FINALFANTASY XV POCKET EDITION 9+

I am a fan of Final Fantasy and not a hard core gamer making this app perfect for someone like myself. I like how the app is simple to use, gives a few side quests and sticks to the storyline of the original console game. There is the potential to add in the roaming around feature. But if you don’t have time and would like to indulge yourself in some ff nostalgia, then this is the game for you 🤩

I gave it 4 stars. Reason during battles not all the spoken dialogue is in English but in German?! A very small criticism. It was a bit odd when I heard it 😋

I’ll start with the good points. This game is better designed than the main game. Less bugs overall, and Noctis isn’t falling through the map every 10 minutes. Combat is more fluid than the main game, and feels genuinely better to play.

Now, the rest of it. I downloaded this expecting micro-transactions, and joy of joys, I was completely correct. Final Fantasy XV now has a reputation for micro-transactions, which isn’t a good rep to have.
The game also crashed every time I completed a mission, which is tedious playing, and I quickly grew bored.

As a quality of life change, I would request a camera move function for the overworld, because being stuck in a corner without much room to manoeuvre the characters is a little frustrating.

Overall, it’s clear to anyone with eyes that this game is a desperate attempt from the development team to make their main game relevant again. I’ve long since stopped playing the main game, and this version isn’t the solution to making me pick it up again.
I’m glad that it plays as well as it does, but the reputation is just too hard to ignore. I give this game an extra star for the effort that went into making it, but I can’t bring myself to award more than that.

I played through the first chapter and I wanted (for the first time since owning an iphone) to write a review. I opened the dedicated page on the AppStore expecting to find 5/5. But this isn’t the case. I am so confused... This game is outstanding. Yes, the controls are simplified (you know, for as good as the touch-control can get, this isn’t a ps4, xbox etc); however, Square Enix really did an outstanding job adapting this incredible experience to the platform. Not just in terms of gameplay, but artistically as well! The models are gorgeous. I hope that next iterations, as well as past ones (please do the same magic for FF X 🙏🏻), follow in the footsteps of this one. Truly a work of art: 10 out 10.