Recent reviews by HendrickFS

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 45-55 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Easy
Missable Achievements: ❗ None
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 Yes, 1 DLC
Guides Recommended? 📖 Helpful but Optional
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [8/10]

The game provides great story and complex universe with incredible plots, but the characters don't seem to have innovative personalities, speaking so much (even in combat) that you can decide to mute the game sometimes. The mechanics are easy and intuitive to get, but the skill system has so many options for each character that you may stick to one character just to don't need to be always understanding the skills of the six characters. Even though the combat feels easy, the enemies have too much health, making the combat unnecessary longer and tiring. The open world is really good and cool to explore, BUT whenever you find enemies, the game needs to load the combat, making the exploration slow and the combats annoying while walking around.

The 100% completion is pretty easy, almost all achievements are easy to understand and get. The achievement progression may be very aligned to the game progression if you play it exploring and aware about the achievements, but at the end some of the achievements requires more time it should. The achievements about making strong bonds is pretty annoying due to the 1 in game real hour cooldown to talk to whoever you need (At the end I needed to leave my game running and wait for this cooldown doing nothing). The side-quests are boring but OK, the problem is the quantity, why they spent time and resources creating so many boring side-quests???

Overall its an easy and cool game to achieve 100%, you can have fun without missing achievements and when you lock in you can get a lot of achievements per day. But there's a few boring achievements.

(If you are not a serious game completionist, this review may be ridiculous for you, skip it)

As a player I love the game, they just copy a lot of things of Risk of Rain 2 and Vampire Survivors, added a very questionable humor (can't say that its good) and launched it. It is fun to get the achievements, very cool to play the game and you can waste plenty of time on this. Very well designed weapons and items, good (and simple) mechanics, its cool to make different builds, kinda of very addictive.

BUT, as a game completionist, it really disappointed me. Just like Vampire Survivors and RoR2, the update added new achievements. I know it should be good (it may be for future players), but I don't trust this type of game, since it will just mess with my Steam statistics every major update and I would need to remember/relearn the mechanics to get the new remaining achievements.

If you, like me, want a stable game completion, it is not for you.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 100-130 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Hard
Missable Achievements: ❗ A Few (Can Be Done through chapter selection)
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 Yes, Long Commitment
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Helpful but Optional
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [8/10]

FF VII Rebirth has great improvements compared to FF VII Remake, such as the open world and the easy management of upgrades. The story is the continuation of FF VII Remake, and now the world looks really big and full of new things to see. New cool characters appear and the characters from the Remake are greatly developed and you can know more about them. Now that it's open world, each region provides a lot of things to do and ways to improve your team (now you can also ride chocobos, what is really cool). The side quests are still kinda non-sense but ok, no problem at all. There's also a ton of different mini-games, I personally don't like all of them, just the Queen's Blood (really cool). In the overall, it's a great game, I really had fun playing the main campaign and even more exploring the world.

Now, about the 100% completion, I kinda of don't like the achievement design of the Final Fantasy games, it's cool but there's things that are quite boring or annoying to do. The time you will spend depends on your knowledge about the achievements, since you may be needed to replay some chapters if you miss some things, and also depends on your interest on non-sense dialogs from non-story related things (I skipped them all). If you already played the recent FF games, you know that you must play the NG+ (Hard Mode), taking really long time. The combats of simulations or hard mode hits really hard and you may need to watch some guides or spend time leveling up. When I say that there's a ton of things to do, it's no joke, and some of the mini-games are quite hard, requiring lots of tries (like when I take almost 2 hours to get good grade in a... piano mini-game), and yes, you need to do everthing and be good at it. My only complain is about those non-sense things, it's okay to require the player to play all mini-games, but why do I really need to be professional on the crunch-off, piano, or even cactuar crush mini-games? Okay, some of the mini-games are quite cool, like chocobo race or queen's blood, but most of them are not fun at all. So, if you are going to get all achievements, I recommend you to take a look on those mini-games, and don't let all of them for the end.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 13-40 hours (read final thoughts)
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Moderate
Missable Achievements: ❗ A Few (Can Be Avoided with a Guide)
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Essential for 100%
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 7/10

Final Fanatsy IV, compared to I II and III, brings a great improvement in terms of story, characters design and plot twists. I like it so much that I just finished it and now I'm very curious to see more about the story and the characters (by watching videos).

In terms of mechanics innovation, it introduces the famous ATB system to the combat, where the turns of each character are defined by a bar that fills accordingly to the character's speed, making the combat more dynamic and funnier than before. It can presents a little more of complexity for those who are not used to the Final Fantasy combat, since you will need to think faster and also navigate on the command menu while the enemy ATB will be filling without waiting you finish your turn.

The game is very good, with cool characters, unexpected plot twist, great story and world design, I would give a 10 on those terms. BUT, since my reviews are about the achievement completion, let's talk about the completion. A lot of achievements are quite easy, such as "get X gils", "defeat Y enemies" and even the story-related achievements. But there's two disappointments, the FF classical missable achievements (complete 100% of the bestiary, open 100% of the chests and find all hidden items) that you will want to have a guide by your side during all the playthrough to check if you are not missing something, but there's no problems with extremely rare spawns for bestiary (since you can use a item to spawn the "Flan Princess", which has 1/64 of spawn rate). And there's two achievements that depends on EXTREMELY RARE drops from specific enemies, the time you will take for this depend on your luck, that's why I said the completion can take a wide range of time (13-40 hours), the most of the comments I have seen about this states that this farm took almost 50 hours. Fortunately, if you, like me, have a job to work on, you can install mods to increase the drop rate.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 16-20 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Easy
Missable Achievements: ❗ None
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Helpful but Optional
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [8/10]

This game is very enjoyable from the beginning to the end of the completion, making you very comfortable playing. The difficulty can be initially scary for who is learning the mechanics, but from after some time you understand how easy it is to grind and defeat a boss when you get stuck on him. The point that engaged me to play ENDER MAGNOLIA after play ENDER LILIES is the very cool mechanic of abilites that make the gameplay feels under your control, where you can select 4 diferent abilities between your available ones, every abilities is unique and while playing you will find the best ones for you and upgrade those.

The context and story are quite hard to understand and you may feel lost sometime. But the map of the game is colored based on what you explored and collect, making it easier to understand where you still haven't been and where you have something to find. You also can fast travel in a very easy way, allowing you to get lost without worries.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 65-85 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Moderate
Missable Achievements: ❗ Many (Multiple Playthroughs Required)
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 Yes
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Essential for 100%
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [7/10]

(Writing as someone who still didn't play the original FFVII)

FFVII Remake have a great history and characters. The world is well designed, making you feel as unconfortable to the reality as the characters, and at the end you feel the same way as them, and will want to play FFVII Rebirth. Unfortunately, some chapters seems boring to me, but in a overall the playthroug was incredible, I really loved to be with the characters and was curious to know what would happen. The steampunk theme is very well used, suiting perfectly with the story.

About the 100% completion, this completion made me feel very tired, so much missable achievements from specific chapters, some of them are confuse and you will want to check a guide every start of chapter. Besides the missable achievements, there's the Hard playthrough, wich is tiring but you can do the chapters in whatever order you want, and has some specific annoying achievements like "Complete the profissional challenge of squat", wich is completely out of the game proposal. Ther's also the secret bosses, that are really hard and can be annoying. Even being a tiring achievement hunt, I really enjoyed the game and recommend it to every Final Fantasy fan.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 8-16 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Easy
Missable Achievements: ❗ A Few (Can Be Avoided with a Guide)
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Essential for 100%
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [8/10]


Final Fantasy III brings the jobs system, wich is way better than the class selection of FFI or the pre-defined classes from FFII, now you can unlock new classes and change the job of each character whenever you want. This game also introduces the summons, like Shiva, Bahamut, Odin and others classical summons that you see in some games of the series, for me who really like those Eikons from FFXVI this was my favorite point. This game can be more difficult than others but as you can activate the EXP boost you can still have a good experience without freaking out.

About the 100%, compared to FFI and FFII it have less low spawn rate creatures, making it easier to complete the bestiary. But to get all of the hidden items you probably will need to have a guide on hand during all the game to don't miss some of them.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 8-16 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Easy
Missable Achievements: ❗ A Few (Can Be Avoided with a Guide)
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Essential for 100%
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [8/10]


Compared to Final Fantasy I, this games provides a few improvements in team formation and level up. The quantity of spells that you can use is better than the first game, a good point, but since you need to use a spell to level it up, you will need to grind every spell you want to use, and maybe at the end you decide to use the same spells every time. The story of this game and the characters are nice points to highlight.

About the 100% completion, the easiest way to get the completion is to follow a guide, since there's missable achievements and some achievements can be easier if you be aware of some details since the start. In general, the completion is really easy, you will sruggle with some fights, but its easy to grind or get new equipaments. And the worst achievement is the classical and annoying "complete 100% of the bestiary", for those who get frustated with Warmech in Final Fantasy I, you will struggle again to find Iron Giant, with his 1.6% spawn rate at a specific place, good luck.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 9-16 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Very Easy
Missable Achievements: ❗ None
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Essential for 100%
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 7/10


The classical experience of Final Fantasy. This is the first game of the franchise, what is a good and a bad point, it's nice to play the original purpose and adventure of FF, but as it is the first, there's less resources and mechanics to appreciate. The story is simple but still profitable, the classes provides a great quantity of combinations of character and spells. And the art book with Amano's art is really nice.

The achievement completion is fast and simple, you can struggle sometimes with some bosses, but you can easily grand whenever you want. The achievements come really natural, except for some specific ones, like the one that demands you to complete the bestiary. My only complaint is about the Warmech, creature that is needed to bestiary completion but has 1 in 64 chance to appear in a specific place, what cost me almost 2 hours to find.

Time to 100% Completion: ⏳ Approximately 45-60 hours
Overall Achievement Difficulty: 🎮 Moderate
Missable Achievements: ❗ A Few (Can Be Avoided with a Guide)
Multiple Playthroughs Needed? 🔁 No
Online Achievements: 🌐 No
DLC Required: 💸 No
Guides Recommended? 📖 Essential for 100%
Bugged Achievements: 🐞 No Issues
Final Score for Achievement Hunters: 🏆 [9/10]

Clair Obscur have an amazing story, with nice characters and plot twists, the theme is really different from conventional. The soundtrack of this game is perfect, I usually don't care so much about the musics, but this games made me put my controller down and appreciate it some times. The combat can be annoying for people that don't want to think too much on what skills use or another turn combat elements, but if you are like me, used to turn based games, this will be the better turn based you ever saw, because it's more dynamic and less boring.

About the 100% completion, the achievements are quite easy in general and you can get most of them by playing normally and exploring all the areas you can access. The only problem is the few missable achievements, I highly recommend to search about those and prevent misses.