New Final Fantasy XVI trailer at Sony’s State Of Play in June

A fair-skinned woman holds out her open hand in front of her and summons a floating ice crystal.

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As part of PlayStation State of Play 2022, Square Enix showed off a gameplay trailer for the upcoming PS5 RPG. Final Fantasy XVI. While the exact release date is yet to be determined, the game is currently set to launch sometime in the summer of 2023.

The fight one FFXVI seems to take place in real time and involves fighting against huge creatures from the final fantasy Series like Odin, Bahamut and Ifrit. Allegedly. These are the “Eikons” mentioned in official materials prior to the event.

The reason of which there is not much news FFXVI is because development was affected by complications from Covid-19. The team had been hampered by the transition to remote work, but the game was already in the Polish development phase.

FFXVI was announced for the PlayStation 5 on September 16, 2020 as the next mainline title in the Final Fantasy series. The trailer showed a dark, gritty, high-fantasy world with real-time combat. FFXVI Producer Naoki Yoshida was Intended to show the actual game Footage instead of just rendered footage. According to former my box writer Jason Schreier, his sources have stated the FFXVI had been in development for at least four years prior to its initial announcement. While fans speculated that Yoshida would be too busy with work Final Fantasy XIV At the same time, he debunked the rumor an interview with the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu.

His official site started a month laterwith more information about the background story of the game. FFXVI is set in the fantasy world of Valisthea, where prosperity is guaranteed by sparkling magical mountains called Mother Crystals. Overpowered humans called “Dominants” can control deadly monsters called Eikons. So far we only know about three main characters FFXVI. Clive and Joshua Rosfield are brothers who come from a noble family of Dominants, while Jill Warrick was adopted by her family to end the conflict between warring nations. Until now, six great nations were mentioned in the new fantasy environment.

Last July, Yoshida went on a live stream to say that the game has prioritized the enEnglish localization and would be recorded in British English. FFXVI was not shown at this year’s E3 nor at the Tokyo Game Show.

The official website is currently listing FFXVI as a PlayStation 5 exclusive, although the initial trailer seemed to imply that the game is a timed exclusive.

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