I feel like FF is in such a weird place. None of the specific style or gameplay of the older games remain. It would be like if the next Mario game played like Ratchet and Clank. I can’t think of another gaming franchise as big as FF that just completely ditched its identity

To try not to be insanely disrespectful starting the video by saying the combat is basic and encounters taking too long and then saying stuff later on that shows you don’t even understand the combat or read the tutorials is contradicting. Torgal has different attacks depending on the enemy state for example but you said Torgal just decided to spike the enemy lmao. Also you do have a launcher, it’s jump burning blade which you can jump cancel into from basically anything. Also parry makes fights go much faster by interrupting enemies and reducing cooldowns so you can output damage much faster. Unfortunately your problems with this the combat is that you have a massive skill issue but you actually don’t know this because you think the combat is basic and low ceiling when it’s not.

This video is flooded with endless situations like this where you failed to understand the game mechanics and apply them and as a result this is part of why your experience was the way it was.

The way this game can be the best and most epic shit you ever played but at the same time the most boring game conceived by mankind should be studied.

What the hell was up was with FFXVI and its marvel like dialouge with clive.

I’d be willing to bet that the weird lack of move slots on R2 is down to ram limitations, especially since they “patched” it in a way that doesn’t actually solve the problem, that’s also the reason you can’t weapon switch in metal gear rising.

Always love your uploads!

Bought this on sale and still feel like I was robbed, I also got Rebirth on sale, and it looks like it was made by Ubisoft. Just so disappointed in Square with these 2 games, I actually really enjoyed Remake then they ruin part 2 with the Ubisoft formula. Building a PC so at least I can refund when I am this disappointed with games, PS5 one can’t get a refund if you open the game up..

Agreed with every critcism you had with the combat. Weak and unengaging enemy design, unmoving bosses, cooldown systems for most of your movelist and NOT using an MP bar to balance them out, comically small normal movelist, the combo extender dog doesnt show up for half the story missions, worst implementation of a stagger meter ever, and more…
How do you get devs from Capcom, Platinum, and the Kingdom Hearts team and this is the end result? The MMO teams influence is really that strong that it overpowered the “made by the DMC5 guy” aspect?
They released Stranger of Paradise less than a year before this and that game got literally everything right about how to do an incredible action jrpg battle system, then again it was Team Ninja they simply dont miss.

Lets not get started on the rest of the things wrong with this game, from the terrible MMO fetch side quests that stop the storys pacing to a jalt, to the nonexistent rpg mechanics, zero incentive and rewards for exploration, the ending that undermines its own themes it set up, the boring one dimensional main villain, and how some of the side characters were handled.

This is legitimately probably the best review of ff16, you put everything I couldn’t put to words into this video, the damn comparison to kh2 is probably what made me realize why the combat irks me so much lmao its like you’re practically fighting an immoveable training dummy that does some attacks lol. creative buisness team REALLY needs to never reference ff14 for any future endeavors they have because my god the fucking DNA of ff14 is baked into this game and its not in a good way

Good review as usual

You literaly say everything i thoght when playing ff16 now, i love the peaks but i hate nearly everything else, im enjoying the game but its extremely lackluster

Yo, go back to the Yu-Gi-Oh! videos, man we need more of them

What a weird ass review.

I ve been waiting on this Video for 5 years bru 😂

I hate to say it but, skill issue.

i hated this game beyond belief for mainly 3 reasons. the combat being fun only when you have everything so the last 5 hours or so. the abhorrent pacing and side content. and the babys firsts video game world design. i dont think they should have let an mmo team make a single player game especially when the best parts of said mmo aka the raids arent even in this game

Now that I think about it, FFXVI is the only modern numbered Final Fantasy title without minigames.
I get that having minigames wouldn’t exactly fit the tone of your wannabe grimdark fantasy, but when combat actively denies itself any more depth than the shallow end of the pool, only having more combat arenas and a series of fetch quests that also have combat sometimes as your optional content will, funnily enough, burn you out at some point during the game’s 50 hour runtime.

I adore FFXVI. Played it on PC, so fast travel to quest givers was second nature to me. Having to backtrack so much would be annoying.
The side quests are hit or miss. Yeah, the moment to moment action of the quests are most of the time just timewaisters, but I often wanted to complete the quest for personal reasons. Giving planks to some dude was fun because I wanted the Hideout to become stronger. Getting to listen to Ben Starr was a reward in of it self.

The only FF I wanted to play and it is the only one that the devs blocked in my region 😅

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Honestly I rather have multiple playable characters and jobs system than eikon system

Nah B this is still great as an action game. It’s not perfect but hits the right notes well enough that I keep coming back to the arcade mode. There are so many fun combos.

The eikon fights are the closest I’m ever getting to Asura’s Wrath 2 and I have to love them for that alone.

Sadly, this game is a lot of unrealized potential everywhere. Story goes to the same boring tropes after the Twinside. What was the point of all the political intrigue if that’s what the plot boils down to?
Combat problems are almost perfectly summarized at the beginning of the video. FF16 is a game that has one of the best and epic kaiju boss fights in history of gaming and that’s all the praise I can give it.

14:30 this is why all open world game sucks

FF15 and 16 are abominations and disgraces to mainline FFs. But that’s just like, my opinion, man.

The “cons” section is legit half the video 😂

Good thing there’s a mod for every issue you mentioned

Torgals Ravage knocks up people on the ground and knocks down people in the air.

Torgals Sic is a combo extender where the actual hit doesn’t knock them anywhere and just keeps them in place.

Timing Torgal at the end of sword moves and end of combos gives you a precision version, that is stronger and more effective, think like Nero’s rev mechanic in DMC4 and 5.

You can charge magic and your sword independent of anything else. Meaning you can hold a charge just like in DMC. A charged magic spell knocks up airborne enemies for further juggling, so does the charged sword in the air.

The “dysfunctional” royalguard doesn’t stop enemy combos. Just like in DMC. If you use it in the middle of an enemy combo, it will still continue after. Just like in DMC. You just can’t spam it because it has a cooldown. A cooldown that becomes faster if you input it correctly and it does a great deal of stagger damage when it connects. You have to pay attention to when you can use it and not just mindlessly do it to all moves. A tip is that you’re on + frames after, so if you instantly dodge or queue up another move with invincibility, you get to move out of the way still.

I struggled with enemies dying too fast in both base game and Final Fantasy mode. Where the only thing that really lasted more than 2-3 minutes was the Eikon battles with a more limited moveset.

I agree that the combat is clearly not as expanded as it should. But you can do absurdly cool combos with your limited cooldowns still, and there is more play to be done than you give it credit for.

I do agree that all “elite” and boss enemies never being able to be knocked up is extremely bad design and it really limits what you can use in your kit.

Rift Slip is busted and opens up the combo system by loads in ff16. There’s also hidden tech in this game that are minor but makes your gameplay expression more fluid.

Oh and enemy move variation sucks, 100% agree.

All in all, I heavily disagree that the combat is slow, I feel that is a mindset change needed to be made as things just die too fast on everything except some parts of Ultimaniac. But I agree with your critique of a limited moveset on both sides, and the 0 juggle potential against everything that survives more than 2 moves.

The urge to not break the metal 666 likes. But I must.

I came into it as Devil May Fantasy and was slightly bummed but i still enjoyed it tho. I give it a 7/10. On my 3rd playthrough on FF mode and ITS A CHORE to get through plz help 😭

If I wanted linear hallways, I’ll just play ff13. If I wanted an open world rpg, then ff15 or ff7 rebirth will do. But, ff10 is still the best square rpg in the last 25 years.

Can’t wait to see your thoughts on Lost Soul Aside and Tides of Annihilation. Maybe try games like Ultra Age and BioMutant until those come out.

If you like a game with gayness in it, that makes you gay.

I didn’t have as much an issue with the combat being boring, but also didn’t play the whole game in a week, so like, all your points make a lot of sense.

The best part of this game was how much it made me re-appreciate FFXV. Even just making the girl playable would’ve added a lot but would’ve been far inferior to FFXV still.

FF XII still has the best exploration out of the 3-D Final Fantasy games. Exploration felt extremely rewarding in that game.

*got
gotten is not a word.
You could just say received or had.

All the streamers I watched play this just gave up on it because it was such a slog.
The fact you like this is probably why you are childless and likely because you are White and accept race mixing.

“stamina meter” in big 2025💔🐶

Welcome back, my friend! I’m glad to see someone who shares my sentiments about the game. I still enjoy it, but I really hate how it teased us with what could have been. I hope they don’t abandon this gameplay style and fully commit to it. On a different note, I think you would enjoy the gameplay of Tales of Arise. The way it allows you to use special moves and string them together is really engaging. I definitely recommend it if you find the time!

Yeah I really did not enjoy this game. Basically the first 3 hours were promising then it fell off. Until the Bion chapter which was great, leading up to the Bahamut fight. Then fell off again. Then the DLC was pretty good and especially the Leviathan stance.

The major problem of this game gameplay wise is that its stretched out too much in terms of pacing and especially the Sidequests. They need to cut the sidequests down by a third. They are dumb slow fetch quests. When you have a high octane action game with slow progression and damage sponges you’ve killed your game’s pacing.

For the story I don’t know what major changes they could do to fix it besides just fixing the main villain Ultima. Everything else would have to be little changes here and there. Ultima’s reasoning, personality, and plan are stupid. Basically “I/We made magic, but magic caused a curse that eats matter. So I need to use all life on this planet to become strong enough to destroy the curse, but I refuse to accept help from anyone and don’t believe in individuality cause I’m better than you.” That is so bare it hurts. A better villain would at least consider the help, and the overall problem has plotholes that can be fixed, such as how does this planet have the magic necessary to fix it when it’s also dying at the same time and he/they made the universe???

Also Jill at least had more importance to the story than Panelo, that’s the best I can say about her.

And the story did have great characters like Dion, uncle Awesome, and Cid for all 5 minutes he was there.

I wanted to like this game so much, but god I found it so boring and bleak

FF16 is the worst game in the series.

“I really enjoyed this game”

20:13 is where he stops complaining 😂

25:13 he resumes his whining about the game he supposedly enjoyed 😂

26:46 You don’t love the base game or the 5 minutes of “praise” suppose to make me believe you did? 😂

So, you didn’t like the combat which is the main appeal of the game, next to the boss encounters.

You didn’t like the open areas.

You didn’t like the main antagonist.

You didn’t talk about the visuals design of the game at all.

You didn’t talk about the Kairos Gate/Arcade Mode/Ultimaniac difficulty.

You didn’t talk about how accessories, which you complained about, actually improve non-Eikon gameplay (you can equip accessory that allows you to perform 6 enemy steps on a single enemy, etc.)

You didn’t talk about all of the other characters, except Clive’s mother.

I could go on, but not only did you do a lousy job of creating a coherent and complete review of the game, you also click-baited potential viewers with the false premise that you actually liked said game.

If someone provided me with the video’s script and told me that this was written by Under the Mayo, I wouldn’t question it. 😂

The best way to utilize Torgal is to use a controller with back paddles and map the Sic Em command to the paddle. I would just spam Sic while doing my normal combos and the extra damage would account for a significant portion of of every enemy’s health/stagger bar.

Using this strat, once I staggered an enemy I would kill most enemies before they got out of stagger. It made the combat really satisfying IMHO.

Edit: also I mapped the magic button to the other paddle so I could spam that as needed as well

I stopped about mid game from disinterest surprisingly, think I’m gonna go back and finish up soon. I LOVED the beginning

Any chance on you making a strangers of paradise vid lol

9:10 this is such a good point lol

the goat beeg mentioned at 5:30 we love to see it

U should play ff16 with the logos mod or eikonic overhaul mod which maps ur eikon skills to certain button combinations. You won’t be limited to only 2-3 skills anymore per eikon.

I think it’s really hard to come out of this video thinking you actually liked this game.

Wow, you hit all my thoughts exactly. I couldn’t even finish the game because I was so bored! And I super close! But I couldn’t stomach playing anymore.

he’s back omg ive missed him.

People say Lost Odyssey is the true FFXIII

Stranger of Paradise is the true FFXVI

Damn. It seems to me that most people arent willing to engage with the games combat systems at all because its constant comparison to dmc; which is a blessing and a curse. I dont understand why most content creators aren’t more chartiable and at least give the game praise that it has depth if you choose to delve into it. You hardly mentioned the arcade mode or the kairos gate which actively forces you to learn the systems of the combat. Judging by the clips you presented I’m gonna be quite honest you’re not very good at the game (and that’s okay, if you dont like it youre not going to invest time) but its a slap in the face on what the combat designers have acheived. Just look at combat examples from players that took the time to learn like autismiller, selch light warden or even my own videos (shameless plug). All in all though, youre entitled to your opinion but it would be nice to see people at least consider that even if the game isnt for them; doesnt mean it lacks depth, its just not for you.

My favourite Tekken Character

By the way YoshiP is a hack.

Street Fighter 6 literally has more RPG mechanics than FF16 does. I absolutely hate this game with a very strong passion.
Play FF7 Remake/Rebirth for your modern FF fix and forget this exists.

I feel like so many of those boss fights dragged on for so long
Otherwise I had enough fun with it

Dude, I can just put this vid to anyone who screeches that “Dawntrail Bad, Heavensward amazing” and see how they will loose their shit because of this. Bravo. And yeah, what I can say about XVI’s pacing issues that isn’t said here? It’s here. I wish it was either proper JRPG or proper 100% action title.

Bro i can do more combos in this game than Tekken that part is entirely false with or without Odin , that you meant to say is that you “DIDN’T BOTHER TO FIND ANY” or… “WERE UNABLE TO”

My bad, dude. I thought I was subscribed to you all this time. I’ve watched your videos and you got me into Yakuza. I was wondering where the chill and honest reviews went.

Stranger of Paradise is a better action rpg, lol

nah fam, if you felt the enemies were spongy imho you were doing something wrong. One of the biggest criticism in arcade in fact is enemies having no health and generally you have crap gear there. Like ye I agree that mid tier enemies should be juggled, while heavies are fine as they are, but once you know what to do enemies really have no health to the point in my first run I kept skipping phases. fair to be fair, I feel that the stagger bar being visible and the cd heavy combat gives ppl the feeling that they should blow their attacks during a stagger and technically accolades do incentivates that too, but really that ain’t it

Lightning Returns has better combat

Bowing out in the first 5 mins, complains about combat while not taking advantage of the combat abilities lmao

I kinda wished they said “screw it” and made it into a full blood action game. It’s barely an RPG as it is.

I wholeheartedly agree on this. Final Fantasy XVI left a sour taste in my mouth. The game feels like a long movie with QTEs.

It made me re-evaluate a lot more Final Fantasy XV, which has a party that matters in the story, does damage during combat and you can actually issue commands to.

I liked the game but it was no DMC5, and nothing since then has been able to dethrone it imo.

This game felt really weird like it’s having an identity crisis from the mechanics to its story. It’s really, really, odd. It’s like a heavily stripped down DMC written as Game of Thrones, forced to be a FF, while taking notes from the NuGod of War games right from its cooldowns, stagger bar, and even boss health checkpoints and none of them compliments one another. Like it’s trying to appeal to everyone but satisfying none.

Stranger of Paradise is the superior action Final Fantasy game when it comes to basic combat btw, shit has variety and it feels awesome to launch enemies against walls to deal even more damage, just way more complex and responsive

I loved this game even though I can fully understand people who weren’t happy with it being a FF game. It was just the right game for me at the time and I wasn’t attached enough to FF series to be upset at the changes. Very shallow as an RPG. But I loved it.

ryota suzuki was not the combat designer of dmc5 he was one of 17 designers. The lead designer was Yoichiro Ikeda who did not work on ff16

Agree with some of the criticism but the combo skill ceiling is very high, watch a good combo mad. A lot of this is alleviated in arcade mode as well

I actually found the moment to moment combat really fun to create a perfect build for. A lot of the base game eikon powers offer a great way to mesh them together (except for odin because those are fucking ass chunks that take WAY too fucking long to be worth using). I found a fun combo that required a bit of setup with will of the wykes (phoenix), lightning rod (ramuh), and rime (shiva). Lightning rod pings ANYTIME it’s hit so wykes and rime were fucking double teaming it along with my sword swings. On big bosses I would add in flare breath (bahamut) whenever i staggered them, and with regular enemies I would use wicked wheel (garuda) and rising flames (phoenix) for aerial combos because slamming them down and phoenix shifting into them does a finisher attack which basically killed every small enemy anyways.

At a certain point I started skipping all the dialogue in sidequests because it’s just a massively extended explanation as to why they need you to find 3 shit potatoes. It was far too late though. Would have had a better experience if I just missed all those, but it also becomes one of the key sources of XP. I also ended up checking out of the story by the end of the Bahamut arc when it just turns into power rangers.

I genuinely really enjoyed the game and honestly found the story, warts and all, more compelling than many other Final Fantasy games, but I’d be lying if I said my love for it didn’t have a lot to do with the spectacle of the bosses and the music etc. I also kinda feel like the comments of “It’s not a Final Fantasy game” are a bit disingenuous given a lot of the same criticisms could be levied at other series entries that aren’t scrutinized quite as much. At the end of the day though, I think the fact that it engenders as many varied opinions that it does means that it’s at least interesting.

Arcade mode is GOATed, 1k hours and high leaderboard spots later I have to say it’s in my top 3 all timers

Yeah I do agree Ultima was good if you never understand what the f*** you saying I think they only gave me English voice acting or Japanese voice acting if you’re in Japan for the sake of players who don’t want to be reading subtitles but the exchange is well as you said he loses a large amount of minutes now since he just sounds like a normal guy instead of a alien God like being I mean the only good thing that he does bring to the table compared to Clive’s mom and it actually improves her as a pathetic villain in my mind is that a large amount of her success is have been due to him basically edging things to his favor because helping her brings problems to Clive which helps Clive get stronger hence what I said to my other reply in the end she was nothing without Ultima and by the end of the game she was nothing to him I mean he didn’t even need to tell Clive his motivations how hard was it to just have a journal or something that Clive comes across that explains his reasoning I know some people say that that would feel contrived but it’s a lot better than him telling Clive because you know he has no reason to tell Clive is in goal is to take Clive’s body which would likely mean Clive ceases to exist so there’s no reason to tell him anything plus his motivation wasn’t to destroy the world well that was a secondary his main motivation was bringing his race back to life he basically just needed Clive to collect all the MacGuffin Kaiju so that his max MP is high enough for the mother of all “Raise” spell cast😅

I fuckin hated any quest with Mid.

Ah yes, the game with the Highest of Highs, Lowest of Lows & a character named Mid.

peoples expectations for FF are out of touch. it’s never going to be that game you played when you were 12 ever again. try accept each game as its own thing.

The games story was so much better when its GOT X Naruto and not final fantasy.

There is only one bread and butter combo in this game, its straight up asinine game design at its finest.

16 was terrible story was so boring and combat got painful for my thumbs from all the mashing

This is Yakuza 3. Thats ok I’ll watch it anyways you make great content.

Seeing this appear in my recommended an hour after beating the game was weird, but welcome.

Hell Yeah

Really glad I played it on PC where the full package was also cheaper.

There’s a line where you get so bored you just quit. Felt like I was skirting that 90% of my playtime.

This review reminds me a lot of Gaming Brit’s God of War one. I’d love it if game companies stopped trying to melt all game genres into one.

This game was one of the most disappointing games I’ve ever played.
It’s by no means bad, but everything about it was so mediocre and forgettable. Nothing stood out.
I’ll go as far as to say that I had more fun with FF 15.

i gotta ask. given the early disclaimer of 2nd dlc at time of writing not even being out. did yt shoot the upload or did editing just take a while

I absolutely loved this game for what it is and still highly recommend it even today. However, your points are 100% valid, especially with the combat. I was initially excited for the “Bloody Palace” feature but their weird restrictions on top of the combat being the way it is made me realize that I didn’t want to continue playing the game long term for the combat encounters 😅

I just sat down to play this blind 2 weeks ago but I never finished it I got to the part with the brothel and never got any further I couldn’t stomach the combat anymore of just spam x and wait for abilities to recharge. The story was fine but i just couldn’t keep going through the combat. I bought this on sale last year for like £20 to have a ps5 game to play and I just never bothered and I kinda wish I never did and just had a pretty steel book on the shelf to look at.

Nice video!

I agree with most of your criticisms, although I believe I enjoyed the combat much more than you did. All of that said, it’s really insane how FF7 Rebirth kind of succeeded in so many of the areas that you complained about here. Combat that has more depth/options as both an action game and as an RPG? Check. A world that is relatively more fun to explore and has more to it than just being empty hallways? Check. Side Content that is actually compelling or contributes to rewards you care about even when it is less compelling? Check.

I’d also recommend checking out Xenoblade 3. When I played through FF16, I couldn’t help but always think of it as worse than Xenoblade 3, despite being very different games. Xenoblade 3 is more of a tab targeting game, yet outside of the opening chapters, you are waiting on cooldowns less than you are in FF16. If you are, you can switch to another character and start going through their cooldowns. You have kaiju transformations in battle. Xenoblade 3 is also the Witcher 3 of JRPG sidequests, in the sense so many of them are narratively fulfilling and satisfying. It does have lulls, not all sidequests are created equal, and you do have an element of “you gotta do the lesser sidequests as set up for the better ones”. But the highs are much, much higher compared to FF16, and the lows don’t dip anywhere near as low as FF16. The world is both much bigger yet also more interestingly layed out and fun to explore. I implore you to give it a shot if you have the time and interest for it.

I guess I’ll pre-emptively say- you won’t need to play the other games before playing 3. They are connected, but the main protagonists are new and have no knowledge of previous games either. The DLC expansion for 3 however, requires knowledge of all previous Xenoblade games, so don’t play that expansion unless you have.

I love your content Cvit and respect your takes but I hope you can understand that I am a bit dissapointed you like this game when I had nothing but a miserable time with it personally. The combat and world sucked, and so it was all on the story. And the story falls apart quicker than the average american home so it didn’t do anything for me either. Overall MASSIVE dissapointment.

Review SMT Strange Journey

I remember feeling like I HAD to have Garuda to pump stun so that fights didn’t last forever.

I absolutely HATED this game. It was so wishy washy on what it wanted to be.

The only reason people remember this game at all is because of the Final Fantasy branding. It was a complete bastardization of two completely different styles of gameplay.

They so desperately wanted a Final Fantasy themed Action game but didn’t want to take the risks of being something different

I get that the troupes of JRPGs haven’t aged well for modern gaming audiences, but Final Fantasy and JRPGs are so heavily intertwined that they can’t and honestly shouldn’t be split.

Good video, this game really cemented the idea for me that the best action games have about a 15 hour story and anything longer just drags it out too much.

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That isn’t even the problem, since you also have games like KH, Team Ninja’s latest works, or some of the Tales games where at least the enemies aren’t too spongy.

Yeah I wish I could assign certain eikon abilities to delay/directional combos. The ability cycling just became rote after a while. I like alot of Garudas stuff, but it’s not the most damaging.

Cvit drop on my birthday lessgo

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“It’s easier to write about what you dislike in detail than what you like”.

This is really only true if you’re not skilled at critique. Critique and criticism aren’t the same thing. As much as I’ve enjoyed your content since I found it, what you do is largely CRITICISM, not critique. Your videos are heavily weighted towards the negative in their runtimes.

I spent three years doing written game reviews for J-List and I had a MUCH easier time writing about games I liked while still always finding faults within them. The ONLY game I struggled to find positives for was one that I genuinely had no enjoyment playing.

Don’t get me wrong, a lot of your complaints echo mine, but this video sounds as if you hated the experience for the most part. I expected the “gushing” to be more than like… 2 minutes of the video.

I was very torn on this game, I feel like its steps away from greatness, like the ideas are there just not fully completed. idk just feels like if they committed a little more to fleshing everything and everyone out a bit more, instead of just on clive, it wouldve turned out better. And it sucks cause the setpieces are so cool, it just missed that oomph for me. I can see the vision of a masterpiece game, but it holds itself back to just being a pretty good one, which makes me sad.

I like the game well enough, not too happy it removed huge chunks of its RPGness but seemingly FF7R took what this game did and ironed out the balance. Your comments on enemies is correct.

My problem Narratively is its portrayal of slavery. No not what you think.
My problem is the slaves lack of agency and only a former noble/royal enslaved is like “this needs to stop!”. I mean, no slave revolts from the past or present, no abolitionists (other than Clive’s Father), no underground network smuggling people to freedom, it’s like everyone but Clive has balls and almost suggests they’re responsible for their station.

The dialogue is like a better version of 12, which makes sense since I believe they wanted the direction to emulate Game of Thrones.

23:10 Doflamingo

30 minutes negative
4 minutes positive
0:44 Probably would have been better to get the positives out of the way first lol

In general I feel the meter should not regen over time but it should work like the limit break, you hit the enemies, and it charges up, ofc it would need to be way faster and different moves would use different amounts, but I very much would like if action games threw out this “charges over time” bullshit out in the favor for actually engaging with the combat system.

I played this game to 100% on ps5 (before any dlc came out so i didn’t play those) and i liked it, but it didn’t feel like a final fantasy game to me. The side quests were atrocious and really, really boring. There was also no real hidden or extensive side things to do like almost every other ff game, great example is ff8 you could spend hundreds of hours exploring the world and doing some crazy stuff. It was fairly linear but it did have tons of polish, pretty fun overall but not a final fantasy game imo. Felt like Asura’s Wrath meets DMC meets some other modern action game idk. 7.69/10

*btw if you want to see how to wreck shop check out the builds that Donguri uses on youtube they are pretty fun but they get boring fairly quick

**edit 2: dragon’s dogma 2 had a MUCH better world I’m glad you mentioned it. I need to go back and replay it, dd1 is my favorite game of all time

>is an action game
>spend the first part of the video shitting on how bad it is as an action game
>”i absolutely loved this game!!!”

*absolutely here for the Clive having more chemistry with Gav than Jill* hahaha

reactionary grievance tourists with “FFXVI bad woke because gehy character reeeeeeeee” in 3… 2…

Clive best final fantasy protagonist you cannot convince me otherwise

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So you do your normal launcher by holding the attack button and letting it go when you jump. The Torgal move is supposed to be used to keep them suspended in the air rather than as your launcher

I dont mind the people that enjoyed the game but my last playthrough of the game really solidified that FF is just not for me anymore. I have played some of the early games recently and though some of them still hold up, specially IX and X, i can not avoid thinking that how much the lack of competition and the sheer espectacle played a factor on me loving the games in the past.

Now I find games like Digital Devil Saga, Trials of the Sky and Tales of the abyss as just bettet versions of the games i loved so much when i was a kid.

And with FFXVI, a game with 0 nostalgia, the only thing i was thinking about at the time was that i could have been playing Xenoblade 3 again.

Man it really sucks just falling out of love with your childhood favorites. Like i would not call XVI a bad game but i really fail to care about it

Hi loved the video. I was wondering, do you record the footage yourself or do you fetch them online ?

this game was the most mediocre experience I’ve had in a long time. Like it has literally all the problems 15 had but also took the only good part about 15 away which was the party and their interactions. Its like someone finally read the song of ice and fire books and played devil may cry but didn’t get why people like those things. Also Clive sucks, he’s such a boring ass character, my god are we back in the ff1-4 times?

I see where you are coming from in regards to the gameplay, story and side quests but idk I just really love this game to death. Definitely had certain limits that hindered it and some of the story didn’t come together that well but I loved what I could do within the confines of the game and the story was weighty enough for me to power thru all of the side missions to get to the more important ones that effected the world. I loved the brothers and Jill. Definitely should have expanded more on some characters and relationships but in the end of the day I love this game dearly. I will always remember it for how it made me feel in the end.

I think my only problem with the game is feel like a downgrade compared to ff7 remake

My 2023 goty and current game of the decade

Your criticisms are completely valid. But you dont need me to tell you that. Really wish they fully leaned into action game as well.

Based Cvit reviewing a year and a half old game. I’m getting the RE4 review flashbacks. Jokes aside, loved this game. Remember when it came out and it was great. It got a lotta hate when it was released, many people calling it barely an RPG, and barely a FF game. I enjoyed it. It certainly feels more like DMC than FF, but I respect their vision. I love FF and DMC as series both so much, so it was really interesting to see this kind of mashup. I wanna replay this game soon. There are also so many damn cutscenes, but on a replay, I’m just gonna skip them all. Still, problems aside, a really great game.

The writing completely falls apart after the second time skip. Imo Joshua should have stayed dead and Jill and Dion should have had a bigger presence. Barnabas could have easily been the final villain instead of Ultima. In my opinion FFXV is a far better written story if you consider the games as a whole narrative. Oh and lastly, Clive is alive.

I adore this game. I no lifed it on release and it easily became one of my favourite in the series

I am begging you bud I love your content so much but can we please get more everything wrong with Yu-Gi-Oh I understand you don’t want to be known just as that guy but come on man you can’t leave a series unfinished The people crave and need it

Hell yeah let’s gooooooo love your videos

I had so much fun with this game. It’s a crime at how this got slept on, that’s why I’m glad Clive Rosefield made it to Tekken 8 instead of Tifa (Hot take, I know).

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