I enjoyed what I played in the first hour or so but I agree the opening feels really sloppy. I feel like I'm just expected to accept the four leads are bros though I barely know them and their connections. Combat is a lot of fun but really limited in the early going.
I can accept the characters being friends immediately, what doesn't make any sense at all is sending a prince... to his own royal wedding... in a car with 3 bros and no one else... without any money or guards or retinue or anything.
What exactly is going on here? Is it going to be a wedding attended by 10 people? Is the prince of a kingdom at war and on the brink of destruction really allowed to just travel around on his own in a drop-top? That's how JFK got killed, for fuck's sake. Don't they remember that?
And then the dude has this phone and he could just pick it up and call pops and be like 'yo wire 1 billion gil to my paypal desu ne, pops' but... he doesn't. It makes no sense in the world they're in, imo.
Nor does it make sense that it establishes this awesome fantasy city and you start the game out in hicksville doing errands while your car is fixed. (And judging by how it controls, it never truly gets fixed - Cid must be a fraud) Surely they could have come up with a better start.
I enjoyed Kingsglaive a lot. I got exactly what I wanted out of it (an early taste of the FFXV world and pretty warp-related combat), and the story itself was not bad. The refugee story was pretty interesting.
I'm glad they're going to be inserting more of Kingsglaive into the game to make it make sense.
The 90 minutes I spent with Kingsglaive have been 10x more enjoyable and coherent than the 90 I've spent with FFXV so far.
