I am thoroughly unconvinced that this game is deserving of some of the amazing reviews it has received, in my opinion it's pretty awful, uninvolving and frankly irritating.
Games like "dragonquest" on PS2 are a tribute to the failings of this game. They were involving, with great battle systems and story lines. This just isn't.
The AI is terrible, your cast of imbeciles will spend most of their time running around absorbing enemy attacks and then using all your potions healing themselves... useful... they rarely attack and when they do, it rarely helps.
The story line seems fair enough, maybe even good enough to be classed as inspired, but let's not get carried away. The gameplay is mediocre at best and the 'real time' system would only work if you're team mates where any use at all.
You are often poorly directed i.e head north, and theres about 10 different paths that way... The cut scenes rarely have audio, as they haven't bothered dubbing, and the voice acting… more »

I am thoroughly unconvinced that this game is deserving of some of the amazing reviews it has received, in my opinion it's pretty awful, uninvolving and frankly irritating.
Games like "dragonquest" on PS2 are a tribute to the failings of this game. They were involving, with great battle systems and story lines. This just isn't.
The AI is terrible, your cast of imbeciles will spend most of their time running around absorbing enemy attacks and then using all your potions healing themselves... useful... they rarely attack and when they do, it rarely helps.
The story line seems fair enough, maybe even good enough to be classed as inspired, but let's not get carried away. The gameplay is mediocre at best and the 'real time' system would only work if you're team mates where any use at all.
You are often poorly directed i.e head north, and theres about 10 different paths that way... The cut scenes rarely have audio, as they haven't bothered dubbing, and the voice acting for the rest is pretty awful. The graphics are nothing to write home about as they look a bit last gen. There is no 'exploring' so to speak as there are 'invisible walls' everywhere.
This game just doesn't live up to the expectations of a game on xbox360, it would probably feel more at home on a ps1.

I bought this game for 11.95 3 weeks ago and completed it within about 4 days of 5 hours of game time a day, and I loved it, The graphics are great for the time it was made, the characters are memorable, the scenery is beautiful, the ordian mountains, to the dark and danky castle prevant. This is a definate buy if you played FFXII and loved it like me has a similar feel, Of course there are some downsides, the voice acting is poor and since it was only developed in japanese they cut out the voices for the PAL and USA version and got some people to do and they haven't synched it, making the game someone disapointing, as they only focused on 1 region, Also the AI can be dumb, for instance you get to a place in the story where you have a few minutes before a tidal wave comes in and you can get an achievement for not getting hit by it, so you hide and your AI go to, then as soon as it comes they run out! talk about frustrating, but paitence is key and give it time the game will grow on… more »

I bought this game for 11.95 3 weeks ago and completed it within about 4 days of 5 hours of game time a day, and I loved it, The graphics are great for the time it was made, the characters are memorable, the scenery is beautiful, the ordian mountains, to the dark and danky castle prevant. This is a definate buy if you played FFXII and loved it like me has a similar feel, Of course there are some downsides, the voice acting is poor and since it was only developed in japanese they cut out the voices for the PAL and USA version and got some people to do and they haven't synched it, making the game someone disapointing, as they only focused on 1 region, Also the AI can be dumb, for instance you get to a place in the story where you have a few minutes before a tidal wave comes in and you can get an achievement for not getting hit by it, so you hide and your AI go to, then as soon as it comes they run out! talk about frustrating, but paitence is key and give it time the game will grow on you. Think you completed the game? think again the Seprahic Gate is only availible on Normal+ and has higher level enemies, and a few shocking enemies, and the customization is one of the best I have ever seen. Buy the game it'll keep you entertained for ages, i'm still playing it even after 30 hours and I'm not regretting it.