Played another few hours of FF16 tonight. 21 hours in and I'm not even halfway done yet xD about 1/3 according to HLTB since I'm going for all the side quests and such. Maybe not necessarily all achievements since I'll be fine playing the game just once for now, but yeah I'm definitely wanting to experience all the game can give me in one go.

Combat is definitely easy. I haven't game overed once. It's always funny to hear Clive panting after a fight when I didn't even take damage xD there are mods out there to amp up the combat but I worry that I'll randomly hit a boss that got buffed way too much and have to fiddle around with uninstalling it. I'd rather just keep playing. I'm sure part of the easy combat difficulty is how I have been going out of my way to kill everything, do every side quest, and I've got some EXP boosting items as well. I'm no slouch at action games either so the dodging/parry mechanics have made it stupidly easy at times.

I'm really enthralled by the characters though, and the story is intriguing. Not perfect, but pretty good. The characters definitely carry it.