Final Fantasy XVI

[FFShinra]

Depends on which team we speak of. Not everyone is Nomura and Creative Business Unit 1.

Recall having to delay 14 by a few weeks to finish the polishing. Given that its largely the same team, I imagine its a few weeks more with this. So June instead of May or April. Maybe July, breaking Spring promise for more info but keeping promise for this year.

 

[OWA-2]

Depends on which team we speak of. Not everyone is Nomura and Creative Business Unit 1.

Recall having to delay 14 by a few weeks to finish the polishing. Given that its largely the same team, I imagine its a few weeks more with this. So June instead of May or April. Maybe July, breaking Spring promise for more info but keeping promise for this year.

But "soon" is about the trailer dropping, not the game releasing. So only S-E's marketing department knows what "soon" means.

 

[Lex]

I would hazard a guess that "soon" means in the next month or so. We were told we'd see new stuff earlier and YoshiP put out a statement saying it had to be delayed, so it's already overdue.

I know it seems unlikely based on Square Enix precedent, but since he's talking about polish and debugging nearly being complete, I don't think it's unrealistic to expect it to release later this year. Would be pretty shocking, but in YoshiP we trust.

 

[FFShinra]

We should also recall Yoshi P has said he only wants to release the trailer when its close to the game itself releasing. Therefore soon may not mean the game is soon but if the trailer is soon, the game is not that far behind.

 

[Lulcielid]

Trailer probably coming this month or in june.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1525063808468758528

 

[Wol]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1524251993769881600

This has the potential to be the most polished action battle system in the entire franchise, on par with the best in the industry. It was about time. Based Yoshida & team.

 

[Wol]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1532049003637903361

The wait has shaped us for long enough.

 

[Tetsujin]

NEW TRAILER LET'S GOOOO

 

[Wol]

Holy shit

Omfg

I honestly lost hope in the indie section

This is the Street Fighter of FF summons!!!

 

[Lulcielid]

Watching what looked like boss (?) fights gave me bad memories of FF7R mid fight cutscenes. Hope they're at least skippeable here.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Kaiju FF summon battles.

The scale of combat when fighting as Eikons is incredible. That's fucking hype.

That's something I really look forward to!

 

[Lex]

Is that Ifrit fighting Ifrit at the very end? Maybe Clive punching his out of control lil bro

 

[Lulcielid]

https://blog.playstation.com/2022/0...trailer-revealed-launches-on-ps5-summer-2023/

More staff confirmation:

Producer: Naoki Yoshida
Main Director: Hiroshi Takai
Creative Director & Original Screenplay: Kazutoyo Maehiro
Localization Director:Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Art Director: Hiroshi Minagawa
Combat Director: Ryota Suzuki
Character Design: Kazuya Takahashi
Composer: Masayoshi Soken

 

[Wol]

Omg Clive is friggin Ifrit.

But wait....

Soken as composer is great news!

 

[Tetsujin]

Soken is not a surprise, probably means other members of XIV's music team+Yoshitaka Suzuki etc will be along for the ride as well.

Fucking Summon Kaiju fighting game combat though holy shit, I am pumped

 

[Sprites]

Ok, so I Don't really know how I feel about this trailer to be honest.

I mean on one hand the summons fighting like that and the focus on them is really cool! But on the other I have no idea what else was going on in that trailer and it's just left me not really understanding anything about this entry, I've never really felt that way about an FF game during the trailers so I don't know what to make of it, still a year away so I know more info will happen and further trailers but right now summons aside, I'm not really feeling it which is a really weird feeling to have for an FF game.

 

[Theozilla]

And for those who need a refresher the Creative Director & Original Screenplay dude is the same dude who was the head writer for FFXIV’s base A Realm Reborn and Heavensward. And Koji Fox was FFXIV’s head localizer from 1.0 to the end of Stormblood (he’s been in an advisory role in FFXIV since ShadowBringers).

From what I got from my first watch of the trailer the Dominants of each Summon/Eikon basically will be the equivalent of the party members/major supporting cast? (I do hope there will be some form of character switching in FFXVI)

The prospect of playable Summon/Eikon kaiju battles definitely has me pumped though.

 

[Tetsujin]

Press release including screenshots and stuff

 

[Tetsujin]

I'm slightly peeved that this game has blood and fucking and meanwhile VII Remake is like "purple goo and smoke because of rating"

 

[Theozilla]

Anyways, it looks like Odin will be an Eikon of Darkness in FFXVI, instead of being unaspected. And The Kingdom of Waloed is obviously in control of Odin, while The Holy Empire of Sanbreque controls Ramuh. Jill Warrick is likely going to be Shiva's Dominant, and I wonder if Benedikta Harman (Garuda's Dominant) will also be from The Kingdom of Waloed or if she will have been from The Iron Kingdom and was persecuted there in her youth.

Bahamut I bet will be a secret/surprise Eikon associated with The Crystalline Dominion, but I wonder if it will be an Eikon of Light, as second Eikon of Darkness, or an actual unaspected Eikon?

Also since it looks like Clive and Benedikta boned in the trailer, does that mean we could consider Garuda and Ifrit fusing together in the Eden raids as “foreshadowing”?

I also wonder what the two Ifrits at the very end of the trailer means? I am guessing Clive is not the purple one.

I'm slightly peeved that this game has blood and fucking and meanwhile VII Remake is like "purple goo and smoke because of rating"

Well it looks like FFXVI is likely going to be M Rated and not T for Teen, so they don't have to worry about content standards and limitations.

 

[Tetsujin]

Well it looks like FFXVI is likely going to be M Rated and not T for Teen, so they don't have to worry about content standards and limitations.

If a mainline numbered FF doesn't worry about getting an M, VII Remake doesn't need to either - that's my point

 

[Theozilla]

If a mainline numbered FF doesn't worry about getting an M, VII Remake doesn't need to either - that's my point

Well obviously SE wants the FFVII Remake to stay within in the T ratings though, and I think it is less not having to worry about getting an M rating, but rather FFXVI was designed with the intention of being in the M rating range, while the FFVII Remake was designed with staying in the T range.
It's less a matter of double-standards and more a matter of differing objectives.

 

[Tetsujin]

Well obviously SE wants the FFVII Remake to stay within in the T ratings though, and I think it is less not having to worry about getting an M rating, but rather FFXVI was designed with the intention of being in the M rating range, while the FFVII Remake was designed with staying in the T range.
It's less a matter of double-standards and more a matter of differing objectives.

I know. I'm saying I would have preferred it if they did it differently

 

[Makoeyes987]

The FFVII-R developers need to take what they learned and leaned into with Episode Intermission and never go back to this Rated T shit ever again.

Yuffie's blood covered face as she witnessed the horror of the plate fall was perfect. They need to never try to T rate this game ever again. Especially with what's coming next. I hope that's the most consistent feedback they've heard in regards to what players want. They seem aware of the criticism of Jenova in the Shinra Building at least.

 

[Theozilla]

Anyways, it looks like Odin will be an Eikon of Darkness in FFXVI, instead of being unaspected. And The Kingdom of Waloed is obviously in control of Odin, while The Holy Empire of Sanbreque controls Ramuh. Jill Warrick is likely going to be Shiva's Dominant, and I wonder if Benedikta Harman (Garuda's Dominant) will also be from The Kingdom of Waloed or if she will have been from The Iron Kingdom and was persecuted there in her youth.

Bahamut I bet will be a secret/surprise Eikon associated with The Crystalline Dominion, but I wonder if it will be an Eikon of Light, as second Eikon of Darkness, or an actual unaspected Eikon?

Also since it looks like Clive and Benedikta boned in the trailer, does that mean we could consider Garuda and Ifrit fusing together in the Eden raids as “foreshadowing”?

I also wonder what the two Ifrits at the very end of the trailer means? I am guessing Clive is not the purple one.


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Well it looks like FFXVI is likely going to be M Rated and not T for Teen, so they don't have to worry about content standards and limitations.

Actually I need to amend my speculation, Bahamut is probably the Holy Empire of Sanbreque's Eikon, based on the mural, icon background color, and the fact a light and dark army are clashing probably represent Sanbreque and Waloed clashing, and thus Bahamut and Odin.

The FFVII-R developers need to take what they learned and leaned into with Episode Intermission and never go back to this Rated T shit ever again.

Yuffie's blood covered face as she witnessed the horror of the plate fall was perfect. They need to never try to T rate this game ever again. Especially with what's coming next. I hope that's the most consistent feedback they've heard in regards to what players want. They seem aware of the criticism of Jenova in the Shinra Building at least.

Episode Intermission was still rated T though, the amount of blood added in it (which was just blood coming from Sonon's mouth that he coughed some onto Yuffie's face, his actual stab wounds were still dark particle effects like the President being stabbed by Sephiroth was) probably wasn't comparable to the amount of blood that Jenova would have left if they didn't go with the purple bodily fluids instead. The latter is probably considered "blood and gore" which crosses into the M rating, while just "blood" keeps it in the T rating.