Buggy, P2W, grindy, moronic AI... – FINAL FANTASY BE:WOTV Review

Oh what a disappointment. I was looking forward to this game for so long, and at first, all seemed well. But that feeling quickly came to an end. Let’s make a little pros and cons list. Pros: - Fast stamina (NRG) recovery at 1 every 3 minutes - Very nice graphics, especially with the Esper summons - Gameplay is fun Cons: - Paid and free currency, so some things can only be purchased with in-game currency that you paid for - No way to unbind accounts other than Facebook. I’m wary of using Facebook to bind accounts to a SE game though, given my past experience with Opera Omnia where they discontinued that service without an e-mail or message on Facebook (I was taking a break so I didn’t see the in-game notification), and I was unable to get that account back. I sent them nearly every piece of information they requested except for player ID which I couldn’t get since you need to log into your account to get it. Kinda a stupid idea to require information that can only be gotten if you have the account anyway right lol - They took out the way to reroll quickly. That’s just dirty. Companies should know by now that players want to reroll when they start - VIP system with their “Royal Rank” - Very low drop rates - A bunch of annoying glitches - Terrible controls. It’s extremely difficult to direct your characters if there’s anything in the vicinity of your target, so you have to always be rotating the camera to get a clear view or drag the screen to manually move - Guild battles and arena are automatically played, and the AI is dumb as rocks. Rocks that were dropped on their head as babies. Who suffered multiple concussions. And dropped out of the 2nd grade. Seriously I can’t stress how stupid the AI is. You WILL lose because of it, and it will be frustrating - You need to grind materials for job levels a LOT. And depending on how badly RNGesus wants to laugh at you, you could repeat a stage literally dozens of times without getting even one copy of the material you need - Lazy reskin of another of gumi’s games, The Alchemist Code. They literally copy/pasted some stages lol Let me elaborate on the glitches. You see, you can watch ads up to 3 times at once, so many times a day to refill NRG or get items. Fair, right? You give them ad revenue, they give you free stuff. However...there’s a little problem with that trade. And it’s a big one. A lot of the time, you either can’t watch an ad, or worse, you watch it and get nothing. Example: I watch an ad, get summon an item, then try to watch a second ad. But for some reason I can’t, despite the game saying I have 2/3 summons available. Or the worse one: I watch an ad, and just get nothing but an error that kicks me out to the title screen. I wanted to like this game. I really did. I’m a huge FF fan and would love to see other FF characters in grid-based combat. But as it is right now, this game is far too flawed to play. Fix the glitches, dial back the P2W factor, and for GOD’S SAKE, either make the arena/guild battles PvE or FIX THE STUPID AI <_< Just some examples of the AI’s stupidity - Wasting Limit Bursts on a single grunt unit - Wasting time, skills, and AP by attacking grunts when all they need to do is lower a boss’s life. A boss who starts out extremely close - Having multiple people target the same enemy, only to have them die in one hit (Mediena targets an enemy, Y’shtola targets the same enemy, then someone waltzes in and kills that enemy so that both mages’ spells hit thin air) - Idiotic supporters who will buff themselves before the tanks they’re supposed to be buffing - Gunners who don’t even try to maintain their distance. This one really bugs me. Against slow tanks, Frederika can be literally impossible to touch since her attack distance is insane. She just needs to shoot the enemy when they’re in range, then move away. But nope, the AI will shoot, then end the turn without moving away, causing her to get smacked and die. Or worse, Sometimes she’ll run TOWARDS them to get into range.
Review by fuzzylittlbunny on FINAL FANTASY BE:WOTV.