outlawauron on 26 December 2014
| Salnax said: I am more of a Nintendo fan, but considering my love of certain Square/Square Enix titles, I am willing to give FF15 a shot. 5. Based on what I know about the upcoming and prior games, Final Fantasy 15 seems like its trying to mix elements of fantasy, sci-fi, and espionage stories. The emphasis seems to be on people playing out their lives with a grand political backdrop, sort of like FF12. Although this sounds promising, I am slightly worried about the mafia-like family that the protagonist is part of. Final Fantasy has taken many forms, often successfully, but no FF game to my knowledge has ever been rated higher than "Teen." A "realistic" story about crime, politics, and war might not be well told simply because Square Enix would either ignore the darkest themes. XCX does not seem likely to be extremely dark, but what I know of the story doesn't require it. There are warring aliens, a doomed homeworld, a new place to explore, and something does not want you to succeed. That is classic Teen-rated JRPG fare, and is such because it works well. Plus, the prior Xeno games did a good job of weaving in characters and themes. One last thing: character counts. I generally prefer JRPG parties to be a bit limited in size, no more than seven. Any more makes it hard to develop each character enough to make me bother caring about them, either from a gameplay or a story point of view. FF15 may only have Noctis fully playable, but the emphasis seems to be spread across maybe a dozen characters of note. I expect XCX to have about 6, a better number IMO. |
Wanted to touch on this, because it's relatively recent. Type 0 HD is rated M, and all signs point to FF15 to also be rated M.
Also, they've only shown 4 characters available in a party so far. While there are other major characters, there's no reason to believe they're all available for your party yet.
