FINAL FANTASY XVI

que juego mas hermoso, muy parecido a la jugabilidad de final fantasy 7 remake, me encanta esta reinvención de los nuevos juegos de RPG

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spent the past month playing this, finished a couple nights ago and out of 100+ hours i only got through one playthrough (spent the majority of the time eavesdropping on npc convos, reading all the tomes and vivian's reports LOL). i am going to contradict myself when i list my gripes - but while the game definitely has its flaws, you really shouldn't let the nattering voices discourage you from picking this up and playing it for yourself. i for one am a sucker for medieval settings, politics, killing gods, and tragic sexy men. proud to call this the 2nd final fantasy game i've completed in full (after 1997 ff7, which i actually didn't enjoy as much) lol. i just know the story and characters are going to stay with me for a long time POSITIVES • the lore is so well written (big up active time lore) and you can tell a lot of time was put into worldbuilding through npc dialogue, sidequests, tomes, vivian, etc. • combat was so much fun. i even found myself experimenting with builds, which i never do! usually i find one i like and stick with it until the end. even with the occasional ultimate spamming, combat never got as tedious as i expected. favourite eikons were bahamut, ifrit, garuda + odin towards the end • i really like the web of connections thingy (i keep forgetting what its called). some of the inner thoughts were sweet and funny • CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS, social commentary, collectivism, etc! the story mirrors present day with slavery, labour exploitation & the commodification of bearers. i'd love to read an essay about the socialist links because someone out there can definitely articulate it better than me • SIDE CHARACTERS! gav, lubor, harpocrates, vivian, martha, wade, jote, tarja, kihel, terrence, byron, edda....literally everyone minus quentin and charon. i am lubor's number one fan. and i still ship wade and martha • terrence and dion were cute, wouldve loved to see more of them.. • hopeless romantic asta.. she deserved her own point. i admire her dedication, though i wish we'd gotten some funny dialogue between her and clive, especially at the end • boss fights are very entertaining • music!!! my star!!!! amanda achen and masayoshi soken deserve awards for that song alone. i dream of hearing it live someday • voice acting!!! never thought i'd hear northern accents in a ff game but i adored it. it made it sound like home. i'd take more english voice acting over standard american accents any day LOL. ralph ineson and ben starr did their big ones. jill's voice is also so sweet and suits her perfectly. ultima has a calling as an asmrtist • rising tides was very good. mysidia is gorgeous and i liked having a different kind of dominant • svarog hunt...idk why but this was the most memorable for me. completed at level 38...i still get flashbacks • [spoiler]clive confronting annabella....[/spoiler] absolute cinema • timely accessories. i did use them when i wanted to get on with the story, but they're such a nice addition. especially the doge one - it felt like a little minigame within combat • i see criticisms of the story direction after the flash forward becoming muddled with the [spoiler]"killing a god" trope[/spoiler], but i think it makes sense. they needed to [spoiler]stop ultima to stop the blight and create a better world where (say it with me) everyone can live and die on their own terms[/spoiler]. could've been handled more smoothly, but i think it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. i also don't think it would've been as interesting if the sole focus was on the hideaway GRIPES • character relationships often feel sidetracked. [spoiler]we see very little of clive, jill, joshua and torgal despite them growing up together in rosaria. i expected more fanfare when they reunited, but it's basically "oh thank the founder you're alive!" and then onwards. i would've loved more sidequests focused on them instead of random npcs. i'd especially have liked to see how clive and jill's relationship changed over the 5 years, more of jill's life in the iron kingdom, joshua's activities with the undying, and jill/torgal's relationship. joshua and torgal barely get anything either. i guess this is the cost of worldbuilding > dynamics, but overall jill felt like a second thought. i wouldve liked to see maybe a flashback or two of her life in the northern territories and her family[/spoiler] • really didn't like the ending and think it was way too rushed and abrupt. [spoiler]i am totally adamant that clive didn't die on the beach. we never saw him struggling with the curse (minus migraines from ultima), so it doesn't really make sense to me that he just...died. or maybe i'm in denial[/spoiler]. i expected more to happen and when the credits started rolling i was just like...oh? ik it will never happen but i'd be down for a sequel/spinoff • pacing really went downhill after titan iirc.. mid's quest will haunt me LOL • not a fan of constant sidequest dumping after main story boss fights. i don't like keeping a backlog and try to do everything as it appears, so 10+ quests right before the end was just too much. then more pop up after completing them. felt shoehorned in • sidequests would be better if dialogue was shorter or there was an option to speed it up. npcs talk SO damn much and i often found myself zoning out. otherwise i don't mind fetch quests as little breaks • found the lack of commentary regarding the harm of prostitution [spoiler](like the dude who stalked the girl to mysidia and the dude who ended up getting a veil girl killed in an earlier quest)[/spoiler] disappointing. it was all brushed over. still kind of confused on how the dame manages to hold such a high position during this time period? • kinda irrelevant but i laughed every time i returned to the hideaway and oscar was STILL outside clive's chambers thanking him for [spoiler]letting him return to eastpool. every time i hoped for new dialogue. i like to imagine he stayed there for eternity[/spoiler] • wish we'd gotten the lore on the suspicious character at the top of the hideaway. ik he was with clive when he was in the cell but i can't help thinking there's more to him • not much to spend gil on. towards the end i had ~500k and just splashed out on orchestrion rolls • personally found echoes of the fallen quite boring. did get omega weapon though and stuck with it until endgame • nitpicky, but i wish there were more outfit customisation options. jill's 2nd outfit is gorgeous while clive's burnt(?) outfit is fugly im sorry. joshua's 2nd outfit is also meh • REALLY hated fighting echoes. phoenix gate already felt never-ending and echoes of the fallen did the same thing • i had more trouble with leviathan than any other eikon or ultima. died about 3 times during leviathan's shield ;; so i guess this is both a positive and negative • I WISHHHHH THERE WERE MINIGAMES. triple triad from ff8 would've been amazing, especially during tedious sidequests • regional design. i get that it's a medieval setting, but the lands felt very barren and most towns across valisthea looked identical (minus dhalmekia). i didn't realise how much variety was missing until mysidia • accents. i don't really get why cid has an english accent when he's from waloed? iirc rosaria is based off england, sanbreque france, waloed norway and dhalmekia north africa/arabia. it threw me off a few times. would've loved more region-specific accents • wish lootboxes actually had valuable stuff. i think the only lootboxes that were useful were the ones you'd see in dungeons. the ones out in the open are useless unless you need crafting materials • all i think when i see ultima is that he could be mads mikkelsen's twin. i'm sure that's a plus if you're a fan • quentin. that's it. glad i never have to hear his voice again. weirdest side character in the game hands down i may come back and edit this if i think of more points. i doubt i will go for final fantasy mode anytime soon as i dont want to get burnt out