FFXII Scores Max In Famitsu

Famitsu, the premiere Japanese videogame magazine, evidently really likes Final Fantasy XII. From the Insert Credit post: "Meanwhile, Final Fantasy XII has scored a perfect score of 40 -- all four reviewers scoring it 10 out of 10 -- from Japanese gaming bible Famitsu. It joins the club of five perfect-scoring games, one of which is a fighting game with a sequel that's better (Soul Calibur), two of which are Zelda games (Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker), and two of which (Nintendogs and Vagrant Story) didn't even make it onto Famitsu readers' top 100 list."

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Re:Famitsu, the Final Fantasy Fanclub?

[Anonymous Coward]

Famitsu is a Japanese publication. The Japanese have a collective hard-on for console RPGs. Square and Enix have historically been the top two console RPG makers in the business.

"Biased reporting" has very little to do with it.

Re:So talking of scores...

[KDR_11k]

It's not about discrepancies, it's about similarities. Seriously, with that list you can see any plot turn in any japanese RPG coming from half the game away. "Gosh! Who'd a thunk the church I relied upon would betray me to control the dark powers/follow a misguided attempt at saving the world!" "What? The Mana tree is dead and my girlfriend must be sacrificed to make it regrow? I didn't expect that!" You could probably write an algorithm that selects a number of clichees, makes a story out of it and noone would be able to tell it from a normal jRPG.

Never mind that the japanese don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of foreshadowing needing to be subtle. They're about as subtle as "nudge nudge wink wink" most of the time and the main character must be plain retarded to not understand things until they are spelled out in short, simple words for him. Tidus should've noticed a few hours earlier that Yuna would have to sacrifice herself and that Auron is dead (come on, those aren't spoilers, they'll hammer the foreshadowing in your face after the first few hours!).