FINAL FANTASY XVI

"And thus did our journey end." -Clive Rosfield

望月响起来的时候，直接释怀了，可能这就是jrpg的醍醐味吧

The Good: - The Story - Eikon Fights - Very few select Hunts The Bad: - Outrageously terrible story pacing (It’s actually the reason I’m knocking the score down to its lowest numbers especially when paired with everything else) - Unacceptably clunky movement (Chocobo riding especially) - Lack of movement speed. Clive is slow as balls and it pisses me off. - Equipment feel absurdly pointless. So much effort went into an RPG equipment that doesn’t fit the mold of an action like this. Review Notes of things that pissed me off: - Can’t pick up items while riding chocobos - Invisible walls at random points that cut off travel pathing, making exploration take way longer than needed - Horrid Levels of Sidequest Slop. The game tries to be this all-encompassing product with a lot of cinematic storytelling, numerous quests, and even a nuanced combo system. But with spongy enemies, characters taking forever to engage and end dialogue, travel being almost unbearably slow, it has been a slog to finish. The pacing of this game is legitimately terrible. Some reviews referred to the pacing as “Start Stop” and I couldn’t agree more. You start an engaging part of the story, it ends, and then it feels like momentum stops altogether as you do a whole bunch of nothing. I legit can’t stress enough that the pacing paired with bad overworld movement, plus the insane number of sidequests in an action game, actually had me going legit insane later on in the playthrough as I’m just yelling for crap to hurry up. After playing this game entirely, I think the combat is just extremely mid. It does nothing of nuance nor does it accomplish anything unique beyond being more or less a DMC inspired action game. And action you’ve played it, you get to indulge in the free style combo elements it has to offer… this realistically has no impact for the average player that legitimately will not go out of their way to learn the nuances of the combo system, doing these unique juggles and never-ending combos. So, it’s a moot point in gaining any additional points for the review altogether. I played predominantly around staggering with steady damage and found the best burst damage setup I could. In reference to DMC once again, FFXVI just feels like combo slop fest that while takes inspiration from DMC, really didn’t emulate the gameplay aspects that makes DMC solid outside of just combo potential. Dealing with absurd levels of mobs having more HP than needed, every enemy having the exact same gameplay loop, offering nothing new at all, and you have very little to look forward to every time you boot it up. Well technically there’s one thing; The major story boss fights. They were always consistently fun and felt as though the game was heavily balanced around them. They never once pissed me off, and even up to the end, it felt like if the game cut back a lot of the content to quickly to them, it would have felt so much better. Despite the good that can be said with the game, there are a lot of painfully mid things about the game, and awful amount of bad. I gave the game a better score when I left it unfinished. And now that I finished it, doing everything I could do before NG+, I went from giving a gracious 6/10 to a freaking 3/10. It actually got worse the more I played. The experience was just grating. It just kept throwing the same bullcrap at me 24/7, expecting me to like it. I will stand by my statement that is by far one of my worst final fantasy experiences. For the sake of just experiencing a fairly average story with good worldbuilding, I had to endure way too much to reach the end. The bad was so horrific I didn’t even bother going into the good that was the story and how it scaled geopolitical into existential level problems in a way that made the story have this broader sense of worldbuilding and development as everything unfolded. Despite calling it average, average in this case still isn’t bad. It had a lot of story beats that on paper many would say makes for a great story. But what keeps it average actually is its delivery. This coincides once again with the poor pacing. And if you’re Sebbywebs, the use of language altogether.

by the flames?

カットシーンが多かったり戦闘も簡単ではあるものの、日本製のRPGの良さを思い出させてくれる作品です。 最近は中華製の安っぽい量産ゲーばっかりやってきてしまっていたので、やっぱりちゃんと作りこまれた作品はいいなぁと思いました。

Nunca havia jogado Final Fantasy antes. Este jogo é muito bom, não e só ir lá bater, precisa pensar com estratégia para montar a build dos poderes que irá usar contra os chefes. A narrativa é muito boa, é uma história de aceitação ao meu ver. As sidesquest, são interessantes, porém, com diálogos muitos longos, que poderiam ter sido mais diretos. É um excelente jogo e dá vontade de jogar as DLCs. Irei esperar uma promoção para tal. Para fazer todas as sides quests e as missões principais, levei em torno de 50 horas, então se prepare caso busque fazer tudo. Recomendo o jogo para quem gosta de uma narrativa envolvente e Chefes desafiantes para vencer.

game is sick

総じて面白かった。 ポリコレの配慮など、ストーリーは洋画。J-RPG感はない。 暗く陰鬱な描写や性的な描写も多い。そのあたり全体的に不必要な演出が多く感じた。 FFXくらいまでは少年誌という感じだったがこれは完全に青年誌。 独特の世界観を少しずつわからせてくれる演出など、質の高い作りこみに満足はした。 FFと思わない方が楽しめそう。 アクション難易度もDLCを除けばちょうどよかった。

如果它不叫最终幻想，我会给它好评，即便它有很多缺点，例如剧情太平淡无聊，装备只有数值加成，人物塑造太扁平等等，但它的战斗确实很舒服，多样的召唤兽技能组搭配还很酷炫，尤其是业界技术力天花板级别的召唤兽演出大战，只能说ff16是优缺点都特别明显的游戏，无论是好评还是差评都不会让人意外 但我会给它差评，因为它配不上“最终幻想正统续作”这个名号，它可以是世界、战略版或者天堂的异乡人那样的外传性质作品，可它偏偏是“最终幻想16”，“水晶”、“陆行鸟”、“召唤兽”、“飞空艇”，“莫古力”，还有个叫希德的，这些ff祖传元素保留得很好，可就是丧失了老ff的感觉，剧情也无法带来那种纯粹而又真挚的感动，战斗系统也完全脱离了传统jrpg的回合制，无论是剧本内涵，还是战斗系统，都没有ff应有的深度，毫不夸张地说，ff16是我最失望的一作ff

Good character developmen. just an all round good game for any ff fans.