I just realized it was up this morning, and I’m genuinely blown away. I was definitely feeling a little disappointed through most of the trailers (and also the Creative Business Unit III nonsense heh). They were feeling super generic, and a little hackneyed.
30-40 minutes in and holy crap. The english voice acting is amazing (though my friends pointed out, is it really a final fantasy game if the VA isn’t super cringe?), and they seemed to have put a LOT more effort in the mocap for lip syncing the english voice overs as well. It looks amazing, but that’s to be expected. And honestly I hadn’t been following the development much so I didn’t know this beforehand, but my immediate thought was how much like early Game of Thrones the cast of characters and setting was starting to feel like.
Anybody else have a chance to take a look, or care heh?
final fantasy is my favorite series, so i don’t wanna sound too biased here. but the demo is fantastic imo. that opening number during the eikon battle was AWESOME. it started to sound like another familiar ff tune in the moment but then came into something of its own and i was blown away. so i at least feel music won’t be an issue.
gameplay wasn’t bad either. linking together combo strings was hit or miss for me at times but that’s just needed practice i suppose. i wish eikon battles were more involved but we’ll see. i concur with everyone else that the voice acting was superb. usually English dub is something i avoid bc it tends to be kinda cringe in games like these but i will definitely be playing it in English. who wouldn’t want to hear Ralph Ineson?
the overall tone and story telling of the demo was great too, i feel. the cutscenes are nicely done and really get you immersed in the story. everything so far that i have played and seen has me excited.
that said, i just hope it stays on this track throughout the entirety of the game. that’s what im most nervous about, honestly.