Good god, finally finished the first campaign.
It's been a trainwreck, and I can safely say that the story and screenplay in the first rivals the ridiculousness of Final Fantasy 13.
The game is, however, not as completely without merit as FF13. By that I mean the game has an MMO aspect, it has customisation for combos, and it has a quest-system that updates over the inter-wire. So as a fantasy game, it's not actually completely ridiculous.
It is, however, as tedious and full of clichés as the worst thinkable opera-performance. So as a review I'm going to write "The Ballad of Ballandor" (on the Ballan-double), and leave it at that.
Still... some of the snark aside - the thing is that you can see the developers were trying to do something interesting here. There is actually relatively good screenplay going on - it's just extremely badly botched. The fighting system is deep - it's just not used very well. The level-system is ok as well - it's just not very interesting the way it's set up. So I'm not going to write the entire thing off - the game is not completely horrible, even though the plot and the execution generally is.
And I really want to see what happens with the second campaign, so.. for Kingdom, Princess and intricately modeled hotpants! I shall be victorious!
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