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An epic dark fantasy world where the fate of the land is decided by the mighty Eikons and the Dominants who wield them. This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a warrior granted the title “First Shield of Rosaria” and sworn to protect his younger brother Joshua, the dominant of the Phoenix. Before long, Clive will be caught up in a great tragedy and swear revenge on the Dark Eikon lfrit, a mysterious entity that brings calamity in its wake.
The game has now been out for 2 weeks, so let’s discuss the gameplay, story, experiences, and impressions!
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I absolutely hate the pacing of the side quests in this game. You get to a big story point in the main story line, then they drop a wave of side quests to pad the play time. And you better do them now, or you miss our on some decent items and equipment later because the quest is no longer available.
I’m right at the end of the game and thought I finished up most side stuff only to have them drop freaking 12 side quests on me all at once. If wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t the most monotonous quests I’ve ever played. Is it even worth it to do these last quests?
I am enjoying the story and the combat though. That’s what kept me going. But as much as I like it the low points are so ridiculously low specifically in some key areas that I usually associate with the final fantasy brand, which sucks.
This game feels so lopsided, it’s bizarre.
Yea the side quests were a real shame. They were written well and about half had good, even great plotlines, but they all employ the same brain-dead, hand-holding mechanic of: go to person with green exclamation mark, go to spot with yellow exclamation mark, go back to the guy with the green exclamation mark. The older FFs had you discovering or chancing upon side quests on your own, by talking to people and exploring the map then figuring out where to go and what to do - that would have been so much better.
Interesting, so are there missable quests? I usually don’t 100% any open world games as there always seems to be a bit of filler content. Are you going for the platinum?
Yeah, some of the side quests are continuations of previous side quests, so if you didn’t do the initial quest when it was available and something big in the story happens to change things, you’ll be locked out of the initial quest and the following quest won’t become available.
I didn’t platinum. I got frustrated when I realized I sold a sword I needed to craft the best sword in the initial play through. So, fed up as I was, I just moved on to the final part of the game only to be way overpowered and have no difficulty in the final fights at all.
6/10. I’ll probably play it again eventually, but it’ll be sitting on my shelf for years by that point. I always like to revisit final fantasy games after a few years, and if I did it for 15, I can totally manage to do it for 16.