Sweet, the game we have been waiting for, final fantasy is back with a vengance......well more like a whimper.
im not much a writer so im going to list the pros and cons of this game.
Pros
- Graphics are amazing, world looks real, enemies look amazing.
- Seamless fighting, no waiting for a load screen to fight (can be a con to some people)
- its Final Fantasy!
What i only have 3 pros? yes because this is a terrible game.
Cons
- Story, i have no clue what is going on, something about a prince, and a princess, maybe i need to read a book or a movie or something, but as someone who has played most final fantasy games, i have no idea what is going on.
- battle, hold down B to win, repeat for every fight, pop a potion when low on HP.
- There is no armor that i can see, so basically you buy a new weapon every 3-4 hours and thats it.
- no crafting
- theres 100s of quests, and they are all the same, fetch this item.
- all towns/outposts look identical, i cant even tell you the name of one single town after playing for 35 hours because they have no character to them at all.
- you drive everywhere, want to do a quest, sit and wait for 10 minutes while your car drives there, or spend 20 minutes walking there.
- summons, cant figure out how to use them, they only appear to be useable in big boss fights when you cant possibly win the fight.
-Chapter 13, this should be removed the game, nothing screams fun like spending 3 hours, finding access cards without any weapons.
-loading times, some areas take 2+minutes to load, at least it seems that long, i didnt actually time it.
-leveling, you only level up when you sleep, levels didnt seem to matter to me, because the enemies in the open world seem to level with me, the quest line didnt, so you will find if you are level 35-40 when starting the main quests, you will slaughter everything.
AP system, you earn AP for doing things like driving, catching a fish, one hit kills, which you can buy new skills, of which you dont need any of them, since the game is hold down B to win.
- fishing, to complete this game you will have to fish for hours, not sure why this was added.
to conclude, this game looks amazing on the surface, once you get past the first 10 hours, it goes downhill quick, the last 6-7 story quests of the game were terrible.
I would put this game on a rent only list, and hopefully Square gets thier act together to save this franchise.
1.5