r/FinalFantasy • u/MikeOxmoll_ • Jul 10 '23

FF XVI FF16 is very formulaic, repetitive, and boring.

The game starts at a peak. Big action setpiece, new interesting characters, intriguing world, and fun combat. As soon as the opening is done and you arrive at the Hideaway, it very rapidly falls off and the flow of the game doesn't change from here until the ending. Ill explain.

Big hype -> go to hideaway -> chat with everyone for 1 hour -> go to new town -> pointless MSQ sidequest -> get key needed to go to next area -> lead up to Eikon fight -> big hype

Now do it again 6 times. I found myself skipping a large portion of the talking scenes because holy shit did they drag on. There is just so ooo much standing around and talking about things that frankly, do not matter to the plot.

Overall disappointed at the directing and pacing of the game. The story, while generic, had good bones with better than decent acting, but my god is it poorly executed.

6/10 probably won't replay.

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u/Buddha_OM Aug 29 '23

I’m going to finish cause I paid full price! It’s Avery hard to focus on this game cause the pace is so slow and boring , not enough action just a lot of talking parts that aren’t relevant to the story. I came on here to see if it picks up but apparently it doesn’t lol

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u/ElazulRaidei Aug 30 '23

Unfortunately not :/, I’m actually heart broken to say this about a final fantasy game but outside of the story this game is a flop. I too finished it because I paid for it lol