Hiya guys!

Wanted to tell you guys about my thoughts regarding this game.

I need to tell you that after final fantasy seven and eight I've never played any other final fantasy game, that is untill number 13 of this rpg cluster was released.

So at first I was a little against the whole thing about roles, only one summon per character and playing with six different characters. But hey, I guess you just have to adjust that the world won't stay in the same shape for too long not even the gaming world ;)

Now after having played this game for a month (no not 24/7 in a month, I'm talking like some days.) I can easily say that I love the story it has a brilliant concept, amazing well thought drama and addicting story. As I said about the gameplay it's just something I had to adjust to. Sure there are some thing I would like to have different.

Now about the leveling system

Each time you win a battle phase so to speak you'll get a certain amount of Crystarium Points (CP) with these points you'll get to choose different roles which contains different kinds of abilities. For instance - Ravager is the role for those who want to amass a high chain gauge (We'll get to more of that later.) and the commando is the role if you want to keep the chain gauge amassed untill the staggering point has been reached.

Now all charcaters do not have every role that's possible, it would probably be a little too easy then. So you've got find some sort of balance if you wish to take down your foes with some nice tactics and save yourself some time.

Chain Gauge

Every enemy has a staggering point and where there's a stagger point there's a chain gauge.
let's say your enemy has the stagger point at 150% then a good way to reach that is to use one or two ravagers and one commando. Of course you can use three if you'd like but remember the commando keeps the gauge loaded. Otherwise the gauge will sink very fast which could mean if no one attacks before i reaches zero again you would have to amass it again.

Paradigms

A paradigm is a battle team setup if you'd like to call it that. As far as I know you can have six different setups - for instance: Let's say you've only got two characters in your team for the moment, then you need to have different kinds of paradigms. My recommendation is
Paradigm 1 - Commando - Ravager
Paradigm 2 - Commando - Medic
Paradigm 3 - Ravager - Ravager
Paradigm 4 - Synergist - Saboteur

Money

You still use Gil as your currency and to be honest I haven't figured out an easy way to earn plenty of gil so that I can spend it on whatever I'd like, but hey that's kinda what makes this game a challenger ^^

Well folks that's all for today, unfortunately I haven't beat the game yet so I'm off to do that soon!

There is a lot more info about the game but I just don't know what more to tell ya x)

My hands - Leona Lewis

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