The discharge of a brand new Last Fantasy is all the time a large occasion. Final yr, PS5 house owners have been handled to the most recent mainline entry within the iconic sequence of role-playing video games from Sq. Enix, Last Fantasy XVI, and now PC gamers are lastly getting in on the motion. FF16—and its two expansions—lastly launched on Steam on September 17, which suggests PC gamers have had loads of time to get acquainted with the medieval fantasy epic. Right here’s what folks assume.
General, reactions to FF16 on PC aren’t too completely different from the reward the sport acquired round its preliminary launch in 2023. Its real-time motion fight will get lots of love, as does the beautiful setting of Valisthea which is rendered with gorgeous constancy. The story, which is a Sport of Thrones-inspired affair of betrayal and battle, has been an enormous hit with PC gamers, as has the exceptional soundtrack from composer Masayoshi Soken. After all, the reactions are hardly unanimous, and the identical qualities some gamers love additionally rub others the fallacious method. As appears to occur with each Last Fantasy sport since FF10 in 2001, there are cries that this “isn’t an actual Last Fantasy sport,” no matter which means. Some see the similarities to Satan Might Cry’s fight and Sport of Thrones’ story as a con, and the reliance on prolonged cutscenes and lack of open areas to discover is an enormous turn-off for some gamers as effectively. Nonetheless, regardless of these criticisms, FF16 is rated as Principally Optimistic on Steam with over 5,000 critiques.
Whereas reactions to the story and gameplay are largely subjective, the PC model of FF16 has additionally drawn criticism for the prevalence of technical points and lack of PC optimization (although among the points that existed at launch have been fastened within the weeks since). Scroll by means of the critiques and also you’ll discover lots of destructive posts from gamers bemoaning the inclusion of anti-pirating software program Denuvo, which appears to be affecting how the sport runs. Gamers are reporting a enormously fluctuating body price, and a few are significantly aggravated to search out the cutscenes locked at 30 FPS (although there’s a mod to repair that).
Right here’s the complete scope of what persons are saying about Last Fantasy XVI’s PC model on Steam.
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