Eric Leonhart

The first few hours are fun but the combat doesn't evolve past that. Very repetitive gameplay, and sidequests are mindless fetch quests. No other side or optional content to tackle. No optional dungeons or superbosses. The game eventually devolves into talking to the NPCs at the hideout, fast travel to new dungeon, walk down a straight hallway and fight a few weak enemy encounters, mini boss, few more weak encounters, then boss. Watch lots of cutscenes then end up back at the hideout and repeat for the next dungeon. The game starts with an interesting, dark political plot but changes course later on and ends up copying too many big story pieces from Final Fantasy VII and XIV. I wanted to like this game. I was so excited for this all year, and it honestly ended up being probably the most disappointed I've ever been in a game.