Final Fantasy XV Review (bit-tech.net)

Despite its neat ideas, it’s rather difficult to recommend Final Fantasy XV.

[ninsigma]

I disagree. I'd recommend it to people who are interested in open world RPGs who don't mind Japanese styled games.

[TheGamez100]

Yup its a good open world game, good graphics, and the action is there for westerners but those interested in a good memorable story, characters, and gameplay...not recommended. Its all down to which you prefer, not a great or terrible game.

[KTF26]

His conclusion doesn't justify the score

[OrbitingTheOrb]

I just finished this game yesterday, and it's easily a 9/10. Its in my top 5 for the entire series, and its the most ive felt invested in a FF game since 10. "Reviews" like this are a complete joke to me.

[Gitgud]

"The combat has a couple of other problems too. Like I said, the controls are counter-intuitive, and even once you get used to it it’s quite a messy system" Never heard anyone say this yet. I've gotten used to playing Episode Duscae controls and the full game controls, hell even if the controller scheme is "counter-intuitive" you always can try different ones. I have a friend who plays with the Type B controller scheme since he didn't like Type A's one, but not once have I heard or read that the combat system is messy until now. Jeez man, what a crap review.

[MRMagoo123]

the combats not that messy it's just insanely boring

[BlahBlahWhatever]

Sounds fair to me & what this trash deserve, that's what every reviewer would give it if not for SE paying for good scores or if the people who did the review knew what FF means & what elements an FF require to have most of all in order to considered an FF, you can't even call that turd an FF, it's something else entirely, I doubt if even those who made it know wtf is it... I would call it a Skyrim-GTA-DMC-Bayonetta mixed thing that end up be an abomination like no other, things don't look very bright for the next FF if we take in account all the trash FF SE released the past 15 years, those guys are a lost cause.

At least DQ kept the formula a classic JRPG must have, that's a game that respect the fans of the genre & give them what they expect, that's the new day1 buy JRPG for fans of old school JRPG goodness, SE doesn't make new FF's anymore for FF fans or JRPG fans but for open world/hack n slash Western fans, they ruin the series all in the name of money & the funny thing is that it doesn't even work, but that's what happen when you sell out your core fans trying to attract a new audience, all will come back & hurt them even more in the end.

[OMGLOLZ]

BlahBlahBlah whatever indeed man. A GOOD reviewer should review a game for what it is, not what they are EXPECTING it to be. That's the difference between them and a review commentor like yourself. The game itself is good, some story piece are honest to god terrible, but the mechanics are solid and rewarding allbeit a bit simple at times and the camera is wacky. The game is fun to play so says my 70 hours in it so far, and I'd probably give it an 8. Lots of great stuff in there marred by some technical and conceptual flaws and a misfiring story.

[BlahBlahWhatever]

"For a series universally known and loved for its emphasis on storytelling, can I recommend a Final Fantasy game despite its unsatisfying story? Instinctively I'd say no.."

This part is from the review EUROGAMER.NET did for the game, they didn't even give a recommended to FFXV because Aoife Wilson who did the review is a true fan, & true fans who were there since the SNES/PS1 days know what FF means, & what SE serve us can't be called an FF, it's a disgrace to call that trash an FF & people who give SE a free pass & swallow whole whatever SE serve them have not self respect & are not true fans for me.

Νow if a good reviewer for you is just a random dude who haven't ever spent time with a series & have no idea about past history & what is the unique features of these games, what fans love about them etc & just treat the game as another game he must review to finish his work & that's it, then good for you but my opinion is that a guy as the one I describe above must never ever do a review of such a game & stay the fck away from it, only a true fan allowed to say his opinion, FF games was always for fans most of all & then everyone else, now every time SE make a new FF game target every other random person out there who doesn't even care about the series or JRPGs in general & true fans are not even be considered anymore in their calculations, if they buy their new game then that's fine but what matters most to them is to attract new audience.

SE doesn't give a fck for old school fans & for that reason alone, for treating their core audience like that they deserve the low sales they get & low scores, FFXV have the worst metascore at metacritic.com from any main FF game, & the sales that some sites keep on repeating that are so good is not true at all, the game sell actually very bad in JPN, the worst from any main FF ever, & sales drop in general 90% after the first 1-2 weeks the game is expected to not sell much higher than what have already did, Tabata said himself in an interview that they need at least 10 million sales for the game to be considered successful they are not gonna see those numbers even in their dreams, the game after the 10 years development cycle & the crazy money they spent for marketing can be officially called a flop of gargantuan proportions, that's the truth.

[kraenk12]

blahblah so a "true fan" is a backwards person who can't accept change to his beloved franchise, even if it was long overdue...like OMGLOLZ said, it's not professional reviewing to hate on a game due to personal feelings. You so called true fans should move on...or just play World of Final Fantasy instead!

[ninsigma]

When you use terms like true fans to signify those who are simply coincidentally old enough to have been around at the time to play the originals when they released invalidates your arguments against this game even if some of what you say is true.

[kraenk12]

Not gonna click.

[DivineAssault]

Click bait.. Im 10hrs in and know its not that bad.. Not even reading that nonsense..

[King_Lothric]

I am having a great time with FF15 and after losing faith in the series, I am glad this game is very good. Reviews could be a reference point but at the end, what matters is your experience with a game and in this case, my review for this game is a solid 9.

[Omnislashver36]

I beat the game in 13 hours and was not rushing for a completion time. I simply wasn't interested in any of the sidequests. The game already has fetchquest mentality enough, even for main cutscenes. Like a cutscene will start, and it's like the conversation is already over. Then you fetchquest. Even main quests are like this.

So I skipped the sidequests because they bored the crap out of me. Seriously, endless running, driving, and banter simulation I couldn't care less about. I wasn't about to sit in a car for 10 minutes and wait for Prompto to ask me to take a picture. I wanted story. I wanted to see more of the characters backstories, and less of the endless banter simulation and roadtrip simulation.

Skipping past everything(not by means of besting the game quickly, but to see more story) and I was let down. There was only one scene with Luna that actually hit me(and that was the cutscene in Altissia). Seriously, this was one of 3, THREE CG cutscenes in the game, and the only CG scene that didn't start or finish the game. It's like they were missing 15 chapters of stories with cutscenes, and we seriously only got 1-2 chapters that actually had a story. The Noctis/Luna chapter in Altissia, and then chapter 14 with the bros. The rest of the chapters were startlingly anemic on content in story. They seriously could have expanded on Luna, Ravus, Iris, Ardyn, Cor, and Aranea so much, Luna especially if they kept her the lore as Stella, and the game would have been complete. This game, simply wasn't. I didn't care about seeing more banter buddy bro-trip fetchquests, I'd rather have seen Brotherhood FFXV be part of the game- actual story, not fetchquests. Instead we got an extremely anemic story for an FF and the least amount of CG scenes in any FF since they were introduced in FFVII(and far less than FFVII).

This game scores a 6/10 for me, and that's being generous. It has it's 9/10 moments, but they don't last. Removing the KH-esque system with magic-menus was stupid and dumbed down battles significantly as well. There was no reason to remove magic menus, an FF-staple in every mainline FF in history except FFXV.

[MRMagoo123]

everything you said is true yet disagrees. I don't get the love for this game it's not final fantasy it's boy band in a car simulator and the combat is about the worst yet besides 13 ,the magic system is just awful ,the summons are stupid too and I feel they made everything so shallow and dumbed down, it's like they removed all that cool stuff because it was too much effort. Even if it wasn't a final fantasy I'd still give it 7 at most for the "rpg" it is.

don't even get me started on the sh!t story ...wow what a giant load of crap.