the biggest disappointment of a game since shin megami tensei V. a lot of the things i don’t like are spoilers so let’s round it up to saying i thought the story/writing/characters are very poor. but my biggest complaint with the game is the fact that it’s so shamelessly padded in its main story portions that most of the game is either padded mandatory quests or cutscenes. there’s literally a character named mid who sends you on main story fetch quests with no purpose that take up extra hours of the game for nothing. if i wanted to take a break from the main action of a game, i put the controller down and walk away. i don’t need hours and hours of small filler to bridge the gap between the actual story which there’s so little of. the gameplay is pretty good, but there’s like barely any enemy variety and the bosses (minus one who i think is legit top 5 boss fight of all time) are all the same. there’s a lot of reused music in this game too which isn’t an issue per say but am i wrong to say i expect more? this entire game is just final fantasy 14 offline with dragons dogma/dmc inspired combat, which is maybe what some people want… but like i can enjoy all those things separately. this takes the worst parts of ff14 and crams it in there, but it took the best part (the bosses) for ONE singular boss that had me impressed. there’s no incentive to explore in this game there’s no extra dungeons or anything cool to look out for… even ffxv had shit like that. OH dude the dungeons in this game are SO BAD. it’s hallway simulator ffxiii shit. you go down a hallway fight mobs and fight a sub boss then hallway mob sub boss hallway mob mini boss hallway main boss… like holy shit am i dissapointed at that. especially when they announced that they would be “expertly crafting” these dungeons… so that was a fucking lie. currency is useless, you’ll never need to craft new armor or weapons cuz you can just buy new ones after every mission. the game just doesn’t know what it wants to be, it doesn’t know who it’s trying to cater to either