DO NOT BUY Final Fantasy 16 - Very Disappointing

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Final Fantasy 16, and as an avid fan of

Final Fantasy games, I knew I just had to

play this game. Unfortunately, so far it's

been kind of disappointing and not really

like any kind of Final Fantasy game I've

ever played. I would easily say this is

probably one of the worst Final Fantasies

I have ever played, and I played a lot of

Final Fantasy games. I don't really agree

with this direction that Square Enix is

now taking the modern Final Fantasy games,

but to me Playing Final Fantasy VIII as a

kid all the way back in the 1990s, I

always knew Final Fantasy as this epic RPG

fantasy game with epic turn-based

strategical tactical combat. Maybe it's

just me, or maybe turn-based combat is

kind of falling out of trend these days

with kids having shorter and shorter

attention spans. Turn-based combat is just

not really going to do it for them, and

they need all this flashy, whizzy,

action-paced hack-and-slashery. But as an

old-school traditional Final Fantasy game

fan, I just don't like the new combat

systems in these recent Final Fantasy

games. I think they should just stop

calling the games Final Fantasy at this

point and just make like a brand new game

series that's based off this new combat

system that they obviously seem very

desperate to push. So the game's combat is

like a really fast-paced, rubbish-looking

version of Elden Ring. It's kind of like

they saw how successful Elden Ring was and

they wanted to have combat where you dodge

and roll and you do different combos and

use magical attacks, but what you get as a

result is just a kind of bland, boring and

lackluster version of Elden Ring. Square

Enix should really stick to what they're

good at, and I just don't think it's

action-paced hack-and-slash game

mechanics. They just don't really do a

good job at making it feel good. It looks

good, okay? It looks very flashy and

acrobatic. Your character's spinning and

jumping everywhere, all these cool magical

effects like lightning and fire exploding

everywhere. It looks visually impressive,

but then you're doing like pathetic

damage. You do all this really

cool-looking deadly moves only to do,

what, a couple hundred damage and the

enemy's health bar goes down by about 15%.

It doesn't feel epic. You don't feel like

you're doing massive damage. You just feel

like you're poking a piñata with a water

balloon. So I have to give the combat

system a 6.2 out of 10. It's nowhere near

as good as Elden Ring, nowhere near as

good as Diablo 4. It's just like a very

poor man's attempt at hack and slash. And

the reason why it sucks is because there's

barely any character customization when it

comes to playstyle or builds. There's no

builds. There's no skill tree. There's no

talent tree. There's no gear. You can't,

like, change your character's armor or

costume or weapons. All you can do is

equip 3 different accessories that give

you very boring buffs, like some damage

buffs, some combo buffs, some buffs to

your healing. It's so bland. If you're

gonna make an RPG game, how can you have

an RPG game without barely any RPG

elements? The whole great thing about RPGs

is that you level up your character, you

choose different skills to specialize in,

to specialize on a kind of playstyle you

like, like magic or melee or ranged,

and then you spec into the different

abilities that you enjoy using the most.

And then you get gear that you build

around your build so that the gear

complements the build. You can't find any

of this in Final Fantasy 16, and after

playing Diablo 4, it just feels like a

baby's hack and slash game. Actually, it

feels like Devil May Cry or Bayonetta

because there's like no customization.

It's just dumb hack-and-slashery, and

that's basically what Devil May Cry and

Bayonetta type games— and they're all

about substance and style over any kind of

depth. And that's originally— that's not

what the Final Fantasy series was about,

but that's what it seems to have devolved

into. I think the game could have been so

much better if they just had loot and

gear, and you can change your armor,

customize your playstyle with a really

cool interesting skill tree. But nope,

instead of that, they've gone for silly

combat juggling your enemies in the air

with lightning and fire attacks that look

cool the first 10 minutes but then get

kind of boring after a while. It's like

they've prioritized the visuals and the

looks of the game over the actual

gameplay. It's kind of like having an

attractive girlfriend. Sure, if she's

really cute and pretty, it's great for the

first few months, but then, but then you

kind of get used to her looks and her

attractiveness wears off and her annoying

personality starts to shine through. You

realize that below the good looks there's

not really much substance, and then you

just break up after Christmas, after you

bought and gave her her Christmas presents

and presents for her entire family, she

then dumps you on Boxing Day just because,

oh, we don't have much in common. Yeah,

as if women and men ever had anything in

common. We're completely different. Just

because we're humans doesn't mean we're

the same. Men like video games and hunting

and cars and motorbikes and weapons.

Women like makeup, dolls, and Barbie.

Obviously we're not gonna have much in

common, but that isn't the reason why

we're together. We're together because

Ideally, we were attracted to each other.

You can also summon these big giant

creatures just like most of the other

Final Fantasy games. There are these big

divine beasts that you can either summon

or take control of, and then it turns into

like Power Rangers where it's like a

massive monster fighting another massive

monster. And again, visually this looks

cool, impressive the first few times you

see it, but then after a while it gets

kind of annoying and you realize, wait,

this is just like more hack-and-slash

basic lame gameplay, but this time I'm a

big monster. Okay, whatever. I mean, did

they really think I want to fly around as

a dragon shooting things down with a

little crosshair aimer like it's some Time

Crisis arcade game? It's just— it's lame

gameplay. Gameplay? More like lame play.

So as for the story and the settings and

the characters of the game, also very

lame. It kind of looks like Last Remnants

with the emo dark hair. I don't know what

happened with all this emo kind of Final

Fantasy emo-looking rock band hairstyles,

like it's from some kind of visual kei

Japanese pop group or rock band. But I

remember back in the day, things like

Final Fantasy IX and X had cool, bright,

colorful-looking, interesting character

design. But nowadays, these modern Final

Fantasy games, it's always like some

gruff-looking guy with his emo long Sasuke

Naruto hair, and he just looks boring.

It's like set in this dystopian, trying to

be dark fantasy kind of world and setting

where the characters look like they've

taken a bit of inspiration from things

like Elden Ring or Game of Thrones, and it

just comes out looking like this weird

mishmash of different styles that doesn't

really gel very well. The voice acting is

just really weird as well for the English

voice acting. Okay, the voice acting is

good and the voice actors are good at

their jobs, but the voices just don't

match the characters. So the characters

look like these weebie, whiny, emo

Japanese teens, but they've got these

gruff English bloke kind of accents like

you'd find down at the pub having a pint

of beer and a Cornish pasty sausage roll.

It's just really jarring when the guy

looks like he's from a visual kei Japanese

rock band and then he talks like, oh, we

have to take back the castle from the

enemy troops now or everything will be

lost. It just sounds so dumb. You are much

better off playing it with the Japanese

original voice acting because it actually

suits the characters. So unfortunately, I

just don't think I can recommend this game

if you're looking to get into Final

Fantasy and you start off with this game.

You're gonna have such a weird opinion and

image of the Final Fantasy series. I

really don't recommend this if you're

going to be new to Final Fantasy, and I

don't recommend it if you're a fan of

Final Fantasy because this game is It just

doesn't feel like a Final Fantasy game. I

would have to give it a lackluster score

of 4.2 out of 10 using my ranking

system. I would not be able to recommend

this game to family, friends, or even