Content is not fun – FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Review

So I’ve been playing since launch, and it used to be fun at first. The most fun part of the game are the “trials” in which you have to build a team to take on a boss and win and there are certain win conditions for extra rewards. It used to be a lot of fun tackling these bosses but the game has progressed so much with power creep that you need a whole mess of convoluted buffs and debuffs squished into you 5 man team on top of wonky mechanics in which you must follow a guide to not die. The characters used to go up to 5 star in level, and now progressed to 6, 7, and now “Neo Vision”. It is a mess of redundancy in order to max your characters out. When you pull a new “neo vision” or NV unit they don’t just come out the box at max power. Their system requires that you get “unit fragments” and “transcendent pearls” to unlock extra levels “EX” on your characters to get access to their “Brave Shift” or BS. Their BS will have another moveset that sometimes you need to unlock their full potential and you need to get a second of said NV to break down to unlock a characters EX+1 and get their BS. Now you also need to farm “brave insignias” to level up their moves to be their strongest version. That’s a whole extra mess. Oh and characters that already were released and get a NV awakening, you need 7 copies of to unlock... the 5 star rate is now 10% but there’s over 150 base 5 star units soooo... If you’re wondering about playing this game, do yourself a favor and try something else. The game is a mess right now. If you want Final Fantasy for nostalgia play something like Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia that is also a turn based RPG gacha game but has significantly less confusing and redundant way to progress your characters.
Review by hergumbules on FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS.