FINAL FANTASY XVI

If you dont cry at the end you are a cold heartless person

If I could leave an in the middle kind of rating I would, but unfortunately this game mostly feels like a waste of time and leans more towards something you'd probably want to skip instead of play. Now that's not to say there are no positive aspects of this game. It has an incredible soundtrack, good voice acting, and the boss fights certainly deliver in terms of spectacle. Despite all of that, this game falls short in every other regard. The combat grows tedious due to its lack of depth. There really are no other combat mechanics to play into besides just staggering the enemy. To make matters worse, lots of Clive's abilities are uninspired and just amount to big damage laser. The pacing is really bad. This game has a very weird habit of forcing you into a side quest whenever you reach a new town. It makes no sense and just bogs down the progression of the main story. These side quests also usually do very little to invest the player into the world. The gear progression in this game is absolutely ABYSMAL and it's partnered with the most shallow crafting system that has no place in this game. Every time you beat a boss, it drops a material. That material lets you craft your next sword. The only thing new or different about this sword from your last one is that it does 5 more damage. That is how things will be for the rest of the game. It is really unfortunate that this game is dragged down by all of these really stupid design decisions because at its core I think the characters and the story of this game are interesting and akin to classic Final Fantasy with the setting and concepts. However, that simply isn't enough to give up time and money for when considering the overall gameplay experience being offered here. Perhaps if the game is on sale and it looks REALLY appealing to you. However, if you're looking for a traditional Final Fantasy experience or a way to get into the series or even just a fun action game to throw yourself into, you're better off passing up this game.

I love ff series, but this is so casual adn boring. The game is so afraid to be challenging, it literally picks items from the ground for you, enemies just stand and wait for you to kill them, and then the game gives special items to make it even easier! it's just a slog not worth time and money. And not worthy of final fantasy name.

후반부로 가면 갈수록 점점 지루해지는 게임. 지나치게 피가 많은 몬스터 , 스킬은 화려하나 뒤로 갈수록 단조롭다. 재미없는 서브퀘스트 정도는 괜찮지만 쓸때없이 긴 보스 페이즈 및 컷신은 어느 정도 정리가 필요하다. 40시간 정도 달렸는데 이제 오딘과 알테마만 남은 것 같지만 여기서 하차합니다.

故事還行 演出很好 戰鬥有點微妙 然後滿GAY的 真的

Graphics are beautiful. Voice acting is decent. Plot and world are much more grounded and less whimsical than is typical for FF (though they go a little overboard with having everyone dying all the time); I haven't decided what I think about that, but they do a good job writing characters' dialogue and actions to match their reasonable motivations for the world that they're in. In that sense the world feels more thoughtfully self-consistent than any other mainline FF game. All in all, the non-core-gameplay fundamentals exceed expectations. The problem is it's a walking simulator with a shallow action-combat-minigame stapled to it: there is no meaningful skill expression and no challenge to be overcome. Best available weapons and gear at any given time are just made available without effort or tradeoff. Combat is all generic action-game 'press this button to close distance and hit, press this button with the right timing to perfect dodge' stuff; enemies who are supposed to be trained soldiers will hang back and maybe move in to take a feeble swing once every five seconds or so, like generic mooks in a Batman game. In the event you actually manage to lose to a boss, they'll just drop you back into the same phase of the same fight with replenished curative items; you just respawn with the boss already down to 25% health or whatever, so you don't have to improve or re-strategize or anything. In case that's not enough, combat-trivializing easy-mode-accessories are dropped into your inventory at the very beginning even when you choose the 'action-focused' mode, as though the game doesn't think its own combat is worth engaging with either. In other words, the gameplay part of the game is actually a complete formality, and the game seems apologetic for even interposing this quantum of gameplay between the endless series of cutscenes it actually wants to feed you. If they wanted to make a movie they should have just made a movie. A final fantasy game in which the entire *game* part is a challenge-free facade cannot be accepted. It's unfortunate, because there really are lots of cool features and work that have been done here in here; just the lore-navigation interface is a fascinating and innovative little thing, and I don't want to discount the work that was poured into various aspects of this title. But games need to have *gameplay*, and no amount of polish can make up for that omission.

But a shadow of former games. Not a RPG anymore, just boring hack and slash.

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