This looks really amazing! Maybe they finally came up with a good combat system for the main series games for the first time in a while!

So essentially this is Devil May Cry but with more RPG elements.

hate all the UI clutter
if it’s not going to be an actual turn based rpg why have all these stupid numbers floating around everywhere

Square sure loves that stagger system eh? A shame I’m not a fan of doing piddling damage until a threshold is passed.

Looks like a tech demo

i have a small theory that this game will have action combat, as well as turned based combat for some encounters

Action based fighting looks cool just hope they can find a way to translate that to the summon boss fights. Huge dbz blast destruction battles between 2 beasts sound amazing especially if it’s all playable. Most summons in previous ff only entail quick power moves which were fine but I think it’s time for full on David vs Goliath fights.

While I guess I understand why, I’m sad that the strategy of a true turn-based combat in ff will never be seen again. Ff10 was the last it seems

Analysis: the combat is going to be sweet.

I hope in the next trailer we get some gameplay of the open-world and what it’s like

thank you for doing this breakdown! I am so excited for this game

I’m so fucking excited for this game!!!!!
Awesome breakdown, Thanks Happy!

Final fantasy is having a identity crisis, it does not know what it is…..if I wanted to play devil may cry I would ff sucks now where turn-based

May as well just start calling it a different series of final fantasy. Ever since 12, straight downhill.

In regards to the Shiva Diamond dust thing. If you look closely you can see the icon for thunderstorm shrink and expand like its being pressed right before the skill comes out. Additionally, the Diamond Dust skill bar on the right happens before the visual indicator of thunderstorm being pressed occurs. My theory is that the skill we are seeing on screen is thunderstorm (hence the lightning) and that diamond dust is either the star reward for freezing an opponent (like the coeurl in the scene) or the skill was used just before the scene.

It’s just annoying to see the numbers on the enemy. It covers the whole enemy’s body and face.

best analysis I’ve heard so far 10/10

All these “not a real FF game” comments kinda weird lol, these games have been switching it up constantly for years.

Final Fantasy should return to turn based combat in future installments after XVI. I’m not too sold on dark-toned action RPGs. They shouldn’t be a trend.

I miss turn based final fantasy games. I’m sure this is ‘cool’, but it’s just god of war with extra steps. If there’s a lot of customization, then cool, but this is looking very ff15-ish and that was kinda lame.

I honestly thought this was a cheaper version of Decil May Cry set in a medieval setting. This game looks like utter dog sh!t.

no pc sad 🙁

I hate FF now. I feel like it is turning into a devil may cry type of gameplay. FF 7 Remake was horrible and now 16 Looks like shit too. RIP FF series

7:51 actual stinger

If this game is only 1 v 1 fighting? No party building like previous titles? Easy pass; Final fantasy is officially DOA.

also Hi Potion is spelt wrong as its spelt High Potion and not the traditional Hi Potion

i think we will see a similar system to Dantes Sin Devil Trigger in DMC5. Maybe that is what the Limit breaks are there for?

no female option just a trash male character…big skip

This combat looks incredible

Eikons are your party members.

I’m not sure if I’m seeing more than is there, but check out the eikons eyes from each clip, sometimes they’re dark blue and sometimes they’re bright red. I think multiple instances of each eikon may be possible, or something like that. The eyes colors reflect the gradient in the logo…and we even see ifrit punch what looks like another ifrit in that last clip

Someone pointed out that Shiva’s diamond dust is red on the Liquid Flame fight, indicating it could be an enemy attack so it might be LF and Shiva v Clive

Cool breakdown. Do you think there is any hope that since Forspoken is coming out in October, and FF16 is coming out next summer, that FF7R part 2 could come out in January or February?

They imported the LB gauge right out of 14 lol love that

I am really not trying to nitpick but I absolutely hate the hud/ui

I don’t think you’re using some Ramuh passive when you do that big ice attack. For one, you’re still performing Diamond Dust, so it doesn’t really make sense to be using Ramuh’s weapon or ability. For another, if you look at some of the clips of Shiva fighting Titan, you can see the same electricity around her ice. It just seems that, for some reason, Shiva also has a thunder aspect to her.

Uhh what is this garbage? FF becoming Elden Ring and DMC now? Where’s the anime inspired characters like Viera, Miqote, Lalafels? Plus single player FFs have been terrible for over 20 years. I will gladly pass and wait for 6.2 😂

so hype for good action combat in 16!!
hopefully they dont have same mistakes from 15 about boring open world and bad combat

Basically Dark Souls Fantasy XVI

I’m willing to believe Shiva’s dominant somehow gains Ramuh’s powers in the story, and when you get Shiva, it’s both ice and lightning powers.

Why is his name Clive. I have never changed an FF character’s name in my entire life but I am not playing as fucking Clive

Clive the Eikonbender.

Eikon’s being swapped in in-order is the same as DMC5’s weapon swap so im pretty sure we’ll get to organize em in the menu, all in all im loving what i saw the combat is looking freakin amazing, we haven’t had a great single player mainline FF title in years im so excited for XVI.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) “Pound the orc into the ground”

It’s shown in the face button that the magic is Dark for Odin. That could be the Eikon of Darkness.

This looks like a great game. This is not my final fantasy though.
I am not referring to the gameplay, but the fact that it is a solo character for combat.
I know people will say that I should give it a chance, but when something has established itself as a story that involves individuals fighting for something together over the years.
One can’t help but get disappointed, at least in my case.
I think that this instead should have been a side game and not a mainstream FF game imo.

Not a gameplay speculation, more lore but; I am genuinely curious if the time skip that takes place is one where Clive is in a state of stasis, or if he actually spends x amount of years after The Phoenix/Ifrit situation. I bring this up because we know there”s a time skip given the two different Clive designs but it’s interesting that we don’t see Jill or Joshua in their time skip designs, either they are presumed to be dead and that’s part of what fuels Clive’s drive, is to seek revenge for his siblings (Jill is a ward to their house but is practically a sister to him and Joshua) or they’re being saved for a later reveal whether it be from a new trailer or something we’ll see in-game…next year. Man this is gonna be a long wait.

Great job! Did you notice Clive uses a specific weapon from each Eikon when he manifests their powers? Clive uses Shiva’s shawl, Phoenix’s wing, Garuda’s claws, Titan’s fist, Odin’s spear/sword, and Ramuh’s staff. Thunderstorm and Pile Drive are definitely Ramuh’s abilities since they’re the same purple as his symbol, rather than Shiva’s blue.

This is more predictable, but if you look closely you can see the default magic attack of most Eikons (some are only onscreen for a frame or two). The hard ones to see are Titan’s being Stone and Odin’s being Dark, but we also see Phoenix’s is Fire, Garuda’s is Aero and Shiva’s is Blizzard.

Strongly believe the ??? Eikon is Hecatoncheir. Helmet and numerous arms + Earth aspected all supports Hecatoncheir. You can tell it’s Earth because the symbol has the same yellow/brown colouring as Titan. Think it’s likely there are 8 Eikons for each element, and then 8 more unknown Eikons the people of Valisthea don’t now about (like Ifrit and Hecatoncheir).

And final speculation, Bahamut is a Holy elemental. Its symbol’s colour is teal, which is the colour worn by all the royalty of Sanbreque (which also has dragoons and has a giant painting in the background depicting a dragon). And Sanbreque is known as the “Holy Empire”.

Regarding Shiva’s form using lightning, if you look at Shiva’s attack against Titan, there are lightning bolts striking between the shards. Shiva in FFXVI may also have electric based abilities while mainly having ice powers.

I’m so excited for this game, but if it’s love ff7r i won’t be able to play on PC for so long and in scared

Dropping a thanks again for the good content.

I still don’t understand what type of game this will be. It doesn’t look like FF7, nor FF13, nor FF15. So then wtf is it? A fighting game?

What I would love to see more games use is the Yakuza/Judgment dynamic intros

The saga continues 😀

Thanks for the in-depth breakdown and reupload! You saw way more than I did watching the trailer. Can’t wait for XVI!

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