Most Helpful Customer Reviews
|
|
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterpiece of Fighting, August 25, 2009
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Dissidia is blatant fan-service for the dedicated and faithful. But it is also blatant fun! Whether you are new to the Final Fantasy universe or a long time player, Dissidia has it for you! It takes an idea like Super Smash Brothers and widens it up. It isn't a 2D fighter but has 3D fully realized worlds for you to battle it out in! Players can stick to the ground and launch attacks at wide ranges, or fly to the skies to attack in furious mid-air frenzies! It is huge too! The game just keeps widening up as more and more features are unlocked!
Each character can be upgraded at will to the umpteenth level. All of the normal RPG stats are here: Attack, Defense, Luck and so on... but all the characters can learn new moves all throughout the adventure! Dissidia is amazing! Hours and hours of fun! I'd recommend it hands down!
|
|
|
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm hooked, can't stop playing., August 27, 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Ok, so this game is indeed one of the finer games on the PSP, and with the slew of unlockables, story, different arcade modes, and multi-player, it's a game that one could happily spend hours upon hours playing.
The battle system is a little odd, as it's not a typical fighter. More of a action game, with fighting and RPG elements tied all together very nicely. It takes a few minutes to understand how everything works together in battle, but once you get the hang of it, you just keep getting better and better, and the battles become more and more enjoyable.
The story mode, admittedly, is actually kind of weak, for a Final Fantasy title (at least, every Final Fantasy before IX had a good story). I enjoy the story, personally, but it's not full of surprises, or played out in the greatest fashion. It's decent, but it could have been so much better. That, and the voice acting for some characters is a bit sad. It's almost embarrassing to listen to sometimes. But there are quite a few characters whose American voice overs were done perfectly (Sephiroth and Kefka come to mind).
The customization of your characters is un-effing-believable. None of the equipment you use will change your character's appearance, but the amount of weapons, accessories, equipment, summons and abilities you can learn, gain, create and buy are very nearly endless. Especially with the multi-player items you get just from battling. In that same field, there's a calendar system in the game that will give you rewards based on what day you play. By unlocking more bonuses through the catalog in the game, you can make these days occur more often, and yield much greater rewards.
The multi-player is 50/50, in my opinion. Yes, it's very, very nice, it works really well, and the rewards can be unique, but it's only Ad-hoc. There's no online multi-player, which is really disappointing. While my cousin and I played, we experienced a bit of lag, but it was hardly noticeable at all. Very slight, and it didn't ruin the battle, or the experience. It's quite a bit of fun, so if you have or get this game, find someone else who does too. The ability to handicap the level so it's an even match makes it much nicer as well, so that you can fight someone brand new to the game, without them having to spend hours leveling up first.
Arcade mode was a unique addition to the American version, and while it's a lot of fun, it's straight forward, with pre-set characters. No customization here. So, it gets old pretty quickly. However, since you initially only have access to the heroes (you have to unlock the villains via the catalog), this is a good place to go to get some practice with all the characters, as all 20 of the main characters are available to play right off the bat in Arcade mode.
Unlockables in this game seem endless. When you unlock new characters or items, more appear to unlock. As you progress through the game, you get random items and rewards, and more items appear for you to unlock through the catalog. The museum allows you to see all sorts of Final Fantasy info on characters, and, once you unlock it, the replay editor is here, allowing you to go back over battles you've fought and saved the replay for, and allows you to edit them, save them to AVI, and import them to your computer.
Over all, this game is an amazing package, and the only things that really hold it back from perfection are a few poor choices, and poor voice acting. Now, I admit that I'm a Final Fantasy fan, and this game is definitely a present for all the die-hard fans of the series, but the way the game plays, anyone who's a fan of action, fighting or RPG genre of gaming can enjoy this game for months to come. I cannot recommend this game enough. It's worth every penny.
Overall: 9.5 out of 10
Positivies:
+Amazing cast of fan favorites
+Unbelievable customization
+Almost unending unlockables
+Fantastic battle system that just gets better as you play
+Really great Ad-hoc battles
+Easily able to sink 100+ hours into this game
+Accessable to almost any gamer
Negatives:
-No online multi-player
-Story is a bit weak, but playable
-Voice overs are, more often than not, disappointing
|
|
|
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
"Dissidia" meaning "Conflict", "Conflicted" is exactly how I feel, September 12, 2009
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I think most fellow FF fans can relate when I say that when this game was first announced, the anticipation was almost immediately unbearable. Well, fast-forward a year or so, and what do we get? More or less what most of us were expecting- a full fan-service action title with a negligible plot line.
True, there was that moment where I find myself saying "Hey! Awesome! I'm (insert favorite character here) in full 3-d with full-range movement in an ACTION game!", but that feeling soon wore off, and gave way to some disappointment at how this truly monumental game could have been much better.
That being said, is it really all that bad? The game clearly does SOMETHING right, otherwise online sales of past FF titles would not have increased as they did in the two weeks following the US release, and the Gamefaqs message board for the game wouldn't have as much activity as it does.
So, let's take a point-by-point look at what was done well, or not so well, in each of the following categories:
Graphics: 7/10
A good-looking game, with some minor problems in this department.
+All 2-d characters are fully re-imagined in 3-d in a way that does service (for the most part. Exceptions being Cecil and Bartz) to the games they hail from
+Attack animations are fluid. You also won't find yourself saying "Hey, that attack landed 2 feet from my character but STILL registered", as in many fighting and action games (ahem, Soulcalibur)
-Sometimes the characters' mouths don't move when they talk, which completely ruins all suspension of disbelief.
-Some different animations for different types of weapons would have been nice (i.e. axes vs. swords. Whichever the Warrior of Light or Cecil or whomever is equipped with, it's still a sword).
Audio: 10/10
The best-sounding game I've played on the PSP.
+Solid voice-acting of every single character in the game. It's really a pity that the voice actors weren't fed many good lines by the scriptwriters.
+There are remasters/remixes of themes from every Final Fantasy game 1-12. Just wait 'til you hear what they've done with "The Red Wings", "Dancing Mad" and "Battle at the Big Bridge". The unlockable songs from FFI-III are the classic NES tunes more or less untouched. My only real complaint would be the shoddy remix of the battle music from FFIV.
Gameplay: 7/10
This is really a mixed bag. If you enjoy ridiculous anime gymnastics like that seen in "FF7: Advent Children", then you'll probably love the combat in this game. I, personally, did not like the film, but that type of combat IS better suited to a video game than it is to cinema.
+Simple, straight-forward controls that are easy to learn but take some effort to master.
+The characters all handle very differently from one another, and each has a distinct "flavor", if you will.
+Action-packed. In some of the tougher battles, your heart will pound and your palms will sweat before the final blow is struck, unless, of course...
-You figure out how to break the game. This is quite easy to do as...about 80% of the characters. It will take supreme self-discipline just for you to keep yourself from spamming the same attack until the other guy just croaks.
-Completely counter-intuitive camera angles. Prepare to go "Talking to a wall" as Squall puts it.
-Targeting system will sometimes cause you to be unable to reach parts of the stage that you want to reach. This only happens frequently on a couple stages.
-If you enjoy online play, prepare to be disappointed. You're going to need a PS3 (which must be the ONLY reason someone would buy a PS3), or a computer program called XLink-something-or-other. The developers could have just as easily included online functionality, but they didn't. Thanks a lot, Square Enix.
-Looooooong load times. Even if you use the "Data Install" feature to shorten load times, be prepared to wave bye-bye to hours of your life you could have spent doing something meaningful as you wait for the battles to begin, or end.
Story: 2/10
Ouch...I mean, ouch. But what were you expecting? Xenogears? There will be moments so sappy that you cringe. Especially when the deep-voiced guy recites verse for every story mode. Just don't think about it and you'll be okay.
Replayability: 8/10
When you get done maining one character, you'll be sure to say, "Hey, that was fun. I wonder what it would've been like as one of the OTHER guys." I would have enjoyed a story mode for the Evil characters, too, if only for ease of leveling, or for the hope that their stories would've been somehow more interesting than the Good-aligned characters.
So, there you have it. A game that keeps me coming back, and I don't quite know why yet. Call me "Conflicted". Or should I say, "Dissidia-ed".
|
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
