It feels fantastic to finally get to play this game after three years of waiting for it since it was first announced, and it feels even better to know that waiting paid off more than I could've imagined.

It tells one of the most emotionally intense stories that I've seen in media in recent years from beginning to end, with fantastic characters, exciting music, bombastic boss fights and satisfying gameplay, and a beautiful overarching theme that made me appreciate the entire cast and the interactions between them. It is kind of difficult to talk about the story without getting into spoilers or without having a specific topic about it to do so, but by the moment I was looking at the credits rolling, it made me think of why I love this franchise so much.

However I'm not blind to the flaws of the game, like the game being guilty of being to easy, being a very lackluster RPG, Torgal not being impactful enough in the gameplay despite being the goodest boye, and of course, the elephant in the room, the Sidequests being the biggest mixed bag of quality with very few worth doing, placed to awkwardly tank the pacing on the best moments of the game.

However, in the end, it turned out to be the game I was expecting it to be and more. It's the most imperfectly perfect game I've gone through this year, one I can safely say that from now on its on my Top 3 Mainline FF games and my GOTY for this year. One where I hope my brainrot for it lasts for a long while, a game I hope I can see my friends enjoy as much as I did.

Clive is just like me fr