I played it two days ago and can’t get it out of my head. I absolutely love the premise and it truly feels like a dark fantasy.
Combat was really fun and voice acting was super solid. I was really excited about the game before but now I am fully on board.
What are your impressions?
I used to love FF games back in the day, but haven’t paid much attention since 12. Watched Cohh play 16’s demo and I was blown away. I keep telling everyone how amazing it looks. I won’t bug a PS5 but I’ll absolutely buy it when it lands on PC.
Greatest demo of all time imo. That demo does more in it’s short 2 hours to make me care about it’s characters than majority of games I’ve ever played.
I had a good feeling about it since Yoshi-P is involved, but the demo still impressed me anyway. Fun to play, just enough story to get me hooked, and actually quite a meatier demo than I was expecting. I thought the Eikonic Challenge would just be a bit of combat demo to follow the story demo, but then it turned out to be even more story! And I actually quite like the Devil May Cry-style gameplay, even though I never played it (but I did play Bayonetta, which is close enough). I’ve always been a staunch turn-based RPG fan but some of these recent FF games have been pleasantly surprising me. Stranger of Paradise came out of left field for me, for example, and I thought it was stupid at first, but I ended up really enjoying it.
Can’t wait for June 22!
Wait, YoshiP of FFXIV is involved? 👀
Absolutely! And it’s likely that a crossover event will happen in the not-so-distant future: https://www.siliconera.com/yoshi-p-might-consider-ffxvi-and-ffxiv-crossover/
I agree with everything you said. I absolutely loved it and can’t wait for the actual release. I will say, I did find it incredibly easy though especially the dodging attacks. I’m hoping that’s just because it was the opening to the game and a bit of a tutorial.
I haven’t played it myself yet but I watched the cutscenes and they were the most over-the-top, edgy GOT story beats I’ve seen in a while. Just did not vibe with the tone at all. The idea that the game is meant to be “adult” when games like Yakuza 7 tell extremely adult stories without characters yelling “cock.” Big “this ain’t your DADDY’S final fantasy” vibes that just made me cringe.
I’m gonna get it because I treat games like artifacts of anthropological study but Im not looking forward to the narrative so far - couple that with CBU3s terrible track record with women and the fact that the only dark skinned characters are a clear middle eastern, turban wearing parallel lol.
I call it Shadow the Hedgehog storytelling, when it’s “adult” from a kid’s perspective, but ends up looking even more childlike.
Meanwhile, genuinely mature stories actually kind of seek out some of that childlike wonder because they’re jaded by the realities of adult life
Finished the demo and I agree with most of the praise for the game so far. I’ll be picking it up for sure. Combat was a lot of fun and a big improvement over 7R. The music was top tier, but FF games always seem to be great in that regard.
I’ll just probably wait for a few patches to roll out first.
The demo felt like it had some serious performance issues. Graphics mode worked well but I don’t know if I’d like playing such a fast paced game at 30 fps. An option to turn down the excessive motion blur would be appreciated too. The performance mode was just a mess. I feel like this game would be a prime candidate for a 40fps/120hz mode.
I can agree on the performance dipping quite a bit in traversal. Locking it to 40 would make the most sense with the current performance but I hope we can get a bit more squeezed out before the launch!
I saw a video where a guy was a parry master beating the crap out of some monster
I love anything that supports parries so I guess I’m off to buy a PS5
