Naichism
I really wanted to give this game a 10/10 but I just can’t so close tho I’ll elaborate later below
2024
Thank You Rahat
Most definitely most personal game for me this year.
For me 2023 was supposed to be a year of furthering nurturing what I started but in the end it was a year of dealing with truths and realities I didn't believe with full convinction or where ones I didn't confront. I wasn't honest to people I loved and I wasn't truthful to myself. stuff like "Never lose your honesty Naichi." , "Be truthful to your feelings Naichi." during the most pivotal moments of the game those sentences lingered in my head.
So allot of moments in the game felt like they were genuinely meant for me and only me. Like the game has those 4th wall breaking moments yea. But for me it was like I was apart of their fiction rather than they of mine reality.
Which is why I love Raiden so much and even more than I did playing MGR. Raiden a character where his beliefs of what he thinks is reality and fiction are constantly being challenged and confronted. His soul is so rough and unpolished but one thing remains what no one thought but what he just is compassionate. While from a young age never being greeted by sympathy nor empathy. Raiden his character truly does not depict him as the cold blooded killer he and the game make u wanna believe he is. So seeing a character being confronted to stuff I relate heavy too ( not in the experience sense ofcourse ) get thru it or just humanely express himself during them. Was such a unique and soothing journey for me with a character. During the game it genuinely made me reflect on myself, making sure me in the past and me in the present walk hand in hand to myself in the future. I love this game so much about making sure we preserve the past and present that the link between doesn't get lost. That it's humanity duty to do so.
"Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.
Live your truth and never lose conviction in why u believed it in the first place because the chose to believe what we want too is men's greatest form of free will.
For me 2023 was supposed to be a year of furthering nurturing what I started but in the end it was a year of dealing with truths and realities I didn't believe with full convinction or where ones I didn't confront. I wasn't honest to people I loved and I wasn't truthful to myself. stuff like "Never lose your honesty Naichi." , "Be truthful to your feelings Naichi." during the most pivotal moments of the game those sentences lingered in my head.
So allot of moments in the game felt like they were genuinely meant for me and only me. Like the game has those 4th wall breaking moments yea. But for me it was like I was apart of their fiction rather than they of mine reality.
Which is why I love Raiden so much and even more than I did playing MGR. Raiden a character where his beliefs of what he thinks is reality and fiction are constantly being challenged and confronted. His soul is so rough and unpolished but one thing remains what no one thought but what he just is compassionate. While from a young age never being greeted by sympathy nor empathy. Raiden his character truly does not depict him as the cold blooded killer he and the game make u wanna believe he is. So seeing a character being confronted to stuff I relate heavy too ( not in the experience sense ofcourse ) get thru it or just humanely express himself during them. Was such a unique and soothing journey for me with a character. During the game it genuinely made me reflect on myself, making sure me in the past and me in the present walk hand in hand to myself in the future. I love this game so much about making sure we preserve the past and present that the link between doesn't get lost. That it's humanity duty to do so.
"Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.
Live your truth and never lose conviction in why u believed it in the first place because the chose to believe what we want too is men's greatest form of free will.
The MJ sections is what I believe immersion to a peak because it's genuinely so impressive how much it managed to make me feel like I was Mary Jane herself. The subpar stealth nonsense gameplay dealing with it. Both the player and MJ don’t wanna be in the situation they're in but have too and the moment Spider-Man comes on the screen the sense of relief is surreal. Peter Parker thank you from saving me from this shitty forced gameplay omg
2012
A super unique strong nostalgic feeling from my childhood and young adulthood
2023
This review contains spoilers
Been delaying this review for so long but later than never
first story think it's decent & good I feel like the highlights of the story and pivotal big moments are great however a common complaint but I feel like the game suffers from really poor plotting. the lead up to the moments doesn't feel as engaging as desired sadly and this complaint becomes more apparent after like 10hrs in the game and strongly increases during the 2nd timeskip. Also feel like I wish this story was like maybe 5hrs longer and some stuff I wanted more time to breathe or just go more in depth. Clive taking over the cid mantle so to say , the whole clive inner termoil while the moment itself was great in my opinion with how major it is I feels like it something I would've happened near the climax of the 2nd timeskip rather than the mid beginning part of it. I think the game has very sound and consistent theme's tho , hope , faith and fate were nailed. Conclusion of the story itself I'm contend with didn't expect something else and I feel like there didn't need to be some crazy subversion over ambitious ending it was simple to me and conclusive and with the type of tale this is I wanted an ending like that.
Music this is what I somewhat dreaded pre release Soken as a composer is someone I wasn't the most fond of until FFXIV shadowbringers where. However while I didn't expect much from him in XVI he still managed to dissapoint me in the sense of me knowing he could've just done much better. Find the flame and eikon ost and some other songs are great. however overall it's not that memorable to me which is tough to say the least. I don't think I will see myself looking fondly on this OST. Another complaint I have is the directing and usage of the music itself beside the fact of lack of unique tracks or character tied themes. Eikon fights being the same and not that many variations of the battle theme. I find some music choices in some scenes just off or straight up immersion breaking the titan 2nd phase fight for example it was cool reminded me of an alexander raid but it felt so out of place it soured the moment for me. Some other examples of it occuring that I can't think of atm but yea a bit tough. However when they use the music correctly ( most of the time tbh ) it's peak "Accept the truth or "I've always been proud to call you my shield." peak perfection 0 complaints on those.
Now onto the world/environments & exploration something that didn't surpise me AT ALL was how boring traversing and there was sense of reward for exploration at all my god. Never did a game feel like exploration such a thing they didn't want you to do. beautifiul looking environments but just being beautifiul end of the day. Traversing with the chocobo's felt more fun in XV even and nitpick but the jump button outside comment is fucking useless and the fact we can't toggle sprint is horseshit.
Now onto characters here I'm mostly postitive I love clive , JOSHUA is my goat , we got the best version of CID and Dion is the best LGBT rep to ever grace that community. There are some obvious dissapointments tho the elephant of the room Jill. While I think she's decent and not bad at all can't help but feel like she's sometimes really just there and super bland. With her being the shiva eikon user and the monsteriousities she commited. We didn't get that much of a deep look into it. I like how she foils and parallels with Clive but I can't help but feel it could've just been better. that's kinda the whole thing with the game allot of it is good to great. but it shouldn't be that it should've been great constantly it was the bare mininium for most. Another thing the party and cast dynamics as 1 on 1 are most really solid. but as a cast group really not that group of misfits & outcasts coming together to face their fate or destiny blah blah just that feeling is really appeal of the franchise and it's really missing. pre release the no party concerns were warranted completely. the fact you also almost never have a FULL party its always duo or trios and the max size from what I remember isn't over 4. which makes it impossible to get those dynamics even rolling. Also which makes character's individiual suffer more I feel Byron & Cid bring the best out of Clive's characterization so when they're not on screen "he loses his edge" and becomes a bit dull of a character and just not as entertaining. Since he doesn't really have em to bounce of from. His dynamic I think with Gav is great and same with Joshua but 1 gav is not that present in the story and Joshua I feel like doesn't need any elaboration. What makes the lack of party hurt even more thru like the 25% of the game shows really what we could've had. imagine a party with clive , cid , jill , byron , gav, joshua and Dion. so many unique dynamics and interactions that could've flourished of that what a shame.
Now onto gameplay ignoring the exploration aspect uh not gonna talk about the lack of rpg elements blah blah has been nailed too death already so no need for me to speak on it again. Combat was great and strongest part of the game for sure. from clive to eikon fights I have really no harsh complaints only desires of like maybe being able to switch with 4 eikons and being able to use the crosspad more for combat but beside that nothing really the variety is great and the eikon fights switch it up nicely the scale and epicness is unmatched in the boss fights of the game it screams GOTYYYYY and it really has 2 of the greatest boss battles of all time for me. Didn't really care for the diffculty since I also didn't expect it nor did I came for a challenge lol but just wished there was a bit more mob enemy variety and yea thats it.
Reading some reviews prior and setting my expectations right the game delivered in most of the areas I expected and I'm not as dissapointed as others. Joshua is one of my fav characters in the franchise , Find the flame one of my fav character themes and the titan boss fight rematch in my top 10 boss battles of all time. 2nd is my fav FF protagonist they made a naichicore ass protagonist when he did the oath on his sword I was geeking like crazy considering that's the most knight shit he has done whole game lol. but yea a good/great game that should've been phenomenal.
8/8,5 for me sorry for the typos & grammar mistakes just in case
first story think it's decent & good I feel like the highlights of the story and pivotal big moments are great however a common complaint but I feel like the game suffers from really poor plotting. the lead up to the moments doesn't feel as engaging as desired sadly and this complaint becomes more apparent after like 10hrs in the game and strongly increases during the 2nd timeskip. Also feel like I wish this story was like maybe 5hrs longer and some stuff I wanted more time to breathe or just go more in depth. Clive taking over the cid mantle so to say , the whole clive inner termoil while the moment itself was great in my opinion with how major it is I feels like it something I would've happened near the climax of the 2nd timeskip rather than the mid beginning part of it. I think the game has very sound and consistent theme's tho , hope , faith and fate were nailed. Conclusion of the story itself I'm contend with didn't expect something else and I feel like there didn't need to be some crazy subversion over ambitious ending it was simple to me and conclusive and with the type of tale this is I wanted an ending like that.
Music this is what I somewhat dreaded pre release Soken as a composer is someone I wasn't the most fond of until FFXIV shadowbringers where. However while I didn't expect much from him in XVI he still managed to dissapoint me in the sense of me knowing he could've just done much better. Find the flame and eikon ost and some other songs are great. however overall it's not that memorable to me which is tough to say the least. I don't think I will see myself looking fondly on this OST. Another complaint I have is the directing and usage of the music itself beside the fact of lack of unique tracks or character tied themes. Eikon fights being the same and not that many variations of the battle theme. I find some music choices in some scenes just off or straight up immersion breaking the titan 2nd phase fight for example it was cool reminded me of an alexander raid but it felt so out of place it soured the moment for me. Some other examples of it occuring that I can't think of atm but yea a bit tough. However when they use the music correctly ( most of the time tbh ) it's peak "Accept the truth or "I've always been proud to call you my shield." peak perfection 0 complaints on those.
Now onto the world/environments & exploration something that didn't surpise me AT ALL was how boring traversing and there was sense of reward for exploration at all my god. Never did a game feel like exploration such a thing they didn't want you to do. beautifiul looking environments but just being beautifiul end of the day. Traversing with the chocobo's felt more fun in XV even and nitpick but the jump button outside comment is fucking useless and the fact we can't toggle sprint is horseshit.
Now onto characters here I'm mostly postitive I love clive , JOSHUA is my goat , we got the best version of CID and Dion is the best LGBT rep to ever grace that community. There are some obvious dissapointments tho the elephant of the room Jill. While I think she's decent and not bad at all can't help but feel like she's sometimes really just there and super bland. With her being the shiva eikon user and the monsteriousities she commited. We didn't get that much of a deep look into it. I like how she foils and parallels with Clive but I can't help but feel it could've just been better. that's kinda the whole thing with the game allot of it is good to great. but it shouldn't be that it should've been great constantly it was the bare mininium for most. Another thing the party and cast dynamics as 1 on 1 are most really solid. but as a cast group really not that group of misfits & outcasts coming together to face their fate or destiny blah blah just that feeling is really appeal of the franchise and it's really missing. pre release the no party concerns were warranted completely. the fact you also almost never have a FULL party its always duo or trios and the max size from what I remember isn't over 4. which makes it impossible to get those dynamics even rolling. Also which makes character's individiual suffer more I feel Byron & Cid bring the best out of Clive's characterization so when they're not on screen "he loses his edge" and becomes a bit dull of a character and just not as entertaining. Since he doesn't really have em to bounce of from. His dynamic I think with Gav is great and same with Joshua but 1 gav is not that present in the story and Joshua I feel like doesn't need any elaboration. What makes the lack of party hurt even more thru like the 25% of the game shows really what we could've had. imagine a party with clive , cid , jill , byron , gav, joshua and Dion. so many unique dynamics and interactions that could've flourished of that what a shame.
Now onto gameplay ignoring the exploration aspect uh not gonna talk about the lack of rpg elements blah blah has been nailed too death already so no need for me to speak on it again. Combat was great and strongest part of the game for sure. from clive to eikon fights I have really no harsh complaints only desires of like maybe being able to switch with 4 eikons and being able to use the crosspad more for combat but beside that nothing really the variety is great and the eikon fights switch it up nicely the scale and epicness is unmatched in the boss fights of the game it screams GOTYYYYY and it really has 2 of the greatest boss battles of all time for me. Didn't really care for the diffculty since I also didn't expect it nor did I came for a challenge lol but just wished there was a bit more mob enemy variety and yea thats it.
Reading some reviews prior and setting my expectations right the game delivered in most of the areas I expected and I'm not as dissapointed as others. Joshua is one of my fav characters in the franchise , Find the flame one of my fav character themes and the titan boss fight rematch in my top 10 boss battles of all time. 2nd is my fav FF protagonist they made a naichicore ass protagonist when he did the oath on his sword I was geeking like crazy considering that's the most knight shit he has done whole game lol. but yea a good/great game that should've been phenomenal.
8/8,5 for me sorry for the typos & grammar mistakes just in case
1998
Pfftt idk where to start beside saying that I'm genuinely woah by this whole game to describe it the best to me. It's like Kojima took a bite of the apple of ambition and managed to consume it completely. From the time this game was made in it's genuinely the perfect stealth game. The mechanics are so simple but effective it just works really well. Love how the gameplay and storytelling are so well intertwined into the game it's like a perfect in sync dance throughout the whole game it's so impressive how well thought out the game is. The directing how cinematic it feels but not to the point where it's immersion breaking. Funny how a game from the 90s does the whole "video game movie" approach so much more fluid than modern games does which makes it even more impressive. but yea want to say more but after playing a classic not much more can be said. I love Snake , I love the story & message and I love this game Thank You Kojima.
No matter what pain you've suffered, no matter how much trauma life has given you, you are not a slave to fate or anyone else. Fight for what you believe in and choose no matter what to live and when you find something worth fighting for, protect it and carry it with you into the future - that's what it means to be human, that's what it means to be alive.
No matter what pain you've suffered, no matter how much trauma life has given you, you are not a slave to fate or anyone else. Fight for what you believe in and choose no matter what to live and when you find something worth fighting for, protect it and carry it with you into the future - that's what it means to be human, that's what it means to be alive.
First few hours in the game already started stroking me. The whole playthrough I was like jeez monolith can you relax. Then both the game and I hit the climax... Takahashi you mad man thank you for gifting me my favourite game series.
This is our future. Our Story.
2022
GEN 10 IS GONNA CREAM OMLL
2002
Simple & Clean
2008
"Do you know what happens when an Angel spread his wings?"
Improved boss battles
Love the art style and the visuals of the game
good music
decent gameplay loop
horrendous balancing
decent story and mediocre cast
Love the art style and the visuals of the game
good music
decent gameplay loop
horrendous balancing
decent story and mediocre cast
2022
fun
2017
Fun.