I would have done more side stuff, but I wasn't really feeling it.
I get you on that, unfortunately I kinda had a strong gut feeling that XV's story wasn't going to be that great even before it was released.
I obviously had no way of knowing that, but that is why I've focused so heavily on side content and doing hunts and why I'm at 80 hours on chapter 9 now.
and for anyone who would ask "how could you possibly have that feeling", it was from everything they showed to the public over the past 3 years. It all added up, to me, to be something not that interesting. I just didn't speak up much about it to cut down on the negativity, cause I'm full of it when it comes to games and I don't like expressing negativity all the time.
Even though I don't care for the story or combat very much, I do have 80+ hours into the game, so it did something right... maybe. Others would strongly disagree over the combat, but I find it overall lacking in depth and feels rushed and limited, but I'm not finished with the game yet. I just feel that I would have more out of it in 80 hours.
Also...
Adamantoise is a freaking joke. During the 45 minutes it took me to defeat him, he only hit one of my team members once, in 45 minutes. I took plenty from using a royal weapon, but that fight is a freaking joke. Just a time waster and a big target.
A big target that you never could see properly because the camera is so bad and clipped into the boss the entire time. I never got to see him properly unless I was over him attacking from above.
Really disappointing, was expecting more of a struggle. It's not even about being my character level, even though it's a level 99 enemy, it just didn't attack my team members at all. Prompto probably only got hit for doing something stupid, more than stupid, anyways.