At first I was a little anxious about it. I played the demo and my anxiety only grew. Then I began to think...
From a game developer's point of view, the new battle system is really quite a powerful little tool in making a lot of what wasn't possible before possible. Think about an MMORPG - FFXI for instance... Spells like Slow, Haste, and Poison were actually USEFUL. Try using "Piggy" in FF4 and see how well it works out for you. The "Grey Magic" so to speak is something rarely used in a single player RPG because the battle system just doesn't permit its use... I'm hoping that FFXII will break the mold here.
That being said, Famitsu ranked the game its highest rating (is it.. 40/40 or 10/10? I can't remember) which is always good news. The Japs are much better at ranking RPGs than we are. All in all I'm really starting to look forward to it.
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