>>539810607
I love VIIR because it's a great video game with some amazing characters. It's also a game that has allowed me to connect with multiple family members in some fun new ways by playing it with them and experiencing the story. It's also something that to me represents a fundamental value, and it does it in a way the original game does not. "How do we honor our traditions from the past and the ones who gave us those traditions, while moving the traditions forward to our children so they aren't left behind?" VIIR project is honoring the legacy of big budget toy box game design principles of the FF PS1 era, to regift it to those who come after. That's classic feel good shit. And though the multitude of ideas it presents to the audience throughout can be a bit of a mess in totality, I appreciate any and all game creators who have the courage to boldly go off the deep end. That's what I play video games for
>>539811008
I've never, ever said "I love FFXVI". I definitely don't. I said that I enjoyed many things about the game though, hence a generally positive and better than mediocre "7/10". But I do hate XVI at this point. It sucks. After seeing so many extremely baffling defenses for the game on this board, it seems only natural to oppose what it represents. XVI is other games and other IPs grafted onto the FF franchise through force. XVI is antithetical to my ideals on what Final Fantasy as a series is supposed to be. Everything about it is just wrong, in the end. And I think most anyone who actually cares about Final Fantasy moving forward into the future for our kids to play, knows why that is.
It's like they all saw FFXIII's biggest mistakes of movie-gameism, and said "NOW WATCH THIS!" Doubling down on many of those massive game design mistakes, without ever having the courage to actually do something interesting with Final Fantasy to compromise the way that XIII did. I'm not alone in thinking this, either.