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People say that there are games that are 1 button games but are actually more complex then they seem, then there is this game where you can legit setup your ENTIRE CHARACTERS ROTATION WITH ONE SINGULAR BUTTON.

How does a game manage to do combat/graphics/worldbuilding (MSQ) so so good but do so poorly on giving us content to actually play the game? Game looks great and plays fantastic, but what the hell is with the super slow drip feed way of progressing? Zero point in repeating any boss fights in the game other then PB clear times? Yall have the power to make this into something wonderful but fall flat on your ass when it comes to giving us meaningful things to do in this game.

As a hardcore final fantasy fan for nearly a decade and waiting for this game to come out for a half of a decade I feel like I was punished for my devotion to this game. This game takes everything you love about the final fantasy universe and cuts it down to a barebones minimalistic and trendy piece of garbage. Final Fantasy is supposed to be a magical realm of wonder and awe but instead, we get a boring lifeless world with pointless fetch side quests. zero spells, a 10-hour main storyline filled with plotholes which lead to an incomplete and incoherent storyline with travelling that takes WAY to long to get anywhere and will literally waste your time trying to get from point A to B. Pros: - Combat animations are good. - The soundtrack is wonderfully done. - 4 main protagonists are likeable. - Day/Night Transitions look nice. Cons: - The open world is a barren wasteland filled with little to nothing to do. - There is a huge amount of downtime in this game when going from point A to B. - Exploration offer's zero rewards as items are static and can be bought it stores. - Poorly balanced combat, the fights are either way too easy or way too hard. - Levelling your characters really does not offer anything significant to your hero's ability. - Combat does not evolve whatsoever from the start of the game to the finish. - Huge lack of skills for the team that get outclassed by the next unlocked skill, Noctis does not have a single skill other than the armiger and warp striking. - Fighting monsters and enemies in the world always will always feel like a one-sided fight/you have all this power and you fight enemies with no magic or ability skills. - 2 cities in the entire game. (no this is not a joke) - The inability to simply go up to and have a conversation with a single NPC in the game. (FF1 had this and so did every other FF game so why not this one?) - The most incoherent storyline that tells you the who, what, where, when but then fails to tell you the why and how in the main storyline. (THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF ANALYZING A STORY!) - Kingsglaive, the Brotherhood anime, justice monsters five, and kings knight where a complete waste of resources and could have been just used for FFXV. - To understand the entire game world you must buy the official strategy guide for footnotes. - All story cutscene options give you the same outcome. - Cup Noodle commercial quest... (I really wish I was kidding but I am not) - No spell The worst part is that hardcore fans of this series which should have been the number one priority in pleasing were punished for being hardcore fans and by watching all the active time reports as soon as they came out should benefit a person not hurt their experience If you where someone like me who watched the ATR's then guess what, you just witnessed literally the first 7 chapters of the game's cutscenes chopped from the game and presented in a random order. I thought I saw maybe 1-3% of what the game had to offer but instead, it was more like 40-45% of what the game had to offer. So instead of trying to make a truly great and genre changing RPG like Tabata claimed, instead we get a generic world full of borrowed outdated and overused mechanics from games like Uncharted, Farcry and Skyrim. I could have forgiven all that if the story was no rushed to death... This is a statement from Hajime Tabata about the complaints about the story in FFXV "We didn't want to create a comprehensive and perfectly balanced story in this game" -HT. So he went with the walking dead style of storyline telling where you don't tell you audience jack and expect them to come up with their own fan theories and outlooks for the game!?!? Because if that is was the intention to make a game with a BS story line then mission accomplished. You could have made an actual RPG game with actual good storytelling but Tabata didn't want to? Absolute total BS excuse... This game had so much potential and how this sold 5 million copies blows my mind...