

Players may save their game to a memory card using save crystals or gate crystals, and may use the latter to teleport between gate crystals. The player navigates the overworld on foot, Chocobo, or by airship. The world of Final Fantasy XII is rendered to scale relative to the characters in it instead of a caricature of the character roaming around miniature terrain, as found in the earlier Final Fantasy games, every area is represented proportionally. While in towns and cities, the player may only see from the perspective of Vaan, but any character may be controlled in the field. Unlike previous games in the series, the player can also control the camera with the right analog stick, allowing for a 360° view of the surroundings. Throughout the game, the player directly controls the on-screen character from a third-person perspective to interact with people, objects, and enemies. A high-definition remaster of the International Zodiac Job System version, The Zodiac Age, was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One in 2017. In 2007, a sequel titled Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings was released for the Nintendo DS, and the same year, an expanded version of Final Fantasy XII, titled Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System, was released on the PlayStation 2 exclusively in Japan. They are quickly joined by a band of allies together, they rally against the tyranny of the Archadian Empire.įinal Fantasy XII was both a critical and commercial success, earning several Game of the Year awards and selling over six million copies on the PlayStation 2 by November 2009. During the struggle, she meets Vaan, a young adventurer who dreams of becoming a sky pirate in command of an airship. When Dalmasca is annexed by Archadia, its princess, Ashe, creates a resistance movement. Dalmasca, a small kingdom, is caught between the warring nations. The game takes place in Ivalice, where the empires of Archadia and Rozarria are waging an endless war. Final Fantasy XII also includes elements from previous games in the series, such as Chocobos and Moogles.

It introduced several innovations to the series: an open world a seamless battle system a controllable camera a customizable " gambit" system, which lets the player control the artificial intelligence (AI) of characters in battle a "license" system, which determines what abilities and equipment can be used by characters and hunting side quests, which allows the player to find and defeat increasingly difficult monsters in the game's open world. The twelfth main installment of the Final Fantasy series, it was first released for the PlayStation 2 in 2006.

Final Fantasy XII is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix.
