A Response to Final Fantasy XII Criticism

A translation of this from russian www.finalfantasywhatever.com/2…
""FFXII has no story!\Story is bad\Characters are irrelevant!"
Yeah, of course. Then try to find a JRPG, where all characters would be important for the story. Ashelia and Baltier are the leading men. Bash and Vaan are not this important, but you won't say about their unimportance. Fran and Penelo are characters-companions. Fran is more important, because her companion is a Leading Man, while Penelo is just the watcher. She can make an independent point of view. And don't forget about the guests, all of them are better than character from your favorite JRPG.

Most criticizm towards FFXII are made because FINAL FANTASY XII STORY IS MADE FOR SMART PEOPLE WHO PAY ATTENTION TO THE STORY. If you pay attention, you won't wonder why Vaan is suddenly began to believe in Bash, as he hated him when he first met him, because you will see how he seen his actions and realized that Bash is a man worth the trust. If you pay attention, you won't call Ondor a traitor or Vaan a main character.

People who don't care are MILLIONS.  "Sephiroth killed Aerith" yeah, of course, we know. They need that story should be written in bold text. There is a guy with fat sword who must defeat a guy with long sword (Final Fantasy VII) . Or there, a cool hero schoolboy, and here a is a evil guy who you should hate, and here is a magical thing (Final Fantasy VIII). Or here, look, a clown who poisoned a castle (Final Fantasy VI). Or look, a evil hippo-queen who shots bombs at her daughter!(Final Fantasy IX). Or evil cardinal of evil church, who summons a giant demon. We all just need that this villain should show off more frequent, so we could know that he is bad, of course.

And they think of Final Fantasy XII on their level, "well i already knew that Vayne is a main bad, why would you do so much things just to defeat him?" Or "Judges? Well, just a horned dudes, i thought we could fight them, but they didn't made a fights with all of them, that sucks" All reasons why Vayne is the ruler, Reasons of Ashelia's dillemma, everything slipped from their ears.

Maybe this happened, because of much of gameplay in this game. Between nearby cutscenes, you can do a lot of things. But may be better, if you will at first playtrough follow the story than doing a grind?

Main reason of character hate, is because game doesn't throws them into you, they are not hypertophied like clowns from Final Fantasy VI or VII. They are more like book characters. 
Most of people don't understand this, but characters of FFXII are not bad, they are just different from those anime freaks of most JRPGs. 
Of course you may not like the Final Fantasy XII as a single game (Story here is not a masterpiece though), but to compare it with stories of PSOne games and say that PSONE ones are better... is dumb."

If you have other questions about other aspects of the game, i can translate them. 
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Oh, and before you comment, Final Fantasy XII means 12, Twelve, not shitty Thirteen.