Thanks for joining the party! Final Fantasy Quest is a blog dedicated to recording my adventures as I play through each of the core Final Fantasy games in order. I'm a lifelong fan of the series, and after several years of not gaming, the recent Square iOS game, Chaos Rings, renewed my love for the series.
Here you'll find recap reviews as I complete each title, and along the way, I'll occasionally post screenshots and ramblings.
This review coming a little ahead of schedule, but I’m 1 Caturae away from Shinryu so I figured I might as well write the review.
Rating: 7/10 stuffs
Synopsis: Mysterious Cavernous Maws continue to appear all over Vana’diel, and there seems to be a connection between these and a parallel dimension known as Abyssea…
Details: Abyssea was intended to be light-ish on the story, and focus heavily on new battle systems, which it does. The story isn’t half bad actually, and seems to be a continuation of Chains of Promathia. There are a ton of new rules, new battle systems, and when people aren’t abusing the rate at which you can gain XP, Abyssea can be a lot of fun.
Most notable additions include Atma and Notorious Monster weakness triggers. Atma are god-like enhancements you can be infused with once you obtain up to 3 lunar abyssites. They are made available after triggering a red weakness on Abyssea NMs, or purchased from NPCs if you meet the requirements for completing certain storylines, or Vana’diel NMs. Examples might include Atma of the Mounted Champion which gives something crazy like +100 Vitality, 20hp/tick regen, and lowers your enmity when you take damage.
Weakness triggers are a fun, sometimes frustrating puzzle element to defeating/getting what you want from NMs. Certain weaponskills will trigger a red “!!” animation and inflict a brief terror phase on the enemy, and cause it to drop a key item. Yellow, caused by magic, increases amount/likelihood it will drop AF3 upgrade items, and Blue caused by weaponskills related to time of day, will increase likelihood of it dropping armor or weapons.
It’s not all good however, certain jobs seem to have been left out of this procing ordeal. Summoner, Corsair, Puppetmaster, Beastmaster, Dancer are pretty much useless for taking on Notorious Monsters in Abyssea. In Fact, a WAR/NIN, BLM/BRD, WHM, and BLU can cover almost all of the procs, which seems really unevenly weighted.
Some claim Abyssea has ruined the game, but in my opinion it is simply just the hot thing everyone is doing right now. It’s a place that’s fun to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.
