This game is a strange one as, from my perspective, FF hasn’t been a proper turn based RPG for nearly two decades. Additionally, the last few entries have already played with being action based. Then you have some strange experimentation with FFXII being RTwP and you start to notice that the series hasn’t been at all consistent since then.
I do think SE needs to reign in a bit what FF is from a gameplay perspective. They’ve long migrated from what made the series great for little reason when you consider FFX is still one of the best selling games in the franchise and is strictly turn based (not even active time battle.)
I haven’t played FFXVI yet, as I don’t own a playstation and would prefer to play it on PC, but some part of me looked at this new entry as a decent pivot point for the series tonally – it’s just a shame that it’s also so controversial regarding the gameplay choices it seems.
This game is a strange one as, from my perspective, FF hasn’t been a proper turn based RPG for nearly two decades. Additionally, the last few entries have already played with being action based. Then you have some strange experimentation with FFXII being RTwP and you start to notice that the series hasn’t been at all consistent since then.
I do think SE needs to reign in a bit what FF is from a gameplay perspective. They’ve long migrated from what made the series great for little reason when you consider FFX is still one of the best selling games in the franchise and is strictly turn based (not even active time battle.)
I haven’t played FFXVI yet, as I don’t own a playstation and would prefer to play it on PC, but some part of me looked at this new entry as a decent pivot point for the series tonally – it’s just a shame that it’s also so controversial regarding the gameplay choices it seems.