LogFAQs > #941789118

The issue isn't linear vs open world. Almost every FF has had both. The issue is the order in which you experience them. Almost every game (FF or otherwise) starts you off very linear, slowly builds you up giving you access to increasingly cool, fun, and powerful abilities, items, allies, options, etc. Then opens up the world and allows you to customize your characters and experience the world at your own pace and direction.

XV does almost the exact opposite. It starts you off in an open world with cool allies and abilities and lots of stuff to do. Then it proceeds to take it all away from you, until you're left in the "final dungeon" literally navigating a maze of empty rooms where literally all you can do is run away from monsters while you wait for your "press A to kill bad buy" ability to recharge.

It's just colossally stupid, but I suppose it does scratch some sort of hipster "haha we're going to flip convention on its head" art-house nonsense itch, so it's no surprise foolmo is defending it. If you think that games should actually be fun and enjoyable to play, giving you a sense of reward and progression, you will hate this thing. If you think they are high art whose job is to challenge your perceptions or whatever then maybe it's halfway decent?

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