Ufff, after 74 HOURS of playing, I finally finished #ffvi, my first final fantasy.
The final boss was so good that I played it three times, although I beat him the first time.
What a game, I loved everything... except the combat system and therefore... the gameplay... Wich means 80% of the time I wasn't having fun.
-Story? That's a 10.
-Character development?.. a 7.5.
-Graphics? Another 10; if you're paying on emulator use a filter to recreate some CTR effects (e.g. scanlines)... the amount of work in the sprites, especially all the edifications is fantastic, artesanal as heck.
-Music? 11/10, just fantastic, specially the opera one, my favorite by far.
Creativity? 9/10 my problem is world of ruin, it feels like they ran out of resources or something and they just decided to throw an open world to fill the last part, but before that, the game just incentives you to complete it, there is so much to see and every experience is valuable.
And finally gameplay... 4/10.
Slow (and it's not because the animations, but some normal fights can last minutes), the random enemy encounter is high wich make things even worse, and the mechanics are troll, it doesn't feel like you won by being skillful... it's just not fulfilling at all. At a certain point I wanted to leave the game or not play it anymore just for the combat system.
So overall is a great game but... I'd prefer an RPG that rewards me with fun gameplay even if it sacrifices other aspects.
Next game might be either #earthbound or #star_ocean