Final Fantasy XV and LoZ: Breath of the Wild

[Markness]

I decided to pick back up Final Fantasy XV after putting it aside in favor of the VII remake as well as hitting some walls in the game and I started playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild recently. Both are open world games and I haven’t played many of those but I want to overcome my challenges in this regard. However, I don’t think I can do 100%/full completion play throughs yet but I would be fine just getting enough stuff done for each game and reach the endings. I also have time constraints due to my job. For those who have played both games, how can I get through them relatively quickly? I have to start all over with XV and BotW I am where you fly down towards the village.

 

[Misery]

Considering both are open world games (as far as I know) they're basically designed to take bloody forever, if played normally. TECHNICALLY Zelda can be beaten in like 10 minutes by just going straight to Ganon and somehow taking him down (as the game does not bar you from doing this) but that sure doesnt exactly constitute a normal playthrough.

FF, however, is likely to be VERY long. It's open world AND it's a Square game, which means 10 billion cutscenes and things. It's probably going to take you quite awhile. I havent actually played it though, my interest in the series pretty much died after 4 due to it being far too easy to hold my attention. Zelda I've played, but got bored of it after not too long.

 

[Markness]

Considering both are open world games (as far as I know) they're basically designed to take bloody forever, if played normally. TECHNICALLY Zelda can be beaten in like 10 minutes by just going straight to Ganon and somehow taking him down (as the game does not bar you from doing this) but that sure doesnt exactly constitute a normal playthrough.

FF, however, is likely to be VERY long. It's open world AND it's a Square game, which means 10 billion cutscenes and things. It's probably going to take you quite awhile. I havent actually played it though, my interest in the series pretty much died after 4 due to it being far too easy to hold my attention. Zelda I've played, but got bored of it after not too long.

Definitely not a normal playthrough. I tried to fight this giant stone monster in the first area and got wrecked by it.

That’s also partly why I haven’t beaten FF VI. It feels very dragged out. I’ve only played through VII, VIII, IX, and X. They were long even though I didn’t do 100% completion runs with them.

 

[Misery]

Yeah, 6 was definitely kinda dragged out. I remember watching a playthrough once, by HCBailey, who mostly does JRPGs, and he made a very good point: The bit at the floating island is where the game should have ended. A climactic battle with Kefka to stop him from using the statues would have made sense (and in fact the way it ACTUALLY happened, with everyone standing around like idiots and the statues obeying him for no reason, really DIDNT make sense to me at all), and everything after that just seemed tacked on. That's how I felt playing it as a kid. Like it just stopped being interesting after that, and I never actually finished it myself. Though I'd already been sorta losing interest since there just wasnt any challenge to it. I always wondered what in the heck is the point of any of the random encounters when they provide zero threat. I'll always, always prefer the very first game in the series above all the others. It was freaking hard the whole way through. I miss RPGs like that.

But yeah, if you think those games are long, XV is likely to make them seem short by comparison. Square always kinda dragged things out to some degree but in recent years they really go all out with it.