Final Fantasy XII US Officially Released

Today, the game machine that has ultimately dominated the world of gaming in these last six years, the machine that has took several thousand of hours from my life into nothingness, that black box, known as PS2, is dead.

Well, not officially though. Some third-party game producers were still going to made several games in the next few months. Some of them probably good enough to receive a rave reviews from EGM or gained a cult status over time, but really, with Nintendo Wii coming in next two weeks, and PS3 not further ahead, it would be a 'smart' move to start thinking ahead and produce games suitable for the next-gen consoles. Duh, it's not that smart actually (notice that single quote), dummy.

Coincidentally (or not), the game that many gamers (including yours truly faithful writer) heralded as the final game that closes the PS2 domination era was this game. Final Fantasy. The same game-serie that i think, responsible to put PS1 on the position where it was in 1996, but also dig the grave and buried PS1 in it. The seventh installment made a considerable leap from the sixth installment previously on SNES and marked the era of PS1. Many (excluding yours truly faithful writer, unfortunately) still considered that sixth and seventh Final Fantasy games were among the very best from the series. However, two installment later, on the ninth, PS1 died. Well, there were still some games released even now, but you get the point. No point in bought the PS1 machine unless you'd give it as a present to your four year old little brother (wait, that's what i did, hehe).

Three installment later, one of them was an online game, plus one (un)necessary sequel, PS2 died.

Final Fantasy XII, was the name of the game. It's Japanese version was released on May 2006, and has been safely on the top of waiting list of many gamers worldwide (including yours truly faithful writer) awaiting its US version coming today (October 31st, and that, dear readers, was further proof that October was indeed my favourite month of the year). I had the Japanese version, of course. Been playing it for several-ten hours, but with my current level of Japanese language proficiency, it would took me much more longer to finish the game than if i played the US version and it has been a public knowledge that Japanese version RPGs were harder than its US version counterpart. And so, with that said, i would check the game store today, and bought the game. And if, in the next few weeks, this blog seems to be abandoned, i've got this game to point my finger to.