After you finish making an avatar, you choose one of three starting cities and get treated to an impressive, competently voiced cutscene featuring the game's expressive character models and idyllic music. There aren't a staggering number of ways to physically customize your character, but there are enough selections to keep you content, and the races are visually diverse enough to get you excited about exploring a new fantasy world. Character creation offers a slick look at race and class choices, showing off a number of fantastic character models and dividing them into subcategories. Once you get past the confusing process of opening an account and endure the arduous patching, Final Fantasy XIV puts its best foot forward. Now Playing: Final Fantasy XIV Online Video Review Final Fantasy XIV isn't fun it's work.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's But these minor peaks are outweighed by abyssal valleys of aimlessness and unfriendliness. A robust graphics engine gives your travels some razzle-dazzle, an open-ended class system offers welcome flexibility, and a focus on storytelling makes the initial hours more bearable than they may have been otherwise. The brighter aspects speak to the MMOG that might have been. These might have been forgivable flaws had developer Square Enix provided an excellent reason to overcome these obstacles, but in fact, they set the stage for a misguided effort that uses its atrocious interface and tortuous mechanisms to veil its core simplicity and unending repetition. It's hard to miss these gaffes-the bizarre and unfriendly method of getting an account set up, the troublesome patcher, having to exit the game if you want to adjust the graphics settings, and so on.
It's unfortunate that the first impression you have of Final Fantasy XIV is so indicative of the experience at large. When the simple act of creating an account for the massively multiplayer online game you just bought is a convoluted mess, you know you're in trouble.
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