FFXVI is looking absolutely incredible!

And just like that, Elden Ring DLC announcement and the beginning of FFXVI coverage in one day.

Congrats on getting this opportunity, the thumbnail photo is awesome! Excited to watch this one!!!

THIS is why Brad was in New York!? Fuck yeah dude this is sick!!!

Clive pulling enemies towards him when he's using Garuda powers reminds me so much of Nero's snatch ability in DMC4/5 where he would also pull enemies towards him, which makes sense with the DMC5 combat director doing the combat for this.

@glass12

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He has pieces of Dante, Nero and V all together. Insane!

@jackjohnson8305

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Phoenix has vergil's instant gap closer Garuda has the Nero snatch Titan is straight up just Beowulf with hard hitting attacks.

@someclevername8167

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@@jackjohnson8305 not only that, Titan had this drill attack that looks almost exactly like the Helter Skelter Devil Breaker

@shaunmiller442

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I’m actually struggling with how similar it is to DMC. If I wanted to play that I could’ve just reinstalled DMC5

@fantasytky28

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​​@@shaunmiller442 Shure forgetting all the story , setup, skill set, equipment, combat mechanic differences and proceed to call it exactly same as DMC. Nice. Given your logic, that's no point dmc even go up till 5, just replay dmc 1 Sometime it baffle me how stupid some thought that someone can have

Brad and Damiani talking about Final Fantasy 16. hell YEAH!!!! LETS GOOOOO

Holy sh*t! The combat looks so well done! That was surely one of my biggest concerns. And now that is gone completely. I could not be happier about this preview. I thought (judging from the trailers) that combat is just zipping around with no clear indication where what is. What a relief! Thank you!

Great preview Brad! Everything shown looks amazing. Less than four months, I can't wait!

I’ve always been excited for every final fantasy release, but the level of hype I have for this one is insane. Being a huge fan of DMC/ Bayonetta style games and knowing it has the same combat director from DMC5 just amplifies my excitement even more.

@jackjohnson8305

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Makes me nervous about Dragons Dogma 2 tho now that the combat director is working on this game.

@BooBanana

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@@jackjohnson8305 oh nooooo. I didn’t even think of that.

@LN.2233

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@@jackjohnson8305 More than one person makes games.

@jackjohnson8305

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@@LN.2233 But at the same time one person can have a lot of influence over the course of a projects development, we all know how FFXIV was brought back from the dead with the guidance and planning of Yoshi-P.

@LN.2233

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@@jackjohnson8305 There are a lot of people that work on dragon's dogma, even if people keep talking about this guy, he's probably not even the main one doing everything.

This game is looking phenomenal so far. Can’t wait until June!

This is looking to be everything I want in a game

I have never been this much excited for a game for years. Best video game franchise of all time. can't wait to to receive my collector's edition in less than 4 month :D

I've been playing FF since Fighter, Blkblt, Wht Mage, Blk Mage, and never would I have imagined I'd be seeing something this amazing 30 years later. I'm glad to meet fans on FFXIV that are psyched for this because it will be their first main series game! I understand exactly what Yoshi P is aiming for. He's trying to bring us greybeards AND the young blood in at once. I hope he can pull it off because this looks great so far.

2:23 Correction: Cid is NOT the Eikon of Ramuh, its the opposite. Cid is the Dominant of Ramuh, and Ramuh is the Eikon of Cid.

@0FFICERPROBLEM

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who? what?

@SH1NK1R01

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@@0FFICERPROBLEM eikons are the summons themselves. Dominants are the people that can use their powers and transform in to them. So op is just making that correction.

Brad looks so happy in the thumbnail!

Everything surrounding this game just feels way more confident than FFXV. Weird comparison, but to me it's similar to how Capcom's been handling the build up to SF6 compared to 5. Feeling very good about both of these games.

@takaro0

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@Mysterious Mr. L Agreed. Helps that the director and the dev team haven't been juggled between several projects through its dev time and taken away to focus on other stuff, like in the case of FF Versus, to then become the mess that is XV. Really glad to see that the many flaws of XV's combat aren't present in XVI, as far as I can see from this preview. I'm confident that the story won't be shit either.

Oh wow I did NOT expect this! can't wait to listen to this!

They already had me at the Heavensward lead writer but this combat looks just as high quality.

Definitely loving the world aethestic, very grim and dark medieval world, just hoping there is huge attention to detail on the armor like using proper sheaths in the spirit of Witcher 3.

Great preview Brad 👍👍. Standard combat really looks similar to DMC 5 but the Eikon vs Eikon combats looks hype af and reminds me of Asura’s Wrath with all the big explosions and QTE. Now i need to save some money for a PS5.

@tyrantravealpha

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Hope you're able to one in time!

Imaging showing this instead of SUICIDE SQUAD on the last State of Play.

YoshiPs response on DLC. Excellent. Excellent excellent. Everything is so impressive and the way its being handled

I know it’s a common thing that happens in video production where something can get corrupted but I feel like it’s been happening to everyone’s big videos lately

@tacoeater5758

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Square Enix has a video corrupting device and forgot to disable it for the crew.

Awesome preview, and 4k footage, thanks guys

OMG gameplay looks so good ,i'm hype!

The combat looks incredible

@Vidred007

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When you are not in a QTE or a cutscene or in a button mashing sequence. So combat looks incredible 25 % of the time ... yay.

@stephenasmithfanfan5971

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@@Vidred007 what are you even talking about

@Vidred007

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@@stephenasmithfanfan5971 I'm sorry you can't see the sequence with QTE's or the button mashing or the cutscenes. They all take away from the combat.

@stephenasmithfanfan5971

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@@Vidred007 okay that’s like maybe 2% of what’s shown? What’s your point? And you’re really upset that there are cutscenes? Why? The only time they seem to interrupt gameplay is during a boss battle which is pretty standard for most games.

@Vidred007

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@@stephenasmithfanfan5971 I don't like QTE and button mashing and in this case the cutscenes are drawn out.

This is shaping up so well!

Thanx Brad. Brad these past 6 months showed me that he is ready to fight and he is so honest. He is not an influencer, he is a gamer. A friend.

29:11 Matsuno may have left FF Twelve, but I still think it's one of the very best videogames ever, certainly it's my favorite FF.

@AuspexAO

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The Zodiac Age is crazy good. I feel like it was slept on.

@charoleawood

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@@AuspexAO Twelve, in general, gets slept on. I got it used on PS2 way after release. I was actually looking for a different game but there was FF12 and I thought, "They made a twelve?" --- which I knew because there was a thirteen but I wasn't able to be a regular purchaser of new games for much of the 00s so I was playing catch up. And I still prefer the PS2 version. I'm happy Zodiac Age exists, but I wish the PS2 original were readily available.

Appreciate you guys dropping this, even without the video! Good stuff.

That thumbnail is so awesome!

I would say the environments have Witcher vibes, but It really looks like a modernized version of an early FF game with DMC style combat. Like, if FF4 were remade by this same team it would look similar to this. I'm stoked.

The combat finally has a good amount of depth this time and I do appreciate the more focused non-open world but still open enough game design which could really help create a strong pace and allow for more detail I done right.

Don't worry about the corrupted footage, things like this happen. Thank you so much for the preview!

This video was like going back in times and watching Invisible Walls all over again ❤❤❤❤

Your guys coverage is pretty good!

So hyped for this game, i just wish we ve seen a bit more of the soundtrack, but as soon as suzuki joined square in 2019 i knew i was gonna love this game combat

They showed so much. And it looks so good. They must be very confident in the final product. I am very excited.

I hope Max will react to your preview ,great video as always :)

Brad deserves thisss 😍❤ can't wait to watch this! EDIT: just finished watching this!! This is the final fantasy I've been dying for for years!! "Aside from FF7R" combat looks absolutely fantastic and that dodging gave me Tales of Arise vibes and FF16 combat is a mixture of DMC & Tales and i can't be happier! Game looks polished and it has that sense of huge epic adventure! Love the setting & everything I've seen and i know we haven't seen everything! I really cannot wait

OMG I wasn't expecting this! Wooo

Is the lighting any good? The light on the walls behind all the fires doesn’t move with the flames. So is there no light effects / ray tracing?

I've always liked both dmc and ff games and I've often dreamed of a dmc type game that has more depth to it. This looks freaking awesome. The story looks very well thought out and engaging. I'm wondering if exploration will be enhanced by summon abilities in some way, which to me would be a really nice touch for the gameplay.

The motion capture is very impressive

Nice preview, looks awesome

The combat looks freaking amazing

I'm so hyped for this game. The story, characters, world, design, combat... everything looks beyond what I ever imagined. Been pumped since the first trailer but every new reveal about it has made my excitement even greater

The action look SO good!

Man the review bombing of this game is gonna be wild from JRPG purists who won't have played/finished the game. Currently finally playing Intergrade Intermission and reminded how the action RPG formula, especially on bosses, is a great fit for the franchise.

The Eikon battle reminds me of a game called Asura's Wrath. Which I don't mind at all. In fact , I am so ready for it

The whole summon thing is basically Attack on Titan meets Final Fantasy. Can't wait!

Game looks so fucking sick. I cannot wait!

Brad absolutely killed this, awesome stuff

This is so exciting.

Sounds like they're going for a mix of Dante and Nero's playstyles with the eikon switching instead of the devil arm switching and Clive just having Nero's snatch. From the trailers, I bet Odin will give a more Vergil like feel with really fast slashes. I'm really satisfied with what I've seen so far, and I can't wait to play it myself

@raven12333

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Previous trailer shows Odin mode using Spear attacks and Zantetsuken as one big slash attack from greatsword, Still there are more Eikons that might use the more Vergil like style. Maybe Ramuh as a Lightning type would be all about speed.

yoooo get hype, im happy brad got this opportunity

I see you Brad! Sick thumbnail.

Such a jolly thumbnail!

I'm kind of excited for this game. Looks good.

amazing amount of take away from a game session, GJ Brad.

Ooooo hyped!

Regarding the "JRPG term controversy", I found an interesting take on Maximillian Dood's reaction video that I wanted to share with you: "About the JRPG thing, I have a bit of a unique perspective I'd like to share. I lived 8 years in Japan. Went over there to try and break into the industry... actually did it for a couple of years and worked at a very well-known company for a couple of years (not Square Enix). Anyway, I think the term JRPG was taken as offensive for Japanese developers for a number of reasons. It's not as simple as the negative connotations that sprung up at around the same time as FFXIII, though that's obviously a big part of it. What happens is that, for the longest time (and even today), they've used the term "youge" as a derogative for western games. They didn't even consider them "games" proper (see, "videogames", according to them, were "a Japanese thing" -- and I'm quoting Hideo Kojima here.) I was actually shocked at how disdainful the term "youge" actually was when I went there. Well, right at the time FFXIII came out, the Japanese game industry was declining rapidly in terms of market share. They needed to sell games in the west to survive, but they weren't doing it well. Today, the Japanese game industry is a cell-phone gacha fest, a shadow of its former self. Western developers were putting out console games, good ones, and selling gang-busters. And now Japanese developers were like "how are we supposed to compete with this? It's not fair! We don't have the budget, we don't have the sales!" And it's against this backdrop that the term JRPG began to be used. Regardless of the negative connotations it had over here, over there it was much worse, because 1) they were losing literally 90% of the market, 2) they'd always thought of themselves as making RPGs and 3) they had the term "youge" as an analog. So they automatically assumed that JRPG was as bad as "youge", and, especially as you're losing almost all of your market, that's gotta sting. What I think is that the term was being used negatively by some people at the start, but not all of them, and certainly it's become purely descriptive nowadays. But in Japan they resented the rebranding of the genre, and assumed it was like when they rebranded western games as "youge". The Japanese game industry narrative is this: "RPGs" were not intuitive and could not be enjoyed by a mainstream audience until the Great Yuji Horii came and made Dragon Quest; and they were a hit in Japan but not in the West, because the games were, in FF creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's words, too "complex" for Western audiences (nevermind that the genre originated in the West - but prejudice is never rational). However, thanks to the cutting-edge graphics pioneered by Final Fantasy, they started selling in the West, too. "Final Fantasy" is the big Japanese RPG franchise that sells in the West, too. Anyway, Yoshi P in particular has to have taken the JRPG classification personally, as he was one of the few Japanese gamers who actually did appreciate Western games. He played the original Ultima Online! He played Everquest! So for him to hear that term, and having "youge" as a point of reference, it must have really been awful. Its...complicated... Japanese society as a whole has both disdain and admiration -both superiority and inferiority complexes- with regards to the West. I would have trouble understanding it if I did not have very specific point of reference myself. Well, here's hoping someone takes the trouble to read this post, and that it helps shed some light on the issue."

Combat sounds a lot like Nero and Dantes (and V with Torugal I suppose) DMCV kits combined and built up with a FF stand point. DMCV has my favorite combat in any game ever so I'm so excited for this.

Ok, i'm confused... the Ifrit/Garuda battle shown during the 17:00 mark in the video... is it basically a cutscene or not? Showing damage and health bars, but the player only pressed buttons 3-4 times? It's basically a cutscene right? Like can you actually lose here other than perhaps by choice of not hitting the buttons?

@infoverflow5559

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I am curious as well, what will happen if you fail those checks. I would have loved if they tried that.

this game gonna be fucking insane!

Holy smoke, i cant wait for the gameplay. I watch gameplays just like watching series/movies

Wow the game looks more action oriented than typical final fantasy games. I might pick up this game.

@eltigreduarte8977

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Combat director from DMC 5 baby 👍

very funny detail from the devs to call the ifrit attack in the kaiju battle "Cinematic strike" 16:50

This was so unexpected, hell yeah, dudes

Let's go!!!

Day one collector's edition this game looks amazing

I was already sold, but now I’m extra sold.

LESSSGOOO BABY!!

21:19 Gran Soren, the beating heart of all Gransys!

Cant wait to play elden ring dlc and ff16👏

This game dropped off my radar… and now it’s back on with full force. Day one for me now.

Clive is naruto with all the tailed beast powers lol. Loving this concept so much.

Hmmm there's something I didn't understand. The whole Ifrit VS garuda thing seemed like full minutes of cinematics with some ultra-basic QTEs, sure it looks great but if so this is incredibly disappointing? It looked like a long cinematic with QTEs, was that all actual interactive gameplay?

@SH1NK1R01

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It wasn’t timed with his explanation. End of the video shows the actual fight. When he was explaining it the clip they showed was the qte finale. In short it is intended to be a spectacle but it’s not a full cutscene

@fantasytky28

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How is that disappointing when you have old FF summon that just play one attack cut scene and that's it. The current one added control fight before the battle ending cut scene. And they added qte for the ending cut scene. How is that disappointing compared to the old ff

@xVmbra

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@@fantasytky28 It's disappointing because back then you would summon something and it did one attack and that was it (or it actually stays and fights like in FF X, which was pretty cool). On the other hand this is ''let me summon ifrit'' and it's 4 hours of cutscene pressing a button now and then. It's a BIG waste of time (much bigger than old summons) and breaks the pace completely. This is a big, big useless spectacle. I feel like it's dumb and a waste of time to have Devil May Cry staff working on this game to put several minutes of cutscenes with QTEs.

@fantasytky28

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@@xVmbra people seriously thinking the high budget qte cutscene for gf is going to repeat everytime or so much times? Use your thinking please, it would burn se money till hell putting every fight to be like this. It's clearly a special occasion like Boss or story encountered which trigger this high budget cutscene play

@xVmbra

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@@fantasytky28 Nah, I'm not thinking this is going to happen many times, i'm assuming its going to be similar to summons in FF XV (which had horrible absolutely non-factor summon system), but still it's a horrible idea this several long minute cutscene with QTE for this: -If it happens after you've won, what's the point? -Can you miss? Can you fail? If you already won what is the point of having the chance to miss a QTE? Can you actually win the fight and then miss the QTE and lose? You see what I mean, I'm ok with the cutscene but why the QTE, just have the summon do the finishing move as a cinematic ''fatality'' of sorts, but even then... it's too long, it's just so weird cause it feels like it's trying to do 2 different incompatible things.

I'm so hyped for this game. Probably GOTY.

The combat looks dope as hell, but there's a lot of distracting visual clutter... I hope we get to reduce the amount of numbers popping up

Combat looks insane

Hype!

Christ i HOPE they release a demo for this!

@Coldsilfur4

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They do. Two weeks in advance prior the release they said

I also want to point out that I love Yoshi-P efforts to have people be overwhelmingly excited for 16 and that excitement carry on to an eventual 17. That is why he want to evolve the series and the JRPG genre, so both are not beholden by a fix preconceived notions or elements (such as the turn based combat). A little bit of context to explain my comment: The original Final Fantasy was basically an adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons, using almost the exact same combat as D&D, which became a staple of FF. Having a party with an ensemble cast with different classes, abilities and backstories is not something unlike the parties of D&D either. So after experimenting with many titles and making risk with every and each one of them, Yoshi-P and his team are making an RPG like nothing before has happen in the history of the franchise. I think Yoshi-P has the right idea if he’s the one to bring FF to the mainstream again like it was in 80’s through the early 00’s. Because at the end of the day Final Fantasy has and it always have been, an IP that reinvents itself each game.

Combat looks fine but I am not fan of the hud so far. I hope there is a way to disable damage numbers and name of the combos.

@cambienvenu

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I agree, not the biggest fan of the Final fantasy HUD/menus lately, the game otherwise looks amazing.

@blakeandcamp

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Yeah the HUD clashes with the medieval aesthetic of the game IMO.

@Jay-mx5ky

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This has been a main requested thing since the second trailer, so I hope they're listening.

@atuljoe6659

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In an interview i saw I heard the numbers can be turned off/ on

What engine is this game running on? It's looks amazing.

@sabrakt

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It's been said years ago that they use a modified version of the FF14ARR engine, which is itself a modified version of the Luminous Engine.

@gogglebobb

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I think it's running in Unreal 4. Maybe 5, I don't remember. But I think it UE4

@sabrakt

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@@gogglebobb It's not. They started development on UE4 and then switched to Luminous. Just from looking at the reveal trailer you can see it runs on the same engine as FFXIV.

@gogglebobb

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@Sabrak that's what it was. I remember reading about it using UE4 early on. Forgot that they made the change, but you're totally right. I've never played 14, so I don't have anything to compare it to lol

@saimysilvia

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@@sabrakt ah okay, ty.

Good shit, might actually pick up a final fantasy game. Thanks for the coverage Brad!

BRAD

Trying avoid as much as I can but will gladly watch EZA preview.

Holy shit this looks good. Shame I only own a pc

Game looks incredible and I'm excited to play, but the only thing Final Fantasy about it, is the Eikons and their classic FF names.

We found where they put the FF14 belts!

So I'm pretty well fed for traditional RPGs these days. So long as Atlus & Sega, Falcom, even SE's non-Final Fantasy games, plenty of others too, keep delivering I'm great. But it still super weirds me out that Final Fantasy has now become a character action game + Asura's Wrath. And I specifically say Asura and not QTEs because Asura's Wrath owns and I want to be positive here. But it's really weird. Brad's positivity helps me get a little excited as opposed to my prior extreme skepticism. I trust the guys opinion of a good combat system. The art is obviously fantastic as well and more important, to me, it really hits inside my wheelhouse. Garuda is just a kaiju'd out version of a specific Devilman character. That's kind of sick. There's Go Nagai vibes all over this actually. I'm still worried the combat is going to be style over substance though. Despite the pedigree and Brad's approval. Something about it is just giving me "Mash attack while incredibly expensive, and impressive, attack animations play out." I just have a hard time believing Square would really make a combat system ala a Bayonetta for something that's supposed to be super mainstream and sell a bajillion copies. Character action is relatively niche after all for a reason. It doesn't sell to the level SE will expect of a mainline FF. But I'm hoping I'm wrong. I really really want to like this. Superficially it has all the things I want to see, I love DMC and it's ilk, etc. So fingers crossed. They're talking a big game... but that's their literal job. I just hope they can deliver on something that's fun to play and not just cool to watch happen.

We need another re-union with Maximilian Dood after this exclusive preview 🙌

Without spoiling any story details: would you say the overall impression you got of Final Fantasy XVI's story was that it'd would be a pretty somber tale? The vibe I've been getting from all the marketing so far is that this game seems to almost be going for a tragedy.

@dafire9634

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im not wrong the game has a "Mature" Rating, and is said to be much darker than the other FF games, because it allows them to talk about themes that arent usually talked about, so it could be somber.

@hoaaaaaaaaable

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I can't remember a final fantasy that wasn't a tragedy to some degree, and this has seemed like the darkest one ever since the first trailer where the kid gets covered in blood so I'm certain it will be

@Storm1Trooper5

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There’s tragedy in all FFs but there’s always hope at the end. This one is just going all in on the violence and stuff around the tragedy

@grizzlybearking1878

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​@@Storm1Trooper5 For mainline games sure. Type 0 was brutal to the very end. There was no hope but they threw you a dehydrated bone of hopium if you go with the alternate ending.

@thepuppetmaster9284

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XVI story feels like it will be on similar vibe with FF Tactics and Type-0. But i sense a bit of Vagrant Story vibe too.

action is extreme

oh my god

I cant belive where getting a hub world in ff game

Thank you Brad for bringing the positive vibes! Social media (as usual) is rampant with whiney babies right now about XVI. It's like they know something you don't even though THEY haven't played it 😑

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS GAME