fuckin rules, vibes like honestly no other game, this road trip americana fantasy mish mash of friendship and broin' out, like, it just can't be found anywhere else in games (if i'm wrong please point me to them because i am desperate for more)
i remember people hating the story and i find that fascinating because to me it's one of the most coherent and consistent and complete stories in the entire series (except what i'll talk about later), and it's just really solid from start to finish
structure is where it kinda falls apart, like the first half of the game being this big open world that turns into linear cutscene fest for the second half is... strange, and feels like two games mushed together, and i get why THAT is offputting to a lot of people, but i didn't mind it so much, but i GET it, but the story?! the story fuckin rules
gameplay mechanics, i.e. combat and such, are... fine, but also not why i'm here for final fantasy, so i just roll with it anyway
now that's my opinion of the main game, which i also played to completion at launch on ps4, and loved it then too, and basically my opinion has not changed at all... except for the additional dlc
EPISODE GLADIOLUS: fuckin baller, love me a WARRIOR'S TRIAL story and this was short and simple and exactly that, and the twist on the usual gameplay was just enough to be engaging, but also extremely exploitable, so not too tough
EPISODE PROMPTO: i played the rest of the game on gamepad, so i stuck with it for this, but i cannot stand shooters on gamepad, so that might have marred my impressions a bit here BUT... not so much a fan of this one, it felt entirely superfluous (much like gladio's) but not in a fun way, just in a "we feel obligated to fill in this space even tho we're providing nothing of real value" kind of way
EPISODE IGNIS: damn they really gettin more and more ambitious with these? it was... fine, but also felt unnecessary, expanding on ravus, a character who i guess was nothing and now is something but i never cared about him anyway, and also offering this bizarre alternate ending choice? which i kind of 1) hated and 2) do not understand the point of, until i learned that the next wave of dlc (which got cancelled) was supposed to also be an alternate ending, and ig uess this was the start of setting that up or something, well, that's my feeling anyway, it sucked
EPISODE ARDYN: now this was fun, i liked his combat style the most, although i was a bit meharhharh at the revelation that actually he was a betrayed king!! cause i felt it undermined his villainy, but then learning that he wasn't just betrayed by his brother, it was actually the gods' will that he be betrayed so that he could later help noctis banish the darkness forever, i dunno, it went full on ultra-betrayal in a way i kinda liked.........but also feel was as unnecessary as the rest of the episodes?
COMRADES: i could see this being fun actually in multiplayer but solo it was a boring fucking grind
so anyway i'm detracting a half star for all the post-game bullshit that mostly sucked
ff16 please come to pc soon so i can play that eh
i remember people hating the story and i find that fascinating because to me it's one of the most coherent and consistent and complete stories in the entire series (except what i'll talk about later), and it's just really solid from start to finish
structure is where it kinda falls apart, like the first half of the game being this big open world that turns into linear cutscene fest for the second half is... strange, and feels like two games mushed together, and i get why THAT is offputting to a lot of people, but i didn't mind it so much, but i GET it, but the story?! the story fuckin rules
gameplay mechanics, i.e. combat and such, are... fine, but also not why i'm here for final fantasy, so i just roll with it anyway
now that's my opinion of the main game, which i also played to completion at launch on ps4, and loved it then too, and basically my opinion has not changed at all... except for the additional dlc
EPISODE GLADIOLUS: fuckin baller, love me a WARRIOR'S TRIAL story and this was short and simple and exactly that, and the twist on the usual gameplay was just enough to be engaging, but also extremely exploitable, so not too tough
EPISODE PROMPTO: i played the rest of the game on gamepad, so i stuck with it for this, but i cannot stand shooters on gamepad, so that might have marred my impressions a bit here BUT... not so much a fan of this one, it felt entirely superfluous (much like gladio's) but not in a fun way, just in a "we feel obligated to fill in this space even tho we're providing nothing of real value" kind of way
EPISODE IGNIS: damn they really gettin more and more ambitious with these? it was... fine, but also felt unnecessary, expanding on ravus, a character who i guess was nothing and now is something but i never cared about him anyway, and also offering this bizarre alternate ending choice? which i kind of 1) hated and 2) do not understand the point of, until i learned that the next wave of dlc (which got cancelled) was supposed to also be an alternate ending, and ig uess this was the start of setting that up or something, well, that's my feeling anyway, it sucked
EPISODE ARDYN: now this was fun, i liked his combat style the most, although i was a bit meharhharh at the revelation that actually he was a betrayed king!! cause i felt it undermined his villainy, but then learning that he wasn't just betrayed by his brother, it was actually the gods' will that he be betrayed so that he could later help noctis banish the darkness forever, i dunno, it went full on ultra-betrayal in a way i kinda liked.........but also feel was as unnecessary as the rest of the episodes?
COMRADES: i could see this being fun actually in multiplayer but solo it was a boring fucking grind
so anyway i'm detracting a half star for all the post-game bullshit that mostly sucked
ff16 please come to pc soon so i can play that eh