I wanted to like this game, I really do. I preordered asap after I saw the playstation showcase. Having the guy that did DMC and Dragon's Dogma battle system got me even more hyped...
Unfortunately, after finishing the game, I do find FF16 to be a failure as a game itself. The story is shallow and there are too many cutscenes, even for a FF game. If they wanted to tell stories through cutscene, they should went the Uncharted route where we have big pieces that flow with the game. Not just going from A to B, battle, watch cutscene, and repeat.
The battle are flashy but having no customization in equipment made it dull. Accessories doesn't really count because it doesn't add much. Just some decrease in cooldown or strength / defense. Also no status effect as well. All summons attack do bout the same damage to all enemies. No elemental weakness. Genshin has more interesting battle than this.
And the story... they wanted to be mature, challenging - much like (early season) of game of thrones, but man... the person who did heavensward missed a step in this one.
All I felt are superficial exploration of theme. All talk. All Clive did was saying "it'll be hard" to change the world. But we don't see much consequences in his action.
Destroying the crystal should have made a bigger impact. It is like taking away coal in out real world. We would lose mode of transportation, electricity, drinking water, etc! Changing our whole way of life. Clive would be deemed as terrorist. People would hate him so much and they will not support him at all. But we don't see any of that. (Except if they put it in 'optional sidequest'... I know they did put one storyline about the newly freed bearers in the sidequest... which is ridiculous because we needed more of that in the main storyline.)
And they said this story will be dark. I say some part is dark but overall is such a glossed over story. Clive needed to suffer more. Yes I said it. All the talk at the end about free will meant nothing to me because all these time he has free will. Show us the time when he was captured by the imperial. The pain he suffered, the humiliation of having to follow order and kill more innocent people.
The time skip literally skipped the interesting bits.
Anyway, I'm rambling too much. I've finished the game and thinking I would play it back to finish all of the side quests. Totally didn't happened. Went on to play X again.
Unfortunately, after finishing the game, I do find FF16 to be a failure as a game itself. The story is shallow and there are too many cutscenes, even for a FF game. If they wanted to tell stories through cutscene, they should went the Uncharted route where we have big pieces that flow with the game. Not just going from A to B, battle, watch cutscene, and repeat.
The battle are flashy but having no customization in equipment made it dull. Accessories doesn't really count because it doesn't add much. Just some decrease in cooldown or strength / defense. Also no status effect as well. All summons attack do bout the same damage to all enemies. No elemental weakness. Genshin has more interesting battle than this.
And the story... they wanted to be mature, challenging - much like (early season) of game of thrones, but man... the person who did heavensward missed a step in this one.
All I felt are superficial exploration of theme. All talk. All Clive did was saying "it'll be hard" to change the world. But we don't see much consequences in his action.
Destroying the crystal should have made a bigger impact. It is like taking away coal in out real world. We would lose mode of transportation, electricity, drinking water, etc! Changing our whole way of life. Clive would be deemed as terrorist. People would hate him so much and they will not support him at all. But we don't see any of that. (Except if they put it in 'optional sidequest'... I know they did put one storyline about the newly freed bearers in the sidequest... which is ridiculous because we needed more of that in the main storyline.)
And they said this story will be dark. I say some part is dark but overall is such a glossed over story. Clive needed to suffer more. Yes I said it. All the talk at the end about free will meant nothing to me because all these time he has free will. Show us the time when he was captured by the imperial. The pain he suffered, the humiliation of having to follow order and kill more innocent people.
The time skip literally skipped the interesting bits.
Anyway, I'm rambling too much. I've finished the game and thinking I would play it back to finish all of the side quests. Totally didn't happened. Went on to play X again.