FINAL FANTASY XVI

22 minutes ingame time, 20 minutes of it was cutscenes and could played only 2 mins. Going to refund.

So, I'm torn. Because story-wise, music wise, and art-direction-wise... I love it. Genuinely I think it's the best story-wise of any modern Final Fantasy game. It almost feels like a return to form for the FF series - several locations and story beats genuinely reminded me of the old PS1 and PS2 games. I love the character writing. It has a great political narrative with a secondary antagonist (think like Shinra or smth) that mirrors real life humanity's cruelty. But... its unoptimized. I have a beefy computer. Geforce RTX 5060 Ti. She handles many a taxing game. She could not handle this one. The game is unoptimized. No matter your settings, cutscenes are LOCKED to 60 frames per second (?? why???), leading to (if there's a specifically taxing cutscene) voice lines and sound effects playing up to A MINUTE before the game loads the correlating visuals. I genuinely do not understand HOW that even happens from a programming standpoint! There are some sequences near the end that turned into a slideshow with barely anything on screen even WITH my settings turned most of the way down. When you are nearing the climax of an emotional masterpiece, you do not want to be distracted by the story by the game running at a snails pace. To fully put this into perspective, I made it to the credits, and a sequence played that SHOULD have made me cry. That, realistically, could've been pre-rendered instead of rendered in engine. It was the worst slideshow yet. I genuinely COULD NOT witness the credits as intended. THE CREDITS. BECAUSE THEY CHOSE TO RENDER EVERY SINGLE GRAIN OF SAND. My buddy and I had to look it up online. So, instead of being left emotionally wrecked but satisfied like every other game in this series has left me... Final Fantasy XVI left me angry and disappointed. I feel like I cannot recommend this game. Which... sucks. Because I did like it. I was trying to 100 percent it. I did every side quest because doing them all just made the world MORE enriched. If you get this game, maybe do so on console. Otherwise, watch a cutscene compilation. Don't waste your money when they couldn't be bothered to optimize their video game.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong on this game. It's a true disappointment as a life long follower of the Final Fantasy franchise. I started with VIII, then IX, then X, then a number of the older titles, and most recently XII and XV. But I realised the gameplay has evolved to a beast that does not properly represent the good old times. The game is also bloated with cinematics, some might find it awesome. But, frankly, for me, I find it a waste of my time. Sidequests are pretty one dimension and there isn't much depth or complexity in the storyline. Honestly, as many franchises continue to excel and innovate, I feel Square has moved in the wrong direction of innovation and I am not impressed.

Des défauts, un jeu avec 15h de trop, des moments vraiment mous et certaines quêtes vraiment osef au point de skip les dialogues, mais bon dieu que c'est relevé par les moments de climax, l'epicness, la mise en scène, les persos principaux... Et cette fin, juste wow, quel cinéma. FF16 divise et n'est pas exempt de tout reproche mais sait récompenser le joueur qui va l'aimer et aller au bout, quel spectacle. 16/20

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LOVE THIS GAME granted i like old school FF Games but like the new concept of what the creators are going for!

Después de jugar unas 15 horas a este juego considero q es un juego muy muy plano, muy predecible, nada original, gráficos de biblioteca de diseño, muy caro incluso para costar 20€ en descuento. por otro lado si no tienes nada que hacer y buscas un juego pasable para las vacaciones con escenarios de batallas y que cueste 10€ como maximo si te lo recomiendo. pero solo bajo estos puntos. PD; No es un final fantasy