Love having all my party members twiddling their thumbs defending and healing while one guy fails his steal rolls 10 times in a row
I extra love it if the steal move deals damage so you have to also worry about the target dying from too many failed attempts
I double extra love it when it’s a boss battle when on top of everything else the story momentum just grinds to a halt while you fuck with a stupid RNG for 5 minutes
But dis it do a good job of feeling like you were playing the whole party?
No lol it sucks so much that the other three boys are unplayable until you unlock them one by one on the skill tree. And that you can only momentarily play as them during a fight, after which you’ll immediately switch back to Noctis. Noctis is the lamest one!
The devs couldn’t even give us the decency of playing as them in comrades beyond one (1) mission. The only good mission.
The original release: absolutely not. Noctis is the clear protagonist and occupies 75% of the player’s attention
With the DLC or in the Royal Edition: Noctis occupies about 30% of the player’s attention. Each other party member gets their own lengthy side quest and returns to the main storyline as playable characters and with deeper motivations for their actions and contribution to the plot.
It’s one of those games where they solved many of it’s initial flaws way after the impression of the game was set in the public mindscape.