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Man this (is bad)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: September 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

really really disappointed with the game play and graphics blocky and un attractive charaters ...

COMPLETELY STUPID

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

boring. period.

my scores -- 1 is worst -- 10 is best
graphics:6.5
fun factor:2.5
plot:0.5
time killer:1

THIS IS NO FFT !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: July 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm a true fan of FFT FOR PLAYSTATION! I baught FFTA believing that it would be more developed story wise and game play than FFT! I couldn't even play it for an hour! WHAT HAPPEN TO MY DEAR FFT!? Thats the last time I rush to a store for a game! BUY this game if you like kiddy games! I think I'll resale my!

Umm...no

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: October 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Alot of problembs with this game. The Storyline, battlestyle, movement, charachters, and play is VERY CONFUSING. I Seriously LOVED FFTactics, but this, this is just...no. You don't call this FF and let it go unnoticed. I used to be a dedicated FF fan, they all got booring though. Please, for everyone's sake, don't get hooked on the Final Fantasy series. You just waste your money and time. I suggest *Onimusha, Metal Gear Solid, or the Tenchu series*. They all have very good storylines and ALOT of in-your-face action. Anyways, FFT:A's graphics and music are the ONLY things I liked about it. Otherwise, I just plain disliked it.

An insult to FF

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While I must say I am not an avid fan of Final Fantasy, in the sense that I haven't played the other games but only watched them, I would say that I am an avid RPG player and was quite anxious to play Final fantasy tactics advanced when I learned there would finally be a FF game for GBA. (I never had the luxury of playing FF on anything else because I never had playstation) However, no less than five minutes into the game, I was extremely disappointed.
The battle scenes are very long, tedious, and boring, and the fact that there are laws has nothing to do with it. The game's storyline, while at first seemed cute and interesting, quickly melted into a shallow, boring yawnfest. Now, don't fill up my email inbox with a bunch of useless mail complaining that I don't like your precious game, but I happen to like RPGs that actually have a continuing plot, not solely doing random missions that cost money that cannot be earned by running into wild monsters like normal games.
That's another problem with this game. Where are the wild monsters? Usually, that's your only reliable way to get money in a game is to fight wild monsters, but at an early stage in this game, I am already being forced to sell all my held items to be able to get any further in a game that is purely not interesting.
I would have to say, don't waste your money on this game, unless you're interested in completing boring missions that consist of long, tedious fights that stretch on for too long with too little a payoff.

FF = Fatally Flawed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Slogging through this game ranks as one of the most miserable experiences of my entire life. I gave FFTA every opportunity to prove that it was worthy of the Square-Enix label, but the only thing it proved to be was a cure for insomnia. The criticisms of this game are boundless. There is absolutely no central theme. The gameplay consists of wandering from one pointless mission to another. The battle engine is mediocre at best and the childish dialogue between the androgynous characters leaves you feeling nauseated. The mere fact that the game opens with a snowball fight should have signaled that we were in trouble. This game lost all focus on the "strategy" and "RPG" aspects that should have been central. There was no exploration involved and very little intereaction with third party NPCs. The original FFT for PS1 surpassed this game in every way. I'm quite convinced that this game served as nothing more than a disingenuous attempt to cash-in on the Final Fantasy legacy. RPG fans would be wise to avoid this waste of money and 60+ hours of your life!

Highly Dissappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved the original for the playstation, but this one...

Story 2.5/10: The story is about as deep as a wading pool. I thought from the start it wouldn't be great but I didn't expect it to be so bland and vapid. The story opens on a school-yard snowball fight between the munchkins of a small public school, and a clever tutorial instructs you how to play the game throughout the snow fight. Then three of the loser kids (including the protagonist) go to a house read a book, then wish they weren't losers and were in that fantasy world. Then while they sleep the world changes and then the main guy ask the other two to help him get the world back to normal but they don't want to because they're not losers there... then you go on a million missions, and the story dies with your motivation to play.

Gameplay 5/10: The battle system is pretty much the same as the first, except you have to learn skills and magic by equipting weapons that have that skill on them. This wouldn't bother me except that you often have to equip very weak weapons to learn skills you may have missed or haven't gotten to yet. The battles feel slower then its big brother and they just aren't as fun.

Graphics 5/10: I guess they're good for a GBA game but the first has much better visuals. The animations and attacks and spells almost put me to sleep, they are very simple and boring. Overall the graphics just plain lack style or any zest at all. Oh and the character clothing is outrageously bizzare!! They look incredible weird even for a FF game, in short I don;t like it.

Overall 4/10: It is, at best, an ok game. At least it's better than Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicals ;( *shutters*

JUST PLAIN BAD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME HAS ONE GOOD FEATURE AND IT IS THE GRAPHICS. BUT OVERALL THIS GAME IS BAD. ALL YOU DO IS FIGHT AND NOTHIN ELSE. PLUS THE FIGHTS TAKE LIKE 20 MINUTES EACH, THAT IS WAY TO LONG.

What the hell...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, belive me i loved FFT for the playstation it was awsome, pure stradagy with battle it out battles. i knew the gba version was gunna be a lil toned down with the graphics i had no problem with that, but this!? this is a mockery! a judge? A JUDGE?!!?!? WHAT KINDA JOKE IS THIS?!!?! RULES FOR BATTLE?! no fighting... no spells... no lightining, no etc... i still cant get over the no fighnting rule for some battles, this is a battle for CRISAKE! with random bandits and monsters! n there is a judge???! a judge that tells u what u can and cannot do in battle?! n if u do disobay his laws ya go to PRISION?! what kinda joke is this?! i was expecting a nice battle stradgy game like the psx version, but then they threw in A JUDGE?!?!?!?! good god that is the stupidist thing i have EVER SEEN! i hope i can find the receit (dont know how to spell it). my god, battle = fight, right? then theres the no fight law for some battles?! WHAAAAAATTTTTTT?! I could also see how they were going for a differnt apporch in there game with using kids n stuff i thought it was cute and was redy for a nice lil story, but then came, THE JUDGE! plus they coulda done a lil better with the equiping menu at stores like in the psx version but hey... my recomendation is, dont buy this, if u want tactics jus get the psx version MUCH better. hope this helped.

If this is what the FF series is all about...count me out

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: October 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this as my first official Final Fantasy game...however, I was very disappointed. I mean the graphics and sound were excellent but all you do is battle! You can't even explore lands...you don't even get to actually control the character except to battle and to go places on this "overview map". I am a die hard RPG fan and let me say this game puts to shame the big hype everyone expected...and degrades the true meaning and reputation of the RPG world.

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