I had a great time with the demo, but I didn’t play the extra fight stuff after you finish it because I don’t want to spoil anything.
It really feels like this installment will be, just, good. Yoshi P and co have done a really good job with their character work (having played FF14 for a decade I had no doubts, really), and each cutscene is really well produced. The world so far feels better lived in, if that makes any sense. Something that pulled me out of, say FF15, was the fact that they had cell phones but somehow the main character and his fiancé talked to each other via magic dog carrying a notebook(‽). Just stuff like that that doesn’t make sense doesn’t seem to exist so far in this world. I mean, the demo is short, so maybe we’ll get some Cup Noodle sponsorships later on (I highly doubt it), but I feel like Yoshi P is taking this game seriously. And so far it shows in the demo. I’m not saying the game can’t have fun, but it’s a nice change of pace in my opinion.
I also really liked seeing people use magic to do mundane things in the world like filling up a glass of water or pruning trees. If your world has magic in it and is common enough, of course you’d use it to make life easier in these ways. Pretty neat.
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