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Snrkiko posted...

i've heard the 4 main characters are great but the plot itself is messy at best and possibly unfinished?

what's the actual bad stuff

To copy (part of) my post in the other FFXV topic:

FFXV is one of the most "mixed bag" games I've ever played! It's obviously a miracle the game exists at all because of its legendarily bad management for most of its existence and the fact that the final product had probably at best a year and a half of meaningful development.

That said, there are some things in here that are legitimately top tier. The bros are some of the best characters ever in a Final Fantasy and the game 100% sells their friendship. They similarly nail the road trip theme with a ludicrous amount of love put into things like the animations for setting up camp, cooking, fishing, etc. If the entire game was as good as these high points, it would quite possibly easily be my favorite Final Fantasy game.

But the rest is... not very good. The storytelling is some of the most bafflingly bad I've ever seen in a big budget JRPG (no doubt a symptom of how rushed the game was) and "cut corners" doesn't even begin to describe the sections past the open world.

So yes, incredibly messy game that didn't have nearly the time to do what it wanted to do. Critical plot points and essential world-building are glossed over, saved for DLC or entirely absent, there's a hefty amount of required reading before even playing the game (Kingsglaive movie + Brotherhood anime) and even once you get through all of that the only legitimately solid parts of the game are doing simple MMO-style quests and driving through pretty backdrops while enjoying banter with your bros, so even then YMMV.

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