Honestly if you're worried about reviews, or if it gets ripped apart or whatever-- I would say the best advice would be to just take a step away from the internet and just play it. After that, what happens, happens. The history surrounding this game, that it's a new mainline Final Fantasy, that everyone has their own opinions about what an FF game should be like, that it'll have some valid problems as many games do, and that people lose their fucking minds over even an 8 out of 10 and declare it a failure because it "took so long to make and this is the best they could do" will all collide into a yellow snowball.



The Conan segment alone lifted the curtain on how hysterical people are going to be over the game whether good or bad. It isn't worth the stress. My cards are on the table that it'll be a good game but with problems. Hopefully they don't come together to bring the overall experience down too much. I love FFXII, but the story took a massive nosedive and it didn't really have the great finale it deserved. I still put about 250 hours on it.