The only thing I'll agree on is that he had a poor selection of scenes to work with. They really did a poor job picking something that would interest him.

But having heard tons of previews from the first ~15 hours of the game by many actual gaming sites and actually seeing the gameplay and how much it reminds me of Xenoblade, I really don't think this thing is a fair assessment of the game. The game is also pretty much an anti-XIII in all aspects of gameplay from what we've seen so far.

Worst case scenario, the only thing this is indicative of, IMO, is that FFXV will not have the mainstream appeal SE is hoping for. Which isn't that bad. Most of my life FF has been something barely anyone cared about and if they did, they didn't have nice things to say it.

I think it's time for SE to just accept that HRPGs are a weird niche and that FFVII was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.