I'm a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series, and with Final Fantasy XIV being one of my favorites I was very ethusiastic when I heard the news that Square's Creative Business Unit III was in charge of the next mainline game, Final Fantasy XVI. Each new trailer they showed for FFXVI was amazing, later they revealed that PlatinumGames and the Kingdom Hearts team helped with the development of the game, and several staff were Devil May Cry veterans. I tought that we would have the best Final Fantasy ever from watching those trailers and reading news, unfortunately that would not be the case. I started playing this at release, stopped for a long time and came back recently to finish it. I have many problems with Final Fantasy XVI, but it seems like going full action while still maintaining it an RPG wasn't the best decision. The game feels like everybody developed systems separately without exchanging information and just put them together at the end, they don't sinergize with each other at all. The eikonic abilities are cool, but they're not enough to sustain a 60 to 70 hour game, you can't play with anyone else in your party besides Clive, and Clive has junt one type of weapon for the entire game, seriously? I ended up using Garuda for the entire game, because Deadly Embrace and Gouge are so vital for staggering enemies that I couldn't think of another effective way to do this, other Eikon's abilities just aren't good enough. Using Titan is very fun though, since you finally have a block button. The level system is kinda useless as you don't earn that much experience defeating enemies in the field, and they don't even have stagger bars. You don't have to think about gear a lot because you always have the right materials to craft the newest gear set. The majority of the sidequests aren't great, and they just become interesting right before the end, before this they were just pace killers. Hunts are the coolest side activity to do, they are fun to battle and give nice rewards. I don't like that the game is basically divided into "stages", I mean, this is in line with other action games but I expected something different because this is Final Fantasy. The story... Well... It's kinda interesting in the beginning, it has some great scenes and concepts, but I think it loses itself a little when it distances from "we're Game of Thrones". That villain is just not good. The characters are great, I love Clive, but aside from him they're not well developed, I wish I could play as Jill, Torgal, Cid and others. The music is very good! I love Soken in FFXIV, still love him here in XVI. The voice actors are the best, congrats to everyone. And I just want to say that the final boss is awesome and I tought my PS5 would burn. Anyways, I'm hopeful the upcoming DLCs and PC version solves some of those problems because I really want to like this game more. And I will end this review by quoting a friend: "I will leave it these three stars, which don't seem like much, but know that they shine very brightly".