I finished the game last week. I understand that sites like Easy Allies loved the game , they are friends with the director, voice actor etc it helps that friends make a game but I am surprised that their are gamers who love this and gave it 10/10.
Persona 5 royal, Clair Obscur a 10/10....sure , personally they are not perfect and can be annoying if you don't like some kind of gameplay but I don't understand it with FFXVI nothing is great about it and the only thing I personally like is the hub, I like main hubs that improve or get upgraded but anything else felt at best lacking.
Fetch quests were annoying and they added a 'complete quest fast travel' option but it doesn't solve the fact that they are rather annoying.
The RPG element is almost non existant, element attacks are gone and hitting with ice attacks on fire enemies seem to have no effect...so it becomes just press X or Square over and over again in sometimes very long cinematic fights.
The visuals are stunning but also make the game feel 'slow' running from A to B always felt it needed a sprint button. (One of the popular mods is a sprint button)
The narrative feels a bit influenced by Game Of Thrones but I personally don't like it, I prefer Fantasy, give me moogles,unique villages, airships etc instead and more fantasy characters.
After finishing this game I kind of hope that FFXVII's main platform is Switch 2 and that they are not pushing the graphics but the 'fun' part.
