I just realized it was up this morning, and I’m genuinely blown away. I was definitely feeling a little disappointed through most of the trailers (and also the Creative Business Unit III nonsense heh). They were feeling super generic, and a little hackneyed.
30-40 minutes in and holy crap. The english voice acting is amazing (though my friends pointed out, is it really a final fantasy game if the VA isn’t super cringe?), and they seemed to have put a LOT more effort in the mocap for lip syncing the english voice overs as well. It looks amazing, but that’s to be expected. And honestly I hadn’t been following the development much so I didn’t know this beforehand, but my immediate thought was how much like early Game of Thrones the cast of characters and setting was starting to feel like.
Anybody else have a chance to take a look, or care heh?
I’m not very impressed with performance on PS5. I also have a few concerns about gameplay mechanics. There is no excuse for a game to leave out customizable controls either. That being said, I will be picking up the full version on release. :) I think I’m looking forward to VII part 2 more than XVI though.
That’s actually not something I thought about, because I never change default controls, but that is kind of a big deal that’s something that should have been trivial for them to add in. It really should be automatic these days.
I wasn’t too disappointed with the PS5 performance. The eikon battle was the first I really noticed any issues, but combat was smooth and looked great. The transition to gameplay from cutscene where a character starts to run was pretty jarring in a buggy silly way, but for the most part not much in the way of jankiness. I might also have extremely lowered expectations considering what we’ve been getting from big blockbuster games lately that this just feels good in comparison 😂
It might be fine for most players…I play on a big screen 4k OLED so low res & fps are problematic. I’ve found that I usually have to play in performance mode to get fps to at least around 50fps (so it doesn’t look choppy) and anything under about 1500p looks blurry and/or jagged (note those are just thresholds, not the actual fps or res). At any rate, I will be playing it come release.
Amazing voice acting. Much better than FFXV and FF7R IMO. Regular battles were OK but the eikon fights were boring. They have the complexity of a mobile game.
I thought the same thing actually. maybe others in the game become more engaging, but yeah it was one handing that eikon fight heh. The voice acting really is soooo good. it just feels more natural, and…yeah less cringe. whoever did the localization should get some sort of award or promotion (obviously it was a team not an individual), because it feels like they made a huge effort on this one.
final fantasy is my favorite series, so i don’t wanna sound too biased here. but the demo is fantastic imo. that opening number during the eikon battle was AWESOME. it started to sound like another familiar ff tune in the moment but then came into something of its own and i was blown away. so i at least feel music won’t be an issue.
gameplay wasn’t bad either. linking together combo strings was hit or miss for me at times but that’s just needed practice i suppose. i wish eikon battles were more involved but we’ll see. i concur with everyone else that the voice acting was superb. usually English dub is something i avoid bc it tends to be kinda cringe in games like these but i will definitely be playing it in English. who wouldn’t want to hear Ralph Ineson?
the overall tone and story telling of the demo was great too, i feel. the cutscenes are nicely done and really get you immersed in the story. everything so far that i have played and seen has me excited.
that said, i just hope it stays on this track throughout the entirety of the game. that’s what im most nervous about, honestly.
