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Iām sure most people are aware that FFXVIās announcement has brought with it an onslaught of negativity so I wanted to do two things:
1) Remember to smile! Love what you want to love and donāt let anyone tell you youāre not allowed to.
2) Iāve written something of a love letter. Everyoneās entitled to their opinion, and this is mine.
Itās 9pm on Wednesday 16 September, a mouthful of pizza has near been launched to the other side of the room. Iād opened this stream merely out of curiosity, only to have the Square Enix logo and giant yellow chickens hurled towards me the instant it begun.
I am absolutely off the shits for approximately the next five hours. I drive my unfalteringly patient significant other up the wall over it. I have never known anyone put up with my bullshit quite as well as him, but I really do think I tested this ability that night.
The next day, Iām still on a high. I hop on to Twitter only to see that Final Fantasy Fifteen is trending. Before Iād even plucked up the courage to look at the hashtag, I knew what waited beyond it, and it was that unsettling, sickly feeling in my stomach that inspired me to write this in the first place.
This game has been part of my life since the day of its release. While my first experience with it wasnāt quite ideal, it was the second, my playthrough of it, that singlehandedly made an impact on my existence more so than any other piece of media.
I donāt have a definitive number of hours spent playing this game across different platforms, but it is absolutely in the four digits. Throughout that time, thereās not been a single moment I didnāt enjoy it (apart from that time Prompto kept getting shot off the snowmobile and I was foaming at the mouth).
Of course, were it not for this blog, I would never have racked up that much time. This community, the people that love this game, drove me to keep loading up the game time and time again, playing the story over and over, taking thousands of pictures of these characters to share.
The purpose of this waffle Iām writing is not to fight peopleās opinions, or to try and argue that this game is perfect. I simply wanted to share my personal experience with this game and the happiness it has brought me.
Final Fantasy XV was my first game of the series, and I am absolutely not ashamed to say that. Ā
As my first playthrough came to an end, I remember just how potent it was hearing the same song weād heard as we pushed the Regalia towards Hammerhead. The same cheery dialogue that had started it all playing once more, beckoning me to begin a constant cycle that Iām not sure at this point will ever end.
After bracing that same ending over half a dozen times, it never fails to bring back that heart-shattering grief I feel, but at the same time, I feel an overwhelming amount of love for it all. Yes, this game has flaws, but theyāre so minor for me in comparison to what makes it brilliant that I barely noticed them.
For me, itās the little things. The immersion. Iām there with them. If Noctis says heās too hot, youāre damn right Iām going into the gear menu to take his jacket off. If Gladioās sneezing in the rain, Iāll think about putting his top back on.
Itās the tiny little details ā the sighs, the yawns, the expressions, the exchanges between them. All four of them have such a connection between them thatās there right from the beginning of the game. Itās what makes the story, the ending, the whole premise of this game so powerful. They become so real to the player, developing this incredible sense of empathy for all of them in the gameās most difficult moments.
I never tire of these things, running laps around Eos, finding new places to take photos of our protagonists, admiring their every detail.
Iāve seen them called every negative adjective under the sun, picking holes in their personalities. Ansel opens you up to a whole other world that you donāt necessarily see in a normal playthrough. They all smile, they all laugh, they all show emotion. Not one of them is āboringā or āannoyingā. I could witter on for days with what I love about each of them, but I will save that for another day, and I certainly wonāt be leaving any heroines or villains out of that either.
There are times that I feel incredibly biased, and I am. Iāve defended every decision made about this game, never questioned it, Iāve accepted what it is and continued to love the game unconditionally. Perhaps that makes me a bad gamer, or just an idiot.
I loved going to the cinema to watch Kingsglaive the night before the gameās release. Even though, at the time, I wasnāt particularly excited for the game, I still found it exciting. It was there I was handed my very first piece of XV merchandise ā a card holder. Itās been with me for four years. Itās travelled to the other side of the world with me. Itās filthy and itās been taped back together twice but thatās just how precious this game is to me. Iād be more devastated about losing that card holder than the debit card it holds.
I loved learning a little more about each of our characters through the Brotherhood anime. It was refreshing to have content in a different medium, one where we were given rich dialogue and a deeper sense of their personalities.
I had no issue with paying more for the DLC, each had an extra two hours of content, unlockables and extras. It was hardly breaking the bank.
Even when the later DLC was cancelled, I didnāt get angry. I didnāt hate anyone for it. I understood it was a necessary decision for business reasons, and the people behind this game had already given us so much. Even when they gave us an alternative, the same content in a different form, the āfansā still threw their toys out of the pram.
To me, this game isnāt incomplete. It never was. Iāve always been happy with what weāve been given and delighted that they would offer us even more.
People will compare this game to the next ā theyāll either call it the game that Final Fantasy XV never was or shove it into the corner with their other gripes and disappointments, huffing and puffing until Square Enix give each and every individual the exact game that they want.
Whatever happens, XV will always be the game that stood by me in some of my worst moments. I hope that in years to come, people will pick it up for the first time and enjoy it for what it is, experiencing the same things that I love about it. And I hope those of us that really love this game will stick around a little longer too.
To everybody who worked incredibly hard to bring this game into existence, thank you.
#ffxv#ff15#final fantasy xv#final fantasy 15#Noctis Lucis Caelum#noctis#ignis scientia#ignis#gladiolus amicitia#gladio#prompto argentum#prompto#ugh i feel like there was so much more i wanted to say#this game means the world to me and it hurts to see people ripping it to pieces when it has genuinely made me so happy#anyway i just needed to get this off my chest#i love this game so much#YOU CAN TELL ITS GONNA BE A SAPPY ONE CAUSE DD'S MADE THE PICS MONO
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