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Topic	Andy Plays Final Fantasy XV
andylt 10/29/21 5:44:34 PM #112:	Leonhart4 posted... Also absolutely do not play Episode Ignis yet Understood! Gladio and Noct are fighting a lot, constantly sniping at each other in these mines. Between the two of them going at it, Ignis being silent, and Prompto awkwardly trying to lighten the mood, the vibe is pretty uneasy down here. I guess it's to the game's credit that things are noticeably uncomfortable, shows it did a good job of previously establishing them as bros. I try to slow down for Ignis but the AI is so atrocious I give up on that after 2 intolerable minutes. Gladio is still way more of an asshole here, Noct has done nothing wrong but he's pissed at him for not being kingly enough or whatever. After the Malboro fight (I am sadly too overleveled for this to be as cool as it should!) Ignis insists on traveling with us and Glad and Noct are OK again. I don't think this was handled very elegantly but tbf that is how things often work IRL. To Gladio's credit he did raise some valid points about Ignis not coming with us. We end the chapter with Ardyn hopping on the train humming the chocobo theme. Chapter 11 is incredibly short. It's immediately obvious that Ardyn is actually Prompto from how he's addressing Noctis, but I didn't figure the twist that Prompto was Ardyn! I don't know how Ardyn is managing to pull this off either, he even uses Prompto's skillset in battle. The reveal itself is a little clunky and really fast, the intro description to chapter 12 was actually more enlightening lol. Bye Prompto, enjoy your DLC! Noctis's VA does well at getting his complete distress across. We soon arrive at Tenebrae, or what's left of it. Aranea is here and officially on our side now, and we get a bunch of updates about the Empire and what's been going on. The Emperor is barely a footnote here, it's all Ardyn. Honestly this whole sequence was kind of 'off' to me, it feels like we skipped several plot beats and all the important stuff happened offscreen. Tenebrae itself isn't a very good area, it's intentionally bleak and there's one random lady at the end who just shoves some exposition at us and it's all feeling a little... weird, I don't know how else to describe it. The stuff about the nights getting longer is a really nice touch though, I had noticed it back in Cleigne but thought it was some weird regional thing not a plot mechanic. We find out in a flashback that Ravus is sorta on Luna's side after all. Hopefully he'll piece things together for us once we see him again, if he's still alive. Next stop on the never ending train ride is Shiva's domain. She's already dead, which is a pretty neat concept, but we only really see her frozen head. Again there's barely any environment here, was the original plan for this whole post-Altissia area to be a big open world we could move around in? It feels wrong just rushing through this massive area with tiny stops here and there. There's only a handful of new enemies, too. Reveal time: Gentiana is actually Shiva herself! No idea if this makes sense, but it's interesting. Shiva (of course she's just a regular naked blue lady as always lol) lays a bunch of background lore about the Six on us, and we see more of Luna in flashbacks again. We are seeing more of Luna's human side post-death than we ever did before, I wonder if that's intentional. Her doubts, her desires, her insecurities... if only we'd seen her be an actual flawed person 30 hours ago! Still it's cool to do it now, I wonder if she's more interesting on a replay. I guess we're to take things at face value for the Six and there's not gonna be a big twist on that front, but we'll see. Shiva freezing Ardyn was pretty cool. He casually drops that he's immortal (and implies he killed Shiva), and his powers seem ridiculous and endless. What the hell is he? And why is he still helping us! It's getting a little tiring now, we need answers soon. More than ever this game's script feels like an early rough draft with a bunch of pieces missing. There's some interesting stuff that we're learning, but it's all so scattered. Are we heading to the finale? It didn't feel like it before but it absolutely does now! Surely it can't be endgame when the suggested levels are only early 30s, I wonder what will happen to keep the game going. Don't get me wrong, I'm still having fun here, there's just some mood whiplash sometimes and nothing is getting a chance to breathe right now. We gotta get offa this train! Chapter 13 next time, we've got to be reaching some kind of climax! --- Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Currently playing: Final Fantasy XV <cite>andylt posted [p:959512115] in Andy Plays... [t:79708587]...</cite> <quote>Leonhart4 posted... </cite> <quote>Also absolutely do not play Episode Ignis yet</quote>Understood! Gladio and Noct are fighting a lot, constantly sniping at each other in these mines. Between the two of them going at it, Ignis being silent, and Prompto awkwardly trying to lighten the mood, the vibe is pretty uneasy down here. I guess it's to the game's credit that things are noticeably uncomfortable, shows it did a good job of previously establishing them as bros. I try to slow down for Ignis but the AI is so atrocious I give up on that after 2 intolerable minutes. Gladio is still way more of an asshole here, Noct has done nothing wrong but he's pissed at him for not being kingly enough or whatever. After the Malboro fight (I am sadly too overleveled for this to be as cool as it should!) Ignis insists on traveling with us and Glad and Noct are OK again. I don't think this was handled very elegantly but tbf that is how things often work IRL. To Gladio's credit he did raise some valid points about Ignis not coming with us. We end the chapter with Ardyn hopping on the train humming the chocobo theme. Chapter 11 is incredibly short. It's immediately obvious that Ardyn is actually Prompto from how he's addressing Noctis, but I didn't figure the twist that Prompto was Ardyn! I don't know how Ardyn is managing to pull this off either, he even uses Prompto's skillset in battle. The reveal itself is a little clunky and really fast, the intro description to chapter 12 was actually more enlightening lol. Bye Prompto, enjoy your DLC! Noctis's VA does well at getting his complete distress across. We soon arrive at Tenebrae, or what's left of it. Aranea is here and officially on our side now, and we get a bunch of updates about the Empire and what's been going on. The Emperor is barely a footnote here, it's all Ardyn. Honestly this whole sequence was kind of 'off' to me, it feels like we skipped several plot beats and all the important stuff happened offscreen. Tenebrae itself isn't a very good area, it's intentionally bleak and there's one random lady at the end who just shoves some exposition at us and it's all feeling a little... weird, I don't know how else to describe it. The stuff about the nights getting longer is a really nice touch though, I had noticed it back in Cleigne but thought it was some weird regional thing not a plot mechanic. We find out in a flashback that Ravus is sorta on Luna's side after all. Hopefully he'll piece things together for us once we see him again, if he's still alive. Next stop on the never ending train ride is Shiva's domain. She's already dead, which is a pretty neat concept, but we only really see her frozen head. Again there's barely any environment here, was the original plan for this whole post-Altissia area to be a big open world we could move around in? It feels wrong just rushing through this massive area with tiny stops here and there. There's only a handful of new enemies, too. Reveal time: Gentiana is actually Shiva herself! No idea if this makes sense, but it's interesting. Shiva (of course she's just a regular naked blue lady as always lol) lays a bunch of background lore about the Six on us, and we see more of Luna in flashbacks again. We are seeing more of Luna's human side post-death than we ever did before, I wonder if that's intentional. Her doubts, her desires, her insecurities... if only we'd seen her be an actual flawed person 30 hours ago! Still it's cool to do it now, I wonder if she's more interesting on a replay. I guess we're to take things at face value for the Six and there's not gonna be a big twist on that front, but we'll see. Shiva freezing Ardyn was pretty cool. He casually drops that he's immortal (and implies he killed Shiva), and his powers seem ridiculous and endless. What the hell is he? And why is he still helping us! It's getting a little tiring now, we need answers soon. More than ever this game's script feels like an early rough draft with a bunch of pieces missing. There's some interesting stuff that we're learning, but it's all so scattered. Are we heading to the finale? It didn't feel like it before but it absolutely does now! Surely it can't be endgame when the suggested levels are only early 30s, I wonder what will happen to keep the game going. Don't get me wrong, I'm still having fun here, there's just some mood whiplash sometimes and nothing is getting a chance to breathe right now. We gotta get offa this train! Chapter 13 next time, we've got to be reaching some kind of climax! --- Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Currently playing: Final Fantasy XV</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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