Yeah, for me, XII was sort of ... it never really got over being an exercise in frustration for me. :\ And I confess, I got kind of irritated at everyone telling me "it's subtle! it's subtle! You can't expect them to just give it to you" -- because I didn't. I bought the game knowing it was a political story, and I expect those to be subtle, not ... kind of lifeless. And I felt BAD, because people like Laylah were gushing about how awesome all the characters were, and all I wanted to say was "actually, no." ^^;;;;; More than most fandoms I've seen, it feels like XII has a lot of characterization projected onto the characters, more than things that support them in the game? I don't know, I've not read much fic. ^^;
And really, I do think it was the very serious/noble sides of the characters that made it hard for me to relate to them. I am not, by nature, a very serious person -- while I have friends who ARE, it's also because I've known these people long enough to, you know, get to know their characters! But with characters, if all I'm shown is their serious faces, I can't seem to get behind 'em.
HAHA I'M SO GLAD IT WAS NOT JUST ME. I kept expecting something more to happen with the Occuria -- but it seemed like, "okay, we do this one thing, and suddenly they're not able to control us anymore! yay!" just like that. It seemed rather overly pat. My roommate says that FF games have a history of randomly throwing in some overall arching manipulator halfway to the end, but it seemed to me that the Occuria were ... sort of clumsily handled.
I didn't dislike the game, and I did have fun playing it! I just ... don't get half of its popularity, errrr. ^^;
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Date: 2007-06-08 04:38 pm (UTC)And really, I do think it was the very serious/noble sides of the characters that made it hard for me to relate to them. I am not, by nature, a very serious person -- while I have friends who ARE, it's also because I've known these people long enough to, you know, get to know their characters! But with characters, if all I'm shown is their serious faces, I can't seem to get behind 'em.
HAHA I'M SO GLAD IT WAS NOT JUST ME. I kept expecting something more to happen with the Occuria -- but it seemed like, "okay, we do this one thing, and suddenly they're not able to control us anymore! yay!" just like that. It seemed rather overly pat. My roommate says that FF games have a history of randomly throwing in some overall arching manipulator halfway to the end, but it seemed to me that the Occuria were ... sort of clumsily handled.
I didn't dislike the game, and I did have fun playing it! I just ... don't get half of its popularity, errrr. ^^;