This is really exciting. I just finished the game about a week ago and had an absolute blast with it. The game isn’t without its flaws—looking at your crafting system—but it was quite enjoyable all the way through. Excited to get a chance ar some more content.

Also, how is no one talking about the patch notes linked in the article? The time of the onion sword is upon us!

There's a lot I love with the game and a lot of things I wish could be improved.

Music is phenomenal. Lots of great stuff, including lovely little nostalgic riffs and exciting new pieces.

I'm enjoying the combat system. I haven’t played many games with this kind of action-oriented system, but I have found it easy to get in to and satisfying to explore new combos and maneuvers. I do feel like some of the battles overstay their welcome a bit, perhaps because I’m not as much of an aficionado for these systems nor as adept.

I found it hard to get into the story at first, but it's definitely “Final Fantasy worthy” if that makes sense. I am enjoying as everything unfurls and putting the connections together.

I like how the world feels vast but manageable. Before this, I was playing a lot of FF7 Remake and FFXV before that. This seems to be finding a nice balance where something like FF7R has everything in tight levels and corridors and FFXV was vast and open, but it felt like a lot of the openness was uninteresting (like, they had to give you a car to get through it all at a quasi-interesting pace). With the different map segments, it narrows down to the more interesting places to explore, while also opening up to more detail and still giving a sense of a larger world.

I wish the economy and crafting system was better/more interesting. I'm not sure how far into the game I am, but I’ve felt like gil has been mostly useless since the second weapon I got, and crafting has been dull enough that I don’t really care about or track what components I’ve gathered up.

All-in-all, loving the game and excited to keep going. I feel like there's still a lot of story to go and that's awesome because I also feel like I’ve put a lot of time into it already.