I pre-ordered this game on the PlayStation 4, and I own it on Steam. I even own and completed the Pocket Edition on Switch multiple times. I also own the CDs, the DLC book... yeah I own a lot of FFXV merchandise. I'm definitely a fan girl. I was really looking forward to Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and I'm glad this game finally came, even if it wasn't the "most complete" vision. I absolutely love the interaction between all the characters! I always love stories with bromances, and I felt that it was done very well. Prompto, Noctis, Gladio, Ignis.. I truly felt like I was on a camping trip with the boys, we laughed, we argued, we cried (and a lot), we ate around a campfire, and we got permission to enter a girl's only workplace. And the banter between the boys, and there was a ton of banter everywhere! I definitely learned in my first play through on PS4 to rest at more campfires to find some cutscenes. Unfortunately, this game needed DLC (and a book) to just finish the story of the game. I'm saddened by that fact. The gameplay is great. I always love coming back to this game occasionally. Warping, changing weapons, the Royal Arms, magic, summons, and more warping. I have way too much fun with getting into pointless combats. The beginning is a bit rough on the player and night combat is extremely frustrating. I did feel rewarded as a player when I got powerful enough to overcome my fears of nighttime... although there's way too much AP to grind for everything easily, but that is typical of a Final Fantasy game. I heard that some people had trouble with Chapter 14 because they were under-leveled.. I did not experience this myself, but that is because Final Fantasy typically meant grinding for hours for levels/abilities... But that isn't so well known to beginners for the FF series, even though this game has a disclaimer of being friendly to new players. My co-worker just recently expressed his dissatisfaction because he was having trouble on this chapter because he was rushing the game since he loved the story, but he himself is a newer Final Fantasy player, so he didn't realize that he would get soft-locked. Moving on, I heard not many people enjoyed the magic system, but I LOVED it. I enjoyed that it was a "limited" amount... or, well, until a collector like me loves to collect items for infinite magic creation and find me some magic flasks. You eventually get enough magic flasks to hold magic, and I love creating multi-cast spells for maximum chaos. The realism of the magic hurting my companions was a plus, but also annoyed me when- PROMPTO, CAN YOU PLEASE LIVE AND NOT PUT YOURSELF IN HARMS WAY. WHY DO YOU HAVE LOW HEALTH POINTS!??! Besides Prompto dying a lot in the beginning, I really had a lot of fun mixing and matching magic. The music is my favorite in the entire series. Yoko Shimomura blew me away with the OST. I'm terrible at talking about music, but I recommend looking up some of FFXV's music if you're interested. I love the graphics. I love the models of all the characters. I love how the summon's look. This version Leviathan and Ramuh are my favorite from the series of Final Fantasy. However, I think FFXV has the ugliest looking carbuncle. That thing gave me nightmares. I've read a lot of reviews on the negatives of this game. Honestly, most of those negatives really didn't bother me that much. But I do have a few gripes. I do WISH that the characters received a better completed story upon launch. I love that we have DLC now, and I'm still working on this game slowly, and I'm really sad we got the very last DLC as a book. I'm happy the DLC is really nice in terms of graphics and gameplay and music, but I kinda wish these stories were in from the beginning... These characters deserved a story that was more cohesive and complete upon launch. Also, I feel like it's too convoluted to jump out of your main game to load into DLC... and then it's like "when should I play this I don't wanna get too spoiled." Ugh. I just wish everything was in ONE save. I know it's not probable and not possible to fix, but I dislike it still. Another con that this game is a typical Final Fantasy game, so you know end-game grinds? Yeah. Dungeons that don't make sense, rainbow frogs that you have to find at the only clue of "water" aka ANYWHERE in the world, 100 floor GREAT THIS IS FUN, and oh, did I mention the puzzle dungeon you have to fly to that took me six hours to complete, well at least the first time... and not to mention no checkpoints for that puzzle......... A truly, frustrating, yet typical Final Fantasy experience. But, even with those cons, I feel most quests had a satisfying feeling when I completed it. Except the puzzle. I love puzzles, but I am not ashamed to admit I threw the controller quite a few times and wondered if I was too stupid to figure out some parts of the hidden dungeon. This dungeon was way too long. I felt like Hogwarts Legacy's secret puzzles have a better length to a hidden puzzle dungeon. I mean, it's kinda cool, I guess when I think about it, and the reward is worth it (but it's one item), but so much pain... I hope that one day, maybe a "re-vision" of this game could be done with a completed story.... Also a way better optimized game, because c'mon, it took me years to finally get the funds to build a PC to play this game at awesome high quality experience. This game running on my old 2060 felt worse than my PlayStation 4 launch experience.
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