FINAL FANTASY XVI

Combat has no depth. You can just mindlessly button mash the entire way through and get past everything with little problem. All the sidequests are mind numbing, tedious ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that add nothing to the story OR the gameplay. It's all just pointless padding where you fight lvl 10 bandits 10 feet off the main road, There is zero build crafting. Weapons and armor don't have any unique passives or properties. They only have 2 stats and they're usually the same number so you just equip the biggest number every time and win. And all the talismans you can equip are boring effects like "reduce cooldown for X ability by 2.7 seconds". The only character with any sort of charisma is Cid. Everyone else is a cardboard cutout of a person with 0 personality. I thought this game would be good, but it was just a fantasy. And we were its final witness.