PlayStation Nation |OT| Playing Astro Bot on the Horizon Until Dawn

[Runa216]

BraLoD said:

BasilZero said:

Amazing, so tempted to watch that.

But I'll save myself for the game :)

That's literally watching 10 movies one after the other.

Actually, thinking about it that way, $70 is really cheap to watch a 10 part movie saga, lol.

I love FF cutscenes, if even 50% of those are good, that's really impressive.

more like 2 seasons of game of Thrones. Still a LOT of stuff but not bad when you see it that way. 

And there's a lot of cutscenes. Lots of gameplay, too. It's just a big game. It reminds me in some ways of God of War/Ragnarok in terms of the epic scale and combat/off-controller bits. Honestly, the criticism I see for this game makes no damn sense to me. Then again, people have been 'divided' on every Final Fantasy since 7 for some reason or another. 1-6 were all pretty medieval fantasy with a few tweaks on the turn based combat and levelling systems (With VI being steampunk). But 7 actually did have SOME people complaining about it being too modern. and 8 people complained even more. then people complained when 9 was too chibi/childish. then complained when 10 didn't have a world map, then complained when 11 was online, and complained when 12 had gambits and...

I need to stop expecting anything Final Fantasy to have universal acclaim. There's always gonna be SOME portion of the fanbase out there that doesn't like something about it and complains. Hell, even I do that with 13 (but that game's an atrocity so I'll leave it at that). 

Honestly, though, as a person who's been playing Final Fantasy since the 80s/90s, I can say this might be the most 'final fantasy' any game in the series has ever been. This and 9. yeah the combat system is action instead of turn based but so was 15 and VII Remake. And Final Fantasy has always tried different gameplay styles and tweaks on the formula. Being disappointed it's action instead of turn-based is reasonable. Hating the game or giving it a 0 is absurd. It succeeds in so many ways (Storytelling, writing, voice acting, music, gameplay, graphics, etc) that I can't fathom anyone giving it poor scores. Even those 6s on metacritic's official reviewers just seems absurd to me.