Comments on: White Knight Chronicles: International Review

By: fleakitten

fleakitten — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:01:28 +0000

@ Glitch I don’t have any complaints about the combat system. I think they made it easy to pick up and play.

@Eddie The story gets better once you pick up your 5th party member. I was skipping cutscenes during the first half of the game until they became more interesting later on.

By: Glitch

Glitch — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:35:02 +0000

I haven’t played FF XIII so this i’m in no way trying to compare WKC to it.

But one of the problems I have with WKC is that the combat is flawed and boring.
First of all there is a lot of combat and not a lot of difference between the various monsters you encounter. You can run from the creatures, but they can attack you from a distance even though they only use close combat attacks. I mean, I have encountered a lot of creatures that stood about 20 meters from me. Still they were able to bite into thin air and damage me. Also the game told me that I were too far away to attack the monster. That is just unfair.

During combat you can move around but since the monsters can attack you from any distance this moving around doesn’t do anything in the game. When you engage in combat a circle appears on the screen. The combat is also sort of turnbased. When combat an on screen circle slowly fills up. When the circle is completely filled up then you can do something ie hit a monster, cast spells, use an item and so on. When you have done that, the circle has to be full again before you get another turn.

Also you are supposed to make combos out of different attacks, but there is no need to. I am at level 21 at the moment and I have only made one combo which I don’t even use that much.

Also you can create wapons and other things via the stuff you find. But you can just as well buy the stuff from the shops.

I think that the graphics are good, the music alright and the sounds in the game is ok. The story is not fantastic, but allright. The online stuff is intriguing but the combat, which isthe main part of the game is downright badly thought out and ruins the game experience for me. I’d give the game a big 3 out of 5, but mainly because of the online part of the game.

Cheers goes out to Level 5 though for giving out free quests via the PSN Store.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:53:01 +0000

You have not played far enough into FFXIII lol.

I’m at a part right now where I need to grind a little to get past a boss safely. Wait until around chapter 9 or 10

By: Trieloth

Trieloth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:47:46 +0000

After playing FF13 for about 7 hours I can say that WKC was/is a better game IMO. I had alot of fun with wkc. I finished the story but need to get farther in the online mode because there is alot there.
FF13 is way to freaking easy. All you do is fish through the menu and watch during the battles. Graphics are great but thats about it.

By: JimmyMagnum

JimmyMagnum — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:38:05 +0000

props for using the tabs for the review, I thought I’d be the only one who did lol