Even my PS5 thinks Final Fantasy 16’s cutscenes are too long

My immediate reaction was annoyance. Why was I seeing subtitles when I knew I had turned subtitles off? But it wasn’t a subtitle. Cid was not, in his distinctive northern English rumble, saying, “Your PS5 will enter rest mode in 10 minutes due to power saving settings.” My PS5 was saying it. Because my PS5 thought I’d stopped using it.

This moment says more about my experience with Final Fantasy 16 than any other. I know the PS5’s power saving settings are customizable, but I haven’t touched them since I bought it. And the default setting assumes that if you haven’t used the controller for 10 minutes, you’ve stopped gaming, and it’s time to think about saving some power.

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