The road to a high-definition version of Final Fantasy XII has been a long one but it's finally here. Square Enix's release of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age brings the modern classic to a new era and with it, perhaps a chance for redemption in the eyes of fans who may have passed it up the first time around.
Getting right into it, The Zodiac Age is a hefty package for the price. For the first time, Western players are introduced to 2007's International Zodiac Job System version of the game - a re-release that saw a number of additions and improvements when it launched on the PlayStation 2. The Job System adds a collection of twelve different roles to choose from, with each character capable of rolling up to two jobs during the course of the game.
Jobs familiar to the Final Fantasy pantheon such as White Mage, Knight, Machinist, Monk, Black Mage are all here and each have their own license board - drifting far from the original's concepts of shared abilities. For example, the Bushi job class uses katanas and stays strict to light physical attacks while the the Red Battlemage has a diverse number of status element-based
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