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Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

Turns out my PC *can* run FF16 quite well, but only on Windows. Something about Proton or my Ubuntu graphics drivers must be sad about it, presumably the latter since it works on Steamdeck which would be putting it through Proton as well. Does make me wonder if I should give Bazzite a shot...

I spent so long fighting muscle memory in FF15 because I felt like Square was the more natural-seeming Attack button but it was on Circle, and then FF16 flips them back around and I'm having to un-learn the muscle memory I built in FF15.

Actually funny enough the core conflict is yet another transposition with the dodge button; FF15 has dodge on right bumper, and SoP has your basic attack live there, with dodge down on A/X.

I spent so long fighting muscle memory in FF15 because I felt like Square was the more natural-seeming Attack button but it was on Circle, and then FF16 flips them back around and I'm having to un-learn the muscle memory I built in FF15.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

I also like how Ifrit looks kind of like a dog. He's often had a bit of it going on in his design, but bringing it forward in this game is kind of charming to me. Clive got that dog in him.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

The combat is fine overall; it looks and feels pretty good but there isn't a lot going on, again made more pointed by not having party members to worry about or manage (except giving Torgal orders I guess). From how things are now and what I've heard I assume the late game is just rotating abilities

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

Okay back to random grab-bag, the big pop-up "quest complete"/"quest started" things are kind of annoying to me, though this is really another holdover from FF15 (and FF14 honestly), and they're actually a small upgrade from 15 because you get your rewards all at once.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

This isn't a bad thing necessarily, but it does feel like another pretty big departure from what I normally associate with FF games. It definitely lets his character arc drive the story more, but that seems kind of handled by this point so I'm not sure how the rest of the game will feel.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

Like, oh yeah this isn't your DAD'S Final Fantasy. Characters in this have sex and say fuck. Also lmao there could legitimately be people who know of FF from their parents and are picking the franchise up here.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

I haven't minded the darker tone too much overall so far, though I've heard people talk about some of the Bearer stuff going off the rails which seems extremely possible based on what I've seen; I think it's a pretty ill-advised thing for a game like this to try to tackle.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

The other slightly-modern-feeling thing I've really noticed is people occasionally getting a bit too quippy or clever, like they gotta comment on every little thing going on. It's not on all the time thank goodness, and I think the writing overall has been pretty good, but I definitely notice it.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

This appears to be another FF game where money does not matter. Which is funny coming off of 15 where I often felt pretty strapped for cash. I think some of that is only having to gear one character, plus you have crafting as a money-free way to get gear and can only carry so many potions.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

Speaking of abilities, I had definitely heard people talk about this part but man do they seem to trivialize most small encounters. It kind of reminds me of the alpha-strike problem in D&D 4E, where you're incentivized to use all your encounter-cooldown powers up front to make a big dent right away.

Loose FF16 thoughts now that I'm about 10-12 hours in: why do you have a jump button if your jump is so comically small. I know it's for combat so you can enemy step after doing it, it still feels very silly especially when I use it while traversing like I can get over anything with it.

Been listening through the FF9 soundtrack lately and was intrigued by one of the songs being labeled as being for a coke commercial, so I looked it up www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnaC... Very curious how this got made, like presumably this is an actual FMV that Square had to put together?