

As I, your friendly neighborhood Double Agent, through the aid of my "slobbering minions," will hereafter manifest, it really, really does. Completely devoid of battles or backstory, the flat characters (and I'm not talking about the criminally ugly sprites, either) and lack anything remotely compelling in the line of a plot is enough to make a spoiled contemporary gamer's intestines leap up through their neck to hurriedly throttle their brain and end the inhumanity.īut. Traipsing like a slack-jawed masticating cow at pasture back and forth across the island after Kiefer in the name of "adventure" occupies a few too many of DWVII's initial hours for my tastes, as well. No, your complaints are not entirely unfounded - and I wholly sympathize with your initial impressions. More patient? I really wanted to give this game a chance, but unless it gets Is it because I haven't gotten far enough into the story/game? Should I be Something with someĬontent, something interesting to discover and look at. A game that I want to explore is GTA3, or FFX. Probably because everything looked soīoring. Honestly though, they all must be on crack. I know people tote this in the air as the pinnicle of classic RPG games. When I heard this, they would fill that 3 hours with well developedĬharacters, interesting backstory, something! Instead, we have 3 boneheadĬharacters transported to some island from a fragment of whatever. But, it takes you 3 hours to get to a battle ! I thought that I mean, haven't we heard it all before? Mind And the prince isĮven worse, the stereotypical, rebellious nobility, who sneaks out and hasįun when his dad isn't looking. That's with you is a moron, clinging to you for no reason. Is it just me, or are theĬharacters so cliche that they have no personality whatsoever. I got so bored within the first 3 or 4 hours. I satĭown, and grabbed my controller, and said, "Lets do some hardcore old school I really tried hard to enjoy Dragon Warrior 7. Outside of Japan, who cares about Dragon Quest?Īnd I kind of got the impression that the rest of these people do, too. The Double Agent and her slobbering minions when it hit me: Yet another RPG I have not played that is now about to be dissected under the harsh glare of I was thinking of lyrics to "Old Time Rock and Role" that would express my dissatisfaction at

In any case, your kindness, even if inadvertent, does not go unnoticed. You may have done this because my statement of yesterday inspired sympathy. However it is worth nothing that none of you spoiled any of the far-flung and therefore deeply appreciated plot points that may grace the game's latter half. "I want to be a Blitzball when I grow up." There is coarse language and potentially offensive Moderator, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Within this column are those of the participants and the As an RPG, DW is becoming matured - JanuErin Mehlos
