User blog:KirbiMiroir/My Review of Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy!!

Yeah, Plasmaster did a review on Chibi-Robo Ziplash, so I thought "Wynaut"? (BTW, I know this game belongs to SquareEnix, but hey, now that Cloud's apparently in Smash, I have a right to review this).

The Gameplay

Dissidia 012 plays out like your typical 3D fighting game, in that the characters walk/run around the area and use attacks to deal damage. In this case, however, your attacks come in two categories - Bravery Attacks, which steal Bravery values from the target and are usually very easy to land, and HP Attacks, which deal HP damage equal to your Bravery... when they work! Some attacks generate EX Force, which draws towards EX Cores on the stage - the more force an EX Core gains, the more wings it gets, and the more wings it has when you collect it, the more EX Force it is worth! Once the EX Gauge is full of EX Force, you can enter EX Mode - this gives you health regeneration, makes half of your Bravery Attacks critical hits and grants insane abilities based on the character. Or, if you enter EX Mode while getting attacked, you can trigger a timestop that lets you get your revenge!

There are also Summons and Assists. Summons trigger automatically to help you out - for example, Ifrit boosts your bravery by 50% if you knock the opponent's bravery to 0, Shiva prevents enemy bravery from rising if it drops to 0, Ramuh prevents the opponent from summoning if your bravery reaches 0, and Odin has a chance to utterly destroy your opponent's bravery value if your opponent is in a position to beat you. As for assists, they allow you to summon a character who performs one of four attacks, based on how full your Assist Gauge is and where you and your opponent are in the stage.

All in all, I like Dissidia's combat as much as I like Smash's combat. In fact, somehow I think the combat in Dissidia did better than Smash.

The Story

All in all, the story is... meh. It revolves around eternal conflict between Cosmos, the goddess of harmony, and Chaos, SquareEnix's interpretation of the devil. Basically, Chaos has lead the villains of past Final Fantasy games and a hypnotised Terra Branford into defeating Cosmos in several wars. In this cycle of war, which is the twelfth war, Chaos has successfully forced Manikins, crystal clones of the playable characters, into obeying him - these Manikins endlessly spawn from a weird rift that exists in the game's interpretation of Final Fantasy XI, and the object of the game's questionable protagonists is to get rid of that rift.

To be honest, the storyline itself isn't that good, and the fact it features swearing makes it even worse. The story mode's gameplay, however, is quite good, with several board game areas where the character has to strategically defeat Manikins to earn KP, which is one of three forms of currency in the game. Now, I do like the board gameplay, but the problem with it is quite simply how cheap it is. I mean, do you seriously expect me to beat a Level 6 Manikin as a Level 1 Character?

The Music

Mixed reception. The music that plays during battles is mostly meh, but I can appreciate the music that plays in the Story Mode's cutscenes, and on the game boards.

The Game Modes

First, there's Quick Battle, a simple 1 on 1 battle as anyone you like against anyone you like. The Arcade Mode has you win several battles in a row, then gives you a reward. Labyrinth has five characters go through one of several obscure card games, with lots of good rewards. There's also the aforementioned story and the Creation Mode, which lets you create original quests - this is BY FAR the best aspect of the game.

The Characters

Features two original characters, along with several characters from the main series games. Despite their hideous redesigns, the roster is quite well done. Sure, Shantotto is exceedingly broken (although they seemed to have nerfed her since the original Dissidia), but the characters are still great.

''Overall, I like Dissidia 012 to a fair degree and recommend it to those who have a PSP. It will be worth the expenses, trust me.''

Hi! I&#39;m KirbiMiroir! (talk) 18:45, August 18, 2016 (UTC)