| konnichiwa said: 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. 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. |
Funny because I couldn't get past the first few hours of Persona 5 and Clair Obscur is very clearly rough around the edges presentation wise.
FFXVI gripped me from the beginning in a way that very few games did. You said nothing is great about it but quite obviously its presentation is incredible. It's voice acting is another point. It's story is great at its best but I agree bogged down by side quests and pacing. The action combat is brilliant, but not as deep as I would hope for a 40hour game. There's clearly plenty to love even if it isn't your preferred type of game.
As far as fun vs graphics, I don't think that's much to do with it. Just look at how drastically different VII rebirth and XVI are. In fact one of Rebirths criticism is too many mini games. It's just down to the directors vision.
