It's reassuring to me to see other people Final Fantasy XVI didn't quite click for! 'Aggressively Not The Final Fantasy For Me' really sums it up, I think. The characters (Cid and Mid excepted) felt so bland to me, and that's a hard weakness for me to get past.
I was expecting some bit of detail about Clive's life in the army—he was former royalty! he knows what it's like at the top and at the bottom!—but we never learn a single other thing about his service in the military.
It's so strange! This guy is fighting to end slavery; you'd think the game would be more interested in his time as a slave!
There's shockingly little banter in this game!
There's so little sense of characters being present! At one point I suddenly realised 'oh, hey, Jill's not in my party any more; when did that happen?' That would never have happened in Final Fantasy XV; you're always very aware of your party members in that game, and, when they're gone, you miss them.
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Date: 2024-05-22 05:06 pm (UTC)I was expecting some bit of detail about Clive's life in the army—he was former royalty! he knows what it's like at the top and at the bottom!—but we never learn a single other thing about his service in the military.
It's so strange! This guy is fighting to end slavery; you'd think the game would be more interested in his time as a slave!
There's shockingly little banter in this game!
There's so little sense of characters being present! At one point I suddenly realised 'oh, hey, Jill's not in my party any more; when did that happen?' That would never have happened in Final Fantasy XV; you're always very aware of your party members in that game, and, when they're gone, you miss them.