JUDE'S PROFILE

You're basing the feasibility of characters on abilities that may not even exist ever, and certainly don't exist right now and won't for at least 6 months.

author=Craze
Mog is versatile. I don't mind him, he's better than most FF6 characters at least. Setzer's only saving grace is Support 5. Edgar's okayish if you really need a knight or some light aoe with his decent default SB. Sabin and Strago... lol. Mog has the option of dealing nice Jump/Wind Jump damage with a spear, or can Diaga/Curaga/Protectga/Shellga with a staff... or just a nice spear/dagger + Pro/Shel as a utility auto-attacker. It also helps that he has some really nice soul breaks -- I know I'll be pulling for Holy Spear, SSB Fest be damned.

Setzer is also the only Support 5 that can use swords.

Edgar is fine, but not great. Generally you're looking to put something cool in a tank's second abilty slot, and for Edgar it's a Status Buster of some flavor--so if you need a tank that can also poison or blind then he's your guy. It's just that his competition is able to slot Retaliate, which synergizes with Draw Fire ridiculously well, or Cecil who can uses the Buffga abilities--both of which are more important than Support 3 in 95% of scenarios.

Mog is dope. Like I said, the only problem with him is he's stuck at Lv50. His limit breaks are dope, his kit is dope, his stats are well-rounded. You won't be Diaga nuking with him, but you'll certainly be healing, buffing, and jumping with him. Dances are situationally good and will eventually be great.

I haven't used Sabin and Strago much. They're my only sub-50 FF6 characters. Sabin is probably better now that Punishing Palm is out. I'm not even sure what Strago has access to other than Black 5.

I pretty much always grab the crystals first. I figure if something happens that prevents me from playing, I at least want to get the most important parts done.

And I probably will clear the dungeons. I have less remaining than I thought. I think it's going to suck having a smaller mythril stream once I'm left with only daily dungeons.

If makes you feel better, Liberty, there was a male character in the first Xenoblade who became stronger the more naked he was. Glorious Dunban, the naked dodge tank.

I played it all day and it's pretty dope so far. Quite different than the Wii game in several ways.

You create your own (mostly) silent protagonist from a fairly limited character creator instead of there being a fully voiced character written by the developers. The new class system is a lot cooler than the skill category thinger from the last game. This time it branches out, splitting into three separate classes at each stage, which teaches your dudes different abilities based on what route you invest in, and there's a lot to choose from. A lot more stat diversity than the last game too, so there are more things to consider when outfitting your character. I haven't unlocked the mecha yet, so I'm looking forward to whenever that happens. A considerable portion of the story is told through its sidequests, of which there are shitloads of, and the game world is almost completely open to you right from the start--I've only run into like two artificial progression gates so far and the first one was in the intro. This makes it a much more open-ended, exploration-driven game than most JRPGs, which is always a nice change-of-pace from the norm.

I don't really have a lot to complain about yet except for a few things. The music is a lot different than the Wii game. I guess it fits the game well enough, but the original's soundtrack is too great to compare. It's still a Monolith Soft RPG, so all of the characters look like expression-less dolls, which I've never liked. If you didn't find it a problem in Xenosaga or Xenoblade, you probably won't mind it here, though. The UI is tiny. My living room is pretty large and I keep the floor open, so my couch is far away from the TV. I can't really read a lot of the things on the UI from that distance, so I've ended up tossing a bean bag up close and chilling on that. Like the Wii game, you still select your abilities using the d-pad and an action bar at the bottom of the screen. I think they missed an opportunity to put these commands on the tablet screen, which has been reserved for a mapping system that could've easily been suppressed during combat instead. By extension, they could've offloaded a lot of the UI onto the tablet during battle. Like Xenoblade before it, it's very cluttered when there's a lot going on. The monsters are awesome looking and I'd like to get a clearer look at them while filling them with bullets.