Yeah… reviews of all kinds for the FF series have seemed pretty untrustworthy for years if you were a fan of the first 10
Not surprising with Yoshi-P directing it. I can’t wait for the PC version.
Famitsu seams to give this score to every mainline final fantasy game.
Famitsu in general has obvious biases. The Monster Hunter games generally score very well too.
I wouldn’t put much stock into it in general. Read it more like a “if it scored high that means it’s less likely to be bad” rather than a “if it scored high that means it must be good”.
Idk if it is necessarily a bias towards Japanese games as much as it is they have a different set of expectations that match the Japanese market. For instance, in a lot of jrpg reviews they talk about a classic Japanese “open field” feeling that they like, kind of what you get in xenoblade.
I am sure they would give a good score to a western game that catered well to their criteria, but Japan is a smaller market, so idk why a western company would try to do that. I’m not sure famitsu, or if japanese companies in general even have a great handle in what would be popular anyway - Ghost of Tsushima was a bit hit in Japan, and you have peole like Toshihiro Nagoshi lamenting that they couldn’t make a game featuring a non conventionally attractive lead at a large Japanese game studio.