Overall, it's good! I would recommend it!
Feel free to stop reading now, if you don't feel like suffering through me nitpicking the game. Struggling to compartmentalize my thoughts, so here's some notes, in no particular order:
- There is entirely too much filler. This is a 40-hour game that got stretched out to 60. There is just too much "content" that doesn't enhance the story or characters in any meaningful way. This game has goddamn wine side quests. Fuck's sake, Yoshi P.
- Game of Thrones has not aged well, and neither has its tropes.
- The loot is overwhelmingly mediocre. Picking up weapons or armor from chests is extremely rare. Monsters do not drop gear. Things that you pick up in the field end up being either paltry amounts of gil, potions, or crafting materials.
- Too many traditional FF mechanics were scrapped in favor of more action-oriented gameplay. That's not to say that the gameplay is bad, it's phenomenal. But, how you gon' have a Final Fantasy game without status effects? Without proper spells?
- You only control Clive (and the Phoenix, in a handful of scenes). There is no reason why you couldn't have "previews" of other character's moveset by temporarily gaining control of them for a story section or two. Different perspectives throughout the story would've gone a long way to promote variety. Strangely, certain characters leave the party and go off on their own little side adventures that you're not privy to. Feels like Squeenix might try to pull some more FFXV DLC bullshit.
Feel free to stop reading now, if you don't feel like suffering through me nitpicking the game. Struggling to compartmentalize my thoughts, so here's some notes, in no particular order:
- There is entirely too much filler. This is a 40-hour game that got stretched out to 60. There is just too much "content" that doesn't enhance the story or characters in any meaningful way. This game has goddamn wine side quests. Fuck's sake, Yoshi P.
- Game of Thrones has not aged well, and neither has its tropes.
- The loot is overwhelmingly mediocre. Picking up weapons or armor from chests is extremely rare. Monsters do not drop gear. Things that you pick up in the field end up being either paltry amounts of gil, potions, or crafting materials.
- Too many traditional FF mechanics were scrapped in favor of more action-oriented gameplay. That's not to say that the gameplay is bad, it's phenomenal. But, how you gon' have a Final Fantasy game without status effects? Without proper spells?
- You only control Clive (and the Phoenix, in a handful of scenes). There is no reason why you couldn't have "previews" of other character's moveset by temporarily gaining control of them for a story section or two. Different perspectives throughout the story would've gone a long way to promote variety. Strangely, certain characters leave the party and go off on their own little side adventures that you're not privy to. Feels like Squeenix might try to pull some more FFXV DLC bullshit.