DUMB FFXII QUESTION

milkchocobo:

I am paranoid about using Google and spoiling something juicy…

But why is it called “Zodiac Age”? (as if to differentiate it somehow from just being FF12?)

Is it significantly different from the OG that was released on PS? Is it because of the license-board thing??

Well story-wise the 2006 version and the Zodiac Age is strictly the same. What’s different mainly are the jobs.

In the original game, each character had the same licence board and you could specialized them the way you wanted and they could all become anything lmao Most players thought it was a shame. In 2007 an “International Zodiac Job system” was released on PS2 (it’s called international but it was released in Japan only lol). Here the jobs you know were introduced. However, you could choose only one job per character and you couldn’t change. I’ve seen a Youtuber giving only the Knight job to the 6 of them and he quickly understood his mistake lmao.

Now with The Zodiac Age we can give two jobs ! We can’t change during the game but with 12 jobs and 6 characters you can enjoy all of the gameplay, or choose to ignore the weakest jobs !

As in why the name “the Zodiac Age” I don’t know the exact explanation, but the Espers linked to the zodiac are actually a big part of the lore, even if it can be easily missed if you don’t read the bestiary entries or completely miss the optional areas.

Hope it clarifies things =)