Final Fantasy XV Review - DigitalCentralMedia

"Final Fantasy XV is a very disappointing game. The story is poorly written and the characters are average"

[Kashima]

True.

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

False.

[DeadlyOreo]

No matter how many times you guys say it, it doesn't make it true 😂

[DafunkyRebel]

game is great, go eat a.....you already know what

[Kashima]

a cookie? sure, i hope they don't ruin VII remake too.

[Snookies12]

Disagreed, completely.

[TheGamez100]

Being a fan of this game ever since it was first shown off as versus 13, i agree. All the changes to the game during the 10 years to what it is today really dissapoints me. Story is just bad including a ton of other things. Noctis being less badass and the more important and stornger Stella replaced by Luna compared to versus. Wish Nomura stayed as director and finished this game to what it could have been. I could go on and on...the game itself isn't terrible, just the story.

[MRMagoo123]

there is soooooo many cons in the game compared to pros I find it hard to believe how many high scores it actually received. it is nothing like a final fantasy game and I really have concerns for the ff7 remaster now. luckily I still have all the original ff games at home to play when I want to feel that final fantasy feeling again.

the only worse main ff game in my opinion is ff13

edit: @oreo

since ff6 ....wow such a hard core ff fan I guess I better take your own opinion over my own after completing the game /sarcasm

I have been a fan of ff games since day 1 I even named my daughter Rinoa and I don't think this game should even have final fantasy in the title no matter what you say.

[DeadlyOreo]

Nope. You're completely wrong. Been a fan of FF since FF6 and I love this game. Very well made.

[Omnislashver36]

I don't even like you MRMagoo and I can agree. This game is not what I expected.

[DafunkyRebel]

No you retard this game is probably the best one yet. The other ones like 7 and 10 didn't even have that good of a story, if you replayed them you'd realize that it was mostly because of good writing and characters that made those games great which is what this game does too. After The Last of Us came out, reviewers have this f'ed up conceptions of video game stories and grading scale. They put that game as a standard and now all games that came after it are screwed over.

[Irishguy95]

Disagree, you don't even know what Versus woulda been. Or Stella. Just guessing and giving Nomura a free pass. This games story was fine, even great in the end. The plot especially. The storytelling itself wasn't great...for the most part, some parts were great. Missing content is also an issue. As far as...I guess, the main story, it was great. For example, this would be...FF7 Cloud and sephiroth. Their story. Except Noctis is obvious more important to the plot.
Luna...was also...very important? I mean, Luna and Noct are the most important characters aside the main villain.

[Omnislashver36]

I disagree. Stella's styling and facing off with Noctis gives it away. She would have been a frenemy instead of a housewife. There's so much they could have done with that concept, even in FFXV as it is, they could have done the game the exact same but just changed up that one aspect by making her under the influence of her brother. Perfect. Plus Stella's way hotter IMO.

That said, I think the game should have kept the KH-system as well. Tabata had no business turning this into a pure hack and slash. The KH-system still has magic menus, heavy block, lock-on, and from what we've seen, less needlessly open world and good cutscene balance. Luminous was built with Tabata's open-world vision in mind instead of building on Nomura's systems, so it's pretty, it's needlessly big, and it's battle mechanics are pretty much shite.

I'll admit Nomura didn't have much of a game- but Tabata didn't have to destroy what Nomura made to fix it is my point.

[Skankinruby]

Wow this is the exact opposite of every person I've talked to. No pleasing everyone I guess

[Omnislashver36]

You can take a quick look around the net and find alot of us who are disappointed. It's needlessly open world- it's lore is so short it could be considered a fetchquest(a cutscene will start and it'll seem like half the conversation's already over), and fetchquest type progression in general really killed it for me. I mean, I usually leave, smoke a cig, make a sandwich, etc, when driving around because it takes so damn long to get anywhere. It's basically a driving WRPG with an anime coat.

And the battle system. WTF. The KH-system is so much more FF-esque as I've said in comments above. This game is pure hack and slash.

[Ogygian]

Final Fantasy is not about the gameplay. It has never been about the gameplay.

It has always been about three things:

1. The exploration + interesting world
2. The music
3. The cheesy and cliched yet endearing stories

I've played FF4, FF6, FF9, FF10, FF10-2, and FF13 within the past few years, and in my opinion, these are what make the games so fun.

The combat has always sucked, and this has been the case since I first played FF9 as a kid. Hack and slash is much more enjoyable (hence why so many people love Dynasty Warriors and The Witcher 3).

JRPGs cannot be restricted by ancient combat systems. Remember that WRPGs used to be essentially turn based as well (Baldur's Gate and co). FFXV is an important step forward for the Japanese games industry, and I think mindless nostalgia is causing many people to treat it unfairly.

[Omnislashver36]

@spartan

I never said it was about turn-based. But all FF have had magic menus up until now, and they could have used the KH-system for magic as well as better battle mechanics. All FF since tech has advanced have had cutscenes with heavy lore. This doesn't. You start a cutscene and it seems like the conversation is already over with. I never expected I'd play a FF game where it literally takes 10-15 minutes to drive somewhere for a damn quest. And shitty/short battle mechanics.

FFXV is a terrible step for Final Fantasy. FFVIIR I'm hoping will pick up the slack by going back to the KH-system, bringing magic/magic menus, customization, spell boosting, more than 4 summons, better ARPG battle mechanics, more informative cutscenes, less fetch-quest type progression and more narrative-based progression. I mean, in FFXV, STORY-based cutscenes are so short they seem like WRPG fetchquests. It's terrible, and shows how weak of a story they have.

[zidane1341]

@spartanlemur: the gameplay always sucked? Well that's your opinion and a sucky one at that. It's not the number one jrpg because of shitty gameplay. They have always been great until xiii

[Next_gen_2015]

Added to my Christmas wishlist :D

[hirobrotagonist]

GTFO. Seriously, this is one of the best and biggest games I've played in years.

[Elda]

Loving the game so far & I'm only 4 hours in.

[Goldby]

there is soo much waiting for you.

I'll give u a little hint, all those Debased coins you get. dont sell them. They are worth much more with Spells, (approx. 18,000 EXP)

[DafunkyRebel]

"characters are average"? This idiot doesn't know what they hell he's talking about, if he'd play the game and did and actually spend time with the crew instead of rushing through the story then he'd know that this is the best set of main characters in the series.

[Goldby]

ya its a complete joke of a review, just complains about the game with no explanation behind the complaining.

Ohhh i ahte the combat, why dod u hate it? ohhh the characters are boring to me, what about them is boring? doesn't anyone know how to write reviews anymore? for a game as big as FFXV, a 500 word review is ok for the first chapter, not the entire game

[BlackDoomAx]

Same as the movie.

[Goldby]

Horribly written review, more like an preteens angry rant

[cash_longfellow]

Ughh...it's not turn-based, I hate it...ughhh...that's all I hear from the whiners...deal with it, good turn-based RPGs are dead. Either move on with it, or move on.

[Ulises2033]

Noctis grieves his father for about 5 seconds... then go back to happy selfies and relaxing fishing. The second half of the game was all rushed and plain stupid. No Tenebrae after all those years of development, Leviathan fight was a joke, Ravus has nothing to do with history, Luna was a very weak characther after all. Story is all mess up and a lot of stuff left unexplained. Defenitely one of the worst gaming deceptions in history, especially after all the "please be excited" "cities are so big even developers got lost" (hahahahahaha). I know some people actually like the game, just like there are people who enjoy Coprophilia, it's a free world.