![]() ![]() I hope it encourages Square Enix to be more confident about keeping the series weird and wacky and Japanese, and not try and turn it into some grimdark nightmare game. It’s done okay, so no one’s going to be losing their jobs over this, and that makes me feel okay to say that I’m glad it hasn’t done well. If it were a traditional role-player, where there’s lots of exploration and side quests, it could’ve maybe justified it but the side quests are terrible and the exploration is equally basic.įinal Fantasy 16 hasn’t been a flop but it’s obvious it hasn’t done as well as Square Enix would’ve hoped, especially for the first ever next gen entry. Not only is this not a Final Fantasy game but no matter what it is, it’s too long and bloated. I’m sure the fact that I wasn’t enjoying the rest of it is not helping, but I was never engaged with what was going on and regularly lost track of who was doing what and why. The dialogue is really not very good and the voice-acting surprisingly mediocre. You can have spin-offs, sure, but this is a numbered Final Fantasy sequel, I don’t think I’m being pedantic in saying that it should at least be in the same genre as the previous games.įinal Fantasy 16 – the graphics are definitely good (Picture: Square Enix) Making it anything else is like making a mainline sequel to Mario that’s not a platformer or Halo that’s not a shooter. Having a party of characters is almost what defines a Japanese role-player and I know Yoshi-P said it wasn’t one, but… Final Fantasy is the definitive Japanese role-player. ![]() I would have preferred it had some element of turn-based action, but the real problem is that you’re only ever controlling the one guy. It’s not necessarily that it’s real-time either. I think the combat is the one thing that everyone has praised but for me the problem is that it just don’t feel like Final Fantasy. A lot of it is more grounded, when it’s just people talking, but the action and more out-there elements, most obviously the boss battles, are exactly what I’d want a next gen Final Fantasy to look like. The graphics are great and apart from certain elements of the story, such as the crystals, almost the only thing in the game that makes it seem like a Final Fantasy title. The positives about the game are pretty obvious: the graphics and the combat. ![]()
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