LogFAQs > #967154838

WaterLink posted...

Haven't played Octopath but I actually enjoyed the battle system in 13, it was actually one of my favorite parts with the paradigm shift and AI teammates. Libra the enemies and the AI adapts according to its weaknesses. The only time it kinda sucks is when your Sabs and Syns go out of the order you want (usually poison is lower on the list for AI Sabs so if you want to get poison on something early you kinda have to start off as a Sab yourself, which generally means the AI is attacking which if you've Libra'd they should be doing pretty optimally). I felt like I had my hands full and the system could get pretty hectic as it was only controlling one character, I feel like manually controlling all 3 would have been a headache but that's just me.

Of the FFs I've played a decent amount of (3-9,13) The only ones I've actually hated was 3 and 8. I'm playing through 10 for the first time right now and I'm enjoying it so far. Though I do gotta say for all the shit XIII gets for being linear I don't see why we didn't hear so much of that for X. The Calm Lands is basically the Steppe, the Sphere Grid and Crystarium are pretty similar. The Crystarium was more linear, but at least different characters had access to different abilities in each role other characters couldn't get so each character still feels unique even with fully maxed Crystariums. With X it feels like everyone started out unique but as I'm filling the grid out everyone is converging together to be basically the same character in the end, only Yuna will be able to use Aeons.

X handles being linear well with various open areas, actual towns and NPCS while XIII is just corridors for 12 of its 13 chapters. @WaterLink