All in all, it seems as if they've decided to rest upon the laurels of the traditions they wrote. But after playing a dozen FF games and god knows how many RPGs, others are doing it too and some are doing it better. And sure, you get some points for being historic and legendary, but after two sub-par titles (one which rest on the laurels of DB and one which rests on the laurels of FF), you'll no longer be an auto try from me. Now I'll wait to see if it's worth it based on what I see and hear. Then maybe I'll rent you. Then if you manage to make me fall in love all over again, I'll buy you. Used at first.
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