| haxxiy said: Because it's the full prologue, not a cut-down sales pitch like your average demo, and this being a FF game the story is an essential part of it. Compare how many people out there are commenting and showering praise on the prologue as opposed to the Eikonic Challenge demo, which is basically only what you wanted instead. It was a stroke of genius to allow people to play it in full. That being said, I'd probably have cut the intro battle from the whole thing, because it makes the game feel like it has many preludes on top of one another, almost like a slow-paced, middle-of-the-series fantasy book. But that's a nitpick and doesn't detract from the whole thing. |
No, I don't want only Eikon gameplay, it takes too long to get into actual gameplay and then it's a really poor tutorial.
The very first bit of gameplay is a rail shooter which we repeat a few hours later. Then controlling a character running through brown rock and then watching cool things happen. There could have had basic stuff here, like a small band of guys you encounter and have to kill, have the basic tutorial instructions here. Then they could have completely cut that tutorial and go into the narrative and first mission quicker.
2 hours in and barely felt like I achieved anything, while FF7 I'd done 2 missions, meet a flower girl and dressed Cloud up to get a perv to choose him for fun times.
I liked Biast, he was cool. I enjoyed the narrative aspects and the gameplay, I just felt the pacing was not good.
Hmm, pie.
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