Disgusting amount of cutscenes

[d]

Who is this for? What little actual gameplay I experienced in my one hour of "play" time couldn't be described as Final Fantasy OR a good action game. Just a cinematic button masher, reminiscent of all the genshin-like shovelware getting cranked out on mobile devices.

Whoever directed this should be ashamed of themselves

[Mayoo]

I have to admit, it is really slow to begin. Definitely story-driven. But it hurts, especially for a demo.

I just made it passed the goblin fights and it starts to move a bit now. I just hope combat gets harder and some dept over time. Like you said, so far it's a button masher.

[FafnirChaos]

Visions of Mana comes out in a couple weeks time - Trails was faithful to it's original - and Visions looks a lot like it.

[mochimitsu7]

I don't think the problem is the cutscenes (Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with them too), but the fact you lack any agency whatsoever. The lack of decision-making or even gameplay during scenes is mind-boggling to me.

Yoshida doesn't want to make games, he wants to make movies. And this game suffers from that philosophy. Even though they're impressively looking scenes, they are literally 70% of the entire game. That's why it's $49.99 on Steam. You're essentially paying for a movie, not a game under PC standards.

And for those asking if it improves: no, it doesn't. You still get literally 8-10 minute cutscenes every time. I think by the end of act 2 is when you finally open up, but that's roughly about 10-18 hours into the game, if not more.

[Skylers Meth]

Walk a bit, cutscene, walk a bit, cutscene, cutscene, cutscene, why is everything blurry, tutorial, fight, tutorial, fight, tutorial, fight, tutorial, fight, tutorial, fight, tutorial, fight, tutorial, cutscene, walk a bit, cutscene, walk a bit, pick up something, tutorial, walk a bit, cutscene..
walk a bit, fight with camera to look around, walk a bit, cutscene

That's it, i'm done.

[SlickDrickle]

Originally posted by Mayoo:

I have to admit, it is really slow to begin. Definitely story-driven. But it hurts, especially for a demo.

I just made it passed the goblin fights and it starts to move a bit now. I just hope combat gets harder and some dept over time. Like you said, so far it's a button masher.

Im telling you now. If you buy 16 you will be spending more time in cut scenes than playing the game. its a slog of a game.

[Xengre]

I haven't played the demo yet, but if your complaint is story and cutscenes you probably aren't really up for JRPGs in general. I definitely wouldn't try more story heavy ones like Xenosaga (probably has a literal 10x the cutscenes of this game), Final Fantasy X, Tales of games like Tales of Abyss, Trails of games like Trails in the Sky, etc.

[Evenios]

thats final fantasy for u . actually i didnt mind them they were actually interesting way better then the ff15 intro

[Hawaiian Punch]

The problem is the story and world are REALLY DULL in this game. No character looks truly unique they all look like they were made in a MMO character creator. People say WELL FFX had alot of cutscenes in the beginning but FFX had an interesting and completely unique world and uniquely designed characters. This game is just generic medieval. Its just so DULL

[Lord Commander Dante]

Originally posted by ᵣ:

Who is this for? What little actual gameplay I experienced in my one hour of "play" time couldn't be described as Final Fantasy OR a good action game. Just a cinematic button masher, reminiscent of all the genshin-like shovelware getting cranked out on mobile devices.

Whoever directed this should be ashamed of themselves

Ever heared about Metal Gear Solid games? No? Go educate yoursrelf then before posting these kind of threads.
You literally fried my brain cells by making me read this.

[Skylers Meth]

Originally posted by Lord Commander Dante:

Originally posted by ᵣ:

Who is this for? What little actual gameplay I experienced in my one hour of "play" time couldn't be described as Final Fantasy OR a good action game. Just a cinematic button masher, reminiscent of all the genshin-like shovelware getting cranked out on mobile devices.

Whoever directed this should be ashamed of themselves

Ever heared about Metal Gear Solid games? No? Go educate yoursrelf then before posting these kind of threads.
You literally fried my brain cells by making me read this.

Educate yourself schmeducate yourself

[Raven]

Don't ever try death stranding then lol

[Gibbs]

Game's not for you. Try Fortnite.

[hudzell]

Final Fantasy 16 is not the game for you. Final Fantasy 16 is not a dopamine drip. You have to actually TRY to enjoy the game and its world... it isn't spoon-fed to you. I did so, and I was very heftily rewarded with a fantastic, impactful, and memorable experience.

[Blackened Halo]

I agree.

[Unmotivated]

i find it hilarious that people are bashing you for not enjoying a movie pretending to be a game because it's a JRPG.

like, i get that a lot of JRPGs are very story and character focused as opposed to gameplay, but those games tend to TRY to have a balance in between.

the demo on PS5 was an interesting story for sure, but it wasn't a very fun game to play. it wasn't a fun game to play because i spent most of that time in cutscenes rather than playing the otherwise fun gameplay, which actually strikes a dissonance with the incredibly slow paced story.

it just comes across to me as plain poorly paced and poorly implemented. fast paced, action oriented combat in a slow building story thriller is not what i consider a good narrative or gameplay experience, and if you're going to make it story focused, don't give us an active combat system that demands players to be invested in the mechanics. it feels like FF16 has a huge identity crisis, as did 15 before it. they got the mechanics right this time, but they don't actually let you play around with them because it's far too long in between combat sections. it's actually very disappointing.

and to the person that mentioned Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear, they suffer the exact same problem: these aren't games, they're movies pretending to be games. just because Metal Gear exists doesn't mean Final Fantasy 16 is absolved of the movie criticism, because both did it to a terribly obnoxious degree.