 Hello, hello, hello, I'm Philip Magnus, and I also talk a little bit about Final Fantasy XV. The footage you are currently seeing has been captured with the Share Technique, rather the Share option, on the PlayStation 4, which means that it does not look too great, I imagine. For some reason it captures the footage in 720p until I'm playing 1080. I have no idea what that's about, but it will do in a pinch. I decided to make this video because I have a few issues with Final Fantasy XV in particular. I'm a long time fan of the series, I started playing when I was seven, maybe eight years old. Final Fantasy X was my first experience with the game. I loved it, I have been following the series ever since, I have played through 13, and it's well, part of its dreadful expansions. I get the shivers by thinking about them. I have played through 10 multiple times, and I have also taken some time in the beautiful world of Final Fantasy XIV, which is an amazing MRPG with issues, but I'm not going to talk about it. I'm here to talk about why I felt, personally, that Final Fantasy XV for the first 20 hours I spent in it did not feel like much of a Final Fantasy game at all, for one it did not have any companions to unlock, it did not have these weird crazy looking companions, all with their own incredibly ridiculous quirks, with their funny hair, and yes, I realised that these four do have a lot of the hair gel problems of the series, and I appreciate that. Yes, I do. But, and that's a big but, I strongly dislike the fact that there are no females to play us, or rather to have in your party. I don't have a problem with the fact that I'm only allowed to control not this, that's alright, I'm okay with it, but I really would have enjoyed there being a permanent face to my team, a permanent female face. Here, what you're seeing currently is Titan. The reason I decided to show this exact footage is because it was at the end of Chapter 4 that I, at long last, felt like I was actually in the Final Fantasy game. I mean, look at him. He's gigantic. He is absolutely removed from reality as we know it. He is very much a Final Fantasy character, a gigantic monster of powers that are quite honestly incomprehensible to the main character. That's what I liked. Now this part of the game was very much streamlined and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the contrast between the sections that came before it in the gigantic, beautiful open world setting of Final Fantasy XV, the setting which you travel through with your awesome regalia, and where you hunt monsters. Now hunting monsters, a lot of fun most of the time, a lot of fun as long as you're not fighting in the forest and the camera isn't going insane. That is a big problem of the game, the camera can be very shitty for the simple reason that there's a lot of forest, there's a lot of trees which completely ruin your ability to see what you're doing and they ruin your ability to parry your ability to basically, well not parry, but basically your ability to dodge enemy hits because you simply cannot see what's happening half the time and you spend a big portion of the game in those hunts in the woods trying just completely failing at moving the right analog stick and trying to find a way to view the battle in a way that will allow you to win and not get maimed by awful cats for example. Not pleasant, let's just say, but this, this was a wonderful change of pace, streamlined, epic looking, section very fiery, almost hellish, kind of ifritish if you know that particular monster in previous Final Fantasy games, ifrit is usually the name of the fire monster, this time they have gone for Titan, I do not know why, but hey, that's okay, that's all right, now I know that you can spend less time on hunts and doing secondary quests than I did, a lot less because as I said I probably spent until the point when this was recorded I had spent 20 hours mostly doing secondary quests, at this point as I'm speaking I have spent more like 30 hours playing the game and I would say that I have spent another seven, eight hours just doing hunts and secondary quests, they are fun enough mostly because the combat system is amazingly fluid, absolutely enjoyable and quick paced, very quick paced, I don't quite enjoy the magic system, it's more of a crafting system with which takes up one of the four spaces you have for weapons, instead if you equip a magic slot you fire the magic, the spells each have three charges, they can be crafted with elements and items which change the aspects of the spells a lot, ah yes endless whining, that's a problem for a lot of people, not for me, I didn't seem to mind it all that much but Noctis does whine a lot for some people I think it's reasonable, his father died and he doesn't know how to get through it honestly people react differently, the concept of loss, of loved ones, close ones and feeling betrayed by your father, not the most unusual thing after he dies that is not the most unusual way to react to such a major thing to happen in your life, really, that's a very good moment I'd say, a very very interesting moment heart to heart with Gladius who is I would say one of the best, probably the best companion according to lots of people, he's a gigantic beast of a man who squashes his enemies with a double, sorry with a broadsword and of course my reaction to this phone ringing at this exact moment is how the hell is there a reception? I'm literally in the depths of the earth, granted there's a lot of problems with that phone call but still very very weird, Imperials are basically some troopers-ish, yeah faceless, you don't really know much about them they constantly attack you from their space ships, sorry aerial vehicles and they're not too difficult to kill, especially with spells as you can so plainly see, honestly I have fun killing them later on once I got to level 40 something, assassins start is falling up and those are a lot more difficult to kill and they do crazy amounts of damage if you fail dodging their deadly, absolutely deadly attacks, they're not fun, actually they are, I'm lying they're assassins and I love killing assassins assassinating assassins, kind of my thing, now for the Arkin, the Arkin is this amazing gigantic creature which can in some ways communicate with you or rather it tries to, as you see it doesn't do too great a job of it, yeah keep going buddy I'm starting to get it, more of the whining, this one was a bit a bit more annoying, see this was, ah good job me, passed me so good at this, now for some reason after he failed to communicate he decided he should have stonked me to the ground which honestly I do not understand but that's a really cool moment, stopping a giant from stomping you with your tiny little sword, kinda awesome I won't lie, oh trust me it's a lot more than one, now we've got a short chase by a giant sequence here and it was a lot of fun, admit and then it wasn't, the moment that the giant hit me with his fist and only took 102 damage I kind of felt like, huh weird and then to my disappointment Gladio actually was late and so I was moving in a circle to here, yeah very very slow Gladio, not good at all, thank you, I have the best suit, the greatest suit, digital deluxe edition or just the normal deluxe edition is to blame for that, I have heard that if you don't have this suit you have something called endurance which apparently is super annoying and wastes a lot of your time in the game and I feel for my friend who told me about it, who told me that the game wasted like 40 minutes of his time and that if he had this suits those 40 minutes could have been easily saved, yeah not great wasting time for something so stupid like endurance when you sprint is to my opinion absolutely abysmal choice in game design, yeah I'm not gonna lie I just really felt epic even though it was just a quick time event, being squashed by a giant is very good, is very entertaining and surviving that giant hits even more so I assure you and then trying to kill his arm which let me tell you is a bit more slow pace than I would have hoped but he's a giant so yes I'm going for him as you see warping doesn't do that much damage to him, at this point I was still waiting for my teammates to show up and here they are finally I know they were glad you went too but I'm sure he'll pop up soon enough the music the music is fantastic there they are the calories here now I have no clue what those are but they use them in the giant so I guess that's they were somehow helpful this bit kind of reminds me of one of the bigger battles in Final Fantasy 10 when the combined armies of Spira decided to take and sin it was only all in the game maybe four five six hours in maybe it was a bit later though I don't know it's been a while I I bought Final Fantasy 10 on Steam but I haven't played through it yet don't have the time sadly great game absolutely great game Armaged chain is kind of fun don't lie a bit too short if you ask me but you still can do a lot with it the only complaint I have is that half the time when I press L1 and R1 at the same time all kinds of different things happen as you see plainly I'm right now trying to press L1 and R1 at the same time for a large portion of time and yet nothing much is happening I kind of wasted this one I'll be honest I will be completely honest I booked this up it happens yeah this is not it nothing to it at all I'm afraid the war mechanics the war mechanics are fantastic there are a lot of where the enjoyment and the fluidity of combat come from honestly I absolutely absolutely love just warping around especially when I have gigantic enemies or a lot of enemies rather when I have a lot of enemies I can just walk from one to the next chaining strikes and this heightens your finesse it's basically makes your damage super super scary just so much fun such absolute fun I was very surprised that I couldn't actually scan the Titan but I suppose it made sense now my problem with this is that once I unlock the Titan and a few of the other summons in the game I don't I don't really have the ability to summon them I never quite got the idea behind my ability to summon them I think it's after once you fight for a period of time you basically get the ability unlocked or rather just L2 pops up and tells you you can now summon this guy or rather it just shows up on your feet with press L2 to summon something along that line which absolutely inexplicable to me I'll unfair the love interest rather romance interest rather bright rather someone I knew as kid and I'm supposed to marry to preserve the peace only the pieces now not really happening because the Empire struck against my father so they occupied my country and there's no peace at all huh wait oh well lots of things are happening in this game once you get once you get level 40 the hunts become progressively more difficult and basically you are a lot more challenged so if you like challenge that's probably what you want to do this guy is a frenemy indeed this guy is so obviously playing both sides but to what end I do not yet know why they're even discussing it it's one of those weird character moments anyway that's what I wanted to show so thank you for watching and I hope you enjoyed it if you enjoyed this video please like share subscribe see you next time bye