Final Fantasy XVI does an excellent job of this, and it leaves players with just enough information for them to form their own theories about what happened to set Clive on his grand adventure.Įverything in the game feels like it meshes together perfectly. In any story-driven game, I want it to show me, not tell me what’s going on. The chapter about his childhood sets up the entire premise of Clive’s motives throughout the rest of the story. Final Fantasy XVI’s storytelling captured me the moment I began learning about Clive. In true Final Fantasy fashion, the game rips your heart out and stomps it into the floor within the first two hours. Final Fantasy XVI’s story takes players through an emotional journey I got a look at the game as it was meant to be experienced up until chapter three, and what I saw was a game-of-the-year contender. The gameplay covered the entirety of Clive’s early adult life, and the beginning of his journey as an adult. At this preview, press were given more time with the game, and were able to experience the first few hours of the story. Each one has an Eikon they send out to help aid them in the fight, which translates to epic Eikon battles throughout the game where players will get to experience what it’s like to be a powerful, magical creature.ĭuring the first hands-on preview, press got a close look at the combat and what Eikon battles will look like. The demo was “a special version made for media to experience, and contents may differ from the final version.” Press were able to play through the first two chapters of the game, as well as one of the open, explorable areas in the game.įinal Fantasy XVI is a role-playing game filled with controversy as kingdoms fight amongst each other over magical crystals. But with Final Fantasy XVI, I highly anticipate that the story will bring me to tears, make me laugh, and take me on an emotional journey.Ī recent hands-on event for Final Fantasy XVI gave press a small taste of exactly what kind of story director Hiroshi Takai is trying to tell. Even Final Fantasy XIV can’t really compare to those endings, as much as I love the stories from that game. It’s rare that I can find a story within a video game that can beat those feelings. A PC version was previously announced, but has no release window.I will never forget the sobbing that occurred while playing through the end of Ori and the Blind Forest and its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Development of the game was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Yoshida said in 2021, and the publisher seemed overly cautious about targeting any kind of release window until the following year, when a summer 2023 release was penciled in.įinal Fantasy 16 will, barring a cataclysmic disaster, come to PlayStation 5 in June. The publisher finally locked down the game’s June release date in December at The Game Awards.įinal Fantasy 16 was originally announced in September 2020. Those delays are likely why Square Enix never offered a hard release date for Final Fantasy 16 for so long. The situation with Final Fantasy 7 Remake was similar in early 2020, Square Enix delayed the remake another seven weeks after committing to a release date. Game director Hajime Tabata apologized for the delay, which Square Enix chalked up to a need for polish. Back in 2016, Square Enix announced just six weeks before Final Fantasy 15’s intended launch, that it was delaying the game another two months. While Yoshida didn’t outright name the other Final Fantasy games he was referring to, it was an oblique reference to the most recent major mainline entries in the series: Final Fantasy 15 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake. “I know Final Fantasy games can get delayed at the last minute,” Yoshida said in translated comments at a press event for Final Fantasy 16 held in New York earlier this month, but “unless a meteor falls on Japan, there will be no delay.” Final Fantasy 16 will be released on PlayStation 5 on June 22, and with just a few months left until the action-focused role-playing game’s arrival, producer Naoki Yoshida feels confident about that date.
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