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A Matter of PERSONAl Taste

Advantages: Lots of cool ideas, communicating with foes, funny moments, superb music
Disadvantages: Derivative dungeon design, story elements infrequent, erratic difficulty

...In 2008, the PS2 role-playing game Persona 3 doesn't seem so outlandish; despite what the name eludes to, it is the first of its lineage to appear in Europe and whilst it's obscure RPG heritage suggests there should be an element of risk to the release, i ...

tom1clare 08.04.2008 · Read full review
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Birth of a God

Advantages: Soundtrack, Story, Dialogue, Characters, FMV's, Environments, Battle System, Menu, Items, Length
Disadvantages: Dated Graphics, Poor Grammar, Fuzzy Translation, Addictive

Stars bolt around the screen as if being gazed upon by some drunk in the middle of the night, only to fade to the image of a young woman holding a basket of flowers, strolling into a vast industrial city the only light being the faint flicker of houses an ...

SirJoseph 08.03.2012 · Read full review
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Strife-ing for Perfection

Advantages: Fantastic Storyline, Great Gameplay
Disadvantages: Box hand graphics

...times to write a review on Final Fantasy 7 (FF7), but I have found it so hard because to review a game this good I feel that I really need to make a review that isn't just another boring review that doesn't live up to the game. FF7 was t ...

West-Ham-Fan 11.08.2006 · Read full review
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Seven Is Heaven

Advantages: Astonishing scale, fantastic visuals, grand soundtrack, absorbing plot, massively rewarding
Disadvantages: Random battles make for some slow-moving sections

...It's fair to say that, prior to the 1997 release of Final Fantasy VII, role-playing video games weren't really a part of the mainstream market. Sure, the Zelda's and Wonderboy's had gained a good cult-following in the past, but the game world was in need ...

tom1clare 25.11.2003 · Read full review
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Life, Love, Adventure And Final Fantasy

Advantages: See opinion
Disadvantages: Linearity, some parts are really strange, longer battles can be dull

As things stand, the long-running Final Fantasy series of video games is in its tenth incarantion (With number 11 currently in development). As the groan-worthy pun goes "It's not very Final is it?" Well I'm thankful that the series has come this far. ...

Garret 04.11.2001 · Read full review
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