Should’ve finished this months ago but got a bit burnt out and distracted with other games for a while. Overall I enjoyed it a lot and prefer it to FF15, but somewhat conflicted as a few things did keep it from being a favorite of mine by the end

The coolest thing about FF16’s definitely the sheer spectacle of its boss fights and set pieces, which is probably the best I’ve ever seen? It doesn’t really let up at all from start to finish either, would highly recommend it for that alone honestly. That said while those very high points are consistently spread throughout the main story, the moment to moment gameplay in between is… less impressive

The action combat’s really fun, but past a point it started to wear itself out for me with how much you fight the same mobs of enemies and not much variation with Clive’s weapons and Eikon abilities. And areas to explore are fairly empty save for the side quests which are just kinda there, mostly inoffensive and I didn’t mind how there were just a few at a time between main missions (at least til the end when they start dropping a lot at once), but not a highlight either

I did like the story for the most part, though it’s one where I feel it has an amazing start then kinda settles once it opens up, which wasn’t bad but wish it kept that kind of momentum for it. The darker world-building was interesting and Clive was a good character, but I think the last 1/4 of it stretched on a bit too long. And I also definitely felt the lack of more party members, there are temporary followers like Jill but most of the game is just Clive and Torgal on their own and felt they could’ve done more with the cast there