100 hours - level 99 - all job classes accessible - half of them mastered per character.
For reference’s sake, the levels of the in-game bosses at the end ranged from 50-66, with the bonus boss in Midlight’s Deep at level 75.
The plot was excellent. I cannot for the life of me recall details or any character who made even continued appearances because I’ve been levelling up so damned much. And completing errands. And doing subquests. But I’m reading the game script again now and I’m falling in love all over again. At this point, I may or may not drop spoilers but I don’t care.
As stated before, in the very beginning when this tumblr came to be, Delita Heiral is an asshole. But an asshole I can really get behind. Don’t look at me like that, the words just get that way okay. The aftermath was fitting and I loved it. I could see him with an instance of humanity and then kicking said humanity in the balls because he’s got to get his sweet, sweet vengeance. I hope he banged Ovelia at least once before the end, though. I think it’s Delita and the villains who really are the ones people think about at the end; their intentions, their desires… So intriguing. But totally douchey.
War of the Lions is sinfully similar to Final Fantasy XII in terms of its political plot and hour:level ratio in that I NEED TO GRIND LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER BEFORE I CAN GET ANYWHERE. Of course, unlike FFXII, a large portion of the hours clocked was me consciously levelling up because I wanted to (though I will admit that I used only one instance of auto-levelling to get a handful of them to master the goddamn Black Mage job - if you ever play the game, you’ll understand). See, due to the fact that I fell in love with even the generic characters in the game, I simply had to get them certain job classes that would suit their personalities (which, by the way, I’d made up in my head).
