So I've played a couple hours of the FFXV Demo.
It's a little overwhelming at first. A somewhat deceivingly simple battle system, but there are so many different things. Dodging, guarding, parrying, counterattacking, skills, weapon types. Warping and using your surroundings to flee from the fray and get a high ground advantage over your opponent to attack. Being able to hide behind objects mid battle to recover energy.
So you are running around after learning from your buddy how to fight, and there are a few little creatures around. You kill a few, walk around, your friends grab your attention to look at things. You seem to be doing OK.
Then nightfall hits. It's dark and you are carrying some sort of light source, but it only illuminates a relatively small area in front of you. The game warns you to find a good place to setup camp, but ***** that, what's the worst that can happen?
You hear a mechanical hum of an engine, and one of your friends mentions the Imperial Army. A drop ship of some sort shines a spot light down on you and the area around you. Half a dozen soldiers drop from the ship to the ground and one of them is carrying a banner of some sort. But also on the outskirts of the drop ship's spotlight, you notice something. A few goblins dancing around. And some fast moving blurs, which turn out to be wolf-type creatures darting between the shadows.
The soldiers have weapons, the goblins are running up and poking at you, even stealing items. The wolf creatures are darting from the shadows, taking a strike at you before going back into the shadows. You can barely choose a target, try to attack one of the soldiers, and the others are blasting you before you can take a swing. The goblins are an annoyance, with the occasional potion being stolen, which they proceed to take a few steps back and visibly drink in front of you. If you are lucky enough to strike a wolf as it darts from the shadows you only hope you can continue the strikes, but the rest of its pack will likely hit you once or twice, giving their buddy time to escape.
Apparently I'm chasing a Behemoth to earn some bounty cash... but I can barely take down a pack of wolves as is.
I didn't get to play much today. But I will probably over the weekend. Friday vacation.
Edited, Mar 18th 2015 11:22pm by TirithRR
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