The demo for Final Fantasy XVI is here, and it's shaping up to be a dark and bold spin on the long-running franchise
that Square-Enix released this week, a beefy chunk of the upcoming game—out June 22—designed to show off both its action-heavy combat system, and its far-more-grim-than-standard tone. But it’s also notone of the things we’re meant to take from it, given how frequently main character Clive’s companions utter the word in the first few minutes of the game.
Of early notice is the way the game handles war, a recurring theme throughout the series that’s always beenabstracted at the hands of various technical issues. Running on the PlayStation 5, this is the firstwith the chops to actually show battle—not the “stand there, pick a menu option, swing your sword” kind, but the genuinely bloody melee of armies clashing.
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