WTH is the rest of the game?!?

[Warrior of Right]

Only 10 Chapters after almost a decade...
This game has less content than Star Ocean 5

and during one of the epic story segments, Chapter 4 they put a time limit on it so you have to just ignore fighting all the enemies and go straight for the Cannons Engine,
couldn't even fully enjoy it...

Yes there are quests but fighting the same 8 bosses with tweaked values over and over doesn't really count as much more content...
(how are there way more playable characters than bosses?)

Could they not just reuse content from the Mobile game at least like Final Fantasy or is the Mobile game also pretty barebones??

There are 6 Summons but you can only use Bahamut in scripted segments and Lyria Summons one of the other you fight in a cutscene that appears for less than 5 seconds.
(that's much worse than FF 15)

You only get 1 extra weapon during the story and only unlock chapter select after Chapter 0 when you way to high level and will just destroy anything in the chapters?
(Yes i know you unlock Chapter Select during Chapter 0 but there is apparently a bug that breaks Chapter Zero Progression if you replay and complete old chapters)

[Warrior of Right]

Also like Star Ocean 5 R.I.P. epileptic people.
I've played many action RPG's and have Good vision but even i have to just guess when to dodge sometimes since you can't see what going on with the light shows that go on...

[k-ricks]

you will get lv 100 story mode after beat extreme quest also there are more than 8 bosses

[Warrior of Right]

Yes i am aware you have Chapter select too late when everything will be way too low level and then Ultimate Difficulty when EVERYTHING is level 100, that isn't good game design and can be fixed quite easily.

(i have finished Chapter Zero after fighting the same bosses over and over and don't see much reason to keep playing besides just grinding to be able to grind some more to 100% the game...)

This game has so much potential for them to just squander it especially when they charging full price..
if i wanted to play Monster Hunter i would just finish my playthrough of Final Fantasy Explorers that has way more content, is a handheld 3DS game and was also cheaper plus came with FF1 remaster.

Yes i was under exaggerating i know there are more than 8, also the 4 dragons don't count that is 1 boss reskinned 4 times.

[Saru]

Did you even reach proud difficulty? There is a couple more bosses there, one of them even drops new weapons for every character and the new Lucilius fight is there as well.

[Warrior of Right]

Originally posted by Saru:

Did you even reach proud difficulty? There is a couple more bosses there, one of them even drops new weapons for every character and the new Lucilius fight is there as well.

So there are more new bosses locked behind the last difficulty that could have been used during Chapter 0 instead of fighting the same bosses over and over?
(a couple like 1 or 2 or are these just the super bosses?)

You are talking about the Proto Weapons that are random drops that you unlock after you pretty much finish everything else in the game i assume?

Locking 1 weapon per character behind the end of the game isn't necessarily bad,
but that doesn't justify them locking the rest of them to Chapter 0 that you could have used during story, especially when you have to start investing into a single weapon to even make it through Chapter 0 without too much struggle.....

(i only got 2 weapons from chests during story but i did see the chapter with 45 chests i did miss half of them somehow)

[Warrior of Right]

I think i unlocked all difficulties.
Don't remember my brain shut off during Chapter 0 because of how repetitive it got was just dodging on auto pilot...
(My brains auto pilot not assist mode i didn't use that...)

tho i now wonder if i should have played Chapter 0 on Full Assist with my feet while i used my hands to play a less repetitive game with more content.

Just remember doing another repeat "new" quest then back in Seed Hollow running to the same Furry girl on a bench with another generic "Side Quest" then going back to the quest desk over and over. Did that so many times don't actually remember how many...

Chapter Zero actually showing how many quests you had to do instead of pages you "randomly" get would have helped but i guess that would be too much to ask...

[jozef_the_grey]

the game is all about the end game grind. you can easily sink hundreds if not thousands of hours into the end game. the gameplay loop is very engaging and is basically the point of the grind, but I feel the coop was rushed.

could have been epic cross platform huge fights, perhaps with a max player cap of 16 per group for instance, but finding games is clunky and severely demotivated, its a long story but basically you barely find games and if you do find games it is very bare bones.

tldr; the real game starts at lvl 100 on Proud difficulty, kind of like an MMO but without much content other than fun gameplay loops.

[Xonah]

This game is about grinding and trying out different combinations of equipment and characters to accomplish different goals. You will finish the tutorial (the 10 hour story mode...), and the rest is repeating various hard difficulty missions to get materials and items. At the very end, you unlock a series of final missions that unlock new weapons and materials to grind. You will then have to repeat those bosses multiple times to unlock all weapons and successfully maximize those weapons. This game is literally all about grinding. But it's very fun trying out new combinations and builds. It's a great feeling to think you "broke" the game and then realize you're wrong when the next boss kicks your ass.

I'm almost 170+ hours in.

[Saru]

Sounds like BS complaining to me, they did advertise the game as having ~10 hours of story and 100+ hours of post story content, plus they are adding stuff to the game over the next couple of months.

You can also buy the weapons you didn't find yet from the smithy.

If all you want to do is to complain about having to play the game then maybe it's not for you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Aihana Etsu]

Bro, you are too late to farm clown awards

[Warrior of Right]

Yes i see clearly now the majority of the playtime is a Monster Hunter mission type game after finishing Chapter Zero but that's not what they showed in the trailers and in the demo.

They purposely used Chapter 2 for the demo the only open area besides the desert Chapter, there's no way they didn't do it on purpose.

Originally posted by jozef_the_grey:

the game is all about the end game grind. you can easily sink hundreds if not thousands of hours into the end game. the gameplay loop is very engaging and is basically the point of the grind, but I feel the coop was rushed.

could have been epic cross platform huge fights, perhaps with a max player cap of 16 per group for instance, but finding games is clunky and severely demotivated, its a long story but basically you barely find games and if you do find games it is very bare bones.

tldr; the real game starts at lvl 100 on Proud difficulty, kind of like an MMO but without much content other than fun gameplay loops.

You can easily sink hundreds of hours into many games doesn't make it any less repetitive or change how little content they are making you replay.
Yes it seems like it may have been rushed but why after they had so much time?
(ontop of what you mentioned matchmaking seems to be broken from what i hear)

i was engaged until Chapter 0, (guess for Monster Hunter players it is more engaging)
but was expecting the story (main campaign) to be way more indepth covering the show and actually expand upon stuff or finding Grans Father finally, playing like a full ARPG like Ys that this game basicaslly has the same play style as...

Wasn't even going to mention but ya exactly game could have Bigger Epic battles with the huge amount of characters since there are so many and having the summons usable, not to the extent of Bahamut but usable in battle with MP or something instead of just a limit break gauge and everything on cooldown

Originally posted by Saru:

Sounds like BS complaining to me, they did advertise the game as having ~10 hours of story and 100+ hours of post story content, plus they are adding stuff to the game over the next couple of months.
You can also buy the weapons you didn't find yet from the smithy.

So my very much valid points are BS complaining.
Yes i mentioned how all the weapons are available to buy only in chapter 0 which is after the main content is pretty much done/experienced and like i mentioned if you read what i said you will be focusing on 1 or 2 weapons to max out.

I didn't even mention how this game is simplified to hell like a mobile game with 1 generic attack stat and instead of a defence stat and being able to equip armor that all charcaters could use it has a Power Level.
Literally a thing mobile games do...

So you didn't read what i said..
Sounds like you just BS complaining about my "BS complaining"

"All i want" is for them to add more less repetitive content so this game can meets its full potential especially when they have the gal to charge extra for on Disc Color DLC.

Doesn't matter either way my initial question still stands where is the rest of the game after a better part of a decade?!?

They could have 2000 hours of grinding the same repetitive quests and small pool of bosses with a pine cone up your asss..
Doesn't make it a good non repetitive game with a full price games worth of content when i already stated a 3DS game had tenfold more content for half the price a decade ago.

[Tyrone Biggums]

Originally posted by Warrior of Right:

Only 10 Chapters after almost a decade...
This game has less content than Star Ocean 5

and during one of the epic story segments, Chapter 4 they put a time limit on it so you have to just ignore fighting all the enemies and go straight for the Cannons Engine,
couldn't even fully enjoy it...

Yes there are quests but fighting the same 8 bosses with tweaked values over and over doesn't really count as much more content...
(how are there way more playable characters than bosses?)

Could they not just reuse content from the Mobile game at least like Final Fantasy or is the Mobile game also pretty barebones??

There are 6 Summons but you can only use Bahamut in scripted segments and Lyria Summons one of the other you fight in a cutscene that appears for less than 5 seconds.
(that's much worse than FF 15)

You only get 1 extra weapon during the story and only unlock chapter select after Chapter 0 when you way to high level and will just destroy anything in the chapters?
(Yes i know you unlock Chapter Select during Chapter 0 but there is apparently a bug that breaks Chapter Zero Progression if you replay and complete old chapters)

tldr

story is not the main focus

[記憶の果て]

The game never adverted the story mode to be long (In fact they outright say it's going to be short) assumed you do some research before buying any games.

And seriously, for over 7 years they only show the exact same bosses fight all so it's pretty easy to assumed that it's going to have a lot of palette swap and recycle bosses the moment they say the game main story going to be short.

Surely the game could be much better with more content but this is Cygames and they work like turtle, adding only like 10 more bosses or a few more playable characters would probably push the game back and delay for another 2 years.

But the battle and characters customized are fun and addicted so it's got both pros and cons.

[Warrior of Right]

Originally posted by U.M.A. New World:

The game never adverted the story mode to be long (In fact they outright say it's going to be short) assumed you do some research before buying any games.

And seriously, for over 7 years they only show the exact same bosses fight all so it's pretty easy to assumed that it's going to have a lot of palette swap and recycle bosses the moment they say the game main story going to be short.

Surely the game could be much better with more content but this is Cygames and they work like turtle, adding only like 10 more bosses or a few more playable characters would probably push the game back and delay for another 2 years.

But the battle and characters customized are fun and addicted so it's got both pros and cons.

i watched all the trailers that seemed to be pretty in depth/long
but i did not look into their games otherwise..
i asked but no one answered was the mobile short too could they not grab content from that besides this newest boss?

The game already has a lot of characters that is one of it's biggest strengths not suggesting they delay for that or even for the bosses, they can add more later.
They could of shortened Chapter 0 then to be less repetitive and added Chapter 0 2 later that would have been fine.

Originally posted by Tyrone Biggums:

tldr
story is not the main focus

Yes thank you Captain Hindsight i figured that out during Chapter 0.
That's why i mentioned instead Campaign or Single Player not necessarily Story.

Again my main point still stands why so little content in a game developed for so long and charging almost a hundred dollars.

There is one quest only that utilises the sand surfing they could add more variety with stuff already in the game.

[Saru]

Originally posted by Warrior of Right:

Originally posted by Tyrone Biggums:

tldr
story is not the main focus

Yes thank you Captain Hindsight i figured that out during Chapter 0.
That's why i mentioned instead Campaign or Single Player not necessarily Story.

Again my main point still stands why so little content in a game developed for so long and charging almost a hundred dollars.

There is one quest only that utilises the sand surfing they could add more variety with stuff already in the game.

60$ = 100$ ?
Also, no content? You didn't even get through all the content and you complain it's too little?
Not to mention the additional stuff that's still coming.

Yea, I still think it's nothing more than BS complaining.