The plot / writing feels like it was put together by a 13 year old, or maybe an AI. it's almost interesting, and almost makes sense, but doesn't. Things just sort of "happen", and they don't really make sense and aren't really explained. Character motivations are unclear. Also, the gameplay is shit.
The world they created is super compelling, which seems to always be the case with Final Fantasy games. I just wish they could make an actually good game to go with their top tier world building and art direction.
The world of FF16 is compelling, but nothing within it is — the history, mythology, and politics of the world are entirely nonsensical and seem to largely be shallow constructs built solely to move Clive from place to place. This becomes especially obvious with the lore dump bullshit that
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Ultima
does in the endgame right before the final couple sequences — there is no coherent ideology there, there’s no actual attempt to wrestle with any ideas, it’s just a rehashed strung-together list of jrpg tropes with nothing underneath. Such a letdown for a world with so much potential.