This game is fantastic. But the amount of flaws after being released again two times, are staggering.
Obviously I enjoy this game a lot, however I shall not condone these malpractices prevalent in probably 99 percent of all these "new" editions, re editions, remakemaster ultra 3000s.

Gambit system.
Simple and effective. Yet also missing simple basics.
How about a multiplier? I want this action performed this many times, possibly with a cool down added.
I can't set up any gambits for debuffing a few times, have to do it manually.
A buff can be recognised, but an enemy without items can not.
How about distance gambits? Numerous times will your tank walk around while being targeted, possibly walking towards your fragile members. I consider immobilise a positive buff on the tank.
If a member has no action pending, they will stick to the leader like glue. This can be useful and also annoying. How about a gambit that says "STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM X".
No weapon switching gambits. Because of this, you can throw measures out the window. Unless you like go into the menu every ~5 seconds, this is just not doable. Gambits don't help either as there is no STOP gambit. Your character will continue to use the stamp technick even though they're already fully buffed. Enemy fire weak? Switch to flamberge? Nah, go into the menu. Speaking of the menu, I needed a mod just so I can see what the properties weapons and armor have. Preposterous.

The glorious loot system.
Loot! Sell it all! Until you realize too late that they put quest related items in that tab as well. The same kick in the nuts as base game zodiac spear, but not at all addressed. Unforgivable if you ask me.
Also no way to mark loot as favourite or something, as there is lots of stuff you'd want to keep, owing thanks to the next problem:

Loot limbo
You sold 99 stones. There are two recipes that require three stones each. You unlock one item and buy it.
So you might think "cool, the remaining 96 stones can be saved for other recipes. Right?"
Hahaaahaaa. No. You just wasted it all. This will absolutely shatter your testicles when you sold rare items too early and forgot to keep track (nope, nowhere in the game does it tell you how much of something you've already sold), or buy the item before you should've and wasting the loot in "loot limbo".
Now there's a positive to this as you can end up spending less materials if you time your selling/buying correctly, but this in no way makes up the absolute ludicrously retarded loot system.

Chest rng.
Good lord help me.
Although I can kind of understand cerobi steppe, the majority of the rest is just stinky. Putting spells and technicks in chests that don't spawn all the time, and sometimes have random content on top of that is just sadistic. It's not intuitive either, it's explained nowhere. For new players, this sucks. Diamond armlet is also just vague.

Edit: Of course I forgot about the beastiary, because it's so useless. Nothing about stats, weaknesses or even location. Countless items to be stolen or dropped and it mentions none. With all the obscure and insanely rare items, this would've been extremely helpful. How about at the very least a bunch of ?'s so it's clarified that certain monsters still have something? Nah, but you can press L2 now and lock on. Great.

Nitpicks.
Why can't I cycle between speed enhancements? Why is it only either or?
Garamsythe water sluice cutscene EVERY TIME you open/close a gate. Makes a puzzle go from possibly fun to definitively annoying. Adding the choice to skip cutscenes but not this on is mystifying.

Final word
Looking past these and definitely other annoyances, most of which should've/could've been fixed after being released two times, there is a beautiful game here. The secrets and quests that aren't obscured by ridiculous RNG are nice and connect the world very well. Great gameplay and customisation made even better with mods. I thank the modding community for always being there to patch the holes in the games developed by gazillion dollar corporations who don't give a damn.

Thank you.

Cookie Clicker: Final Fantasy Edition

Has the aesthetic of Star Wars and a combat system that plays itself. Most of the characters in the game are bland and uninteresting, with Balthier, Fran, Larsa and Cid being pretty much the only exceptions. The plot feels more like you are witnessing events than partaking in them and it's honestly more about a setting than about the plot itself.

Despite all these issues, I found myself enjoying the game more than I had expected, especially considering how I had given up on Final Fantasy XII when I played the PS2 version a couple of years back. The ability to speed up the game to 4x speed helped, though it does impact the immersion in the world quite a bit.

Playing the game feels more about figuring out the best way to program your party members than it does actually making decisions in combat. That isn't necessarily a bad thing per say, and a comparison can be made to football games vs football management games. Perhaps I enjoyed the Zodiac Age more than I had the original partially due to knowing what I was getting into this time around and not expecting the combat system to be more in line with the earlier titles.

So yeah, despite not really having many concrete positive things to say about the game, I really did have a good time playing it. Not quite sure why.

Not the game that you thought you remembered. It is slow, clunky and was never ahead of its time.

👍

FF12 is wild. You program your party like little murder robots and then watch them go nuts. It’s kinda genius, kinda sleep-inducing. The job system makes you pick classes, but the game doesn’t really need them, so it’s like putting training wheels on a unicycle.

World’s still cool. Bunny girl still jumps 10 feet in high heels. Speed-up button is the real MVP. Honestly? Had a good time. Just wish it had cooked a little longer.

Classic!

Ty for the cloud saves, steam. I was able to pick up where I left off 2+ yrs. ago. I'd removed un-played games from my disc drive since then, and you guys had them stored on your cloud. ty so much!

best ff

Rebought on steam even after I got the platnium trophey on PS4. Love the combat, itemization, and party building systems.

Only downside is that its locked to 60fps. Tears on my 60 fps tv. And cannot enable vsync on my 144hz cause it causes the game to speed up.