Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition

 PlayStation 4
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8.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 906 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 777 out of 906
  2. Mixed: 63 out of 906
  3. Negative: 66 out of 906
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  1. Vadrael
    Apr 7, 2018
    0
    A hit in the face for those who bought the game day one.
    *Shady Business practice
    *Sells Story related contend
    *no respect for the first Buyers

    In the end they made people who bought day One pay to develop Royal Edition and want to get even more money for selling relevant content.
  2. donhocine
    May 20, 2018
    1
    shame on you square enix for turning the amazing project that was vesus 13 into the mess that is ff15
  3. coralalia
    Nov 3, 2020
    4
    After the first half of the game the plot makes no sense (LITERALLY 0 sense) and the characters are either boring or annoying. Also, the gameplay is really broken and gets even worse as you progress through the game. The open world is the only actual good feature of the game, being big, realistic, aesthetically pleasing and sporadically fun.
    Overall Final Fantasy XV has left me shocked by    After the first half of the game the plot makes no sense (LITERALLY 0 sense) and the characters are either boring or annoying. Also, the gameplay is really broken and gets even worse as you progress through the game. The open world is the only actual good feature of the game, being big, realistic, aesthetically pleasing and sporadically fun.
    Overall Final Fantasy XV has left me shocked by how much it seems to be making fun of the player with its mediocrity.    … Expand
  4. pcgeek86
    Jan 25, 2020
    0
    Considering the high bar that Final Fantasy VII set for this series.

    Pros - Graphics are pretty nice looking - Story is logically divided into 15 chapters - Riding and racing chocobos is pretty fun - Overarching story line was okay-ish - Music is decent, for the most part - Fishing with Noctis is fun - The concept of taking photos during your journey is kinda neat - Lunafreya    Considering the high bar that Final Fantasy VII set for this series.

    Pros

    - Graphics are pretty nice looking
    - Story is logically divided into 15 chapters
    - Riding and racing chocobos is pretty fun
    - Overarching story line was okay-ish
    - Music is decent, for the most part
    - Fishing with Noctis is fun
    - The concept of taking photos during your journey is kinda neat
    - Lunafreya reminded me a lot of Aeris from Final Fantasy VII

    Cons

    - Story is horribly fragmented / confusing to follow
    - Boss battles are pre-scripted and just require mashing a few buttons
    - Summons are pointless and only available at odd times
    - City of Altissia was awesome, but you barely spend any time there, wasted opportunity
    - Terrible frame rate, controls don't feel fluid
    - The car is stuck on rails - you aren't really driving
    - Crafting spells is weak / pointless
    - DLCs don't integrate into the game at ALL
    - Game world feels too much like the real world (Utah maybe?)
    - Side missions contribute nothing to the game (give some guy a potion, retrieve some item)
    - You can't get other characters or much less swap them out
    - Invisible walls are EVERYWHERE, making it frustrating to navigate the great outdoors    … Expand
  5. ArthurJoelLeo
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    I don't want to fight for hours only for leveling up. Trying to leveling up is really difficult
  6. Zeon1982
    Mar 24, 2023
    2
    What happened to Square Enix? They used to put so much effort into they're games. FFXV is one of the most boring and bland games I have ever played. The characters were so uninteresting. Remember characters like Red XIII from FF7 or Vivi from FF9. They were characters that everyone loved and cherished. I didn't care about the characters from FFXV one bit. Pull you're S#!T together Square Enix.
  7. Antoniods
    Jul 1, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Non è un Final Fantasy è un gioco anonimo piatto e inutile, vecchia scuola, sembra più Gta San Andreas con una banda di Sfigati, mediocre ambientazioni e direzione Artistica.… Expand
  8. JugadorRandom15
    Jan 26, 2023
    0
    Un gran juego sin duda alguna, con sus mas y sus contras tiene todo lo necesario para ser una experiencia inolvidable, casi 70 horas de juego y eso que creo que no he hecho todo lo que se puede hacer en el juego, en general es un solido juego que divierte mucho, donde sin duda lo mejor son los 4 personajes principales Noctis y su grupo de amigos que hacen que el juego sea aún mas disfrutable
  9. GG-EZ
    Jul 6, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. You see FF15 skips the prologue because Square decided to make it a movie, so you begin the game not knowing what is going on. You are thrown in this open world that is empty. There are barely any NPC's, only 1 town and several gas stations. That is all there is for the majority of the game.

    You go from gas station to gas station doing busy work. You pick a hunt, go kill the random monster then to the next gas station. Finally you get to the one and only town in the game, a really tiny town. There for the first time you hear about what happened to your hometown, the events of the movie, and they don't show you even a single cut-scene, just some radio station talking about it and a piece of paper.

    Then some aid from Noctis' father appears and tells you need to go raid these 8 temples to get some swords in order to beat the bad guy. Now instead of gas station to gas station picking hunts now you go from temple to temple. These temples are dark, linear and practically as dull and empty as the open world itself. After like 30 hours playing this shtty game you finally get all the swords. Then you get on a boat to a city, then a train and then a time skip to the end of the game.

    This was the vanilla experience but then there is Royal with a bunch of Dlc. You had to wait like a year for the Ardyn Dlc to finally get to know who the fck the main baddy of the game even was... Crazy right? It was that bad. The rest of the Dlc are all disconnected from the game and focus on the other 3 characters accompanying Noctis. It all take place during the time skip of the main game.

    Overall combat is trash press one button win. And I'm not exaggerating when I say you cannot lose in this game. Because if you do the game allows you to use one of your 99 potions or even call a summon to finish the fight for you 99% of the time. Characters are trash with no depth. Story is absolute trash and barely told within the game. FF15 was not a good game. Easily one of the worst games in the series.    … Expand
  10. Rampen
    Jul 16, 2023
    0
    Favorite game of all time. Amazing story and characters. Great graphics and overall a great game.

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Worth Playing
    Aug 30, 2018
    73
    We know that Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition won't be the definitive edition of the game, since more DLC is scheduled. This is the most complete and most beautiful edition of the game thus far, but it's asking you to buy into a very good but still flawed experience that is slowly but surely catching up. If you truly can't wait until the real complete edition surfaces, you'll have a decent experience at the very least. Otherwise, pass on this title and wait another year. The mammoth project that is FFXV will eventually come to a satisfying conclusion.
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  2. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jun 23, 2018
    90
    Final Fantasy XV is a must play for this end of the year. It features a concise narrative storyline but a massive amount of side quests in a huge open world to elevate the game's longevity beyond a hundred hours.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    May 9, 2018
    80
    Gradual improvements mean FFXV is in slightly better shape than it was when it launched in December 2016, but it'll take more than a few additional cutscenes to make its story feel complete. [May 2018, p.96]
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