Wow, neat collection.
I actually had a lot of fun with FFXII, I played the hell out of it for a while. The settings and music are great, and the battle system really works well once you get the hang of it and buy more Gambits. I love the way you see enemies on the field map and can choose to sneak around them, definitely not as frustrating as random battles. I even got into the monster-hunting aspect, which I usually don’t do. My only real complaints are a somewhat convoluted story and...Penelo, who’s one of the most useless and uninteresting characters in any RPG. (Seriously, her whole backstory is “I’m Vaan’s childhood friend”). Vaan’s not exactly the deepest character either, but he adequately serves the purpose the game director gave him of basically being the conduit through which the player experiences the game.
