Bert Howard

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Didnt like it at first but once I could travel world to world and solve all the hidden content I liked it more. Story is OK. Most reviews don't know sos is connected to a game called "messengers" and that game clears up a lot of confusion but knowing that only slightly helps the story Combat. Pretty lame. I only enjoyed it once I turned on artful gambit. Takes 95% hp away but perfect blocks only deal 1 damage. Made me have to actually consider my next move and think if now it the right time to use combos and specials. Exploration -pretty linear as far as Exploring the map. Does have decent side content for hidden bosses, battle arena, content for true ending. Has collectibles and character upgraded to make you back track to previously explored areas and unlock puzzles. So though linear, you do at least have reasons to go back to those areas. Fishing- trash. Really nothing to it. Felt like the devs knew fishing was a staple of jrpgs and shoe horned it in. If this is your first introduction to jrpgs, this will probably be a good time but if you play a lot of jrpgs, this will lack the depth in combat and story that you're probably use to so probably skip this.

Great game, I'd say it draws heavy inspiration from nier automata. Story is engaging, sprinkling in lore via side quest. Making you guess who is the bad guy. Most side quest lead to lore or memorysticks and upgrades of some kind, So not a waste to do them. Puzzles are pretty simple and climbable ledges are painted but some traversal will take some figuring out. Combat is fun. It's not hack and slack unless you play easy. Normal and hard require you to parry, perfect dodge and blink attacks to win. You have burst and beta skills which can melt most random enemies in the open world but bosses will take a combination of combat skill. As you play, the game also throws new boss attacks at you. So you will see new moves as the game goes along, which helps keep it fresh. Open world isn't massive but what you get is enjoyable. Enemies, puzzles, chest, shooting challenges, fishing, mini bosses all apart of exploration. Sound track is nice, you can change sounds at your camp but it sadly doesn't change it in the open world and it doesn't add in the boss music. Negatives- voice acting is stiff. Lines are delivered without a lot of emotion, might be the intent since you play as an android but I hope you don't want a lot of emotion from eve cause you won't get it. Dialog isn't skippable instantly, so if you are talking to an NPC and select talk and not shop you will have to listen to the first few words of each sentence before it will let you skip to the next line in the dialog sequence and pray you don't mash it so much you select talk again and repeat the cycle. Talking and interacting with things is R2 and you have to be on an item or chest or body looking right at it to interact with it. Not beside it, behind it or a few feet away, kinda annoying. puzzles don't stay solved for some reason. Had a puzzle involving shooting targets but before you could get to it you have to move crates, not hard, just slow process, not particularly fun gameplay either though. I ran out of ammo, no biggie I leave go to save point, buy more, come back and I have go move the crates again. Last but not least, wait for ropes to falls down before trying to jump on them, I don't think it loads them as interact'able items until they stop or after a certain time. Or I suck and missed but sure looked like i jumped right through the rope and fell to my death a few times. All and all, great game. Few annoyances but nothing game breaking. Hope they make a second one. 8.5 outta 10

FBI agent are pointless. Clearly in the movie to check boxes. Movie would flow just fine without them. Fight scenes and gun scenes aren't great. Only 1 fights really stand out. Jason's character no diffs everybody else. Which made sense when he was taking out amateurs but he then clears whole groups of soldiers with weapons by simply strolling up to them and beating them up 10 to 1. Army, fbi, secret service, swat, no prob. Now, one random Russian killer guy, now we get the only choreographed fight. I wanted to like it but it's pretty forgettable. You will probably forget you watched this movie at all in 3 months.

Great game. Story is well written. Does have a lot of characters, kingdoms, and main cast. I can see it being a bit too much for some but I think most characters got flushed out nicely. The last few characters you pick up get the least development (obviously )and you kinda got a party assembled but I do recommend using the new members especially Mikah, her plus sienna equals easy mode. I was impressed each location had it own unique monsters. Ff16 didn't even bother creating new monsters for each region. The bosses all had a new skill to deal with. Kept the combat interesting. Only failed a few fights due to being surprised by attacks but you can then develop a strategy and try again quickly , which is nice. No back tracking. Sky armor battles are nice addition to add little more spice to combat and exploration. Soundtrack is amazing. Each area has its own very distinctive music. I like that some locations (mostly dungeons)don't give you maps. Just you and your sense of exploration. Taking wrong turns and getting lost is a lost art in games these day. Nice to not have your hand held at every step. Solid recommendation for me. Give it a 4.5 mostly cause I wasn't in love with the final act but overall 70 hours well spent.

This game is a huge letdown, I don’t understand the praise at all. The positives are the graphics, cinematic set pieces and story. The overall story is solid, Clive and his main crew get solid character development, have realistic dialog between one another and it isn’t fill with corny ugh, uh, oh, aww, and um Vocalized pauses like in kingdom heart 3. The negatives will be a much longer list unfortunately. The main world is lifeless (you might say, well it’s supposed to be) but even in the story context it’s still bland and unimaginative. FF16 doesn’t have that WOW factor in lvl design. It’s all rocky plains or deserts with abandoned houses and the occasional patch of trees(but not a forest or woods). All blocked in by landscape you can traverse or climb. For more context for what I mean, this game doesn’t have a sense of mystery and wonder. Let’s take elden ring for example. When you discover Nokstella, the Eternal City you get a sense of wonder and cant wait to discover all this area has to offer. Ex: 2, Nier automata, when you enter the amusement park for the first time. It delivers with its music and visuals a magical place and makes you want to explore. Ex:3 dead space, a sense of doom and the uncertainty of what dangers are lurking in the dark. FF16 doesn’t evoke these emotions. What set pieces it does have aren’t explorable, the Caste at the end, linear, can’t explore not one side room, no puzzles, traps, or wrong turns to take. Even the cities are bland, nothing to do in any of them. No minigames or places to explore within the cities. No secrets side missions to find, nothing. Speaking of side missions, they suck, 80% of them are fetch quest and the stories for 80% of the side quest are the same story. Ex: 80% will be bearers have it bad and are treated like property and thing vs as living breathing humans. Which was fine at first, I liked seeing how bad the kingdoms were but after 40 missions it got old, was essentially beating a dead horse. Only fun side content are hunts, and but the combat makes those a walk in the park Yep, the combat is way too simple and repetitive. It doesn’t really matter how you mix and match your eikon abilities, the combat will always be the same formula. Attack with eikon abilities till you stagger the monster, then unleash a barrage of power attacks while it lays there helpless. Most enemies will die after 1 stagger, bosses will survive but you just dodge and keep spamming eikon attacks while spamming square while you wait for them to cooldown and stagger them again. Only hard combat is the optional chronolith trials. That is only hard because it has a time limit and preset abilities and sadly the rewards aren’t worth the hassle. The enemy variety is lackluster. Maybe 20 different enemies and most of those are just variants. When you reach the last island of the game, it’s a bummer to see the same enemies on the map. Just all the enemies you have ever fought but in one place. The hunts would have been more fun if they weren’t just the same monsters you’ve seen during the story but on steroids. No big secret boss fight that FF is known for. I thought this was going to be FF return to form, but it is far from it. SquareEnix has yet to make a legit FF game. They continue to take Squaresoft IP and run it in the ground. If you don’t believe me, then think about how the only good FF games that have been released are remakes or remasters of Squaresoft games. SquareEnix is on the same level as Disney, surviving off remakes and the legacy of better creators from the past.

Middle of the road game. Not great but not bad. I believe it's a real mistake to mimic dark soul style of combat. Being a jedi should mimic a batman, Spiderman, God of war style of combat with actual combos to pull off, flipping over enemies heads and free flowing if you get a large chain going. To feel powerful. Parrying and blocking and mashing square isn't rewarding especially when the game just throws ranged enemies everywhere, you cant focus on timing when your constantly being shot in the back, forcing you to kill all ranged while the melee enemies (whose attack tracking is busted) hit you in the back. Performance, I agree with everyone else talking about bugs and glitches. Bounties could be cool but it's just the same enemies, you fight 2 or 3 or more at once but all the same type of humanoid bobo fet looking enemies. But lets talk about the load times for bounties. The process is pretty terrible. Get a bounty from the saloon, head to exit, wait for the door to open cause the game is loading the outside world, head to ship, interact with holo table, select world, wait for the prompt to sit, then sit and wait for the ship to land, exit and find the bounty, then repeat those steps for the return trip. And then do that 16 times. Like they thought destiny load times weren't long enough smh. Story, the intro is laughably bad. Writers forget the players have to know characters to be upset by their deaths. I just beat the game and can't even remember their names and they aren't mentioned again. The new bad is predictable as well and I didn't really buy (redacted) motives. Overall the story won't be remembered by anyone who plays this game. Like watching an action movie, you know tom cruise hung on the outside of a plane, but you don't really remember why but dang it, it looked cool. ( it was cool though let's be real) Map is much improved. Still hard to read at time, world map could have used color to make certain areas identifiable by sight alone. If I wanted to fast travel to the forest array, I pull up the map, just a blue blob of geometry, just move the cursor over the map till forest array pops up I guess. The scale of the game is nice, I love seeing the environment and feeling tiny next to a ship, building or creature. I would have like to see more planet variety as well. The two biggest planets are deserts. Kobah being the biggest has little sub regions like a bog but no Forest, frozen, lava, or water planets. Whoever developed holotactics should get promoted. I saved it for last but was surprised at how it actually took some planning to win. While I'm being honest, if you had to play a space fantasy game where the protagonist travels planet to planet to save the world. Play ratchet and clank. Just beat ff16 and that game was a** cheeks. So I added a point after playing a truly terrible game.

Mid game, does nothing great, only average to below average. KT and team ninja can only steal ideas. Nioh was a fresh take and nioh 2 improved on nioh but wo long is 100 steps back from nioh 1 and 2 and a clear attempt to copy Sekiro and mix it with nioh. Fail. Uninspired game. Clearly a game pieced together with cut ideas from nioh Lvl design ranges from basic to completely terrible and hard to navigate. No map, only a mini map with zero details, just a wayward marker pointing to the objective. Some of the lvl designs are clear rips from nioh 2, Especially the last 1. Some of the bosses are clear copies from nioh with minor tweaks to attacks. Combat is fine. It works but not enough uniqueness in weapons or weapon art to really make you want to switch once you find a weapon you like. Biggest complaint is the attacks of your character and enemies all have lights, fire or some kind of effect and that makes seeing what is going on difficult, which in turn is the only thing that makes parrying even remotely hard. Story is basically nioh 1 story but replace amrita with elixirs and Japan war with Chinese War. Boom new game say KT and team ninja. If you've never played nioh, dark souls, Sekiro, elden ring, or bloodborne this game will probably be fun and fresh since you don't have a frame of reference for better games.