Final Fantasy XVI

Amazing.

Honestly, one of the cooler ones I did find, though, was there was a Final Fantasy XVI collector CD at Animate.

I would have loved to have bought the vinyl, but they haven't released that.

So I essentially ended up going for this collector's CD thing there.

What are you talking about? Why is that a question? But again, we're going off different metrics, and I think the decision to make this game the way it was, to spend the extra budget to tune it up into a premium experience, but it's still not quite...

I don't know the specific numbers, but I feel pretty safe in assuming that this costs less to make than Final Fantasy XVI did.

I think this fits in well, and I would hope that the reception to it has been very, very strong.

It did very, very well critically, and then I was... browsing the steam shop last night and saw it as like one of the top sellers and i was like that's that's crazy i mean final fantasy games have trouble hanging on the top steam charts by comparison

Yeah.

Speaking of which, we got to talk about the level up being one attack and one defense and how much that sent many of us, it seems possibly back to Final Fantasy 16 with the you get this much health every level

you

get.

It is just a problem when your game does not have more stats to still have leveling up.

And while

it has a more profound effect here than it did in Final Fantasy 16, it's still a snail's pace.

Leveling still just takes forever to have an impact.

Like, it'll sell a couple million copies, right? Like, people like those games.

People like RPGs, and I think there's a surprising number who don't need it to be cyberpunk and don't need it to be Final Fantasy 16 in terms of budget and spectacle.

You're right, and the problem is

that when these companies are going to put in the type of money that you need to make a cyberpunk or whatever, they really want to focus on that return on investment.

The first one ultimately is that I think that companies or publishers or developers, they have too high of expectations.

Like we see that with Square, like when it came, when they had their Eidos Montreal games, they had ridiculous expectations expectations for all those games um and then which is why they inevitably sold it off right um and you know obviously we don't know the factor for everyone but like i know that ea has high expectations that they're like one of the companies also that kind of like continuously says like oh we were kind of expecting this much and it didn't pan out Um, but like also like Final Fantasy 16, right? Like that was a very hotly anticipated PS5 exclusive.

And that was like kind of that games like, Not making expectations was kind of the wake up call for Square to be like, oh, console exclusive games just don't make sense anymore.

Like for us, which is why we're seeing like all of their new games, like even part three of Final Fantasy seven.

And I think that this is the one that you need to try out.

I think this is the one that might click with you.

Because did you play Final Fantasy 16 because it was more action focused or anything like

that? I believe so.

Oh, okay.

So I guess, yeah, my question would be, how does it play, you know, how does it feel comparative to, like, Final Fantasy XVI or Final 7 Remake? Obviously, it hits very differently in that it's a, you know, 2D, pixel-y sort of design.

But I mean, like, from a, what it feels in you, right? Had you played the mobile version,

Which I did.