Final Fantasy had been heading down the action route for about 25 years before XVI, even when it was still nominally turn-based it was getting more and more actionised. And it had been straight action RPGs for a decade. It is mind blowing to me that this is just now something people are vocal about online, its both not important and also like, what took you so long?
I do agree that XV was the big well poisoner despite getting a slightly better reception than the XIII garbo, because that was the game that got a HUGE marketing push to new players and failed to bring them in. It had a broader reach and turned more people off, as well as being as said basically the last chance. It would have been a great game if theyd finished it (unlike XIII which was just conceptually bad), but they didnt finish it.
XVI is a good game. Flawed but better than the last more than a decade of FF before it and about on a par with Remake. It just came too late.
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