Play FINAL FANTASY XVI DEMO

I enjoyed this demo, although some might find it hard to call it Final Fantasy, as it really feels like Western Action RPG. I guess this is where the series is going now (looking at you FF7R). I'm not against it, as it feels fun to play but I would like to see FF going back to its roots at some point.

Soundtrack is amazing, this was never an issue with FF games, Soken delivered.

For technicals, I know that a lot of people seems to have issues with performance but for me it worked like a charm, had zero real issues.
100+ FPS on highest settings with FG and DLAA enabled on 4070Ti and 12700K. I'm using 560.81 NVidia drivers.
Cutscenes are locked to 30FPS and sometimes might drop a little but framerate during combat was stable all the time.
In general for me it seems like it's a good port for SE standards, considering how they butchered port of Chrono Cross for example.

I will buy the full game for sure.
I bought it.

The graphics are soapy, my 2060 is getting old for new games, the world isn't fair, but... just look at this good boy!

I'll just leave this wonderful puppy here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3312607513

P.S. Give us Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on PC already!

I am going to recommend the demo, well, because it's free. All of the complaints about the technical aspects are correct. The game did crash during the first cutscene until I updated my drivers, During cutscenes, the game looks really blurry, and does stutter. The gameplay also had very slight stuttering and no matter what graphics settings I used, i could never get the game to run smoothly OR look good. The game also wouldn't use most of my GPU, CPU, or Ram, so I had no idea why it was bottlenecked. However a lot of this criticism is comparing to the PS5 version of the game. The combat was fun, even the late game combat that you can try in the demo. The story is very enticing. I would recommend anyone that wants to try FF16 to try the demo first to see if you can deal with the flaws. I would not recommend the base game to most people if it keeps this poor level of optimisation(even if I myself will still be buying it).

As someone who's beaten the main game on PS5 with all side quests and Hunt Boards, let me tell you, I friggin LOVE this game. I'd even say this is one of my favorite games in a LONG time. Given that sentiment, I think this port does absolutely NO justice and feels like a spit in the face to a game I (and probably several other diehards) feel should receive the treatment of a dignified king.

PROS:
+ Default keybindings are decent.
+ Gameplay segment performance is a much needed, drastic improvement over PS5's struggling "Performance" Mode.
+ Gameplay itself is as solid as ever, mixing Devil May Cry's intensive, combo oriented gameplay and FINAL FANTASY's tactical approach.
+ Soundtrack is AWESOME. Like, PHENOMENAL.

CONS:
- Textures and shading are AWFUL. Like, not even laughably bad, just painfully; edges and shadows are too muddy and smoothed out, there's no anti-aliasing on/off option; nothing pops out and it fails to do justice to this game's dynamic backgrounds and spectacle-oriented gameplay.
- Cutscenes: Locked at 30 fps, but given this game's cinematic nature and different rendering technology compared to the game itself, is fine. As much as I hate 30fps, I feel this was an intentionally aesthetic choice. However, the massive amounts of stuttering and frame dips during CUTSCENES of ALL things is NIGH UNACCEPTABLE, ESPECIALLY for both a AAA budget AND a game that is HEAVILY story-and-cutscene-oriented.
- ZERO PC optimization options outside resolution, fullscreen mode, refresh rate, preset and antialiasing. No freedom for visual and performance optimization at ALL. Probably the most-insultingly least amount of options in a AAA game.

This isn't Square Enix's worst port, but a game this ambitious (and good) should be treated better. $50 for Standard and $70 for Complete won't do this game justice if the game looks this awful and the cutscenes (in a STORY HEAVY game) are this poorly optimized.

Performance in a Ryzen 5600 and RX 7600: not good.

- Unplayable without using FSR (below 30FPS) even in Low Preset.
- Game looks BLURRY AS HELL with FSR on.
- A LOT of stuttering, especially in cutcenes.
- Fixed 30FPS in cutcenes.
- 100% GPU usage, 10% CPU usage... What the ♥♥♥♥.

I'm hoping it will be fixed in time. Until then, cannot recommend purchase.

Fix your damn game, Square.

Sqaure Enix really made PC players wait 1 Year and 2 months for:
-30 fps cutscenes with HUGE stutters
-trash dlss implementation.
-Game looks Blurry as $hit even at 1440p
-game volume too low even on max volume
-game doesn't fully compile shaders
-Anisotropic filtering is broken
-No Ultrawide Support

Another Trash port from Sqaure Enix.