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[Runa216]

TallSilhouette said:

Haven't played it yet so please avoid major spoilers for me, but what do you XVI players think about this criticism of the game's story?:

Agree? Disagree?

I am just so fed up with Sterling. I genuinely don't even know how to respond to her anymore. 

She's clearly just saying shit to troll for attention, but then goes on rants about how she can't stand all the attention and that it's hurting her brand. Then when the drama dies down she finds something else to stoke the flames. If it's not Hogwarts Legacy shit it's Zelda's 7/10 scores or now Final Fantasy 'not being final fantasy and just being a dour slog'. she's just regurgitating all the bad arguments about pretty much everything and I'm so torn because when she's right, SHE'S MORE RIGHT THAN ANYONE. like, when she's rightly calling out the games industry for abuses and bullshit, she's one of the best there is and I want to support her for that. but then she'll turn around and have the most inflammatory, immature, bratty opinions on everything then feels the need to be an aggressively smug bitch about it. 

I genuinely don't even know how to respond to Sterling anymore. IT's so hard to keep up with her two diametrically opposed sides. On one hand she's the brattiest, most immature game reviewer out there, but on the other hand she's also one of the shining beacons of modern game journalism. 

As for their take on FFXVI, I only made it like halfway through the video before I'd heard enough. Just the same old 'let's amalgamate all the bad arguments in one place and then regurgitate them with my natural flair for the dramatic to really get people stirred up' nonsense. 

I literally gave up when she pulled the 'it's Final Fantasy in name only' take. Like, literally the only thing NOT Final Fantasy about XVI is the lack of turn-based battles...and 15 lacked them too. A game she loved. IT's a bad argument and I just...I really don't have the energy to engage anymore. Maybe the video gets better after that but I just gave up on trying to comprehend whether she's being a drama queen or serious anymore. I am like 75% certain at this point her incendiary behaviour is just trolling at this point. Not sincere. there's no way it can be sincere. it's just too perfectly bad.