I'm going to do something I thought I would NEVER DO--because the journal I'm about to link to is the journal of the person who wrote the FF7 fic that is The Bane Of My Existence, For Real--but honestly, twig sums up one of my major problems with the game BEAUTIFULLY,
right here.
When I first saw Vayne, I thought he was going to be That Awesome Villain, and he...reeeeeally isn't. And I love villains. There's reasons FFIV and X top my list of favorites, and two of those reasons are Golbez and Jecht; FFVI's Kefka, contrarily, was one of the reasons I DIDN'T like the game as much--Kefka was just evil, and while he was plenty of fun to kill, he wasn't a particularly intriguing character to me.
The problem is, there were a lot of things in this game that were like Vayne: incredible potential, crap execution. And unfortunately for this game, the plot was one of those things. They try to make it complicated, and when that starts to fall apart they try to make it LOOK complicated, and when THAT falls apart they just giggle all over themselves and revert to "GET THE CRYSTAL, STOP THE EVIL, HUR HUR."
I'm fine with these things when the game is up front with them (see, again, FFIV); but if you give me this beautiful, complicated world and tell me there are Politics and Intrigue and
Depth, then I'm going to want that, I'm going to expect it, and I'm going to be disappointed when you don't follow through.
Also I thought the battle system was stupid and I hated how long it took to get anywhere, but I can forgive a game for that (unless it's Suikoden IV).
(...I need to be kept away from the computer at 3 in the morning. Oh dear. Good night, folks. o_O)