Final Fantasy 16 Is Disappointing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2023
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Today, I want to share my thoughts on Final Fantasy 16. As a long-time fan of the series, I was really excited to dive into this latest installment. However, after spending some time with the game, I have to say that I was pretty disappointed.
The pacing felt off, with long stretches of exposition followed by some banger story moments but the filler in between really killed it for me.
The combat system is flashy and looks cool but there's very little depth to it. The game doesn't force you to fight different enemies in different ways rather any combination of attacks will do the job.
Overall, while I appreciate the effort that went into creating Final Fantasy 16, it just didn't live up to my expectations. I'll still be keeping an eye on future entries in the series, but for now, I'll be moving on to other games.
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FF16 is as much as a mistake as the sad spongebob meme.
Late to the party but I agree with your review, didn't hate the game, managed to finish it but didn't like the ending.
Kinda feel like it would've need another delay but it would've gotten on Rebirth's Marketing Schedule so they couldn't delay it.
Sad spongebob is cringe
@@ThatBeingCed The game is actually empty. It's a dead empty world... no exploration. You just teleport into an area fight 4 to 6 mobs ( or groups of mobs ) and teleport out.
And then the fucking never ending and constant cutscenes. Some game developers in japan think that people want to watch cutscenes in video game not play the game.
Its a joke.
I am so angry i pre ordered and paid full price.
I never thought I would see the day when a Yakuza game or God of War Ragnarok is more rpg than Final Fantasy.
I never thought I would see the day when a Final Fantasy game is more of a God of War game than God of War Ragnarok.
@@doomguydemonkillerwelcome to year 2000 for FF16 i guess. Where hack and slash games golden era
@@doomguydemonkillerAgreed. Ragnarok was so disappointing
@@doomguydemonkillerPlease, God of War Ragnarok combat at least shared similarities with previous titles in it's own franchise. That's more than I can say for Final Fantasy May Cry.
@@SolidSnake240True
Ragnaroks Story was all over the place and dissapointing.
2018 was better
Dropped this shit like a bad habit when I saw that they were going for the XIV style of storytelling. I love XIV to pieces but that style of progression is a big fuck no for a single player game.
The 14 story has time to build up properly. this just tried to cram as nuch as possible down your throat as it could. Thats why there are so many inane side quests.
It’s not surprising they do 14 stuff when the team is literally the same…
I was baffled that they said that in reviews as a positive. The side quests were just awful. Awful.
Why didn't they use 7 remakes combat system too? Like wtf was that. Devil may cry has more depth and options than that. Kingdom hearts 1 had more depth.
@@bobdylan1968 combat system isn’t the problem. The problem in the game are elsewhere and the problem with jrpg in general. For example the fact nearly all jrpg have small closed zones like theme parks where you do quests. It’s just not the exploration you have in games like Elden ring or Witcher. It’s underwhelming. They were cut down and forced to put the game on single ps5 disk by square enix due to low interest in the game, and 50% or more of the disk space is used for the boss levels and cutscenes. They had no space and time to make a real rpg with much bigger zones and deeper quests. Square enix decided to pour resources into ff7 remakes which will be two ps5 disks and true next gen game. That’s disappointing to me that square enix and fans focus so much on a boring dead game that is ff7. Just weebs you can’t get enough of sephiroth, cloud, and tifa.
@@Bahamut3525 the combat was absolutely a problem. It was dull. You did the same exact thing for every single fight. There was no depth, no challenge. Zero true progression. Gear meant zero. There were zero builds. Magic was useless and didn't even matter what dumb boring fireball you were throwing, they were all identical.
Ff7 remake just has outright better combat in every way. 16 is just more over the top, for the worse. You can't see shit as a result.
A SINGLE character in ff7 remake has more depth in their moveset than Clive by the end of the damn game. And that's not an exaggeration at all.
You end up using the same rotation of abilities, like you're playing a very bad MMO. Smash the same combo over and over and over, until your abilities are off cool down, spam them one after the other, the end.
The problem with modern press and social media reviewers is they are all afraid to be critical of games. I find social media has created these masses of overly optimistic gamers who pretend everything is amazing for the sake of increasing their reach and making publishers happy. There is this major disconnect between the reality of games and the sugar coated social media version. Also modern (and younger) gamers are sadly just easily won over by flashy cutscenes and shallow but rewardy mechanics. Mobile games have really ruined RPGs. There are so many unnecessary pat on the back / "wow good job" mechanics in this game. Things that trick the average gamer into thinking they are doing well in a game when in reality anyone is gonna do well in this game. It takes very little skill and has no strategy in our outside of battle. Sure FF was never really that hard but in older games you could put in a little extra leg work to really get more powerful and add more depth to combat.
I think you have a good point, I spotted a reviewer here who argued that the game was great because it was extremely linear and always told you where to go, so he never got lost, that it's so cool that there are no significant upgrading, customization or RPG equipment mechanics because those are tedious, he was "thankful" the game didn't have exploration because "that's boring", and the combat system is "deep" because you can chain combos (even though the game is not designed in a way in which you need to do it in order to beat it, you can still spam and get the same results without overcomplicating yourself)... and had the audacity of claiming that RPG is anything, because any game can be considered an RPG... it's ok if someone liked the game, but please, would it hurt to at least try a bit harder and present some meaningful, thoughtful critique of it? And let's not talk about the "FF games have always been all over the place" gaslighting squad.
I can forgive a lot, it’s Final Fantasy. It releases something I buy it, it’s that simple but…this is the first time that I’ve felt like the designers and producers have contempt for what they have to make. It feels like they forced themselves to put in any references to actual Final fantasy.
This game feels hollow…and I don’t feel any love in this product.
When the climactic cutscene ends and Ifrit poses dramatically victorious my heart sank every time it was halted by the victory screen. “Odin defeated!!!!!” …that could have easily been a passive thing that appears when all the cutscenes were done and regular gameplay starts again or when you’re forced back to the map selection screen, I know that’s a small gripe but it’s just so me symptom in a massively uncared for game.
So basically everybody is just a Flapjack trying to get pats. That's a perfect way to sum everything up XD
Echo chamber of puppets dancing on strings of review codes. They are the Joneses now. Try to keep up.
@@TheGreatAmarant72that’s a pretty warped take to say there was no love for final fantasy in 16. The love is everywhere, they just decided to go with a daring and new European setting. Maybe you think final fantasy should always be those stupid Asian jrpg setting which I think is patently wrong
Couldn’t have summarized this any better. So much of this game is just fluff to make the game longer. So many quests are the biggest waste of time: run from point A to point B and talk to character A and deliver food to character B. I’m halfway through the game and I’ve had to deliver food in probably FIVE different missions. This is ridiculous
Dude, your a complete liar, grow up
They waited until 85% of the game to start setting up the real antagonist, but immediately rushed to the end without even giving the antagonist a proper identity, let alone character growth. There was no believability to the motives of the primary antagonist and it felt like a cruel joke. It reminded me of how FXIV spent 10 years building up a primary antagonist, only to toss him aside for an arse-pull who was introduced halfway into the last expansion. I hope Naoki Yoshida isn't allowed leadership positions on any more mainstream FF games, he should stick with his subpar, mediocre MMO.
Its sad to see that Final Fantasy 1-13 had diverse casts, amazing (or confusing) stories, and still look really good. Now they've stripped away party dynamics, and took away any depth to the gameplay.
@SociallyVirgin I'm not a fan of how it told it's story, and (I might have to rebuy it to give it another go) I don't remember a single character, but it still felt like a Final Fantasy ™️ game. And that has nothing to do with the battle system but the style and tone.
they have taken out what used to make a Final Fantasy game and left it unrecognizable,
@SociallyVirgin same FF13 Goes hard
Just beat the game but have the same viewpoints as you, I appreciate this review and you articulated yourself superwell!
Much appreciated 👍
If you look at it at a surfaces level, you hunt, side quest, and main story. Nothing else you can do. People hated ff15 but for me I never get bored because they give you the sense of freedom what you can do in the world. Fishing and keeping photos made by a NPC is amazing moment for me.
Agreed, ff16 made me realize ff15 wasn't so bad in retrospect.
Regardless of what I think about 16, I still think 15 sucks lol
@AdziGaming what would you say if I said. SquareEnix hasn't made a good final fantasy ever. ( besides 14 , cause it's all the games rolled into one)
Super agree. I actually wanted to 100% ff15, but at this point I'm not even sure if I'm going to finish 16
@@xrichie7924I dropped 15 cause of how boring it was to me so that’s weird. I finally beat ff16 after 100% and 115 hours I think
Liked this game, but man the side content was brutal. Imagine the hub is Switzerland and NPCs send you over to friggin Spain to pick up their groceries. Made no narrative or world building sense.
My experience of putting the game down went like this:
MAJOR BLOCKBUSTER BATTLE (that was boring to play but cool to see)
Then:
“Hey now we need you to go here and collect some dirt”
Basically summed up my experience
Mate you were absolutely spot on with the description of the hub walking back and forth doing this meaningless quest
I feel that 15 has a lot more to offer. Not by much, but definitely more. Open world that isn’t locked behind a fast travel system, better plot, looks visually better, quests arenas boring and unrewarding, characters are a little more fleshed out except for Noct. Hell even the Chocobo riding is way better. You can also change weapons and outfits unlike 16. I swear I just use the same gear for several hours until I unlock a new set after a plot point is passed. Never upgrading anything because it’s pointless.
I agree but differ in opinion I think 15 is a way better game by far compared to this one
As much as it loathes me to say it, 15 was better. It at least understood what it was at heart, a Final fantasy game. Sure the characters were shit, NPC’s were just the worst out of any video game and generally the story was lacking but the world was great, it’s creatures were interesting and while its combat was a bit all over the place it’s journey was very well done.
FF16 just has nothing going for it. It’s story is bad, it’s characters are abysmal, it’s NPC’s are ok but very hit and miss, it’s world is an absolute bore, it’s creatures are the worst in any fantasy rpg and there just isn’t a journey. It’s boss fights are decent at least….
@SociallyVirgin it was definitely bad, the side quest characters were a literal insult but it at least had a good looking world that felt alive. FF16 is dead...and hollow.
@@TheGreatAmarant7216 has literally the best characters and voice acting in a game ever. It set the new bar in terms of visuals of characters and voice acting. You are just hater. 16 is flawed but to say it’s hollow is biased
@@Bahamut3525 or it’s an honest opinion of someone who considers himself a pretty invested fan in the final fantasy series. One who has enjoyed the love and charm put into each instalment.
Where is the charm in this game? Where is the little extra effort that make it stand out? Where is the jump rope mini game? The exceedingly difficult endgame dungeon? The secret boss? There are no secrets to be found, there is no fantastical lands to explore, there are no interesting boss fights, there are no quirky side quests or little green amphibians with knifes ready to doink you.
It’s hollow, because it has a really nice shell. An Exceedingly nice shell but nothing inside.
I literally told my friends, "Fighting the first boss in the demo is the exact same thing as fighting the last boss in the actual game." And I've seen a lot of other people saying the exact same thing.
😂😂
The main problem I have with this game is that it is a Hack and Slash (not action RPG) COMBINED with RPG elements. Now why is this a problem? Well, a skilled Hack and Slash player who has played games like ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, OG God of War etc etc would have no problem launching enemies, stringing combos utilizing power up bars and such. But the issue is, is that since FF 16 is a RPG that is focused on experience and level progression, a hack and slash player cannot use their SKILLS to dispatch enemies if the player is a low level, therefore combat becomes a tedious GRIND. This game either needs to have damage increase significantly towards enemies or not make the game super accessible like a hack and slash otherwise the game becomes a chore to play.
Yes its trying to be an action game and an rpg at the sametime but not doing either one that well. They game doesn't reward your skill nor does it reward your leveling. They are just like there to make you think you are getting better.
The combat was more complex in Strangers Of Paradise
and the rpg elements in strangers completely BLOWS 16 out of the water
Totally agree. I fecking love Strangers of Paradise
Strangers of paradise overall better game
@@AdziGaming ha! "Feckin"😆
I didn’t finish it. I’ve never had a game where at one point I couldn’t wait to get home to continue to not wanting to play at all. The Titan fight encapsulates this game for me…it was amazing then it just dragged on and on….and on….and on 😂
I've literally just completed the titan battle and put the game down. It was a good spectacle, but fuck me it doesn't respect my time
After playing through FFXVI my positive thoughts were "Well at least Atlus still make colorful, light-hearted and fun RPG's". And there's always FF7 Rebirth to look forward to.
I keep finding it weird how I find all game reviewers praise the game and give it 9 and 10's. But when talking to people, they all say that the game has issues. It's like influencers are afraid to talk bad about the game as to not jeopardize their relation with Square-Enix.
I have the exact same not so good impression about the game as you Adzi.
It's definitely a divisive game, I think a big issue is that the game starts off really well so you probably have let's players etc praising how good the game is because I thought the same after 15/20 hours but between 20-30 hours is when all the cracks started to show
@@AdziGaming I think youre on the money with that. I didnt start disliking the game til after titan. after that i was just left asking "is this it?" so much potential wasted.
The pacing is too atrocious. And the story is nowhere near interesting enough to justify sitting through these nothing burger cutscenes.
Japanese devs are becoming obsolete. I think they need new talent or something
Dude I feel exactly as you do. Everything you said is exactly how I feel but couldn't put into words. I think we even gave up finishing it at the same part in the game.
I been skipping all the side content dialogue when I reached a certain point in the game. I just stop caring.
It just doesn't seem like a Final Fantasy game to me. This feels like Dragon's Dogma trying to imitate FF7 Remake, but worse.
I felt like I was missing things that are key Final Fantasy features. There were no mini games at all. Chocobo Hot and Cold from FF9 was my absolutely favorite thing ever. I can play an entire game of just that. Even the card games from 8 & 9 give something a little different from the main story but there was nothing like that here. I still love Final Fantasy but i really hope they do more in the next one.
This game has many things missing and wrong with it. I'm glad I trusted my instincts and didn't purchase this £65 game and why I don't purchase day 1 releases anymore because of these disappointments. It wasn't like back in the day when a new game came out and 9/10 it wouldn't disappoint but nowadays got these highly anticipated games that turn out garbage. I don't know what's going on with devs nowadays.
From the demo I just knew from the incredibly boring combat that I wasn't sold along with the bland looking environments. Maybe the story could be good but from the many reviews like this one seems to be too much story with cut scene after cut scene and can just easily watch the walk-throughs on TH-cam without bother playing it. Also like you said the mini games make these final fantasy classics more enjoyable even 15 had that and as a ps4 game had more stunning looking environments. But 15 had a good few things wrong with it too and I gave up on it.
A mini game ? Really ? You are so unserious here
Did you finish it?
I'm in the same boat. I couldn't finish it. After a the bahamut battle, everything felt like a slog. When the main quest took the side quest game design and asked me to talk to someone to get new parts for the boat, I un installed the game and watched the end on TH-cam...
I feel so angry because I love the series so much. XII is amongst my favorite games ever. VII was my awakening to rpgs. This was such a let down.
Nope, aside from replying to comments on this video I haven't even thought about the game since I uploaded the video
@@AdziGaming You didnt finish FF16? Oh my god, your a complete fool
The major story moments in the early game may have been super easy but I still had fun with them. I put the game down somewhere around halfway because those major story moments were getting further apart leaving only boredom. I'll try to go back and finish it eventually, perhaps it will actually get fun again.
been a fan since ff8 and did 7 and on, just recently beat 6. man i absolutely hate this game. this is what i was fearing would be the case. stop calling these final fantasy games. im gonna find an rpg to play instead. im like 10 hours in and i dont care about this game anymore
I'm in the same boat. And it just looks so bad. Muddy visuals with no sharpness and horrible framerate.
It was over after XII.
Did we play the same game? It seems you either skipped the tutorial or just weren't paying attention. You stated there aren't any abilities that effect the stagger meter differently, BUT THERE! A LOT OF THEM. When you look at your abilities, you'll see there's a sword icon and a star swirly icon. The sword icon represents damage, and the star swirly thing represents stagger. Abilities with more stars do more damage. For example, let's just start off with your starting abilities. Rising Flames has 3 stars for attack and 2 stars for stagger. Scarlet Cyclone has 2 stars for attack and 3 stars for stagger. This means you want to use Scarlet Cyclone to break the stagger meter, then use Rising Flames for more damage after they are staggered. These stars also count for increasing the damage multiplier once they are staggered. So if you stagger them with basic abilities, Scarlet Cyclone will increase the stagger multiplier more than Rising Flames, so use Scarlet Cyclone to get to 1.50x damage, and then use Rising Flames for massive damage. That was explained really early on :/
Your basic playstyle of the combat is your own fault. You only have to spam basic attacks during the tutorial, once you are past that, then the rest is up to your imagination. Did you know you can jump cancel your basic combo? Did you know you can unlock an ability to double jump during combos? Did you know you can charge your weapon during combos? For example, you can cut your standard 5 hit combo short by canceling the last attack with a fully charged sword or attack, jump cancel ariel charge sword (which knocks them upwards), or fully charged shot. Not only that, Torgal is a GREAT combo extender. Assuming the footage is your, I didn't see you use Precision Sic once. Sic and Precision Sic are not the same. Precision Sick actually keeps the enemy stunned in place, allowing you to follow up with more attacks. You can only do Precision Sic after a fully charged magic attack, or ground thrust combo (I forget what it's called, but it's the same as Dante's Stinger move). Didn't ever go to the training mode to practice combos? You can also change archons mid combo, and animation cancel EVERYTHING with your limit break, which gives you even more possibilities. Idk man, it just seems like you didn't put in any effort to get better at the combo system.
Then you said the Trinkets make no difference whatsoever. I'm convinced we didn't play the same game. Berserker Ring is a literal game changer. The text says "Temporarily Increases Attack Proficiency with each Precision Dodge." What it doesn't tell you is that it adds a time stop animation and the attack bonus comes in the form of the same attacks as your limit break. Berserker Ring allows you to doge multi-hit attacks that otherwise wouldn't be possible to doge. But no, you're right, none of the accessories make a difference.
There isn't a single fight that took 40 minutes. But then again, you've already shown you don't understand the combat, so maybe it did take you 40 minutes. And the quest you're talking about was the quest to repair the bridge to unlock the next area of the map. It did not take 4 hours, it took about 15 minutes total. As for the other stuff, you're talking about side quests. THEY ARE OPTIONAL! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THEM!! There aren't very many times where you're walking through the hideaway just to get exposition. There are a couple of times where you do it, but you don't do it NEARLY as much as you said. You do it like twice the entire game. And most of the NPCs are relatively close to each other. And Fun Fact: The side quests later on in the game teleport you back to where you need to go, so you don't have to go manually. I don't know man, it feels like you have ADHD or something. I beat the game a couple of days ago, and I feel like FF16 is fixed a lot of things FF7Remake got wrong. The combat feels faster and smoother, they cut out all of the animations when you're like walking through a wall or something. Clive really does have a good character arc. He went from Royalty, to Rags, to Outlaw.
You also mentioned there are no enemies that force you to fight a certain way, and you're 100% wrong. There are MANY enemies that block your attacks, and you must use charged magic, or your abilities to break their guard. Casters will cast Protect on their allies, rendering your physical attacks useless. They also cast Bravery, which drastically increases enemy attack power; you just don't know what you're talking about. I can understanding simply not liking the game, but you're giving invalid criticism. You're saying the game didn't do a thing, and the game does exactly what you said it didn't do.
I honestly like the turn based aspect that FF use to have, it reminds me of GOW, they need to use the old formula on both games tbh.
I don't have a problem with it being action, I just wish it was implemented better
it's great to see a small content creator who got a free key but isn't starstruck by the attention from square enix. all these content creators got a free key and they pretend the game is amazing when the gameplay is a joke and the story is meandering.
they really think square enix is interested in them and that they'll have a strong partnership with square enix by giving ff16 a good review. they're just being used for positive coverage.
Appreciate that 👍 you'll always get my honest takes on this channel. Sometimes it'll be me disliking a game that everybody loves, other times it'll be the other way around
Nope after the end it goes to a 4 out of 10. The game didn't deliver in something.
Your a liar, go back to school
I remember how angry I felt with the "find the children" or "find the cats " quests in ff7r, but I ended up loving the game still.
This one however is unredeemable. Some of the worst quest design I've seen in a decade, and I wish I was exaggerating. And so many other giant flaws in every aspect
How does the combat vs against say Tales of Arise?
Not even close in my opinion. And ff16 only has one character you play as
Okay, this is crazy. Right after I watched this, I got to the part about talking to NPCs and then fast travel somewhere to talk to another NPC and then go back again.
Thats normal in any of these types of games😑 play nier and replicant and anime games
They all do that so yea
@@lofivibes974 Oh I hated those quests in NieR as well.
I don’t really think it’s all that great either. The combat is fun but pretty simplistic. When the story isn’t delivering a hype moment it’s painfully boring. Usually just consists of Clive running around talking to various NPCs and doing fetch quests for them. I’ve resorted to skipping main quests cutscenes.
I don't know what they were thinking. They need to beg Sakaguchi to come back.
Sakaguchi is busy doing his own thing at Mistwalker. I might be wrong, but I believe he said he's looking to retire soon, but before he does, he is currently working making one more AAA JRPG for consoles.
One of the biggest flaws with the combat system is its omission of 'progression', and replacement by "flexibility" - you can upgrade your skills once or twice, and that's it. Their base strenght though is all roughly the same, which is ofc cool for people who like to stick with sth, but completely annihilates a sense of an actual "I'm getting stronger!", which is further nullified by the minute DPS-changes via weaponry. Everything combat related is just very pretty, but very shallow.
It plays like a version of ff14's combat. You have 6 abilities that are on cool down that use as often as possible to maintain DPS. Which is interesting but not really what I was hoping for. This game takes a lot from 14, down to the structure of the storytelling (the 2 or 3 hours of nothing between big story plots is exactly the same as 14) and the watering down of gameplay systems (the rpg, leveling, and crafting systems)
@@periapsis413 Your a complete liar
The combat would've been way more interesting if switching to Garuda completely change your attacks with different weapon but alas, Clive still slow af and completely the opposite of when Benedikta used Garuda.
Yeah man dis game should be spinoff like SoP
Finally a honest review!! After about 40 hours in I find myself at the same place at you. Really don't have a urge to finish the game. Went back to ff4
Nah, your a complete liar
4 is so good. It's up there with 3 and 9 imo. I'm a big fan of Final Fantasy actually being, well, fantasy. I disliked 6, 7, 8, and 10 because they went the scifi route and lost the fantasy, even if the games themselves are great. I enjoy 3 because it has the og JRPG feel to it, which is unpopular but who cares.
@@SilverDreamweaverI think you’re mistaking general fantasy with a more dnd type of fantasy. Those games are all high fantasy af. Though I do understand where you’re coming from.
I played the demo and I skipped all the cutscenes and gave up when the battle mechanics tutorial popped up. It was boring and predictable.
Well you didn't even give it a chance 😂
Did you play action focus?
YoshiP can make an amazing MMO, but that team cannot make a solid single player videogame to save their life.
Do you play FFXIV? I do and can tell you that I saw the boring combat from a mile away. 14 has a bad combat system also where your gear don't matter and combat is do a 1,2,3, while weaving in abilities. The only thing they did not do is "Aoe" markers and the mind puzzles of dodging the geometry math puzzle coming at you. The only thing amazing that 14 does is brainwash it's players that the story is good. I still play to this day and do "end game" content, Yoshi-P is a good developer and he earned his credit fixing the turd 1.0 was but 16 combat and story seem dull.
I only got through 50% of it and I’ve played and completed every final fantasy since 10. For me the combat sucked terribly and I think you’re right. You can’t give us such a good combat style in the 7 the remake and then not even make it half as good in the following game. Makes no sense. So yea this is going to be the first time in history I have not finished a FF game.
I have so many mixed feelings about FFXVI, best way to put it is that I like it but really hope that it doesn't influence future Final Fantasy games. Which is what I'm most worried about.
Dark fantasy game of thrones type stories aren't really my jam, I didn't care much for the aesthetic of Valisthea or about the medieval fantasy world. I loved the Eikon battles, many of them had me screaming. I loved the combat too, it's a fun game to play. Some of my favorite FF tracks are now from FFXVI. But as a whole package, the tone and have having many of the RPG elements being there, puts it into strictly the "Not For Me" category.
I’ve beaten this game and the money and items collected was useless. I did absolutely everything waiting for it to open to something new and it was utterly disappointing. I’ve played every FF and this was the worst.
I stopped playing and started a second run of Elden Ring instead😂😂 its just not what I desire... i went in with fresh thinking on the entire concept, but it feels so bare bones. Graphics and performance sucks and the level design sucks
Why have elemental attacks, and not have an element based enemy weakness/strenghth system in place??
Feel the exact same way about this game. The combat looks freaking amazing but it’s actually very shallow when you look at it. Horrible fetch quests, no party members and upgrading them, hardly any upgrading for the protagonists worth mentioning, hours of cutscenes that are not always very interesting, and personally I didn’t very much like the characters and the story. Oh and it’s WAY too easy, especially the first 20 hours are a cakewalk.
Another thing is the loot sucks ass. There's no incentive to explore.
The loot sucks so much. No playstyles, no grinding for amazing gear. Even the menu is confusing. Past games you knew roughly what you had in your inventory. I can't even keep track of the random shite if I don't use them for multiple purposes
Agree 100%. I had the exact same thoughts about the boring sidequests and the repetitive mindless combat. Good on you for not falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy as I unfortunately did.
I can't help but think they had higher ambitions for the combat but had to rush to make deadlines. How could they possibly miss elemental strengths/weaknesses?
I didn't like the story that much either, but if the gameplay had been good it wouldn't have mattered to me. I didn't love the story of God of War Ragnarok but still thoroughly enjoyed that game because the gameplay was fun and challenging.
I agree that this game is just not an rpg. Its a linear story action game with so many cutscenes that it feels more like watching a movie than playing a game.
It would have been great as a smaller scale spin off. If it was 20hrs with more focus on combat and eikon fights, it could have been damn good.
I just got done beating it and the side quest do bring it down. If you do all the side missions that pop up before your final mission it will be a good 4 hours or more if you're doing the bounties as well.
YES, this is the info I've been looking for... thought I was going crazy disliking an FF game this much... it's so hard to describe, but I barely have the desire to pick it up and finish it because I feel like I know what I'm going to have to do... I'm going to be given stronger versions of the stuff I have and just need to spam combos until the baddie drops. Won't matter what skills I level or eikon element I choose... I WANT to be wrong, but I've got to be half way in with no sign of it so far... doesn't make me want to continue. I mean, I HAVE to finish it (I think) but there's just a BIG part missing for me that is hard to explain. I hope I can come back after I've finished and, for whatever reason, say "ahh, I was wrong, it was worth it".
I’ve pushed myself to play about 25 hours but I just couldn’t continue. You’re gonna get more powers and level up but it’s not gonna make the game any better. It’s a damn shame too because especially the combat is so freaking cool to look at. But alas it’s just too shallow.
@@SumPixelz Your a complete liar
@@fredy2041 how can I lie about an opinion.
@@SumPixelz That wast an opinion, personal tastes are not facts
@@fredy2041 and you can tell, that what I said is not true, how exactly?
Strategy
Thats why this game feels so different! There are no status effects or elemental attributes in the game. Every battle is basically hit dodge until it dies! Thats fine in a 1-2 min battle but the longer mid boss and big boss battles that can be 10 minutes plus and no strategy and it gets repetitive!
Marlboro is one of the most FEARED monsters in FF history due to its move BAD BREATH which cause every possible status effect possible!
IN ff 16 since there are no status effects you are essentially fighting another enemy with a lot of HP!
Thats the issue im having! Feel like im playing a mediocre action game!
IT doesnt help that besides fighting there isnt anything else to do...
No mini games to play to break up the monotony!
No hidden side dungeons with uber powerful monsters!
IM literally at the end of the game and considering skipping the sidequests as the rewards are trash! All of the good stuff comes from the hunts! Ive done all of those so far as these are challenging from a pure endurance stance! Remember no status effects! If you arent equipped properly you can get destroyed in a few hits! BUT if you are good at dodging they can be all taken down with little strategy!
ONCE again Strategy
I personally liks my games where i have to take a methodical approach to win.
I m down for a button masher but for me its one and done!
These type of games dont have a lot of replay value.
Once you get through all the over the top battles which are absolutely amazing and feel epic you know what to expect in another replay of the game!
I like over the top. I just finished star wars jedi survivor!
But once again that game as great as it was is a one and done for me personally.
This game is a Ff game
Its a great story and over the top boss fights
You already kniw graphics are great.
Just no strategy or methodical approach to fight battles which is what makes a FF game have replay value!
THIS IS MT OPINION and ive played all the mainline FF games except 11 and 14 the online games
I feel the same... I miss having to equip different stuff, use different potions, and so on. I just want to power thru it now because there's no reason I can see to explore or anything. Aside from cooldowns and trying to end long battles faster, I swear I can just use my basic starting skills. I dunno... I'm struggling to finish, and that's a very new experience for me with a final fantasy game.
> Marlboro is one of the most FEARED monsters in FF history due to its move BAD BREATH which cause every possible status effect possible!
Marlboro? Bad breath? Status ailments? That's hilarious. That's got to be a jab at cigarettes.
@@ologolos2501 yOUR A COMPLETE LIAR
One of the many issues I have with the story is that Rosaria is always glorified as this amazing nation that did nothing wrong and yeah they still had slavery but they were working on it! Whereas every other nation is shown as being pure evil or savages or incompetent tyrants. Like the whole background of the Iron Kingdom is just that they're all savage fanatics that we need to kill.
*SPOILERS*
Also, the entire Hugo Kupka story was just so boring. Like they could've done so much more with him, especially if Benedikta was still alive, that would've made the second half of the game so much more interesting with destroying the Dhalmekian crystal. Instead, all we get is an incredibly boring story of someone whose whole personality boils down to wanting revenge.
Speaking of that, I love how Clive literally hunts Kupka down and kills him out of revenge for what he did to the hideaway (everyone at the hideaway, even the children rejoice in his death) and then we get a side quest fairly soon after in which Clive wags his finger at the Lostwing guy for wanting revenge.
Man they really got me when they said it was gonna be like devil may cry
yah. Everything you said is how i feel about the game. the whole repetitive side quests is Yoshi P’s thing from 14 which yes this game couldve done without and is my biggest nip pick.
The weirdest part is that I've seen claims that FFXVI made steps to ensure that side quests were always unique and would step away from fetch quests. Honestly I have never encountered side quests more mundane than in FFXVI.
@@yellaturd Yoshi-P should stick to his ff14 and leave jrpgs alone.
Ive only watched this game be played for 2 hours and then looked at a couple eikon fights. It's sad we have the same exact conclusions, but you've nearly beaten it.
It does suck that final fantasy 15 and 16 are a blast to play and fresh within the first 15-20 hours and then it becomes a chore to actually finish the game.
I still haven’t finished it. Its so damn tedious. They should’ve just made it a movie because they clearly didn’t wanna make it into a game. In the combat while flashy, is repetitive and boring.
Wish I would’ve waited for a sale. The highs in this game are incredible but lows in this game are protracted and discouraging. So bored after walking around just talking to people over and over
Exactly and the game is too white, refund the game as fast as possible
@@worp4406bruh 😂
@@worp4406 racist
@@worp4406
Saying this is too white is no different to saying Black Panther movie is too black. Of course the likes of you won't dare say that will you. Pathetic.
This game is set in medieval Europe so of course its going to be too white. Anything else racist?
@@worp4406 i heard "white" really loudly when reading this😆
Every section outside of the combat felt incomplete. Took all the core fantasy and RPG elements out and made it such a baseline devil may cry - FF reskin. Your gear doesn't matter, enemy weaknesses are nonexistent, your party is meaningless, being able to control the dog is useless and I forget about it constantly because they do next to no damage, and getting that end of battle here's your loot screen that you can't speed up or skip is just annoying.
Everything else in the game just doesn't respect your time, talk to this person, weird second delay before they talk, then a ton of dialogue to say "I need these pieces of metal". Traveling around, who thought oh lets give them a sprint but they can't push a button to activate it, they have to just keep running. Chocobo felt slow for travel, not there was any exploration to do, chests gave you crafting materials that you don't need, or finding 5 gil on the ground, like clearly you had plans for this to be something and scrapped it.
And something that I simply just couldn't stop thinking about, if you restrict where I can go, DON'T MAKE ME MANUALLY FAST TRAVEL THERE. JUST MAKE THE NEXT SCENE START THERE.
It's so annoying that the story moments in between those boring MMO style quests and padding is actually really good
Yoshi-P is a well-meaning chap but a charlatan game designer. This is how he pads out playtime in XIV too. And if you call him on the empty exposition and hollow story structure, his legion of inexplicable cult-of-personality flunkies disingenuously compares this filler to "world building".
Yes, to your last part... if there is no real choice to doing something, just don't pretend I have one. That's not freaking immersive to me, and it feels like half the game is dumb stuff like that. Or the whole door opening crap, especially for "heavy" doors I gotta press a shoulder button... gimme a break, that does NOT count as gameplay.
@@AdziGaming Your a complete liar
Does 7 remake play similar to 16?
Nope, 16 is a straight up action game
P.s. those '40' min boss fights you mentioned can be completed in 25 mins.. with the right combos learned. That's where the fun is hidden.
All these ff16 fangirls are literally saying game of the year over the most cutscene driven linear game I've ever seen. Oh and big monster 🙄
The problem you have with the story is mostly due to quest design. It reeks of MMORPG design philosophy. Exposition dump, fast travel to quest location, kill 8 hornets, fast travel back to quest giver, and another exposition dump. Absolutely creatively bankrupt. No quests where there's some change in gameplay loop, minigames, etc, no exploration, no detective work, nothing at all. Just the same location marker that you travel to, and do menial chores. What should have been a 20-25 hour game got needlessly bloated to around 50 hours, it's absolutely ridiculous.
With all that said, it was still a good game, but man they really need to learn some harsh lessons from this. You cannot design a single player RPG like an MMO. Everything that threw me off about FF14 was present here as well. At least the combat and spectacle fights were enough to keep me engaged (just like how the dungeons and trials in FF14 were really good and kept me engaged - the story, holy shit. A good 2-3 hour story, with 12 hours of padding - and yes, that includes the recent expansions)
Summed it up better than I did lol. Totally agree and thanks for watching!
Just hit the story wall and came to TH-cam to see if it was just me.
This game started so strongly i loved it. In depth exciting story and fun game play and its just become a huge grind. Ive just done the mission where you have to gather the materials to buod the ship and i almost quit the game during this section.
I feel like i have to finish the game because I'm in too deep but for the most part ive stopped caring.
I was at that exact point, apparently a lot of the problems are taken directly from FF14 so it makes sense
I’ve stopped playing JRPG because of all the fluff, and 3 hr fights, like Kingdom Hearts. I get it we hate super short games, but not every game needs to be 80+hrs
True. But not every game need to be 80 euros/89$/70 Ls too. So when we buy a game one want that the duration is in accordance with the price...
At 75% I felt the same, the end was so bad, that I don't see any point on play NG +, the map is really small. Design is beautiful but is just a decoration to something that never reach the point. Combat you right too, there is no point on use skill, and it never reach devil may cry level. Eikon was look great, end to be pointless, just the same three move all over the time, it was looking good to Garuda but after it lost it's spark. The side quest, boh I don't know, they felt off, and the story it's seems could have been done in 3h rather then 20h, is not that happen that much when you think. A perfect way to destroy a nice character at the start finish really really bad.
I was starting to think that I just don't like games anymore because everyone seems to be raving about this like it's as good as something like ff10. Agree with everything said here. I'm about 80% through. From what you said I think I'm at the exact same part.
One thing I disagree with though is the active time lore. I don't want developers to be encouraged to use this. Give me world building in a captivating and interesting way instead of me needing to do homework
Hmm total disagree with your ATL part. The ATL only states stuff you have previously learned. With the exception of a few things like locations. Example is the very first cutscene which gives information ahead of time
@@carbon7536 Some games get lazy and force you to rely on stuff like this
I might have a problem here . But I was skipping the brain dead dialog near the fight with Titan ... after that I was skipping everything and realized I can't take this anymore and uninstalled this game. Now I am playing Callisto Protocol ( which is actually fun ... ) . This game can be summarized into : looking at Camera breathing out , in , hm-mmm , taking out sword fighting stuff, and repeat . Square was lost after merging with Enix for good . Turn Based combat was the reason many people like these games. This is more like Grampas Final Devil Is Crying 16x
i like the game too but i don't really feel that drive to beat it, it's good but it's just...not that good.
You hit everything. Linear in regards to the story is fine. The problem is that there's no mystery or rewards for exploration, no depth or value in the side quests, and no sense of character development on a personal level. Had they made it so that there were hidden swords and worthwhile loot that you could obtain that you could find, or even grinding for components to craft weapons and gear that were equal to or better than those that are given for just progressing in the story, and forced you to grind a bit more. Every component for a great RPG is there. They just did literally the bare minimum outside of the story. To the point where they might as well have left it out
Holy shit you just talked out of your ass. Everything you just said is in the game
The only thing in disappointed is that I only have acces to 3 full ikon ability set, I wanted all of em , hahaha 🤣, but I think there is a way to set about 12 different one. I just want to know where you stop to see if am past that. 😅 I just Ftup the Titan Aikon .
I don't understand why they went with the mmo approach for XVI. I know XIV was the inspiration for how they approached this game but they should have made it more like Final Fantasy VII Remake or Rebirth where you have to complete some of the story but once you get to a certain point you can explore and grind till you can upgrade abilities to the max before continuing to the next area. The Story in XVI was phenomenal but the areas we explore felt lacking because there was so little variety. No snowscapes, not enough caves, secret areas, and the map is locked behind fast travel points whereas in XIV and XV you can get everywhere by walking/ferry.
Personally, I think Final Fantasy is at its best with turn-based combat and a party of characters.
To me something didnt feel right about this game. Currently at the 85% mark and I just could not put my finger on the exact cause. I can relate to you and I think you managed to put my perception into words. Thank you.
Glad it helped. I still haven't beaten it lol, I deleted it after my video went up
@@AdziGaming I gave up right after evil dude went full giant tentacle monster... everything was taking wayyyy too long and I had ZERO choice in anything that happened...... my biggest issue with the game is that even normal enemies take ages to kill, I rather have an enemy that would kill me in two hits but I can kill in 5 minutes than an enemy that can only kill me after 20 hits but I have to fight for an hour with the same moves and no strategy.
Things looked cool, but didn't make me feel cool.
This game should've been a movie / mini series... not a game. I gave up so hard on it that I ended up looking up the ending / missing key plot points on youtube. (which I also didn't like that much)
The story telling is all over the place. It isn’t your traditional Final Fantasy game. The only thing I liked was the Eikon battles. Besides Jill, Clive, Joshua and Cid. All the characters are meh.
Decent game but overrated.
I feel the same, ... i like the combat but the lack of enemy variety and quest design are really bland and worse, story, and boss fights make up a lot but the repetion bleeeëeergh
your trolling
But according to these comments we're crazy for having different opinions 😂 thanks for watching
@@dantestryder How is he trolling? he is stating objective things about the game and how much he likes or dislikes said objective things
@@Eversoul12 lol
I think S-E touched the right buttons with FFVIIR, not too "static" or "bland" like someone could think of turn based games (not me, but some people), but not 100% action oriented either. For me, the combat, customization, progressing etc were near perfect and I honestly didn't think they could pull it off.
However, FFXVI is straighforward action, not even JRPG action, and the "RPG elements" are only mere illusion to somehow say "hey look, but we have stats, and we can craft weapons/armors, this is a proper action-jrpg" . Kinda spoiler related to this: The level and equipment don't matter a thing, at least in your first run, I have heard that on NG+ it kinda gets better (highly doubt it) but I don't know if I will find out.
Eikons' fights and epic fights are probably the best of the game, but when you keep resorting to it again and again to keep the player hooked, it loses value and become trivial or even tiresome like a chore.
The battle system; combos are not anything to write home about (how they tried to compare it to DMC?), staggering is a pretty good strategy and fun, but only if it's done properly (FFVIIR, the beginning/first half of FFXIII come to mind) if not, it just make the boss HP sponges and a way to add artificial difficulty. What is the point of stagger an enemy if you are doing basically the same dmg? (I know you can get up to x1.5 bonus dmg, but is barely noticiable).
Don't get me wrong I really enjoyed FF16 and I was really excited for this game but as a completionist I'm kind of disappointed in the endgame after finishing NG+.
The game runs out of thing to do after finishing NG+ and the side quests along the way, there's very few challenging fights aside from the final battles, the crafting system is non-existent aside from upgrading your epic sword as you progress, and the game is just too linear to prove a challenge. Games too easy imo. I really enjoyed this cinematic masterpiece but in terms of gameplay I was left wanting more.
oh and all the side quests start to pile up at the end of the game right after one another during pivotal points where u want to proceed in the main story. What was up with that?
Exactly, them story moments are top tier but all the stuff in between feels like an MMO. If it felt like an MMO and at the very least had compelling RPG mechanics like skill trees and gear then it would've hid a lot of these issues but when the only thing keeping me going is 30 mins of a great story every 5 hours then I don't feel like it's respecting my time. There are too many other great games out there that I want to play
I tested the combat system today and it's true, I literally won common battles spamming the square button and nothing else with my eyes closed.
I felt the same way! Took a break after every sidequest just to keep my sanity, did them all and IMO they are not worth it even if you lose character development. Is a shame
PHENOMENAL thoughts... if ya know what I mean 😏
I dont agree that "its a good step for the franchise" at all. Since FF 10 its all been downhill, sales have been up yes but the identity of the game is all but gone and player sentiment is worse and worse. I personally love 13 and 15 faaaaar more than 16. I personally think the 7 remake was a big step forward and 16 was a step back. The action hybrid combat of the 7 remake was top tier. Meanwhile 16 is just a baby mode DMC game that relies on cinematics. Putting a few pieces of items on a character to slightly pad stats does not make your game an rpg, even shooter games like Doom and Halo Infinite have more rpg elements in their campaigns than 16 has. And for your point about padding thd story i 100% agree, example of this is Cowboy did a Lets Play, 96 episodes, only 40 of those episodes were main story content with only 15 of them being big battles and big story moments....
Halfway into the game I feel like playing Elden Ring
I think the main problem is that it tries to be everything all at once - it wants to have fast-paced action gameplay, but they also want you to appreciate their semi-open areas, hence your initial running speed; it wants to be story-heavy, but they realised just watching a game happen isn't very fun or interesting, so they included a bunch of fetch quests and stuff; they wanted to have these super cool flashy boss fights, but spent more time on them making them look good rather than making them feel good to play. No matter how big or flashy the enemy, if you beat it in exactly the same way as you beat a swamp spider, it doesn't FEEL like you did anything impressive.
I found myself getting so bored, especially during the boss fights. They just drag on and on, so much so that I started to wonder if I was playing the game right. Turns out I actually WAS playing the game wrong (I was hanging back and shooting magic at everything), and the game did get more fun after I realised that you have to go in and smack everything around with your sword - but I find the fact that you can play this game WRONG is a big red flag.
I also had trouble with figuring out how to manage basic mechanics, and when I finally looked up how to do it online, Google auto-filled it. Meaning that there are literally *basic functions of the game* that MULTIPLE PEOPLE had problems understanding. This is not good game design.
Every time I think about this game, I just get so annoyed. If you put this next to any other triple A game that comes out this year, I'm sure people who have played it will not remember it. It's so...bland. I keep forgetting names of main characters (seriously, even though they shout his name all the time, I kept thinking his brother's name was Jonathan), I have no idea what half the cast's motivations were, there was no reason to mistrust anybody, because they all state their business TO THE PROTAGONISTS'S FACE. There's no reason for you to think about anything, and so you don't, and then nothing makes sense.
One example is the whole 'priming' thing. In the early game, they talk about Jill needing to 'prime' before she turns into Shiva - whatever that means. But it just seems like 'gather all your emotions and get mad', since that's how Joshua transformed when he was ten. And it's not really explained how Clive transformed into Ifrit the first time. They then show Benedikta transforming after she 'loses contact' with Garuda, even though it doesn't seem like anyone else had that problem after sharing their powers with Clive. The next one is with Cid, who seems to be able to just...transform whenever the hell he wants to, no 'priming' necessary.
So...what is 'priming'? Is it something a Dominant knows how to do instinctively, because Clive seems to be having major issues. Does every Dominant have to do it? Is it instantaneous, or does it take time? I think you'd be hard-pressed to give anyone a concrete answer.
I love FF7 remake played it 3 times so far, i did not like FF15 i don't know maybe the main protagonist the story etc, my friend bough FF16 we pretty much have the same taste in games and he love FF16, i just bough it earlier tonight and i guess i will see. I like what i saw so far.
Note: I finish Zelda Tears of the kingdom this week at first i hated the game with new mechanics that where more frustrating then fun but when learn how to properly use them the game became amazing and i put in 120h.
I guess i will try to have the same expectations with FF16
Let me know what you think when you play some more 👍
Weird how good the demo was and then it just starts to get boring.
Agree totally apart from ar the start when you say ff is going in the right direction, it isn't.
I’m actually angry. I was so excited for this game, and it’s just a slog fest. The part in the demo, and the part you fought Benedikta (also included in demo) and then the part after that got me thinking this is going to be so epic, but halfway in I realized nothing changes. No customization, enemies that just stand around, hp sponge bosses, terrible game design that sees you simply go to world map, go to destination, do some padding quests, talk to some terribly animated npc, fight some nobodies, then a recycled boss where I follow the same pattern of dodge, stagger, spam moves, and combos. Also at the end, I was fighting the same type of enemies I was fighting In the beginning, only reskinned. I honestly hate this game, and I hate myself for being so excited about it. Hope they keep creative business unit 3 away from ff7r. I just want that, and the sequel to be as good as the one from 2020, and if mainline ff is going in this direction then I’m done with the series.
You nailed it with that synopsis 👏
@@OtterloopB yeah. Unfortunately this is the truth about this game. I did not like writing this.
FF franchise is dead. Time to move on to better games
@@primalwolf9045 FromSoftware Is the modern Squaresoft.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 not quite, if they are not working with them for their latest game. It’s too late
Some people are unrealistically talking like it’s a 10/10 others are making it seem like it’s metal gear survive bad. Its neither it’s a 5.5-6/10 mediocre game.
It's a 4/10 at best, the whole game plays like a free to play early access game
You nailed it. It's boring. There's a difference between challenging and long battles. The magic of final fantasy is story and gameplay. The story isn't bad, but the gameplay/combat is disgusting. It needs like 2 more years of work but the reality is game devs are rushed to push to market because companies need money. That's why I always say that the process of game development needs to change. We're producing unfortunate disasters to franchises we all love. This game is a travesty to release. I don't understand with FFRebirth coming out soon why did they even need to release this. They could have let it sit for a year and make the combat/gameplay better.
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Game is my biggest disappointment in the series so far. My favorite moment in any FF is when characters talk about nothing. Game barely has any of that. They took the spectacle part of FF, but not the quiet moments that made the big part worth it.
Shame.
I 100% agree. I just want to end the game already i am close to finishing it.
Combo: square, square, square, square!
I will agree that the game is too easy. I look forward to New game Plus on a hardmode but I don't think it'll be that much different. I've only upgraded my weapon when the game gave me big weapons but other than that you can use the starter weapon the entire game and kill everything. That is a fair critique as is the combat in general it's just too overpowered too quick and too simple. They clearly wanted to broadly appeal to new people with this
Yep I think that it is a symptom of wanting to get this game into as many hands as possible. And it's probably a very difficult decision in the background, it's a very difficult task creating a combat system that appeals to your average gamer and also to people that play loads of different, more hardcore action games. Thanks for the comment!
@@AdziGaming it's a strength and weakness. The game is so close to being a perfect final fantasy game. I really hope that they give us good updates and dlc, ff xv was a totally different game 2 years after it launched. So maybe we can get proper difficulty at some point. Also, the accessories that make the game even easier, hurt it in the end. If someone equips one of the dodge or slow down rings, they literally learn nothing
the depth and complexity of the combat is optional, just like equipping the rings that attack and dodge for you. They're trying to appeal to both types of fans, I don't know why you're making it seem like it's one over the other, they did a good job of making it fun for both a basic player and a complex player
I found hard mode to be a lot more fun and would have appreciated an option for that kind of experience in the first playthrough
@@Explicitnice It all still boils down to waiting on cool downs man. There is nothing deep about that no matter how you look at it. Just because you purposefully nerf your effectiveness doesnt add depth to it. It just means youll be doing the same abilities on rotation for a longer amount of time. its almost like 3 different people made tje combat system and none of it works well with each other. the stats are haphazard, there basivally is no encounter design, and limiting 6 abilities with cooldown timers just makes the whole experience feel disjointed.
I honestly felt the opposite on the side quest! Perhaps its because I am use to playing rpgs with really padded out and blan sidequests, that I got really invested in this games versions of it. I definitely think it’s weird how they were added in suddenly before every giant main story dungeon. But the more I got to thinking it, that style of sidequest pop ups reminds me of mission oriented rpgs. It’s by no means similar to open world rpgs like Skyrim/dragonsdogma/ffxv, but I don’t find an issue with it. I was able actually feel for them, which is more than how I felt with a game like inquisition.
Because there was always a clear teleport to the next step in the msq, I felt like the game was shorter than I anticipated, and it took me a good 2weeks to beat it.
As for combat, I had fun unlocking/resetting each of the eikon skills so I found it to keep a good flow once titan was unlocked. However I do wish we had more combo options like in dmc5 with just our non eikon abilities.
Fanboy spotted
Thank you. This game was so boring and I was struggling to care. The combat was so shallow, the characters were underdeveloped and the world just lacks anything interesting.
So glad to see someone bring up the Ekon battles and how they're just like time wasters. They could have been short cut scenes and it would have achieved the same thing. Like there aren't enough moves for them to justify the length of the Ekon battles.
And yeah, the elements in this game were not effective, ice and fire do nothing when they collide, it's just a different move set on the ekon and a different particle effect package.
Also the world of the game was just so miserable, there was nothing happy or joyous to run across. I really disliked 7 remake at first and I felt it was disappointing, but after playing 16 I honestly appreciate it a lot more. I also miss these games having art styles and the like, they're just like...realistic looking now.
Unfortunately i don't think they could do the same stagger situation they did with FF 7 remake do to the storyline.of.clive absorbing the other eikons elements. FF 7 remake had padding issues the going through constant narrow corridor to load, the section trying to get to sector 5 reactor, the padding of the orphanage in aerith sector that i didn't give a shit about just get me to wall market already. The story of the remake is literally kingdom hearts nonsense with those whisperers. I really don't think you can say remake is good and then 16 is disappointing for doing the same things you claim 16 for.
finally someone with sense. ff7R was BAD! ff16 is BAD! square-enix needs to beg for Sakaguchi to return. and make a classic 2D ff, turn based or not final fantasy strayed too far from its roots.
FF is a JRPG about crystals a party and saving the world. FF16 barely meets these requirements. yoshida needs to stop.
@@eW91dHViZSBpcyBjZW5zb3JzaGlwtroll bait
Like he said in the video FF7r can get away with some of its padding is because it had so much more to offer. It only had blatant loading screens because it was built for last gen, you can’t compare the 2 when ff7r also had:
Playable party members
Party banter
Weapon/Gear customisation
Elemental strengths/weaknesses
An actual use for Gil…
Super-bosses
Minigames
A sprint button….
And so much more
16 has none of that and it’s disingenuous to put the 2 in the same ball park. You can like 16 even more than ff7r that’s your prerogative but lets not pretend it wasn’t a step back in comparison.
@@alchemist-173 it was not, just a different Final Fantasy, the comparison makes no sense
If u want a better version of ff16 just play nier automata a much superior game outside of maybe the story. Or even witcher3 in terms of superiority in its questing .
Yeah Nier's combat wasn't too deep either but it was flashy like FF16 but the story of Nier was actually paced well
Never played any FF, any you would suggest?
FF7 Remake is the best in the series so I'd play that
@@AdziGamingthe best?😂😂😂
Og 7, 10, and 15
Fftactics
10 for sure