FFXV is such a broken, bumbling mess of development hell, under-utilised ideas and characters, botched endgame storyline, janky combat, my car ran out of fuel time to push it (soul), questionable decisions (oh my god the end photo scene) and filled to the brim with tons of dlc and updates to try and fix everything.

But when thinking about the combat, story and just ridiculous design decisions I can’t help but love it. Like I know it’s not good, I cannot give it more than a 5, but there’s just something about this game.

Maybe it’s because of the time I played it with all the jokes me and my friends would make regarding this game but I just can’t hate it. It’s not even a biased thing either because you could give me several paragraphs about what this game try’s and fails to do and I’d fully agree with you.

But they absolutely nail the “out with the lads, where are we going? only god knows” feel with the main 4 feeling super connected and are great characters throughout the game.
Most of them don’t even have big character changing arcs but the group have such well executed personalities that it just works. All of this really makes the final campfire scene hit so much because of how big of a connection they all have.

I know this game sucks, it’s an absolute mess. But I can’t say I didn’t enjoy my time playing it, so much to the point I got the platinum for it 3 years later…

Hate that fishing mini game.

5/10 (10/10)