I’m a long-term fan. This game brought back a lot of good will for me. Between Dissidia NT, FFVII, and FFXV I was losing a lot of interest in the future of Final Fantasy. I’m glad they could strike some kind of balance with younger fans too.
Any good game of the series would have “expanded the series to new, younger players”. Every single good FF game has done that.
That said, I didn’t like 16. I played for quite a while, but felt like I was just being led around by the nose and didn’t enjoy the combat, which was basically the only thing in the game. Maybe it gets better later? I dunno.
No, it doesn’t get better. It stays like that the whole game.
The Eikon abilities get more expansive as you go on. Eventually, most of my combat was using the abilities as they charged, which kind of made it more turn based oddly enough.
I don’t know which ones you reached, but the first Eikon’s ability set was the worst in my opinion. Although I thought it was a good introductory set.
