I played through it and there were certainly good parts to it, but it felt like they had two different ideas for the game and just combined them rather than settling on one.
papercup posted...
I thought the story was good, not great. I absolutely HATED the open world stuff. It's like 2 completely incongruous games sloppily stapled together.
That might be a side-effect of them starting to develop the game with the intention of it being a sequel/tie-in to FFXIII set in the same world, then at some point in development shifting it to its own world and rebranding it as FFXV. Maybe one half the game is closer to the original plans, while the other half was based on ideas they had once they'd re-pivoted the development.
That shift might also be why they wound up cutting out a large chunk of backstory and releasing it as an animated movie and not as part of the game itself. But then again, that might just be Squeenix being their usual stupid and insane self.
What kills me is ive seen people imply they wouldnt have disliked the game had it not been a mainline entry. Like really? The words on the cover is that important? ---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"