Final Fantasy XII: A Travelog of Ivalice, by a Raving Madman

Alhazred

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Well, I think that deserves a standing ovation. What a spectacular review of a spectacular mess of a game. Perhaps it's time to dust off the PS2 and finally finish this, what may well be the last good Final Fantasy game...
 

TheRocketeer

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So I finally got around to putting this into a PDF, so if you've been waiting for that and don't want to read along in a forum, the alternative exists now.

Unless I find a filehosting service that is both free AND non-skeezy, just PM me and I'll send it to whoever wants it.
 

Pappytech

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Like Alhazred already said above, if anything on the internet deserves a standing ovation, this most certainly does. Sadly, I don't have the equipment to record me doing so, so I hope that you'll be willing to take my word for it.

It's really not possible to overstate just how wowed I am by this labor of love/ire. Out of curiosity, I tried to copy and paste Rocketeer's ...essay? editorial? large body of words into a word processor so I could get an exact word and page-count. However, once the document broke 50 pages and started to chug, I figured that a rough estimation might suffice.

Still, let's make one thing clear: Even if I couldn't count them all, I read almost every single god damn word of this masterpiece. And I enjoyed it. The writing was smooth, understandable, and fucking delicious to swallow, chock full of worthwhile ideas and brilliant arguments. Final Fantasy VII was a game I played for all of two weeks, nearly six years ago, and since then I haven't given it a second thought. At least, not until I spotted this in the Escapist forums. Now I don't think I'll ever see it the same way again.

Thanks, TheRocketeer. This was absolutely amazing.