Oh, in XIII you can use as much magic as you want as they have dispensed with MPs. And your HP is refilled after each battle. Another bonus is seeing Lightning and Fang together in a team (ooh gawd help me again).

The storyline at the moment is pretty linear, with the levelling up is somewhat kept at a decent pace. Not really complaining. The team is made up six which is standard FF fare. The protagonist, Lightning, is a feistier version of XII’s Ashelia B’nargin Dalmasca with a switch/gunblade in the vein of VII’s Squall Leonhart. Snow Villiers is a perasan best (“I will save Cocoon!!!” ad nauseum, with clenched fist in the air) tank/damage dealer who fights with his fists (think VII’s Tifa Lockhart and VIII’s Zell Dincht). The Yuffie/Rikku of the team is Oerba Dia Vanille, unfortunately with slightly annoying Aussie accent in the English dub. Two characters which are somewhat different to the ones I am used to are chochobo chick-carrying Sazh Katzroy (modelled after Lionel Richie apparently) and Hope Estheim.

And Oerba Yun Fang. Ooh gawd help meh! She has an Aussie accent too (is Gran Pulse supposed to represent the land Down Under?!) and wears a, err… saree. Rambut a bit serabai, but man… put me in the otaku/Akiba register now.

Dari kerana mataaaa. Aku tergoda, aku tergoda, terkechewa.

Many other similarities can be found for the hawk-eyed fan. The PSICOM army’s similarity to the armies of X’s Bevelle and XII’s Judge Magisters is one. For those fans who missed any form of chenta element in the recent games, there’s a bit of it here, too, but not as heavy as it is in VIII and X.

I have forgone tonight’s session for this post (with the OST in the background – yeah, memang geek. Katalah apa korang nak), for I am now aboard the Palamecia, stage-wise, fighting a lot of them bastards. I have capped my level for this chapter which means all the fights are neither too easy or too difficult. Clever la, those guys at Square Enix.

To those FF fans who haven’t played it yet – gilo ko apo? Boli jo PS3 tu. Kredit kad kan ado?

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