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They feel a lot like the randomly-generated quests from Skyrim, which isn't really a compliment. Most of the sidequests involve finding some item and returning it to the quest giver, giving it an old-school open-world RPG feel. You think Dragon Age: Inquisition had a lot of fetchquests? Wait til you start exploring Lucis. Oh yes, there are definitely fetchquests in Final Fantasy XV. The first half of Final Fantasy XV's story is set here, opening with Noxis, Prompto, Gladio, and Ignis-a prince and his three bodyguards-pushing their fancy car into a gas station, and continuing through multiple dungeons and as many fetchquests as you can stomach. Everytime I look at this world, I think, "There's not actually much here, is there?" And yet, I never seem to want for something to do. It's a world that manages to feel dense and interesting but also empty, mixing rural American landscapes with MMORPG-like gathering and dungeon-diving.

In mulling my feelings for Final Fantasy XV, the one aspect that I keep going back to is its open world. To be honest, I'm still not sure what to make of it, even after playing it for 35 hours and watching the credits roll.īut I will say this: I kind of like it. This has always been the case with Final Fantasy, but it feels especially true with this version. At a guess, it will prove as controversial after release as it was before it, with some loving it and others loathing it. But now that it's here, we can finally judge it on its own merits and ask whether if in some small measure it was all worth it. It's a roadtrip!Īmid all this drama, it's sometimes easy to forget that there's an actual game in there somewhere. Final Fantasy XV, like Final Fantasy XIII before it, wound up sucking the entire franchise into a decade-long black hole, and pretty much everyone is ready for Square Enix to finally, finally, put the last vestiges of the cursed Fabula Nova Crystallis series behind them once and for all. Nor could they have imagined the changes the series, the genre, and indeed the medium itself would undergo in the ensuing decade. Nobody could have imagined that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would fall into development hell, going through multiple iterations before finally being saved as a numbered entry for the PlayStation 4. It was a decade ago that Square Enix first revealed the game that would ultimately become Final Fantasy XV-a Kingdom Hearts-inspired spinoff called Final Fantasy Versus XIII.