cormack12
Gold Member
I've just got to Chapter 17, and while it is meant to be fairly sizeable it's the penultimate chapter in the game sadly. I haven't played any FF games before. I tried FFXV a couple of times but never really made huge inroads into it, and I believe they are all vastly different in terms of mechanics anyway. Some of the mechanics and informing the player what to focus on seem to be really vague. I remember like a one line blurb flash up about staggering and maybe even less during battle about pressure. But it never really explained how materia is tied into these.
But now as I'm messing around and finally getting to grips with the various proficiencies, materias, buffs, debuffs, items, linked materia etc. it's all clicking and I've turned into a wrecking ball (with other party members). But it's a big ass game, and I'm probably only going to really feel powerful and accomplished for like 2 hours of the playthrough. idk, maybe it's because I'm new and this knowledge is acquired from smaller scale games - but games like Octopath and Persona are much clearer. I'm not moaning about the mechanics, they are actually pretty good - just moaning that the onboarding of newer players or giving them the right information is not great.
Which is strange because using assess is a pretty good implementation of quickly and easily giving info to the player. I'm hoping most of this experience will carry through to FFVII: Rebirth when I get it down the line so I don't have so many gaps to fill in.
TL: DR - I'm only now starting to feel proficient at most aspects of the game, as it's about to end, but I really cba to play through it again with all my newfound mastery.
But now as I'm messing around and finally getting to grips with the various proficiencies, materias, buffs, debuffs, items, linked materia etc. it's all clicking and I've turned into a wrecking ball (with other party members). But it's a big ass game, and I'm probably only going to really feel powerful and accomplished for like 2 hours of the playthrough. idk, maybe it's because I'm new and this knowledge is acquired from smaller scale games - but games like Octopath and Persona are much clearer. I'm not moaning about the mechanics, they are actually pretty good - just moaning that the onboarding of newer players or giving them the right information is not great.
Which is strange because using assess is a pretty good implementation of quickly and easily giving info to the player. I'm hoping most of this experience will carry through to FFVII: Rebirth when I get it down the line so I don't have so many gaps to fill in.
TL: DR - I'm only now starting to feel proficient at most aspects of the game, as it's about to end, but I really cba to play through it again with all my newfound mastery.