I thought I wouldn’t like the new license board system because the original allowed me to really buy whatever license I wanted so I could give Vaan polearms or make Penelo a tank. Instead opting for a license board that allows you to choose a class for your character which forces you to focus on one. The international version did away with the license board that everyone could use. So if a character was introduced as an archer, you could have them use maces, polearms or guns as long as you had the license for it. The original PS2 game introduced the License Board which allowed players to choose literally whatever weapon, armor and accessory you wanted. Mind you, even though they didn’t level up, characters still obtained License Points while not being in the immediate party. This FF game forced you to level up your whole party instead of having just three characters you always used.

This choice gave players a bit more freedom than other FF games.Īlong with this new battle system was the overall growth system. A battle was initiated by being in the sight lines of an enemy and the player could choose to fight or flee. It introduced the Active Dimension System where battles happened in real time. Final Fantasy 12 (excluding Final Fantasy XI) was the first FF that didn’t have random encounters. But this game was always seen as the odd duck in the Final Fantasy franchise because it was something different. What made this Final Fantasy different from the past ones was the battle system. Very underrated, but still sold well in the U.S when it initially came out. This may be a biased review because I loved the original game.

Ff12 ps2 license board