Naaah I'm none of these "10 years development" people, and I actually expected far less from the game than most people did.
I think I was mainly irked by how the game tried to be very open-world and dive into the story slowly for the first nine chapters, and then everything went down so fast that I didn't have the feeling that I...well, FELT it. (Well, other than absolutely hating the stealth-part in chapter 13, yeah. i totally despised it, gotta admit).
Story-wise, I was okay with chapter 13 mostly. I finally found I had a reason to like Prompto, lol.
But yeah, I did have expectations, but these didn't come from before the game, but from what the game made me believe it would be and then wasn't really. So much after chapter 10 felt so forced down my throat, like the awful "Noct don't run ahead Iggy is blind" madness (followed by me having to fight the Marlboro alone cause I still ran ahead cause FUCK YOU GLADIOLUS WHY DONT YOU JUST CARRY IGGY YOU'RE LIKE 5 METERS TALL) which was shoved into like one small segment and then just neglected because SURPRISEEEE, you lost Iggy and Gladio. xD
And, well, I guess I'm not into reading valuable information. Like, it can be nice, but in chapter 13, I felt like having to pick up the notes to understand stuff killed the mood a little...It's like having to do gummi missions in a KH2 speedrun, LOL.
I think I like most of the characters, too. I even liked Luna, even though her death was such a bad adaption of Final Fantasy VII that I stopped playing and shook my head in disgust for five minutes straight, but her idea was nice and her german voice is adorable and I liked the sticker-book-thing.
Only Gladio can go fuck a brick I swear I hate this guy so much, I only tolerate him cause he's stronk and drops a funny joke like EVERY FIVE HOURS
I don't know but I just remembered a fanfiction called "immortal no more" and I think it was about FF 8 but it reminds me of Ardyn and actually kinda Noctis, cause first he's guarded by the gods from basically everything and then BAM he's dead.
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