The game never setup any of these characters for me. They're just... Here. I'm not interested in any of them, and their physical appearance certainly doesn't help. Lead member of a boy band or some shit. Writing and voice acting suck. Random clips from a movie I haven't seen start playing without context. Badass soundtrack kicks in, but doesn't feel at all like it's matching what's happening in-game.
Also don't like the combat because it feels very automated. More recently, whenever I'm in combat, I feel like the damage I take is just some arbitrary unavoidable damage. Nothing's hitting me, I'm just dying. Even coming from something that's got combat hated as much as The Witcher 3's for example, I absolutely cannot stand it in this game. Trying to aim for areas to warp up to in order to restore MP feels incredibly clunky, and doesn't really make sense to me as a game mechanic. And I've complained about it before, but not being able to sword warp out of combat is a dumb limitation, no matter the dev's reasoning. There's also just not enough combat period. I've spent 90% of the game watching Ignis drive a car.
The game's combat feels worse than just standard turn-based FF combat, and I'm not even a fan of that. But at least in turn-based combat, I'm dying to RNG or something, rather than Noct just deciding to start taking damage just for being near an enemy.
panic over lol what an annoying glitch!
