Final Fantasy XI is an Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) where you enter the world of Vana’diel as an adventurer ready to make your mark on the world along with thousands of other adventurers helping you along the way, joining 1 of 3 home nations, Bastok the smallest of the 3 nations but the heart of technology in Vana’Diel at the peak of its industrial revolution with its top engineer Cid. Bastok is home to the race of Humes and Galkas however there has been rivalry between the 2 for generations, however the Mythril Musketeers help to keep the peace among the land. The second being the great Kingdom of San’doria a mighty city of the proud race of Elvaans, much like the Kingdom of King Arthur Knights help keep the peace in this land. The third city is a mystical one and home of the small mages the Tarutaru and the loyal female felines the Mithra, as is expected of a home nation full of these two races the land is one of mystical and natural, full of trees and a lovely river flowing through its core, but also full of mystical buildings and teleports to help you get around this huge city.

Your adventuring life will start out as 1 of 6 classes, what will you be, perhaps go on the side of power and master of all weapons, the warrior; train yourself in the arts of hand to hand combat and become a monk; become agile and quick becoming a thief; learn the ways of the sword and magic and become a red mage; train yourself to control the elements and harness its great power and become a black mage; or perhaps become one with your fellow man and learn the arts of the white mage healing all that you can.

Of course as an adventurer you are not limited to one you can diverse yourself to another learning each and every skill you can to become the greatest adventurer and eventually get your hands on many other powers like learning the beasts moves from the island to the east blue mage; tame all the beasts in the wild and become the powerful beastmaster or even learn the arts of dance and harness its excellence in battle all these and more are waiting for you in the world of Vana’diel.

It is the time of the adventurer in Vana’Diel and as such you will be asked for many a request from adventurer and noble alike. Perhaps you will help your home nation in its troubles and the fear of the awakening of the Shadowlord whose power earged almost complete destruction to the nations just 20 years past. You will also find yourself stumbling among the strange but wonderful constructions the crags, but on further inspection discover disturbing truths and amazing sights visiting the Chains of Promythia, where you struggle to stop the Celestial Avatars destroying the world to fulfill a pact that was made between them and the ancient race of the Zilart 20000 years ago. With this you can find the mysteries between this ancient race in Rise of the Zilart. There is also great waters where you can wonder on great vessels and airships created by the master engineer Cid, one of these places is that of Art Urgan far to the east home of pirates, mages and Puppetmasters, ruled by the Empress and home of the great mystical item the Astral Candescence. This is also home of the mercenary group Salaheems Sentinals, run by a strict Mithra named Naja, if you decide to join this mercenary group you may find more than you bargained for when you have to defend the city from the constant attack from the beastmen advances, but is everything as it seems its yours to find out. One of the newest mysteries of Vana’Diel is the appearance of strange devices known as Cavernous Maws, devices not seen before but seem to suck you in to spit you out 20 years in the past to the time of the Crystal War, where the 3 nations once enemies are having to pull forces to create the allied forces against the struggles of the first encounter with the Shadowlord, his great power and ability to control all beastmen to do his biddings, what are these strange devices and how have they come to be, perhaps it has something to do with a strange cat, and what is to happen to the timeline if we adventurers start to mess with things there.

Written By Matt1912 Admin of FFU

Allright Final Fantasy X Review I got alot of ground to cover with this game!

The story of this game is an awesome one indeed! It starts off in the extremely busy city of Zanarkand where we find our soon to be hero Tidus, star blitzball player for the Zanarkand Abes, getting ready for his big Blitzball match. So the match begins and a few minutes into the match the stadium is attacked by an extremely powerful thing called Sin in which the game stops and he falls down to the ground from the top of the stadium! When he comes to he sees Auron and they start making their way to Sin! When they finally reach Sin they get taken to a completely different world called Spira! Now the adventure really begins! You meet alot of allies along the way but one of the most important thing to hear is something that is said to him when he tells Rikku that he is from Zanarkand! The reply was extreme shock to him; the reply was “Zanarkand was detroyed a 1000 years ago!” Ohhhhh………what a twist………I am keeping this spoiler free for 2 reasons one I hate spoilers and 2 if I tell you then you will not buy the game to play it because you will know! Another twist I will not go far into is that Tidus’ father Jecht disappeared 10 years before the events of this game is he dead, is he alive, play the game if you want to know because you will not hear it in this review! I give the story a 10 it is perfect by all means!

The graphics are perfect I love them and they flow really well with every part of the game! The size of Spira is just amazing and you have to travel it on foot for nearly the entire game but that is okay because you get to fight! Another part of the graphics are the cut scenes which are CGI and they look perfect I can’t say just how perfect they look but sometimes the words do not line up with the picture on the screen the most noticeable one is the cut scene where you first meet Yuna! I give graphics a 10!

Man this is going to take a while for this part it is the gameplay/controls section! OKay well I am going to probably end up rambling in this part a bit but it needs to be told! Well……..the gameplay it awesome for several reasons one being the battle system which is perfect for the game because it fits so well with the controls! Another thing is that you have a party swap button and at anytime that you have more than 3 characters you can swap one in a battle for the skill you need on the feild at the time! One of the coolest features is the overdrive system which I am a huge fan of for several reasons one being they cause alot of damage to the enemy and as you go along through the game you can get your hands on different overdrives for the characters of the game and different ways to fill your overdrive meter! Hmmm……Well another thing is that you have to do all the time to make your characters stronger and learn new abilities is the Sphere Grid system! Which is similar to the License board from FF XII but that is for another time and another day! But anyway back to the sphere grid it’s a cool thing to have in the game because if you know what you are doing you can get the most powerful abilities very early on in the game! I don’t think I rambled too bad and I got to the point so…………..yeah……. I give the Gameplay a 10!

Last part of the review the sound of the game which is going to be kind of short for a couple of reasons! Okay so first I will start with the voice overs……they did their job very well doing the voices for the characters in the game and I enjoyed that! One thing about the sound would be that there is one scene that I consider the best in the game it also has the best music in that one part, everything after that is either gets repetitive or just annoying! I think that there could be another good song in this game but I am not too sure………anyway my gripes for the sound are not that bad and it doesn’t take away from the gameplay at all! But anyway I give the sound a 8.5!

Over all this game is awesometastic and I love it! I have beaten this game so many times and it never gets old!

(written by cloud7 of ffu forum Respect!!)