 A reader is upset about the most recent Final Fantasy game and hopes the next mainline sequel will go back to basics. I'd like to be able to say I told you so but to be honest I didn't know what to expect from Final Fantasy 16. The graphics were pretty and I like director Yoshi-P, but the game always seemed to have little connection to traditional Final Fantasy in terms of either gameplay or atmosphere. Game of Thrones is not an obvious source of inspiration for these kinds of games but, okay, they're trying something different, let's give it a chance. I gave it a chance and it sucked. The game's not the worst I've ever played, I'm not saying that, but it really does have nothing in common with proper Final Fantasy. However, I'd argue that its problems aren't simply that it's too different to the previous games but that it's not actually very good in its own right. The positives about the game are pretty obvious: the graphics and the combat. The graphics are great and apart from certain elements of the story, such as the crystals, almost the only thing in the game that makes it seem like a Final Fantasy title. A lot of it is more grounded, when it's just people talking, but the action and more out-there elements, most obviously the boss battles, are exactly what I'd want a next gen Final Fantasy to look like. I think the combat is the one thing that everyone has praised but for me the problem is that it just don't feel like Final Fantasy. It's not necessarily that it's real-time either. I would have preferred it had some element of turn-based action, but the real problem is that you're only ever controlling the one guy. Having a party of characters is almost what defines a Japanese role-player and I know Yoshi-P said it wasn't one, but… Final Fantasy is the definitive Japanese role-player. Making it anything else is like making a mainline sequel to Mario that's not a platformer or Halo that's not a shooter. You){kind=link}
A reader is upset about the most recent Final Fantasy game and hopes the next mainline sequel will go back to basics.
I’d like to be able to say I told you so but to be honest I didn’t know what to expect from Final Fantasy 16. The graphics were pretty and I like director Yoshi-P, but the game always seemed to have little connection to traditional Final Fantasy in terms of either gameplay or atmosphere. Game of Thrones is not an obvious source of inspiration for these kinds of games but, okay, they’re trying something different, let’s give it a chance.
I gave it a chance and it sucked.
The game’s not the worst I’ve ever played, I’m not saying that, but it really does have nothing in common with proper Final Fantasy. However, I’d argue that its problems aren’t simply that it’s too different to the previous games but that it’s not actually very good in its own right.
The positives about the game are pretty obvious: the graphics and the combat. The graphics are great and apart from certain elements of the story, such as the crystals, almost the only thing in the game that makes it seem like a Final Fantasy title. A lot of it is more grounded, when it’s just people talking, but the action and more out-there elements, most obviously the boss battles, are exactly what I’d want a next gen Final Fantasy to look like.