Recent reviews by Nonchalant Fish

Unplayable. Sometimes when a friendly NPC comes on screen my framerate just drops to sub 10 fps. Apart from that it mostly works.

Edit: After a lot of testing i figured out it's the hair that completely breaks the graphics engine. Turn hair down to medium or low and this problem is fixed.

Still leaving this on negative until A-Life is properly implemented though.

Update: Another game breaking bug, my quest markers now disappeared and won't come back no matter what i try. If i want to progress further i have to literally google every single quest objectives location when the quest text/dialogue doesn't tell me where things are.

Fun but drags on way too long and the side content is extremely boring and low quality.

PVP is fun as long as you're part of a high ranked guild.

If you aren't then don't bother, PVP won't be much more than you being zerged by the big guilds and alliances.

Every piece of content outside of PVP is a 3/10 at best. Extremely boring outdated grind content and nothing else.

Mid

Enjoyed playing the beta, but the game keeps crashing on compiling shaders so it's not playable right now.

Another expansion of class design taking steps backwards. Ever since the StormBlood class reworks every expansion has homogenized, simplified and streamlined classes more and more. Tanks and healers have it the worst. Every healer plays basically the same, every tank plays almost exactly the same. They have the same defensive cooldowns, the same damage abilities. It's just unbelievably boring. The bi-annual astro and monk reworks also make another return to no avail. Square still has no clue what to do with these jobs and Monk has been dumbed down even more to a simple 1-2-3 class.

Every expansion the only new thing added is another high potency 30/60sec cooldown to press. It's unbelievably boring. If next expansion they dont step away from this formula this game is doomed. I've been playing the exact same jobs with nearly no gameplay or rotational changes for 4 years now, and it's going to be another 2 years of the exact same thing from the looks of it.

The main story is also a joke, it's poorly paced, the first 70% of the story is an extremely boring tournament arc/ coming of age story of Wuk Lamat's coming of age story but is incredibly uninteresting. I don't want to post any spoilers but what happens with the "gate" and the Zoraal Ja makes absolutely 0 sense.

The graphical and engine update is absolutely amazing though. The new zones especially the ones with dense nature look amazing. The last 2 trials are stunning and the dungeons also look amazing. Character models and facial animations have also improved a ton.

The only valid criticism for this game is the framerate.

The microtransaction are a non issue that barely impact the game whatsoever. Only people that know literally nothing about this game could complain about them. They're on the level of red orbs in DMC, all of Capcom's games have these weird useless microtransactions yet this game gets lambasted for it and the other ones get a pass?

Game itself it amazing.

banger

banger

Clutch claw and tenderizing destroyed the combat.

The late game bosses have a ton of cheesy 1 shot moves not very fun to play against.
Alatreon especially forces you to use a certain playstyle that doesnt work whatsoever on some weapons.
Safi'Jiva the siege you need to progress your gear randomly leaves the game every other 2 weeks so dont bother getting into end-game when you're on an arbitrary you are not allowed to progress your gear set of weeks.