Daniel P333

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(Edit: I am changing review from 2 stars down to just 1 star.) 1. The game is extremely shallow. Not only as a MMO, but specifically as a RPG. 2. The game has the name Final Fantasy in the title. Final Fantasy once stood for quality, it now stands for terrible. That is the short version. The long version is as follows: I have been playing Final Fantasy games for over 20 years. Despite my loyalty and love for the traditional RPG series, I can no longer say I support Final Fantasy. The series has become simple, cheap, and shallow. Battle Systems: The battle systems are extremely extremely simplistic. As of the writing of this review, the entire scope of FFXIV's combat is: -Player location. ("Positionals" and "mechanics execution") -Rotation. -Item level/Gear. What is especially bad about this, is 90% of the time your location is insignificant, rotations are constantly being reduced and simplified. Example: In Endwalker, the job GNB is having their Gnashing Fang combo combined into a single button, whereas PvP has seen this across all jobs. A button in the menu, automatically equips your highest item level gear, based on your current class. Even in savage raids, if you're not a melee your position only matters 50% of the time, at best. If this isn't the most absurd level of handholding I don't know what is. Music: The music is done with low quality sounds, the sound director even admitted to using a noodle cup as an instrument. Additionally it randomly starts and stops for no logical reason. Graphics/Quality/Aesthetics: A large portion of XIV's success stems from Aesthetics. I personally prefer the limited character creation system, due to most players failing to create unique, and sensible characters when given too many options, a limited system effectively "saves" players from theirself, resulting in a more immersive and quality experience. The problem with XIV is the gear creation by the development team is wildly inconsistent. Examples: The "Late Allagan" set is of high quailty, but the design was actually done by a player. The items "Craftsman Singlet" and "Casual Jacket" appear of very low quality, pixel and draw line count. Questing: This is the aspect many players praise FFXIV for, yet if you research the A Realm Reborn quest line, many say its actually terrible. So the very thing the players praise, they themselves say is dreadful. Note: ARR is 40+ hours long. With this to the side, the questing is 100% exactly the same from the first quest to the current highest level quest. You just go from place to place talking to people or doing an instance. There is no variety at all, ever. Character Customization: (stats/skills) There literally is none, as of the writing of this review. Materia only pertains to at maximum a 1-5% damage increase. Nothing else. Remember, this, according to the director himself, is supposed to be a Final Fantasy first, and a MMO second. Yet Final Fantasy is a RPG, and this game has zero customization. Mini games: Even with FFXIV's large list of mini-games such as crafting, chocobo racing, and other features, they cannot make up for the horrible questing design, bland gameplay, and simplistic nature of the game. I can barely even consider FFXIV much of a video game anymore, let alone a RPG. This game deserves 0 stars honestly.

I quit FFXIV during Shadowbringers, this game has become so bland and boring. I heard this expansion is even worse than Shadowbringers. I lost interest with supposedly the best expansion to FFXIV, so if Endwalker was worse than Shadowbringers, and Dawntrail is worse than Endwalker, then it's a wonder how anyone still plays this game. To me, RPG"s should be engaging, challenging, massive, interesting, creative, and be filled with secrets and mystery. FFXIV is anything but any of those things. Its shallow, bland, simple, easy, basic, and very straight forward, and for a lack of a better word or phrase, "cookie cutter" I cannot believe this game is still profitable. Why play video games if you are only looking for a story and literally no gameplay? Why not just watch a movie at that point.

Final Fantasy X is a game that writes an interesting story that is both light and fun, but also heavy and deep. The gameplay is very well balanced. You can play casually, and follow a simple straight forward progression path, or you can dive deep collecting extremely rare and sought after Ultimate weapons, and spend 10's of hours maxing out your character to become powerhouse gods. There are numerous mini games, and the largest mini game "Blitzball" could be enjoyed as its own game entirely. It is extremely fun. The characters are unique, interesting, and very well written. You can tell the creators were, well... creators, full of creativity and imagination. Final Fantasy X is just an amazing game, with an even better sequel. Of course if you enjoy gameplay more than story, but even some will thoroughly enjoy the story as I did.

Final Fantasy 16 is a black sheep among the long standing RPG series. The franchise used to stand for quality, creativity, with deep and meaningful gameplay and stories, this is not that. -The story comes off as it was written by a horny teenager trying it’s best to “be cool” by adding as many curse words even when it doesn’t make sense. -The gameplay is basic, and plays exactly like an action-adventure masquerading as a RPG. This results in the game being neither a good RPG nor a good Action-Adventure. The character animations during cutscenes are stiff and feel out of place. The voice acting mirrors this stiff and awkward mantra. This is magnified because you’ll spend most of your time watching the game, instead of playing it. The optional content is even worse. The quality is extremely low effort, and feels unrewarding. The game doesn’t offer anything unique, and delivers the bare bones you would want out of a game. The opposite from anything else sharing the prestige title “Final Fantasy.”