Hung Lo's Somewhat Comprehensive Review of 
Final Fantasy: Endless Nova REVISITED

Just a little note. I'm going to be reviewing the game's 
individual parts seperately, and then rating the game 
overall on how each individual part flows together 
with the others.


Storyline and Dialogue: Rating the creativeness, the 
ideas, and the execution of the game's story.

The actual story the game conveys is excellent. The 
concepts and ideas behind it are fairly unique, and the 
game is very enjoyable. The dialogue is absolutely fantastic, 
and much above what I expected in an Rm2k game. I'm going 
to play this game right through to the end. The game's 
storyline is both compelling and fantastical in nature, 
blending fantasy and science fiction elements so seemlessly 
it astounds me. The game's start, while a touch slow, 
quickly builds itself to a nice, quick pace and never 
looks back. Absolutely fantastic.

This portion of the game can't be rated a higher. Aside 
from a few small errors in the starting, this game's 
dialogue, both in the writing mechanics and in the personality 
behind it is flawless. I'm very glad I kept myself open minded 
when I played this, because this game is probably my favourite.


Appearance and Atmosphere: Rating the asthetics and audio of 
the game.

The game's appearance and music were decent. Heavily 
edited RTP seemed to be the main theme throughout the game, 
though the RTP was used well, so this wasn't really a bad 
thing. The graphics, for the most part, were good, although 
some of the edits were a bit obvious, and the use of both 
Future and default RTP charset styles was a bit jarring. 
This was not too bad, however, since the mix of graphics 
generally worked well. The game's areas can be quite 
beautiful, and only get better as the game progresses.

The music was neither memorable nor horrible. It was 
just there, and did it's job admirably. I never thought 
to turn the volume down, and at no point did I wish 
there was a different song playing. Quite a few FF songs 
in there, but hey! It's an FF game. :P

This part of the game could have been improved if the author 
chose to use a more unified graphics scheme.


Gamplay Mechanics: How much fun and effort has been put 
into the actual gameplay

The game's gameplay is fantastic. The battle balance is, 
for the most part, spot on, and the ability for characters 
to steal techniques from enemies and learn them made for 
a really exciting and diverse game, and adds a lot to 
the replayability, since you can always try stealing 
different techniques from different enemies. Battles 
are neither too easy or too hard, and the different 
character's techniques make for an exciting game.

The little blue dudes were a good idea, and the work on 
the Custom Menues was really well executed. In particular, 
I liked the Barter system.

The interactivity with the game's environments gets greater 
and greater as the game goes on, progressing to unreal 
levels when you get past the first two areas. By the time 
you've arrived to the first "worldmap", you've generally 
got multiple paths through an area with plenty of 
sidequests.


Overall

Overall, this game was fantastic. If you haven't played 
this game yet due to the early release, give it another 
shot now. You will never regret it.