In case anyone is wondering like "huh, how could the game be a slog...."
Imagine dozens of hours worth of NPC interactions like this. I skipped stuff for a bit but after a few hours I was like, "no, I want to experience this game as Square intended."
You're not forced to unless you do all the side quests, you interact with her a couple of times in the game...one other time later.
Yea, that's how nearly every NPC scene is unfortunately.
If you have $70 to burn and are curious, by all means. If $70 is a lot and will potentially really bum you out. Please hold off and save the money or get something else.
very evident at first glance.
Gamefly for the win!
I’ll say there’s enough good stuff here that it’s worth checking out but maybe not for $70. Wait for a drop, at $40 or so this is probably worth it
XV is a proper FF game. XVI is barely a spin-off.
In case anyone is wondering like "huh, how could the game be a slog
I would be able to get it significantly cheaper. I played the 2 hour demo and I found it quite ok. The final fight of the demo looked interesting. But as I understand it, there are only fights that happen from time to time and otherwise there is not much going on?If you have $70 to burn and are curious, by all means. If $70 is a lot and will potentially really bum you out. Please hold off and save the money or get something else.
We don't have anything like that here.
Do you demand challenge from your game? Character development? Do 30 hours of fetch quests put you off? Do you need more than high budget setpieces in your game?
Probably an issue on their development logistics. They must've spend a lot of time and budget into the 'main' parts of the game then cheaped out on this side stuff. Its not uncommon in JRPGs like this. Yakuza does this too, but since that game is over the top silly it somehow works there.
skip all side quests that dont have a + icon
You occasionally get some solid items for side quests (potion count increase, potion strength increase, useful item for upgrading, etc.) Side quest is also how you get the chocobo but the chocobo is useless and unless you plan on doing NG+, the occasional decent sidequest item probably isn't necessary because the game is incredibly easy.
Nope, you can avoid them....only kill all the special monsters from the board to improve some stuff
yep. this's what continues to confuse me. it was all very obvious...
As I mentioned in the review thread, I was quite surprised by the archaic design of this game, based solely on the first hour of gameplay. However, if the game was intentionally developed this way to ensure smoother, less expensive, and more timely development, then so be it. still a massive disappointment tho.
I think they added the secondary quests late and low budget. Someone “realized” the game needed sidequests to appeal to the west, and with the little time they had they decided to make many cheap quests instead of a few good ones. Thinking that scope would make the world feel full of things to do and players would like it.
Agreed. Only do few side quests in the veil. Others not so much. I wouldn’t even do + side quests. The blacksmith ones were so boring.
wtf is thisI played game for 2 hour.
I no like
Oh yes the_master senpai. They clearly added all these side quests to appease the gaijin dudebro audience. At least we still have real JRPGs like Xenoblade with their Nippon-centric design and sensible number of quality side quests.
What a stupid postI played game for 2 hour.
I no like
In case anyone is wondering like "huh, how could the game be a slog
Imagine dozens of hours worth of NPC interactions like this. I skipped stuff for a bit but after a few hours I was like, "no, I want to experience this game as Square intended."
It's on a whole other level when it comes to slog.
So you can either skip the dialogue and do the slog of side missions to get the occasional useful items. Or skip them entirely and focus on main quests which still contain slog elements.
It's a really bizarre game.
Holy fuck if the dog shit worst AAA game IMO of the ps4 era is better ... cant even imagine how bad XVI is
In case anyone is wondering like "huh, how could the game be a slog
Imagine dozens of hours worth of NPC interactions like this. I skipped stuff for a bit but after a few hours I was like, "no, I want to experience this game as Square intended."
It's on a whole other level when it comes to slog.
So you can either skip the dialogue and do the slog of side missions to get the occasional useful items. Or skip them entirely and focus on main quests which still contain slog elements.
It's a really bizarre game.
This is unfortunate. I thought the game being not open world and being more straight-forward would forego a lot of padding that is common in a lot of games. I also thought it would be more story heavy all the way through. I think side content should be 10-20% of a game, not the other way around.
It's a main quest and "the dame" is some character that the narrative tries to hype. I could post endless shit videos of the NPC interactions but that one sums it up succinctly.
Persona 5 is open world?
