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RELEASE DATE: JUNE 22 2023 PS5 ONLY (right now)  Finally, Final Fantasy... XVI! Or 16, if you're bad with roman numerals. Where our previous Final Fantasy 15 was about modern-day boys on a chill roadtrip, FF16 goes waaay back in the series' history to focus on a more medieval fantasy setting. Castles and knights, swords and sorcery, and ruins of ancient civilizations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCtElEqdTBM STORY quote:The land of Valisthea is studded with Mothercrystals—glittering mountains of crystal that tower over the realms around them, blessing them with aether. For generations, people have flocked to these beacons to take advantage of their blessing, using the aether to conjure magicks that let them live lives of comfort and plenty. Great powers have grown up around each Mothercrystal, and an uneasy peace has long reigned between them. Yet now the peace falters as the spread of the Blight threatens to destroy their dominions.  TRAILERS Trailer 1, Awakening Trailer 2, Dominance Trailer 3, Ambition Trailer 4, Revenge CHARACTERS quote:Clive Rosfield GAMEPLAY  Final Fantasy 16 is not an open world game. It has 4 very large zones with different outposts, towns, cities and dungeons that you are bid to explore as the story progresses. Clive has a main base that he returns to after longer story segments, from which you then set out from to either continue the story or return to older areas to do sidequests or monster hunts in. As the story progresses and time marches on, the world and characters will change in turn. Once you've beaten the game, you unlock NG+ and Arcade Mode, with higher difficulty that allows you to replay stages and get high scores and compete in leaderboards online.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Uy3kZVZ54 Final Fantasy XVI is a full-on action RPG, with combat that can be compared to Dragon's Dogma or Devil May Cry. You play as Clive, and only Clive–other characters join your party and fight by your side, but you cannot control their actions or equipment. The only exception is Torgal, who you give actions to and can combo with, as seen in the above video. On its face, the combat is simple: X is Jump. Square is attacking with your sword for a 4-hit combo. Triangle shoots magic. Alternate the sword and magic buttons to weave different combos. Hold Attack to do a guard breaking attack, hold triangle to charge up your spell, Press Jump and Attack at the same time to do a lunge, or downward slash if you're in the air. You can also give commands to Torgal using the D-Pad. The meat of the combat comes in the form of your Eikonic powers: Clive can have up to three Eikons "equipped", or junctioned, at a time. These change what your circle button does, as well as which skills you have access to.  When you're junctioned to Phoenix, the circle button becomes Phoenix Shift, which is similar to the Warp Strike of FF15, or a stinger if you're more used to action game terminology. If you're junctioned to Garuda, it instead brings enemies closer to you, and with Titan, it becomes a block. By pressing R2, the Square and Triangle buttons give you access to different skills depending on which Eikon you're junctioned to. An Eikon has more skills than you can have equipped at a time, so you have to choose which two to equip. Clive can have up to three Eikons equipped and can shift between them in the middle of combat by pressing L2. Three Eikons with three abilities each, means that you'll be constantly shifting between the different Eikons and their abilities and trying out new combinations of skills. For a more in-depth look at combat, please watch this video. FAQ 16?! I've never played a Final Fantasy game before! Can I start with this one? Final Fantasy is an anthology series–no mainline game has any story relevance to any other. You can start just as well here as you could anywhere else in the series. Go for it! I'm confused about something they just referred to in a cutscene! Don't fret, that's what ATL is for! Active Time Lore can be used inside or outside cutscenes by holding down the Touch Pad button. This brings up a couple of text entries relevant to the scene that is going on, such as the location you're in, places in the world they're talking about, and the characters themselves. It's very useful and updates as you move through areas and get to different points in cutscenes, so feel free to check in on it whenever! I'm not good at action games. Can I still play it? When you start up the game, you can choose to play in either "Action-Focus" or "Story-Focus". Apparently, there is no difference in damage numbers regardless of which option you choose. Instead, if you start on Story Mode, you get immediate access to a set of accessories that can help alleviate or automate specific parts of the game. These accessories are: The Ring of Timely Focus, which temporarily slows time before enemy attacks connect, providing more time to react and dodge. The Ring of Timely Evasion, which auto-dodges most attacks. The Ring of Timely Strikes, which executes combo attacks by simply pressing the attack button. The Ring of Timely Assistance, which automatically issues commands to Torgal. The Ring of Timely Healing, which automatically uses potions to keep your health topped up. You can mix and match these accessories to help alleviate the stress of combat however you'd like. These accessories are still available if you play on Action Mode, but you have to progress in the game to get them. I'm an expert at action games. Is there a hard mode? FF16 has a higher difficulty mode, but it is only available in New Game+. This mode changes enemy group configurations and AI to make the game much more difficult. As mentioned, you can also aim for high scores and compete on online leaderboards to see if you're truly the best Final Fantasy gamer. If you want a harder time immediately from the start... uh, don't upgrade your gear, I suppose. Who are these "Yoshi-P", "Koji Fox", "Soken", and "Suzuki" I keep hearing about? Naoki Yoshida, better known as Yoshi-P, is the Producer of FF16, and is known in the community as the savior of FF14, the MMO that you've probably heard about before. On its original release, FF14 was in a terrible state, and Yoshida was brought in to take command and help salvage it–and it is now one of the most celebrated games in the series, one of the biggest MMOs on the market, and a true comeback story. During Heavensward, the first expansion to FF14, he was tasked with leading the team that would make FF16, and so he's been in charge of both of those things for a long time now. Man's busy! Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, better known as Koji Fox, is the Localization Director for both 14 and 16, though his role on the teams go beyond that. The story was penned in Japanese, localized into English at the same time, and then the Japanese script was adjusted in accordance with the localization–it is not wrong to say he is part loremaster and writer on the project in addition to leading the translation. It should be noted though that the lead scenario writer is Kazutoyo Maehiro, who is most known for being the lead scenario writer for the Heavensward expansion of FF14. Masayoshi Soken is the main composer for FF14 and FF16, and is regarded by the community as one of the strongest composers at Square Enix, if not the entire industry. PYF FF14 tracks in this thread. Ryota Suzuki is the lead combat designer for FF16, and is notable for being a new hire for Square Enix, as they felt they didn't have anyone on staff capable enough with action game design to make a truly good system. And so they poached Suzuki who previously worked at Capcom on games like DMC5 and Dragon's Dogma as one of the combat designers. These four are the main names you'll hear mentioned in conversation about this game, but there is of course plenty of other experienced personnel involved in the project, like Director Hiroshi Takai, Character Designer Kazuya Takahashi, and many more. 
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1stGear posted:Don't mind if I do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBIRYjP1NNM
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  Electric Phantasm posted:OP doesn't mention Active Time Lore 0/10 
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It has that (they've said). You just don't control them.
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They do have those cute lil' sprite icons in the menu to show off your current party
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Sakurazuka posted:Every FF game released since 12 has been better than 12. https://clips.twitch.tv/GleamingExpensiveEyeballAliens
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Terper posted:https://twitter.com/finalfantasyxvi/status/1630402842535026689 https://twitch.tv/squareenix This is in 3 hours 45 minutes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpeKX1PDIo Here's the full vod!
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Harrow posted:Out of curiosity, are the accessory slots only for the difficulty modifier Timely accessories, or are there also accessories that are just normal pieces of equipment? Chillgamesh posted:Is this PAX panel the first actual confirmation that Soken was composing the soundtrack or had they already announced that before https://blog.playstation.com/2022/06/02/new-final-fantasy-xvi-trailer-revealed-launches-on-ps5-summer-2023/
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https://blog.playstation.com/2023/03/30/ps5-creators-how-final-fantasy-xvi-harnesses-ps5s-power/ The power... of the Playstation 5!!
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https://twitter.com/FF16_JP/status/1641746470134231041 Game's gone gold.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whIgbzxrrI It's in an hour 
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I've been tabbed out of the video for like the last five minutes 'cus I want to experience all these eikon fights in-game but lol this is so freaking good
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Soken is God.... oh poo poo the theme song will be by Kenshi Yonezu, who you may recognise from, for example, the Chainsaw Man opening theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMA_isZYsYQ Terper fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Apr 13, 2023 |
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RatHat posted:EDIT: Have they said anything about graphics modes yet? I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was a 60 fps performance mode
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Terper posted:oh poo poo the theme song will be by Kenshi Yonezu, who you may recognise from, for example, the Chainsaw Man opening theme https://twitter.com/finalfantasyxvi/status/1646627217412349952
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Doomtrain was on the FFXV one so, you never know
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Clive looks like a Castlevania character and I am very okay with that
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https://twitter.com/VGAR_SA/status/1653711143528181760 Game officially confirmed to not be available in Saudi Arabia because SE were unwilling to change the game's content. Whatever that implies.
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Terper posted:Clive looks like a Castlevania character and I am very okay with that 
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Looking forward to the eventual VR mod.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQo2MbHqm9Q Also, on Monday is when the big final slew of information will be released, tons of press and youtubers have played the game and thats when the NDA will be lifted
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Also Ben Starr is a cool dude, very charming, his favorite ff is 8 https://twitter.com/The_Ben_Starr/status/1657843162214281216
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Johnny Postnemonic posted:Gambit is 12 tho They are two separate thoughts
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Yoshi-P said a month is too far between demo and release and to expect it sometime two weeks before release.
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https://www.eurogamer.net/making-clive-sexy-in-conversation-with-ben-starr-and-susannah-fielding-from-final-fantasy-16quote:It's funny, you mentioned the codenames as being regular names, but Jill and Clive are also quite regular names. In the past we've had Cloud and Squall, but now we've got Clive. That's not very Final Fantasy?! they're right
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I think Dominants are able to bequeath a bit of their power to others?* So the reason Clive is able to fight with Phoenix's powers is because Joshua blessed him with it. And then his ability to copy others/force others to give it to him is first revealed after he fights Benedikta. Maybe. *Chirada and Suparna might be this, and I think i read something to that effect at some point, is my only other proof I can think of at the moment Terper fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 23, 2023 |
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