It's review time!

[Prpl_Mage]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem...Awesome game, in spite of some oft-reused areas (It's plot-based, if that helps) and a bit of repetitiveness. The magic system, where you mix and match runes to create new spells, is rather cool. Most importantly, the plot is dark and often extremely disturbing (and this is a Nintendo game?), and I have all the respect in the world for a game that utilizes psychological horror instead of jump-out scares. I know everyone raves about the fourth-wall breaking insanity effects, but I find the audio when your sanity bar is super low much more disturbing. There's something about that woman sobbing that gets to me.

Spot on.

FFXII: Everyone said it's the game of the year and the best Final fantasy so far.
In fact. The only thing this game do have is graphics and perhaps music. But it lacks everything that's needed to make a great game. The areas are empty, no NPCs to be found except towns.
Monsters are re-used far too often. Bosses sometimes use the same models are the previous boss only a different skin.
Magic sucked - there's just no point in charging magic since it deals less damage than any character can deal with a normal weapon attack.
The character development and partnership is equal to that of a porno.
In fact, FFXII is an MMORPG although you hacked it and threw up a private server, but you can't change things. And no one wants to join your server. You're all alone in one big world and there really isn't much to see.
And the worst part, the game ended where all the other final fantasy's had their "über epic point of no-return". It's just a "WTF" ending and uninteresting.
Awful game, I rather play FFX-2.

FFX-2:
It is a sequel and it's Final Fantasy gone "Charlie's angels" on the fans. This game is one big fan service and people can even do nasty things with Scan lvl3.
But the game is actually entertaining. There are loads of classes to find and earn, there are tons of annoying mini games. There are sidequests and secret events and all that. The only sad part is the lacking amount of characters and variation in the dialogues.
But a new improved version of the ATB system was introduced. Some skills made the ATB longer and other made it shorter after using them. It made it more effective to use a weak spell instead of strong spells from time to time. And spells that hit multiple enemies were affected by where the characters stood on the battlefield.
Great system, lacking story.

[zuhane]

Nice + accurate overview of FF12! :p

I must say, I respect them for the sheer polish, shine and concept of the game.
It looks like it could be great... but it's just so effing boring.