Before jumping into the DLCs. I would say this game has blown my expectations away. Besides FFXIV, I haven't played another entry since FFX and other titles beyond X didn't grab my attention due to I'm so used to turn based gameplay for so long. Finally giving FFXVI a chance hearing it's the same writers of Shadowbringers and Endwalker. I had a strong feeling this game's story won't disappoint. Time to go for the Pros and Cons.

Pros:
- Great world building and well written characters.
- Gameplay is fast paced.
- DMC dna in this.
- Fantastic Soundtrack
- Sidequests does affect the world building.
- Beautiful scenery.
- Torgal is best wolf. Pet him 5 times. Trust me.
- Moogle design is straight from FFXIV.
- Hunt system is just like FFXIV.
- GOT is heavily inspired since the writers did only watch 4 seasons.
- Kaiju fights are very cool.
- EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

Cons:
- PC port has stuttering performance issues. Please Fix.
- Having to uninstall 4 games just for the Shaders to download first loading the game.
- Notices some typos when an enemy is doing an attack 20+ hours into the game.
- The game wasn't as challenging until I fought some S ranks.
- There's no point of buying Last Elixir if you're not going to put it in your shortcuts, won't use when you KO. Learned the hard way.
- Barnabas


I am going to go back to play the DLCs and do NG+ and will do a follow up or edit this review once I'm completely done with the game. This game was a treat experiencing this completely blind and spoiler free.

My rating score is definitely 10/10. FFXVI has become my top 3 most favorite FF games and I highly recommend it. Once they fix the performance issues OR download mods to help the issuses.