Expectations from Closing Fantasy 16 are monumentally excessive, not simply because it’s a brand new Closing Fantasy recreation, but in addition as a result of the final time we obtained a brand new mainline recreation within the beloved collection, issues didn’t precisely go to plan. Although there’s loads to like and luxuriate in in Closing Fantasy 15, the sport has its justifiable share of serious points, likes its damaged mess of a narrative which leaves of essential plot factors and narrative threads, relegating them to cross-media tasks.
That, nevertheless, is not going to be the case with Closing Fantasy 16. Talking in a latest interview with Easy Allies, Closing Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida stated that the upcoming motion RPG’s improvement staff took particular care to look again at Closing Fantasy 15 and take steps to make sure that it avoids making the identical errors as its predecessor. In keeping with Yoshida, Closing Fantasy 16 goes to inform “a whole story.”
“Not only for Closing Fantasy 16, however for Inventive Enterprise Unit III as an entire, our sort of motto is to create a recreation that we as builders would take pleasure in enjoying whereas preserving the venture within the black,” Yoshida stated. “And since Closing Fantasy 16 is not only a solo venture, it is available in a collection the place you’ve 1 to 15, you sort of need to look again on what got here earlier than when approaching improvement, and looking out again at the newest, Closing Fantasy 15, to see what they did proper and what they did improper.
“Whereas there’s a number of issues that folks loved about Closing Fantasy 16, there’s additionally those that had been upset that it wasn’t a whole story or that they had been promised sure issues that ended up being canceled, and we wished to be sure that we cowl these in Closing Fantasy 16 – as in we had been going to concentrate on telling a whole story from starting to finish and never make those self same errors as 15 did. And never simply having a narrative that’s from starting to finish, but in addition a narrative that’s going to resonate with all kinds of gamers – the older gamers like me but in addition youthful gamers – to have one thing that gamers are going to have the ability to perceive and have enjoyable.”
Loads of new gameplay footage and story and gameplay particulars for Closing Fantasy 16 have additionally just lately emerged, courtesy of a contemporary spherical of hands-on impressions- you may test all of that out by way of right here.
Closing Fantasy 16 is ready to launch completely for the PS5 on June 22. It should additionally obtain a demo a few weeks earlier than launch, which is able to permit gamers to hold over their progress into the total recreation.
