Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome, exciting game for the PS5. Graphics are 10 out of 10 and this truly is a next Generation title

Love the game! Beautiful cinematics and great story!

This game is real neat-o and Clive makes me feel funny. Not in a "total lifestyle upheaval" kind of way, but a "I'll have a dream about this later and wake up even more sweaty than normal" kind of way.

It was at a great price. When I picked up the first copy. The case was damaged. I was helped immediately. They switched it with a mint condition copy.

Great story but honestly there are just simply too many cutscenes. This really plays like an interactive movie, rather than a game. Scene. Walk a few feet. Scene. Walk a few feet. Fight. Scene. Rinse. Repeat.

I’ve been playing the Final Fantasy from childhood until now. Was extremely excited when I saw they were making this game. Been purchasing video games from Best Buy ever since 2007. Love it!

Games were ready as promised, and text msg updates were on point. Games themselves were in good condition and obviously I had a lot of fun playing em

Bought this game for my son. He’s enjoying this game a lot and I’m happy I purchased it.

Easy to retreive from the store. Received my pre-order bonus without any issues.

Came in amazing time and in perfect condition and overall enjoying the game.

There's a dog and you can pet it, also its cool to cut things up with your flaming sword.

Good game, love it very much. Also love how I was able to get it from Best Buy on time

it's another solid Final Fantasy title, and yes. you CAN (and should) pet the dog!

It’s bittersweet writing this for Final Fantasy XVI. The final fantasy series is my favorite video game series of all time. It’s nice to play through the game but sad to know it will be a good 5 or so years until the next one (which hopefully there is). But first of all I have to say this game definitely deserves to be a mainline final fantasy game. The production values are top notch. The story is excellent, I loved the characters, the fantasy/game of thrones setting, the music, and graphics. This game is definitely the most beautiful game I have ever played which is always great for the eyes. The music is good, but not the best in the series. There are a few standout tracks but not every song is memorable. The voice acting is top notch. The voice actor for Clive, Cid, and Gav are the best. They did tie in the main theme to a lot of songs that I liked. The story was really good and the number of scenes was a lot. Sometimes it felt like watching a movie - but FF has always been known to have lots of dialogue. The story focused on the crystals and the summons so I’m glad they kept those main parts in the story too. They made it much darker but that’s not a bad thing. The ending made me cry so that’s also a sign it’s excellent. It was around 40 hours and never got too hard. I think I only died three times the whole game. It was almost too easy but it’s nice that this game is a little more forgiving. There were a couple slow parts in the game where I was bored and the side quests weren’t much. But that’s all small things. Overall it’s a 9/10 and a really great game in the series. I hope it sells enough and they keep going to 17 and above. I will definitely want to play through this game again. It may not be top 5 final fantasy games but a really great game. Again bittersweet ending it. Always strange to end an epic game you out so much time into.

Title: A Captivating Journey into the World of Final Fantasy 16 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: Final Fantasy 16 is a magnificent addition to the legendary Final Fantasy series, offering an immersive and enthralling experience that will captivate both long-time fans and newcomers alike. Square Enix has once again delivered a masterpiece that pushes the boundaries of storytelling, gameplay, and visual excellence. One of the standout aspects of Final Fantasy 16 is its rich and intricately woven narrative. The game introduces us to a vast and compelling world filled with political intrigue, complex characters, and emotionally charged moments. The depth of the storytelling is simply astounding, drawing players into a web of intense relationships, power struggles, and personal journeys that will keep them invested until the very end. Visually, Final Fantasy 16 is a visual feast for the eyes. The stunning graphics and meticulously crafted environments transport players to a meticulously designed world, brimming with breathtaking landscapes, bustling cities, and awe-inspiring dungeons. Each location feels alive, with attention to detail that truly immerses you in the game's universe. The combat system in Final Fantasy 16 is a perfect blend of the series' traditional roots and modern innovations. It strikes a delicate balance between strategic decision-making and fast-paced action, offering a satisfying and engaging experience. The introduction of unique character abilities and the seamless integration of magic and summoning mechanics further elevate the combat to new heights. Furthermore, the characters in Final Fantasy 16 are deeply memorable, each with their own compelling stories, motivations, and growth arcs. You'll form strong emotional connections with them, cheering for their triumphs and sharing in their sorrows. The voice acting and character animations are top-notch, breathing life into these individuals and making them feel like genuine companions on your journey. The musical score of Final Fantasy 16 is nothing short of breathtaking. From sweeping orchestral arrangements to hauntingly beautiful melodies, the soundtrack perfectly complements the game's atmosphere and adds an extra layer of emotional depth to key moments. In conclusion, Final Fantasy 16 is an absolute triumph that stands as a testament to the series' enduring legacy. It combines a captivating narrative, stunning visuals, engaging gameplay, and memorable characters to create an unforgettable experience. Whether you're a longtime fan of the franchise or a newcomer to the world of Final Fantasy, this game is a must-play masterpiece that will leave you eagerly anticipating future installments.

This game alone took me from wanting to sell my dusty PS5 to being very glad that I have one. (The game might be on PC eventually but it won't be soon). I was not following this game or planning to play it. I happened to see people playing it online and I liked the more traditional medieval fantasy look and the new combat. I've played 33 hours and this is now one of my all time favorite games. The last game I enjoyed this much was Yakuza: Like a Dragon. This year I had been playing very few games and starting to think I was maybe bored with gaming. Other very popular games like God of War do not really seem that great to me. I am not a huge FF or RPG person, that's probably why I like this game because it is not very traditional, and I can see why people with a long history with FF actually have criticisms about it. Lucky for me I am not bothered. They could have called the game something else, it would still be amazing. The game seems kind of easy, but I am enjoying that. I think the ultra difficulty meme in gaming is played out, and it's nice to play a game to relax and feeling like your character is powerful, instead of wanting to smash your controller. There is still a challenge, but dying is pretty rare. The combat is so satisfying, you'll be hitting every button on the controller, changing powers and skills on the fly. The voice acting is incredible, probably the best I have ever heard in a game. Some of the fights and scenes that play out are jaw dropping, I am not a very expressive person but I have had a dumb smile on my face watching some of the insanity and massive set pieces that happen in this game. I am taking screenshots and videos using the PS5 capture like crazy. This is the first game where I feel like the price increase of current gen titles is completely justified. There are some quirks, you basically fast travel to every little village or hub location, it is not "open world", but would you really want to have to travel everywhere manually? Some of the side quests are very basic fetch missions or "go talk to 3 people", but usually the voice acting or the story being told is so good that it makes it worth your time. I am pretty much doing every side mission available at any moment before I move on to the next main mission. I can't praise this game enough. If you think a FF game might not be for you, think again. This is basically an action game, you don't have to learn a bunch of complex systems at all. I will buy any DLC in an instant. And I will probably start playing it again as soon as I finish.

This is my favourite Final Fantasy game, and I've played every single one (besides XI and XIV, common trope). I love the lore in particular. This game has such an interesting mythos, and I'd rather it not be spoiled. The only real problems with this game are the slow side quests, lack of discovery and bad equipment system. The entire game is held up by its story, characters, music, and incredible fights. This game likely has the strongest cast in the series, even giving IX a run for its money. Every character is well voiced. Ben Starr is the obvious highlight. His performance as Clive is outstanding, and you can truly feel the emotion of the character he portrays. It's a flawed rollercoaster of a game, and I love it.

A superb character story, very solid action RPG gameplay, though a bit lacking in certain features, it does a great job with everything present. My progress so far, from what I understand from those who've beaten the game? 40% main game, 25% if I include the sidequests as they're apparently more later on. Music is excellent. Not memorable like Uematsu's tracks, but more like a very solid movie soundtrack that just melds into the background, ambience, and tone of what's happening on screen (or portends to what is about to happen when you get to the story triggers on a map). It's a VERY solid soundtrack. Spending time sitting and just listening? I'm impressed with Soken's work. Graphics are amazing. Ok, so the character models look a little odd, as they went for realism in the textures for clothing, the world, the enemies, buildings, etc., but for the face they wanted it distinguished from the hyper-realism of FFXV. Going instead for a realistic design with an anime brush stroke. Though the shadows, creases, movements/animations are well done. It's a strange aesthetic unlike say Dragon Quest XI which went for a mixture of realism and semi-realism for world and clothing textures, and anime-esque clothing designs, along with more realistic skin, but the body shapes, hand designs, and face are clearly anime in style. Distinctly Toriyama, which works a bit better, but I am growing used to what FFXVI did, and I do like it overall. It is quite pleasant walking up to textures to find they're high definition, not a mixture of high and low definition that look great from afar, but the mid and low def are pixelated up close. I know some people have experienced blur on Quality mode (which is how I'm playing), and a bit in battle in Performance mode. Some of that was patched, but some still experience it. I can say using an older 1080p TV, I'm not experiencing any of that, so it's really how the TV is processing everything with certain special features turned on triggering a delay in writing to the screen likely causing the blur. So I'm not experiencing that. A few maps when NOT in battle, do have some clipping, but it's rare. I thought it was size, but it's really density. Towns with a lot of people in a very small space, if those people are moving around, if I make hard turns, there's some frame drops, but that's about it. The demo caused some systems to overheat. I never had that experience, and I've not had anything like that running this game over 4 hours straight on a few days. It might get a little hot at the rear, but there are a lot of factors involved there (fan maintenance/dirt build up, clearance and openings for natural air flow, general dust in your play room, how hot your room is, direct/indirect sunlight hitting the console, etc.). Some complaints say it's a hallway simulator. No, it's not. A few maps here are, but most of the game maps are not. There are certain core story maps that are designed this way to move you through at a faster clique, while offering ever increasingly difficult battles, and a slight lull in between sub-bosses. However the game world is a series of several larger areas that all intersect, and open up as the story progresses. Another common complaint are the QTE's. At the start of the game, the QTE's are heavy mid-battle for several major battles, but around 15% into the game, the final series of mass QTE's ends. After that they appear at the butt end of a battle, or if the game detects the player is close to losing the game, and you're in a certain range of the health bar of the boss. Then it will trigger the same QTE's that are there to make the ending of the fight more cinematic. So if you triggered it at the 15% health bar of an enemy it's because you have 0 potions and high potions, and your health is in range of a single strike for death, and you managed to get the boss down to that threshold to trigger it allowing for a "win". However if you reset the save, and get the health bar down to 5~0%, depending on what the normal trigger point is, then the battle finalizes in the same series of QTE's. These get shorter as well over time. However it's always present, just no longer mid-battle after the first major Eikon battle. So it's like a fun way to end it. Another common complaint is the battle system is just mashing buttons. Sure if you use the Ring of Timely Strikes, which cycles through your available/unlocked attacks and automatically triggers them. Then you don't need to swap between anything really, maybe Eikons for Eikon strikes at the end of a combo. It even takes advantage of your position and the way certain skills function, like parry's + attacks (like the specific side/back slash if you parry or dodge at the right moment). However this makes the game entirely boring. There's a lot of variations in gameplay between the jump + attacks, jump + attacks + magic, attacking + magic, charged magic and charged normal attacks, the thrust attack, variations of this that are unlocked around the 20% marker when in Limit Break, which works as a power up state but also offers upgraded versions to certain normal attacks that can be further powered up. Then there are the Eikon abilities. Of which you have a special infinite use ability that gives a battle function, and Eikon attacks. One complaint is Eikon abilities are too similar, or are somehow ALL damage oriented and have no unique functions. This is profoundly untrue. I'm not even sure what game they're playing, or their distaste means they're not paying attention to the mechanics and functionality. Each Eikon special ability has infinite usage, and they all work differently. Just to compare Phoenix and Garuda. Phoenix's Shift is a charge that at something like 20 paces/steps will close in on your target similarly to FFXV's warp. If you don't lock onto a target you can also swap targets on the fly, keeping your enemies in a constant confused state as you change enemies, do one or two strikes, then change to another. If you lock on, you just charge that one enemy. Do be wary as while it's a great way to close the distance, if the enemy is using an attack, it won't negate that attack, so be prepared to time your attack properly for a parry, or dodge immediately and try to trigger a precision dodge in close proximity for a counter (and if parried properly, a counter and a slow-down window to just unleash attacks). Garuda's special function Deadly Embrace grabs things with a claw at the same distance as Shift does, about 20 paces. If it's your size or smaller, it draws it to you with a fraction of damage, and a slight stun. If it's larger, Clive is lifted into the air, and this is great to use your arial downthrust attacks. As per the actual Eikon skills? Well there are so far 4 per Eikon, and you can have 2 accessible in battle for 2 slots you have to hold a button to use that replace the attack and magic slots. These range in functionality, but Phoenix is pure damage, one is long range, one is short, one is group (and actually pulls in nearby enemies), one is just mass AoE and high damage. Garuda's deal far less damage, but are tied to the attack button and reducing your enemy stagger bar very quickly. One is a series of attacks that if you keep pumping the attack button can be from like 10 to 30 attacks in a time limit, and each attack does substantially more to the stagger bar than to damage. If staggered, every 5 attacks will increase the output per attack by 5%. Another is designed as an arial assault attack that is best used if Clive or Torgal launches an enemy in to the air...or it can do so itself, and allows for certain other special arial triggers after it's done (it also eats through the stagger bar fast, helping to trigger it quickly)...like the magic charged arial attack or the sword charged ground strike from the air. That arial attack also hits groups, but it only pulls in one, just hitting nearby. Another is a counter that if done properly is quite punishing, but again, it's secondary mode is to whittle away that stagger bar so you can really wail on enemies. The list goes on in functionality and secondary functionality, which sadly the game doesn't mention, but it's not hard to see. Temporary stuns for Lightning, added charges from the Lightning that its special function slows the game down and lets you add charges that last for like 10s, but add extra damage when said enemy is hit (and really pack on damage if hit with any lightning skill attack). Combining every aspect and element inherent to this game, most of the gameplay structure built around the Eikons, really opens up a range of combat options. Enemies telegraph their attacks is another complaint. Yes and no. There is and isn't. Some attacks are blatantly obvious, while as battles progress with sub-mini-bosses and bosses, they're not as obvious, and sometimes they seem like they're down for a bit of a beating, but are far away, or only give you a half second in the 2nd or 4th end of the fight instead of that sweet 2~3s to wail on them. So it's a very mixed bag. The only way to make this very easy is to use the Ring of Timely Focus which gives you a QTE button for dodging, which I don't like to use, or the auto-evade Ring of Timely Evasion, which I haven't tried, and I'm wondering how many players making this complaint aren't using either of those two, as I'm finding it's not that easy to predict the long stream of attacks for a fair number of bosses as battle progresses and they change their patterns up a little (mostly it's just adding attacks, and having infrequent downtimes). For those like me NOT using those rings, the trick is to master parry timing, and knowing when it's better to dodge. Also certain Eikon functions like Garuda do help, like two uses, then the down thrust, then dodge in the right direction to avoid a blast. Darn, hit the limit...it's a solid 9 for me.

I love the combat. It's great. Not quite like Devil May Cry. It's not a button masher. Music is good. The dualsense is used very well in the game. The performance mode is unstable. Pop in, frame drops & blurriness abound. I constantly get drops losing 10 to 15 frames. It's very distracting. Since the cutscenes are capped at 30fps I decided to go with the fidelity mode. Hopefully they fix it or allow VRR to work. Hopefully they can do 120HZ mode and do 40fps like Ratchet and Clank Rift apart. I think that may be an option that will work. I only have about 5 to 10 hours of play time. I'm very impressed with the game. So much better than FF15. Unfortunately, if you didn't pre-order the game ahead of time it appears the extra steelbook os sold out. I ordered my copy back in April and others should have done so when the demo was dropped. I received 2 steelbooks with my Deluxe order. I haven't bought a Final Fantasy game on day one since Final Fantasy 7 back in 1997. I'm very happy with my purcahse.

The game is a visual masterpiece with a really compelling story. The characters are very memorable and probably my favorite since FF7 and 8. The combat has been updated to be much more modern and plays like Devil May Cry. This might dissapoint FF purists but I think it is step in the right direction. The music and cut scenes are incredible. The boss fights are also unique and very cinematic in nature. The only part of this game that annoyed me is the fact that the side quests were mostly fetch quests. The hunt board is cool where you can fight unique and overpowered bosses to get unique items. Overall I think this is an awesome game with memorable characters, boss fights and story. It took me about 30 hours to beat and I did most of the side quests. Pick it up and enjoy!