Ignore past FF games. Think more a long the lines of God of War.
Things that it does a lot better than GoW imo:
There’s a LOT of enemy variety. It’s actually impressive how much. 50% of the enemies aren’t rando zombies like GoW.
A lot of the fights are easy. But, kind of refreshing to steam roll trash mobs after GoW if I’m honest.
There’s a shit ton of amazing mini-boss and boss fights and the ratio between that and trash mobs is really high. Some of the bosses are hard at all of them at least require you to play close attention.
The writing and polish isn’t as good as God of War but…. It feels better for the game length. I personally felt like GoW overstayed it’s welcome in both games. While the FF writing isn’t as good it’s more fitting of a longer game. It’s still a good story, it just has some rough polish.
The RPG aspect is essentially identical to GoW. Gear and leveling. If you had swapped the systems both games I wouldn’t even notice. They’re both really shallow and unlock some basic combos.
There’s also little exploration, even compared to GoW. On the one hand I hated a lot of the GoW back tracking treasure hunt loop after a while. It’s nice to play linear games sometimes. On the other hand, it could’ve done with some well done reasons to explore the maps.
So long winded way of saying if you like the linear single player action adventure games that Sony is known for its fantastic. If you want some grand jrpg maybe don’t pick it up right now if you’re in the mood for that.
Thanks. I’m coming off of playing elden ring basically exclusively for about a year - but generally I only play games for an hr or 90 minutes a night. So this upcoming week will be time to really dig into something
I’ll be buying a ps5 next week too so no chance to demo it – I’d just pick up the ff16 bundle ps5 if I decide it’s the game I want to settle down with.
Ignore past FF games. Think more a long the lines of God of War.
Things that it does a lot better than GoW imo: There’s a LOT of enemy variety. It’s actually impressive how much. 50% of the enemies aren’t rando zombies like GoW.
A lot of the fights are easy. But, kind of refreshing to steam roll trash mobs after GoW if I’m honest.
There’s a shit ton of amazing mini-boss and boss fights and the ratio between that and trash mobs is really high. Some of the bosses are hard at all of them at least require you to play close attention.
The writing and polish isn’t as good as God of War but…. It feels better for the game length. I personally felt like GoW overstayed it’s welcome in both games. While the FF writing isn’t as good it’s more fitting of a longer game. It’s still a good story, it just has some rough polish.
The RPG aspect is essentially identical to GoW. Gear and leveling. If you had swapped the systems both games I wouldn’t even notice. They’re both really shallow and unlock some basic combos.
There’s also little exploration, even compared to GoW. On the one hand I hated a lot of the GoW back tracking treasure hunt loop after a while. It’s nice to play linear games sometimes. On the other hand, it could’ve done with some well done reasons to explore the maps.
So long winded way of saying if you like the linear single player action adventure games that Sony is known for its fantastic. If you want some grand jrpg maybe don’t pick it up right now if you’re in the mood for that.
Thanks. I’m coming off of playing elden ring basically exclusively for about a year - but generally I only play games for an hr or 90 minutes a night. So this upcoming week will be time to really dig into something
I’ll be buying a ps5 next week too so no chance to demo it – I’d just pick up the ff16 bundle ps5 if I decide it’s the game I want to settle down with.
Thanks so much for your feedback!