Final Fantasy XII Scores Perfectly
Those years of extra development time were put to good use after all, at least if you take the word of Japan's most popular games magazine.
The extra months spent in development may have caused some to wonder whether there is something wrong with Final Fantasy XII. There isn't, if respected Japanese magazine Famitsu is to be believed. With the game finally nearing release, the magazine has doled out only its sixth perfect score, Next Generation is reporting.
The clean-sweep 40-out-of-40 score puts Final Fantasy XII in an elite group of games that includes recent hits Soul Calibur (Dreamcast), Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64), Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube), Vagrant Story (PlayStation 2) and Nintendogs (DS).
Square Enix's PlayStation RPG was originally planned for release in 2004 but the game suffered several delays so that the developers could hammer away at the series' first true singleplayer game since Final Fantasy X in 2001.
Final Fantasy XII is out in Japan later this month with North American and European release dates still to be confirmed. The game should be released outside of Japan later this year.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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