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davidponte posted...

The open world was the best part of the game for me. 80% of my total time with the game was spent pre-chapter 9, where I went everywhere in the world and did every single hunt and sidequest available.

It was when I had to actually start progressing the game that it went from my GOTY to a game that I don't look back fondly on in hindsight. It's kind of crazy how much I liked the game while playing it, whereas now I think of it as one of my least favourite Final Fantasy games. Enough that after getting the platinum trophy, I uninstalled it and haven't gone back for any of the DLC.

This was all pre-patches though.

They added a part where instead of having to go through that one awful section with Noctis, you can do it with Gladiolus instead. Not only does that make that section go by significantly faster, it also makes it more fun because you're not trying to stealth.

I agree that post-open world, the game gets way worse, but I still loved it by the end of the game. TC, if you're not liking FFXV by now then I'm afraid you won't enjoy the game at all. The hunts and the first half of the story missions were my favorite part of the game. You will not hate the 2nd half quite as much as the rest of us did because you won't have to sit there with your ring holding x to explode enemies as Noctis (they patched in an alternative route you can take), but... well, actually, if you hate the game this much now, yeah you'll like it a lot less than us by the end too.
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