Having not played the original console release of the game, I found myself having to compare copious amounts of notes with my peers just to be sure exactly how different my experience with the game had been compared to those that originally enjoyed Noctis’s journey two winters ago.Īs a new player to Final Fantasy XV, I had to compartmentalize my time with the game in a few ways: I had over a year's worth of free updates to the game to consider, the packaged in DLC content, the tweaks made with the Royal Edition upgrade, as well as the PC specific customization options.
While it’s very difficult to say what exactly Final Fantasy XV will look like in a year from now, it can be stated that its current rendition is the best yet, But I still hesitate to call it great.įinal Fantasy XV’s Royal Edition, bolstered by a surprisingly adept PC port, is a markedly different and marginally better game than the one that released 15 months ago. “ And with a year’s worth of updates still to go, it feels like the truly feature-complete title is, somehow, still a long ways off. We stated that “It sometimes appears a little unpolished, but it's bristling with ideas - so many, perhaps, that its scrappy feeling was something of a necessity to cram them all in. In our original review of the game, we thought that the game was charismatic, if rough around the edges.
That’s quickly approaching a year and a half ago. Final Fantasy XV originally released in late November, 2016.