13th February 2004, 2:43 AM
i played the multiplayer for the first time today. it's actually quite fun, very different from single player. i do not know where all the complaints in the reviews are coming from. the game is slightly tedious, but no more so that diablo, and the environments and subtle story touches make it worth playing. i think the slight redundancy is easy to overlook. it's no final fantasy 7, (i know it's not a "real" final fantasy game, but i'm gonna compare it to them anyway), but i think it's much, much better than 8 so far and i may be enjoying it even more than 10.
just to let you know how long i've played while still not being bored, i'm 11 hours into the single player adventure and keep coming back for more. it's weird, i really do think it's a quite good game.
and it's extremely non-linear now that i've put more time into it, so i don't know why some reviewers said that it faked non-linearity. in fact, i've played levels in the first 3 hours of multiplayer that i haven't even considered going to yet in single player and i've opted not to visit certain places in multiplayer that i had already visited at that point in single player.
oh, another cool thing about single player. you can create up tp 8 characters and i think they all fit in the one 22 block save. anyway, when you have only one character there are a lot of empty homes in your town, but as you play as different characters, these houses fill up and you can have families with different jobs living in your town to assist you. for example, i couldn't find a tailor to make me accessories anywhere, so i started a character with a taylor family and now i can make any accessory i have the plans for. it's really rather cool.
anyway, i really like the game.
just to let you know how long i've played while still not being bored, i'm 11 hours into the single player adventure and keep coming back for more. it's weird, i really do think it's a quite good game.
and it's extremely non-linear now that i've put more time into it, so i don't know why some reviewers said that it faked non-linearity. in fact, i've played levels in the first 3 hours of multiplayer that i haven't even considered going to yet in single player and i've opted not to visit certain places in multiplayer that i had already visited at that point in single player.
oh, another cool thing about single player. you can create up tp 8 characters and i think they all fit in the one 22 block save. anyway, when you have only one character there are a lot of empty homes in your town, but as you play as different characters, these houses fill up and you can have families with different jobs living in your town to assist you. for example, i couldn't find a tailor to make me accessories anywhere, so i started a character with a taylor family and now i can make any accessory i have the plans for. it's really rather cool.
anyway, i really like the game.
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