Just finished this game and both dlcs and this has been one of my favourite gaming experiences in recent years. Haven’t been this pulled in to a video game story for a good while. I’m still heartbroken from the ending.10/10

It would have been better if it was a linear action game. The side quests dragged it down.

Really debating on getting it

Is there really no hard mode pre-NG+?

Haven’t played but doing all those epic and hard-core looking moves just for chip damage feels off.

Thank you for the great review, this game has been pushed to next in my queue. The fun combat after 40-hour comment really sold me, that is a very hard thing to do for any game, for a story-driven RPG, it’s amazing.

This is probably the only game I have ever bought twice. I first got it on PS5, and a couple hours in I was like “nope”. “Graphics” mode felt like 25FPS, and “performance” mode was somehow even worse – yes 60FPS in combat, but a choppy mess everywhere else. Yet the game itself had me absolutely hooked from the opening, with several jaw dropping moments already. So I waited an entire year to play this properly on PC…no regrets! Sure, the progression system and loot for an RPG is underwhelming, and the combat is more “devil may cry” than final fantasy. But the journey…man I was practically in tears by the end. Clive’s tragic life, his evolution from an enslaved mercenary to an absolute legend…it was incredible. This review already has me wanting to do a new game +

I’d really be curious to hear what Xbox gamers who have finished it think of it. I think it’s an underrated masterpiece.

Meh most mid FF since 13. As a side game it could have worked.

It was never a GOTY contender.

Man you guys are a bunch of console warring clowns

I felt this game did not get the treatment it should have. XV was everywhere before it launched. This one was muted. Then it was late to the XBox. One might think it means it wasn’t as good of an entry. When in fact it’s absolutely top three in the series. It beats XV as far as I’m concerned end to end, even though XV did companion relationships better. XVI story is up there as about the best you’ll ever see in gaming. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a narrative that can pull anger out of you, and then fully allow you to blow that anger off with the fighting system.

Fantasy may cry

These are not icon these are summon changing what they are doesn’t make any sense

Yeah I don’t think it has any kind of real-world issues when it comes to magic buddy

Just started final fantasy mode now at Benedicta‘s arc. Super game

Dynasty Warriors: Final Fantasy

Death strading also is on xbox 😃

Game is awesome!

Holy hell, not a 10/10 game. Epic boss fights but everything else in between very dull.

Final Fantasy XVI was not even a GOTY contender in the year it released.

Turned out to be one of my favorites.

How is it too late? At least there are 29 million series s consoles out there now instead of the 21 million there was in June 2023. It flopped on Xbox. What a surprise.

Tomb Raider Reboob, the 2nd one, can’t remember the name of it, came to Xbone first, when it came to PlayStation the sales were through the roof by comparison. So don’t give me crap about it coming later being the reason Xbox gamers didn’t bother to buy THIS particular game, when they don’t buy any.

This game runs like ass on PC and it runs like 🐕 shit on both xboxes. But they are not the main reason why many players from both player bases avoid buying the game, it’s the fact for 1. The combat is like fighting sponges and 2. The game was released for ps players only and pc and xbox players had to wait for a while to play it and eventually the hype die downed. This will apply to Wu kong for xbox

Any of the good PlayStation exclusive games that launched this generation, would be a game of the year contender on xbox. There’s a reason that Xbox is 6 ft under

After watching this, im glad i didnt buy it. When will they learn that these games are NOT Final Fantasy?

I wish theyd take it back to turn based. Like Expedition 33 but FF how its SUPPOSED TO BE!

Glad Xbox users finally get to play it! This game is so much fun.

This is in no way a GOTY contender. After 25 hours the game got extremely boring, unchallenging with very little build options. This was not an RPG but more of an action hack and slash game that is linear. I thought it was just OK that over stayed its welcome after that 25 hours mark.

XBOX is JUST NOW getting this game? Wow. Microsoft being treated like a 3rd world country. Well deserved😂

2:45 That’s a mouthful. Like saying my father’s uncle’s neighbor’s best friend’s dog’s rival cat’s play buddy 😂

Tired of this magic sh1t. Geeks may like it but nerds know it’s a bunch of mambo jumbo, due to weak imagination. At most I can tolerate the magic from GoT, and mostly cuz of the characters and their dialogue, the interesting world building, and to less extent the plot, but at least it’s less ubiquitous, even rare south of the wall, and thus much more mysterious even sidious, rather than this easily manipulated out of nowhere power source anybody can imagine it into existence, in which case why are there even laws of physics in existence if magic could so easily supplant them? There’s a deep irreconcilable contradiction between magic and laws of physics, and thus the science that studies it. We need more Mass Effect type of games. The developer could make a Final Fantasy of its type, which would still be a fantasy but much more rooted in reality and when not, at least grounded in the realm of possibilities. Just sayin’

I like the game but 720p cmon ridiculous

Narrative was amazing the world was empty and boring idk why people try to act like it’s that good it’s not bad but not a goty contender

Square Enix though I would even bother to put it on Xbox day one when FFXV sold around 9% of total games sales where PC sold 11% while PS4 sold 80%. So yeah I was a safe bet to release exclusively on PS5. Even now most games sell better on PS5 with few exceptions being competitive FPS. Sony even helped development and funded the game.

looks awesome 👌 😊

This game is a proper 10/10. Perfect balance of boss fights and progression, the story is great, the overall experience is so immersive and fun.

The video I was looking for! Thank you

And no PS5 Pro patch

FF16 on Xbox series X for some reason has lower resolution, texture filtering, and background detail compared to ps5. Not sure why they chose to do this but visually when comparing them, the ps5 version visually looks much cleaner

The game is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 im my opinion. The presentation was really good. The game is 8.5 – 9. It had potential to be a 10/10 but missed the mark on a few things for the overall experience

Could they not just have kept it a valkarie profile game did they have to turn ff into a generic arpg too

Picked this up on SX, and I’m loving it. Clive is a cool character. Makes me wonder where FFXVII goes.

Trash game

The game needed much better pacing. The first few hours you are plowing through bosses like it’s a boss rush then spend the rest of the game bogged down with overly long boring sidequests.

The combat was great though.

Its the same game it was two years ago.

I can’t wait to play this in a bit 🙂

I think I was the only person who found this game excruciatingly boring

So if it’s released on Shitbox then its GOTY contender, but because it’s exclusive on PS5 its not GOTY contender? wtf?
Also this version doesnt sell really well. Xbox owners dont play JPRGs, they play overrated shooters.

Final fantasy died over 20 years ago

Top 10 game of all time for me. Endless dialogue got to me towards the end though.

I was never GOTY material at launch and still isn’t now.

Weakest FF yet, looks more like a DMC

If only it had a sprint button, better pacing, no obnoxious awful side quests and respected your time as a player maybe it would’ve been a GOTY contender.

For anyone asking why this isn’t a final fantasy game, real time combat, and no party system, final fantasy was at its best when it used turn based combat, and had a four person party which you could swap at certain locations, it hasn’t really been final fantasy since final fantasy 13 and has only gotten further away from what put them on the map with final fantasy 15 and 16 where the final nail in the coffin of final fantasy as a series.

It’s really a shame it’s such a great game and i have a feeling FF won’t go in this direction again

it has sold 20k copies on XBOX! Sony exclusivity is not Square Enix problem, they need new IPs, FF wont make them the money they want

10 for one of the most mediocre game, rpg or action, ever.

Best FF that isn’t a FF…if that makes any sense.

Anyway, loved every second, especially the narrative, wow, just wow, on a different level from most games out there.
Can’t wait to replay it in the near future!

Final fantasy DOESNT SELL ON XBOX

To each their own kind of hate this discussion is coming up again
But I didn’t like ff16 enough to double dip even though the xbox is my main console.
I was about to buy it but then I remembered just how much this game bored me and felt like a chore to play.
So much at launch I took a 2 month break only came back to finish because it was final fantasy

FF16 was a good game…but for fans of the series it was not a good FINAL FANTASY game… We want more mechanics/ side quests/ mini games/ and Charm like FF7 Rebirth

And then there is the music…

‘If Only It Hadn’t Launched Two Years Late’ – well now you know why Square Enix been struggling financially for over a decade

I really liked FF16, it returned FF to its past glory for me, but it’s definitely not a perfect 10. The story is interesting, the characters are likable but not necessarily memorable, and the combat is a fun Devil May Cry lite experience, overall I would give it a 8/10.

16 was 🔥 side quest was where the game lacked for me and the way u got weapons was lack luster but combat music and main story were badass

The demo of this game was good but the actual game was ass. Story was a predictable eye rolling mess and it is also one of the shortest Final Fantasy games with the most percentage of Cutscenes (11 hours of cutscenes in a 35 hour game. The “real time lore” is such an intrusive, lazy way for you to even know what is going on in the world. Yoshi P clearly doesn’t understand what makes a final fantasy (it’s not just having the best graphics or Chocobos, and to be honest the battle system in 16 was boring, repetitive, and simplified in a bad way) or how to make a game that isn’t an mmo. Also can SquareEnix stop with completely filling the screen with practical effects to the point you can’t tell what is going on when in battle. That does not make the game more impressive and actually hinders it.

It was a goty contender

Sorry but no lol I played this game on launch and it is nowhere near GoTY.

I just played 10 hours of it on PS5 over the past week, and I can’t believe how boring it is.

First couple of hours were ok, but now the game is just dragging. After playing such games as Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, Alan Wake 2, Ghost of Tsushima (sure, they’re different kind of games, but still), I see each one of the much better at the things they try to do. FF7 Remake Intergrade was much better also. The thing that’s the best about FF16 is music – top quality, immersive, beautiful tracks, practically the only thing that keeps me playing.

FF16 has an amazing story and could’ve easily been one of the best games ever had it been party based style with the combat system like FF7 Remakes. As a character action style game though, it’s still incredibly good in it’s own tight.

No elemental damage + no negative status = not a FF

I dont want to play it. Im tired of square making DMC clones

It should be ps5 pro updated. I need to still play this. I barely am through the first parts

This was a bad port

Currently playing this game and loving it

Already played this on my PS5. Might consider getting this again when on sale since Xbox is my preferred ecosystem for gaming but back catalogue too large to justify getting this now also Game Pass too good.

The game really has a problem with combat at the beginning, when it’s incredibly boring. If it were played from the beginning like NG+, where you have unlocked perks, the game could have been rated much better. In general, it could be talked about as one of the best JRPGs of its generation. All it needed was combat in the style of Claire Obscure and at least the depth of RPG systems on the level of older FF games. Otherwise, for me, the game does everything better than Claire Obscure except for combat. There is character development, the ending is not as clumsy as Claire Obscure, the level design is not an Xbox 360 corridor, it does not rely on Souslike elements, but the gameplay is insufficient compared to the turn-based combat of Claire Obscure or Metaphor.

Garuda has the best fight

Trash not optimized for the box won’t buy it.

Final fantasy 16 was really awesome and badass game in my opinion

I loved the game except for the horrible side quests

I love the game, and it should have been nominated in for game of the year in the gameawards back when it was released.

720p🤢🤢🤢

I don’t know why people complain “It’s not a Final Fantasy game” or “It’s a spinoff”.

So what, it doesn’t HAVE to be and people need to stop being so critical about it. It’s still Final Fantasy and Square Enix was trying something different.

That’s it.

I was playing FFXVI and Trails Through Daybreak at the same time… eventually, Trails won out and I gave up on FFXVI.

Yes, by all means FFXVI certainly looks better than Daybreak… but the dialogue, character depth, character growth, world-building and heartfelt moments in Daybreak made FFXVI’s writing feel downright _stale._

That, and Daybreak’s combat afforded me simple action combat that at the press of a button, becomes more layered and strategic turn-based combat.

Visuals are super soft to the point of distraction & needs a patch on Xbox Series X to address lower resolution in both performance settings when compared to PS5. Feels a bit like a lazy port IMO

Most boring game ever made bland combat empty world gameplay that consists of cutscene walk forward croch or climb object which is not done by button prompt then a fight….insanely bad side quests

It sold poorly on Xbox, and it looks even worse than the PS5 version. Square Enix basically sabotaged the Xbox version.

Damn a 10 think ima wait on this one my back log is nuts rn but definitely going to play it asap

Awesome game 🎉 love it

This isn’t a main line FF game despite the title 😂, 16 is a spin off at best.

No goty then and why

lol more final fantasy games

Having played FF16, I disagree with it being a GOTY contender.
There aren’t enough mechanics and combat isn’t varied enough to support the length of the game.