Robert frank

Long time FF fan been playing them since VI. This game is just lacking in all aspects. One of the best things about Final Fantasy has been there engaging and amazing world building and story telling. This games story was bland and extremely predictable. The world trys to be large and give to the feel of open world, while it's actually fairly limited and extreamly linier. The side quests lack anything more than a few gold and mild tidbits about the world and the rewards beyond the hunt board and gaining renown make them almost pointless to do. Almost all weapons and potions are gained through natural gameplay leave very little challenges in regards to equipment and items and 95% can be gained through just playing through the story l, again making most side quests compleatly pointless. When the story isn't being compleatle predictable it seems to be going out of its way to be intentinaly confusing. There seems to be alot of off scree thing that happen that your just supposed to know. Granted if you spend the time to talk to every villager and side charecter you come across you can figuer it all out but it's an exercise in monotony. Just to explain backnstoey they give you no real reason to care about. The combat has been dumbed down a bit it boiled down to a cross between a hack and slash paired with some 3d fighting games and just lakes any real skill. This installment was not the worst Final Fantasy by any means and is worth a play through but I expected much more from this am extremely disappointed especially after being let down by XV only being half a game and an incomplete story. This is the second new FF game in a row that was a pretty big let down.