chris0409 on 11 December 2016
IMO XV's biggest flaw is how the game has a fantastic story but fails hard to tell it.
The game desperately needs a prologue of some sort but if they used Kingsglaive for that (for those who don't know, the movie released before the game) it would have spoiled a big part of the story.
With how short the main quest is (compared to other FFs at least) they could have added a proper introduction to the world of Eos and the main and side characters, they could have added the necessary background knowledge in cutscenes or in gameplay instead of optional text scattered throughout the game, they could have included some proper buildup to pretty much every major scene in the game.
The way the story is told is just a big mess.
