Everything you need to know about Final Fantasy 16: Release date, trailer and more

(Pocket-lint) - There are fewer gaming bid arsenic celebrated oregon arsenic long-running arsenic Final Fantasy - the towering RPG games are utterly beloved each astir the world, and the bid has produced aggregate of the champion role-playing games ever.

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Unsurprisingly, it's truthful a large woody erstwhile the adjacent Final Fantasy crippled gets announced, which Sony knew afloat good erstwhile it unveiled the crippled successful precocious 2020 arsenic portion of a PS5 showcase. What bash you request to cognize astir the adjacent large introduction successful the series, though? Read connected to find out. 

Final Fantasy 16 trailer and merchandise date

What we don't person contiguous quality on, contempt the trailer showing disconnected the crippled looking beauteous nicely polished and having existent gameplay successful it, is erstwhile Final Fantasy 16 volition beryllium coming out. 

Having had that reasonably extended uncover successful precocious 2020, though, we're expecting much quality reasonably soon. Square Enix initially confirmed that we'd perceive much details aboriginal successful 2021, though that slipped and we're inactive waiting for much now. However, we bash cognize plentifulness astir the game's developers.

It's being produced by Naoki Yoshida and directed by Hiroshi Takai, who some had a large accidental successful the rebirth and renewed occurrence of Final Fantasy 14, the online crippled that's inactive thriving now. Their occurrence looks to person booked them the biggest occupation imaginable - steering the vessel connected a caller mainline game. 

So the squad looks good, and we'll conscionable person to hold to perceive much astir a imaginable merchandise window. We're feeling hopeful, though - the crippled looks successful amended signifier than galore person astatine the archetypal reveal.

Final Fantasy 16 platforms

On the level front, there's a small much clarity, arsenic we cognize that the crippled volition beryllium a PlayStation exclusive, astatine slightest for a period, and volition beryllium coming to the PS5. There's a accidental it could enactment connected the PS4 arsenic well, though we wouldn't stake our location connected that.

We'd expect the crippled to apt to travel to PC adjacent to motorboat arsenic well, but the question of it arriving connected Xbox is simply a small harder to conjecture at. Skipping Xbox wholly would beryllium a truly bold play, though, truthful we ideate it'll stone up connected Microsoft's next-gen consoles aft a spot of time, astir apt a year, has elapsed. 

Sadly, arsenic is becoming much and much the default for large releases, we wouldn't get your hopes up astir a larboard to the Nintendo Switch - the crippled looks graphically intensive, truthful there's small accidental it volition enactment connected Nintendo's much power-limited hardware. 

Final Fantasy 16 story

Of course, the cardinal to immoderate Final Fantasy crippled is its roster of characters, and the communicative they're enveloped in. We tin glean a just magnitude astir what lies successful hold for america during the sixteenth crippled from the trailer and what accusation Square has released truthful far.

The crippled is acceptable successful the onshore of Valisthea, divided into six realms and dominated by mountainous Mothercrystals, the root of magic successful the world. As you'd imagine, though, each isn't good - each federation has a Dominant successful it, a surviving idiosyncratic who contains a deadly powerfulness called an Eikon. Some of these radical are similar royalty, portion others are person to weapons successful however they're treated. 

The characters we cognize astir truthful acold see Clive Rosfield, who looks a batch similar our cardinal protagonist astatine this signifier - he's sworn to support his younger brother, Joshua, who is simply a Dominant. Jill Warrick, meanwhile, is simply a adjacent person to both. This trio has been detailed, but we don't cognize overmuch much beyond the information that immoderate signifier of calamity volition spark a quest for revenge led by Clive. 

Final Fantasy 16 gameplay

From what we tin archer of the gameplay showed disconnected successful the announcement trailer, Final Fantasy 16 looks similar it's acceptable to bring evolution, not revolution, to the series' caller gameplay. Like FF15, it would look we'll get real-time combat to support things active, but the strategy looks a small much reactive and quick.

It besides each looks to person a somewhat much mature code - there's humor connected show, people! Beyond that, we'd presume that we'll get an overworld to research arsenic successful erstwhile entries, and galore sidequests to implicit if we fancy. We're hopeful that this mightiness each beryllium a small much interactive than it was successful FF15, too, with exploration successful that crippled a small stilted by the reliance connected roads - with a much precocious fantasy-style mounting this time, we're looking guardant to moving astir the countryside ourselves a spot more. 

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 14 January 2021.