#Final fantasy xvi trailer series

Having Phoenix equipped gives you access to a default elemental cast, such as Fire, in addition to having two unique moves. Eikons give you a different set of four skills that you can use that possess some kind of elemental potency. If you possess more than one Eikon, you can switch them with L2. Understanding the use of Eikons is core, which is crucial to understanding how combat will work.Д®ikons can be likened to a skill loadout that you will be able to actively switch between mid-combat.

#Final fantasy xvi trailer series

Eikons are this title's interpretation of FF's classic summons - known across the series as Espers, GFs, and eidolons. There's a meter underneath your health bar, which is used for Eikons.

That doesn't mean Clive will be entirely alone in battle, however. While we've already met a number of members of the cast of FF16 characters, it appears all but certain now that this game is a single-character affair where you only play as Clive with no 'party' system, breaking withВ FF tradition. It's worth noting that we never see the player directly controlling any character that isn't protagonist Clive or one of the summons. After you stagger them, enemies can go into a crumpled state where you can exploit them into a highly-damaging combo. These attacks could change based on your directional input, as well as whether you are on the ground, aerial, tapping the button or holding it.Д®nemies and bosses alike also have an additional staggered state that you can build up with attacks. This is telegraphed in the trailer by the use of CliveвЂ™s numerous different attacks while only having a singular attack button. The third-person action of Final Fantasy XVI is real-time andВ reactive to your input, most similar to Devil May Cry. So, here's how we reckon combat works in FF16, based on the evidence in the trailers. We've been closely freeze-framing the trailer to see what we can learn - and we think more is revealed than you'd imagine. If you were a little lost looking at the gameвЂ™s вЂDominanceвЂ™ trailer, itвЂ™s quite a bit easier to digest than you might think. Final Fantasy has traditionally been known for turn-based RPG mechanics, or a blend of real-time action and ATB, but Final Fantasy XVI appears to forego all that and deliver us a third-person character action romp. Taking the footage shown across the first two trailers into account, it is certainly beginning to look like Suzuki's hiring was an accurate hint. Suzuki's hiring seemed to closely point to what kind of combat system FF16 might employ. Suzuki's involvement in the project that ultimately was revealed as FF16 certainly got fans talking - as he's an action game veteran, with credits on Devil May Cry titles and Capcom's beloved cult RPG Dragon's Dogma.

The jumping off point for the great FF16 combat debate was arguably in 2019, when Capcom veteran Ryota Suzuki joined Square Enix to work as one of the key development staffВ on an as-then unannounced game within the business group led by FF14's Naoki Yoshida.

Two trailers deep and with a bunch of screenshots to hand, we're now beginning to get a real, substantial look at what sort of game Final Fantasy XVIВ is - including some of the earliest glimpses of the game's combat mechanics, which have been a topic of hot debate since even before the game was first announced.