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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 23, 2023 10:01:51 GMT -5
This game rules so hard. The combat looks and feels so good that I actually bumped up the difficulty to enjoy it more, which I can't remember the last time I did. Series-best Cid. Incredible production values. A focused game with a beginning, middle, and end that builds on itself rather than horizontally-expanding open world bullshit I'll get burned out on by hour 20 or so. FOR SURE worth the purchase of my PS5, I'm having such a great time with it. Yeah, everything is flowing which is what I like. I’m sure some people won’t like the linear nature of the game but if it was like 15 this game would lose a lot of focus
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Post by chrom on Jun 23, 2023 13:57:35 GMT -5
Got my copy today.
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Post by chrom on Jun 23, 2023 18:32:28 GMT -5
Wouldn't be Final Fantasy if a Marlboro didn't appear.
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Post by Derk! on Jun 23, 2023 19:59:24 GMT -5
Even with it's linear nature, I'm loving it so far. It's pretty f***ed up how the the Branded are treated in this game. Minor spoilers ahead.. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Just completed 2 side missions. One where you have to rescue a young boy from a rabid wolf(where it's just a ruse to try and get the bearer killed as a sport) and another where you have to search for young girl's pet named Chloe (who ends up being a Bearer who is found dead due to the curse).
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jun 23, 2023 21:05:57 GMT -5
Sounds like it is a very good game. I am gonna buy it later this year (pointless now as I go away for a few weeks in early July). I am glad it is linear. I find open world games boring for the most part---usually a massive, good looking world but with little to do in it so the developers throw in pointless fetch quests and collectables that interupt the flow of the story. I mean, I'm on a quest to save the world--why the f*** are you sending me to find cooking ingredients for a chef?
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Post by hassanchop on Jun 24, 2023 1:27:02 GMT -5
I mean, I'm on a quest to save the world--why the f*** are you sending me to find cooking ingredients for a chef? Like the plot in Cooking Master Boy, an underworld organization will conquer the world with cooking because....uh, well that part barely made any sense...
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jun 24, 2023 2:58:08 GMT -5
Pretty riveting game, I have trouble focusing on one game so I end up switching between a bunch of random ones but not this game. Not playing anything but it until I unlock everything that’s for sure.
Hard to believe they even got this to run on a ps5 even with some of the frame rate issues.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jun 24, 2023 16:11:37 GMT -5
I’ve moved onto really disliking, almost even hating, the simple linear tracks they put you on to connect the dots of the story, but the boss fights make up for it. Just finished one, and it was INTENSE.
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Post by HIM on Jun 24, 2023 17:15:30 GMT -5
I was absolutely floored by the first few hours of the game. This was the "dark Final Fantasy" I'd been hoping for so right now? I'm loving it.
I just didn't expect it to be this dark. I've seen more notable people die in this than the Great Ninja War lol.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 24, 2023 17:16:47 GMT -5
I was absolutely floored by the first few hours of the game. This was the "dark Final Fantasy" I'd been hoping for so right now? I'm loving it. I just didn't expect it to be this dark. I've seen more notable people die in this than the Great Ninja War lol. Nobody dies in that except scrubs and Neji who was treated like a scrub lol
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Post by Chiral on Jun 24, 2023 17:20:22 GMT -5
If this keeps up as good as it is this will prolly be my GOTY
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Post by HIM on Jun 24, 2023 17:43:08 GMT -5
I was absolutely floored by the first few hours of the game. This was the "dark Final Fantasy" I'd been hoping for so right now? I'm loving it. I just didn't expect it to be this dark. I've seen more notable people die in this than the Great Ninja War lol. Nobody dies in that except scrubs and Neji who was treated like a scrub lol Neji really deserved better lol.
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Post by chrom on Jun 24, 2023 18:06:17 GMT -5
Spoiler Alert:
You can pet the dog.
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Post by chrom on Jun 24, 2023 18:31:06 GMT -5
I was absolutely floored by the first few hours of the game. This was the "dark Final Fantasy" I'd been hoping for so right now? I'm loving it. I just didn't expect it to be this dark. I've seen more notable people die in this than the Great Ninja War lol. If George Martin created a Final Fantasy game it'd be this.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jun 24, 2023 19:43:46 GMT -5
{Spoiler}So, no one was the Dominant of Leviathan?
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jun 24, 2023 20:12:40 GMT -5
CID’s look reminds me of stone-faced short hair Jericho.
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Post by J is Justice on Jun 24, 2023 21:02:04 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm loving it, too. Love the characters especially. And the Eikon fights are incredible.
The combat is fun but I feel like you gain new abilities way too slow. There also doesn't seem to be much in the way of items. Like, I'll see something shiny in the distance but it's never anything interesting, lol. But those are minor gripes, I guess.
But it feels good to play an FF game with great characters and a coherent, engaging plot (it's been a while, lol).
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Post by Kalmia on Jun 24, 2023 21:08:19 GMT -5
Clive is a great protagonist. He's easily in my top 5 FF protagonists already and will probably end up higher by the end of the game. Great voice acting for him as well.
I like all of the major characters so far though. They're all really well written.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 24, 2023 21:33:41 GMT -5
Clive is a great protagonist. He's easily in my top 5 FF protagonists already and will probably end up higher by the end of the game. Great voice acting for him as well. I like all of the major characters so far though. They're all really well written. They could just made Clive a one note simple protagonist but he has a lot of heart behind his appearance and nature
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Post by Chiral on Jun 24, 2023 21:36:33 GMT -5
I saw an interview with Yoshida and Clive's actor and he wasn't their first pick but I'm really glad whoever was had other stuff they were busy with because the performance is such a big part of Clive being so likable.
They really could've just made him growly revenge man but then you see something like his face lighting up like a puppy's seeing someone from long ago and it's like WAHHH I JUST LOVE THIS GUY WHAT A SOFTIE
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