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  1. Final Fantasy XV is one of those games that is really difficult for me to review. Do not get me wrong, it is a good game and it is definitely a Final Fantasy game that hearkens back to the older titles in many ways. However, it is a flawed game and could have used several more years of development to smooth out its rougher edges. I really enjoyed the game but at the same time, I felt like it was largely incomplete; that more could have been done and too much of the story was ambiguous in nature. the past several weeks I have been reflecting heavy on Final Fantasy XV and as good as the game was, it left me feeling a bit empty at the end. This is my attempt to be as fair as possible because I have went from giving it a 9.5 to a 7 and then back to a 9 and down to a 6.5. You control Prince Noctis who is heir to the Lucian throne. Your father, King Regis has sent you out on a wild goose chase to wed your childhood friend, Lunafreya, along the way you have the greatest Bromance ever created in a video game and a lot of shit gets fucked up during the way. When I say fucked up, I mean from a narrative perspective and also a game perspective. The story starts out simple enough but turns into a convoluted turd by the time it hits the end. What starts out amazing ends in total confusion and you asking yourself "what the fuck just happened?" I cannot say anymore without ruining the story so just go in knowing that yes, the game is worth playing and it's the best Final Fantasy since X came out. However, don't be getting your expectations too high because you will be crushed if you do. Graphics 9: Easily some of the best graphics I have seen on the PS4 and Square has shown that it is still no slouch when it comes to their graphical prowess. Square has always been masters at creating stellar graphics and trying to push systems just a little more than what their competitors have done. That being said, I do not believe that it is all perfect. There are plenty of instances of clipping issues and awkward scenes that remind you that you are still playing a video game. It is still pretty impressive because you can tell Square took great care into making the characters models and world as detailed as they could. It would just have been nice if they had focused a little more on the technical issues. Story 7: It really pains me to give the story to this game a 7 but I can't say it was amazing or even great. I enjoyed the story, and it made me feel emotions I have not felt since I first played Final Fantasy VII back in the PS1 era, and that is the only reason this game gets a 7. I will give the story credit for making me think so damn hard on it and being so compelling, but it is largely incomplete. I feel the story is the weakest link to this game. Now some will say "well it is supposed to be ambiguous" but there is a huge difference at leaving parts to ambiguity and just being lazy as fuck. Factor in that I need a damn full length movie to even understand the story of the game and I feel that this leaves the story a fucking mess. Yes, you can get by without the movie but you lose way too much critical information, character development, and will make you question the story even more to an already "more questions than answers" kind of game. I felt like the story was going along great, then Chapter IX happens and everything goes to shit. It has nothing to do with the actual narrative itself, but everything to do with how sloppily it was explained and how little buildup was given to the more climatic moments of the game. You can tell there was a much larger narrative to this game that was axed or not included due to time issues. Factor in the fact the game has been in development for 10 years and it is fucking mind boggling that the game's story is so fucking incomplete. Had I not watched Kingsglaive, I would not have given a fuck about Lunafreya, King Regis, or any of the other characters ouside of the 4 main guys that showed their faces in the game, and this includes Arden as well. This kind of script writing is totally unfucking acceptable. So much was left unexplained, character development was all over the place, and at the end of the game you feel left wanting more. I feel like Square-Enix my as well have put a big FUCK YOU at the end of the game, and without spoiling anything, people know what I am talking about if you seen the secret ending cut-scene. Game-play 9.5: Go figure, this is what I felt was the strongest aspect of the game. Usually in Final Fantasy games, the game-play gets shit on for the story, this time around it was the opposite with the story getting a massive dump taken on it and the game-play being really engaging. Final Fantasy XV is a big world and has one of the best battle systems I have ever had the pleasure to experience in a Final Fantasy game. Gone are the turned based battles of yesteryear or the awkward battles from games like XII and XIII. This is the real deal and warp striking into a Daemon and zipping around in mid-air is extremely satisfying. The only thing that truly brings down the game-play is after Chapter VIII, the game becomes very linear. Once you get to Chapter XIII you just throw up your hands and are like "what the fuck Square? You got to ruin a perfectly good game right at the fucking end?" Its not that the game-play itself isn't fun, except for being incredibly unbalanced and uninspiring. Outside of Chapter XIII and a few other parts of the game where things just get fucking restrictive and stupid, the rest of the game is incredibly enjoyable. I loved riding on Chocobos, doing the side-quests, and really getting to know my characters better. I never wanted this game to end and pumped over 100 hours into the game just because I could not stop doing side-quests and exploring the world. That is why it gets so fucking disappointing right toward the end when things close off and the adventure sort of grinds to a fucking halt. Still, it has some of the best game-play in the entire Final Fantasy franchise and not even Chapter XIII's restrictive as fuck nature brings it down too far. Sound 8: Sound is kind of hard to rate for me because I don't know exactly what to say about it except that it is good. I guess the voice acting is done pretty well, I liked the music in the game, especially being able to buy the CDs and play old Final Fantasy music in the Regalia. Sound effects are done well as well as the Surround Sound. I have a 5.1 Samsung and usually, the surround sound in a lot of games is not the most amazing thing to write home about. However, in this game you can really hear a lot of subtle sounds clear as day out of the speakers. That being said, it is no Nobuo Uematsu esque shit and in no way should it ever be compared to anything Nobuo Uematsu composed for the Final Fantasy series. Ueamatsu is a fucking legend of video game music and to compare anybody to him is like comparing fucking Kanye West to Mozart. No! Just fucking No!! Overall 8: This was a very difficult game for me to review. It has never been this difficult for me to review a game like Final Fantasy XV. I had to seriously reflect deeply on this game since I beat it over a week ago and am still struggling a little bit with the score. However, I feel that an 8 is a fair score and I will explain why. Final Fantasy XV is a game that should be a 9.5 easily and had the potential to be a 10, but Square-Enix fucked up badly. Had this game been given one to two more years of solid development, it would be one of the top games of the entire year and compared to Final Fantasy VII on an epic scale. The game has most of what made those SNES and PS1 era titles so fucking amazing. Unfortunately, Square-Enix decided to push the fucking game out the door well before it was ready and this is evident by the fact you need a fucking full length movie to get any sort of decent understanding of what the fuck is going on in the game. Not to mention that they also released an Anime Series and have a shit ton of DLC in the works. DLC is great and all, but only when it is done right. In this instance it is used in the worst fucking way possible. To fix a game that was released broken and incomplete, which goes to show the lack of consideration Square has for its fans. Even in the interviews that Tabata has given, he has basically flat out said that they knew it was going to be a fucking mess when they released XV and would need to release updates and DLC. He also stated that they approached the game as something that was incomplete and would have to be experienced via patches and updates after release. So now were expected to keep paying for a game that is already out just so we can make some goddamn sense of it? The fact this has been admitted to and people are accepting of this confession is fucking outrageous. So your telling me I paid for the fucking Deluxe Edition of FFXV, which was $100 and now I have to pay some goddamned $25 for a Season Pass to enjoy the rest of it? What in the Flying Golden Saucer Fuck Square? So yes, the game gets an 8 and Square can go fuck itself. If they do this fucking shit with VII Remake when it comes out, I will be done with them. You do not charge people for content that had no reason not to be included in the game let alone release a game incomplete just to patch it up with DLC. To wrap things up, Final Fantasy XV is a good game, but it falls short of greatness because of how incomplete it truly feels. Personally, I would not be so irritated about this game if it had no potential and was just a shitty game. However, this game is not a shitty game, its a good game but is flawed, so with a little more time (and I know it has been in development hell for 10 years, but it was still rushed out after it was changed to XV) this may have been a perfect Final Fantasy game. No instead, the game had the potential to be one of the best Final Fantasy games of all time. It was a true return to form for the series, but has been fucking squandered. I know some will say "well the DLC still has to come out, and they are going to support it and fix it with patches." NO!! FUCK THAT SHIT!! That is not the point, the point is it should never have fucking come to that in the first place. The fact anyone has to pay extra money out for shit that should have been included in the retail game is a fucking outrage. My recommendation is if you want to experience XV, wait it out until they get the completed edition of the game out and not this god forsaken incomplete game that is going to end up with a shit ton of DLC and fixes shit that ultimately may not fix a fucking thing at all.
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