But it’s got some things that really work. Unavoidably then, there’s quite a bit of filler here. Every character is gorgeously designed into extreme androgyny, and they pretty much spend the whole time spouting awkward proverbs at each other. In effect, it’s maybe even weirder, because the whole thing is a sort of triangle relating to Angeal, Genesis and Sephiroth, in which Genesis is the main driver, even though you feel like the whole thing is supposed to be about Sephiroth becoming an antagonist and the build up to the “Nibelheim Incident.”Īnd this is all complicated by the fact that it’s like watching a Tarazuka Revue performance. So now you have the protagonist Zack (of huge importance to the sequel) involved in this story with new characters-his mentor Angeal and the antagonist Genesis (based on the Japanese star Gackt, for some reason). Like most prequels, it’s saddled with the basically impossible task of joining up what was intentionally already a complete story (its sequel) with a bunch of new stuff that doesn’t take anything away from the sequel, and so you generally get the problem where a lot of new stuff is introduced that doesn’t have anything to do with the sequel and it’s all a bit confusing because you’re like “ I came here for stuff to do with the thing I already liked, bitches.” I’m going to blow all your minds here by saying: I did not hate this.Ĭrisis Core: Final Fantasy VIII is, yeah, a bit of a mess.

I mean, it’s real important, right? And I can’t pretend I don’t have warm memories of it, having actually bought the PC version back in the day and played it all the way through without complaint (simpler times, man.) So, honestly, I wanted to play this, its prequel, just to see how they dealt with it. So, for example, I decided I wasn’t going to play that copy of Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy that I had, even though it’s, like, a fighting game. Thats when I, against all good information thought “you know, I’ll give Final Fantasy XIII a try” and tortured myself through about eight hours of its completely utterly incomprehensible battle system and insane drivel that’s supposed to be a story before putting it on the shelf for (literally) about four years, at which point I accepted I was never ever going to bring myself to play it because, as you know, life is too short. I try and be a bit careful when I’m choosing these kinds of things to play, after what I can only call the “Final Fantasy XIII debacle.” But I guess I’m in the mood to kill these lingering demons! Crisis Core, I mean, here is another game that had been sitting next to my bed for over a year and a half unfinished and which I never really got up the gumption to go back and polish off. I must tell you, nothing feels better than clearing off your slate, honestly. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Sony PSP)

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