Splendor and Loving the Treadmill: Final Fantasy XV

GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE:
Reading through the criticisms of Final Fantasy XIII and the recently released Final Fantasy XV, all of them agree the graphics are beautiful. These titles undoubtedly have the most advanced graphics of the franchise. But I feel, as I read these review and essays, that they leverage the games’ advanced graphics against them as a sly way of implying that the game succeeds only superficially.