Ffxv return to open world Patch#

But instead of waiting for that to happen, I figured I needed to see it in all its awful glory.

Ffxv return to open world Patch#

I had heard about just how terrible Chapter 13 was, and that the developer was even about to patch the level to make it less bad by buffing the damage of the magic ring youвЂ™re forced to use. The game shifts into being relentlessly linear, and then you arrive at the dreaded Chapter 13, sinking into it like tar, unable to escape, trapped in its awfulness for what seems like all eternity. Soon, entire chapters are no more than single dungeons, and single dungeons are no more than 3-4 enemy encounters and a boss.

ThereвЂ™s a nice rhythm to it all for those first ten hours or so, but after that, things take some odd turns.ДЄfter that? Things just get strange. Exploring the map was a wondrous experience, and the game was an incredibly solid balance of exploration, combat and interacting with your core group of friends. By that point, the story was progressing smoothly, and you hadnвЂ™t done enough of the anemic sidequests yet to be sick of them. I would say the highlight of the game for me was getting to Lestallum, the gameвЂ™s first major metropolis. To me, Final Fantasy XVвЂ™s biggest problem is that it peaks early. FFXV is heavily flawed, but thereвЂ™s a certain, intangible magic that pulls it all together in a way that genuinely surprised me by the end. And yet, despite that, what the game gets right, its visuals, its combat, the bond it forges between its main heroes, that ultimately I sort of love the game.

Decisions that were made from pacing to structure to storytelling to mechanics that just seem mind-bogglingly bad in many ways. There are so, so many things I hate about Final Fantasy XV.