game news Final Fantasy 16 is more divisive than ever, players are falling apart on Metacritic!
Officially released on June 22nd, Final Fantasy XVI has generally received very positive reviews and we generally find the same list of qualities and flaws. But players seem more divided than ever about this new production, and it shows.
Final Fantasy XVI: A spectacular and divisive adventure
Final Fantasy XVI was highly anticipated. Mainly because watching about Final Fantasy very strong on the action game sideFinal Fantasy XVI offers a spectacular adventure, confrontations imaginary Combat designers of the Devil May Cry franchise, a gripping story and a quality soundtrack. Back to heroic fantasy: Final Fantasy XVI even had the luxury of not having any major problems during its development. and having won gold for several weeks before its publication.
However and Despite a good 88 on Metacritic, this new game isn’t without flaws. A rather slow start, unexciting side quests to play with, e.g Exploration that is never rewarded and a frame rate that coughs in performance mode. There is also a lot of public debate about the nature of the game and that it is more of an action game than an RPG. the opportunity to discuss the many developments of the licensewhich long ago abandoned the purely turn-based system for good in favor of more dynamic hybrid systems.
zeros and tens
But now the players again are tearing themselves apart in the Metacritic user section. At first glance, we can see that the title has a rating of 7.9/10 and the vast majority of reviews are positive. But if we look at the grades awarded in detail, we notice that Dozens and dozens of users, whose accounts are often very current, just type 0while others try compensate by assigning a 10 which does not really correspond to the criticism expressed. Here are some examples of assigning zeros:
This game is honestly neither good nor bad, it’s just fine.
It definitely has a soul of its own, the story is good, some of the fights are downright epic and chilling, but that’s it, nothing else outside of this installment feels like an AAA title. (…)
This game is giving me a headache. While he has an admirable fight, that’s about it. For an RPG, this game is awful, and combat aside, it’s awful. How did the Final Fantasy series become what it is today? Will this be the case in the future? To be honest I’m disappointed.
This game looks like the death of Final Fantasy. It’s not a JRPG by any means, and by that I mean it’s not even an action JRPG. (…). The presentation is very nice (despite terrible motion blur and questionable frame rate) and the story is very interesting (I’m at ten hours so far). The gameplay is terrible though. The gameplay just has nothing to offer. VII Remake’s combat system struck the perfect balance between action combat and command-based combat, but YoshiP decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater and turn it into a DMC-style button masher. No character building. (…)
Without necessarily speaking of review bombing in this case, we find that the opinions are very clear and so are they Many notes are made in response to others
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