how is final fantasy XVI (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by szczuroarturo@programming.dev to c/games@lemmy.world

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So i kinda want to buy FFXVI but looking through the opinions and reviews it stands somewhere between the worst final fantasy game ever made and second coming of jesus wit plot ranging from infantile dark fantasy to great story with deep engaging dark themes.

WHICH IS IT?

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Geezus the story isn't ass. I know you prefaced with it just being your opinion, but with a charged comment like that's it's hard not to want to push back.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

That's fine, you can disagree. But as someone who 100% the game (and somehow kept my sanity), I really do think anything that is outside of the Clive/Joshua/Rosfiels story is pretty weak, and that is like...35% of the game total.

I don't want to get into spoilers, but I think all the Eikons outside of Dion are severely underutilized, and could have been much more impactful in the story. The whole Ultima payoff is also really not very well thought out with how it's explained. That's why I genuinely think the writers were segmented into different teams and were not communicating with each other.

The Rosfield-centred plot is genuinely great though, I really wish they had stuck mainly to that.