Final Fantasy XVI Review

Over the years, final fantasy franchise has gained many fans, and the developers have always tried to keep the game formula in the same way as usual and the wishes of old fans, although many changes have been made in this franchise over the years, but in most cases, it has managed to keep its old fans.

This time, the ambition of the developers has caused much more changes in the game than before, and their intention is to attract a large number of new players and at the same time try to attract old fans, but has the game managed to satisfy the old fans and at the same time attract new fans?

Final Fantasy XVI was my first experience of this franchise and it managed to amaze me so quickly in the first few hours of the game that I kept thinking about going home as soon as possible and continue playing.

I usually prefer games to have about 20 hours of main story, and the length of the main story made me a little uncomfortable when I wanted to start the game, but after a while, sometimes I didn’t even notice the age of time, and the length of the main story, contrary to what I thought, did not affect the quality of story, the gameplay, the voice acting of the characters, the boss fights, they all entertained me wonderfully. As my first experience, Final Fantasy XVI completely succeeded in getting me interested in this franchise and making me want to go and play the rest of the games in this franchise.

STORY

Clive Rosfield, the eldest son of the Grand Duchy of Rosaria, who was supposed to be the dominant of the Phoenix, and now this honor has been assigned to his younger brother Joshua, and Clive was chosen as the shield of the Phoenix at the age of fifteen, and his mother sees him as a failure and his father, who believes in him.

The first part of the story ends with a magnificent fight, a fight that awakens the fire of revenge in Clive, and then the narrative of the story goes to thirteen years later, thirteen years that Clive has lived with the purpose of revenge, after some time, Clive’s goal changes and the only goal of his life is not revenge and bloodshed, but the fight for a free life for everyone and saving the land, in this way, Clive is forced to fight with the eikons and realizes his great powers, and at the same time, the land of valistea is drawn in a war between countries, those who do anything for power, the dirty world of politics is well shown in the story, the blood that has been spilled and the betrayals that have

been done in order for a country to gain power, the blood of thousands of innocents being shed just for the personal benefit of one person, willing to kill all the people for the sake of religion and the promise of the world after death, the hatred that of a family can have towards each other just because of power and royalty, or the love that exists in a family regardless of power, being the heir to the crown and Throne or wealth, in this story, the transformation of a human into a creature full of revenge and a bloodthirsty creature that no longer has humanity because of love is completely understandable, the anger that is in the existence of the enemy to the main character of the game is completely felt, and meeting with family after many years, these are arranged so well that you feel that you have met your family again after many years.

The story of the game brought me to tears many times and I have never felt so emotional in any game before, the story made me feel happy, sad, angry, calm and even a sense of revenge, and it

was no longer just a feeling that the character in the game had but it was mine too.

The story of this game was definitely one of the best stories I have ever seen, heard or read in my life.

As the story progressed, it became darker and sadder and compared to the rest of the games in this franchise, the story was much darker, although the story was not perfect and the unnecessary and long cutscenes were a bit annoying, especially in the first half of the game.

Regarding whether the story is compatible with the rest of the franchise games or not, we can say that yes, like the rest of the franchise games, this story is also crystal-themed.

GAMEPLAY

The combat is undoubtedly the most satisfying part of the game, but compared to the rest of the

games in franchise, it is completely different, and this is where I think old fans of the game may not like it, however, it was undoubtedly the best part of the game for me, at the beginning of the game, the variety of abilities is not so much, and yet the fights are still good, but with the progress of the main story, the variety of abilities becomes more and more and gives the player the power to choose them.

Abilities cannot be changed during fight, but you can change them when you are not fighting.

Gathering all the enemies in one place and damaging them all until they all get hit or die, hitting scattered abilities and reducing the enemies’ health without getting hit yourself and finally ending their lives using a single ability, pulling the enemies towards yourself or quickly teleporting toward the enemy and hitting them, dodging, combining different abilities and creating various combos, holding the square button and hitting a heavy hit and downing the enemy, and many other things that are done with

creativity.

Overall, I think the fighting part is done wonderfully, but fans of the game may be unhappy with it.

Fighting with eikons, which are considered the boss fights of the game, are very massive and glorious.

In this fight, the variety of your abilities is reduced and you are limited to only a few hits and a few abilities, but the joy of these fights is many times more than normal fights, fighting with huge and powerful creatures while you yourself have turned into another creature is very enjoyable and exciting.

The design of eikons is very beautiful and magnificent, which makes the game more attractive for the player with each fight, one of the boss fights will amaze you because of its

hugeness, one because of the diversity of its powers in the fight and challenging you, and one because of the wonderful art and design of eikon.

New players of the franchise or old players of the franchise, it doesn’t matter which group you belong to, you will undoubtedly love eikon fights.

LEVEL DESIGN

Probably the biggest flaw of the game is in the level design, the environments of the game are very beautiful and eye-catching in many stages, but still it is not designed in a way that encourages you to search the environment, there are no secret ways that will lead you to an exciting prize, no chest that challenges you to get it, and nothing else exciting at all.

You reach and enter the next stage and again go from the starting point to the ending point and fight with the enemies that are on that path.

CHARACTER DESIGN

character design is very well done, the backstories and deep characterizations and the diverse design of the faces, bodies, their permanence in the mind is very high and it is a pleasure to communicate with them every moment, the friendly characters that make you depend on them and make you fall in love with them and the enemy characters that give you a strong sense of hatred and enmity, the romantic relationships between couples or the relationships between parents and children are very deep and understandable.

The wonderful voice acting of the voice actors without a doubt drowns the player, the voice actors perfectly express different emotions, the tone of the voice and the way of speaking are completely in accordance with the mood of the character and the prevailing atmosphere in the environment, the hate in the voice of the

character, love in the voice of the character, sadness, happiness, regret, homesick, all of this can be understood just by listening to the game and without looking at the scene, and all the voice actors are extremely talented.

SOUNDTRACKS

The soundtracks of the game are very harmonious with the gameplay.

Despite the wonderful voice acting, now only one more thing remains to complete the feeling that the game conveys to the player, and that is the soundtracks of the game, the player can easily understand the theme of the environment in which he is, whether he is walking in the environment or engaged in a fight, in the battle with a normal boss fight or in the battle with an eikon or the story has reached a sad moment, the soundtracks are pleasant in all moments of the game and immerse the player in the game.

VISUALS

The game is visually very eye-catching, although it drops in some cases, but it is usually visually acceptable, but in some cases, the lighting in the game stuns the player, and it is easy to say that this game has one of the best lightings, the textures are very detailed in ninety-nine percent of the time, and there are many textures in the game that are so realistic, and the combination of these textures with the lighting is stunning. The performance of the game is almost constant in fidelity mode, but it drops in some areas in performance mode.

VARIETY

The variety of enemies is not small, but not too much, but they have a good and detailed design and different attacks that require different movements of the player. The variety of weapons in the game is very good and acceptable.

Some are obtained from side quests and some are obtained after the main story missions, and you can gain a lot of power by completing the side quests and defeat the enemies more easily.

The abilities of your character are also very diverse and anyone can change its arrangement according to their interest and gameplay style.

Eikons are also very diverse and no two designs are the same, so the player is always excited to see next one and fight them.

CONCLUSION

Final Fantasy XVI was one of my best experiences, the story is tense and full of emotions, the fights are extremely satisfying and the variety of abilities is vast, and the boss fights of the game can undoubtedly be said to be among the best boss fights in the game industry,

and not just one of them, but all of them, from the first one that surprises you to the best boss fight of the game, all of them are truly enjoyable, very beautiful and eye-catching lighting, textures that are very high quality, Epic soundtracks, magnificent, Emotional, sad, happy, etc., perfect voice acting that conveys the feeling of the character to the player, an acceptable variety of enemies and weapons, but bad level design that does not give the player any pleasure in searching.

Overall, the game is definitely worth the experience and is likely to become one of the best games of your life, but there are many changes compared to other Final Fantasy games that may annoy old fans.

Score: 9/10