Final Fantasy XVI trades strategy for spectacle—and fun
), mental rigor has come in and out of fashion with the decades. True, it’s rare for an entry to do withhas, and entirely jettison the series’ usual turn-based combat in favor of a pure action game, far more reliant on reflexes than careful character builds or planning. Buthas always been less about choosing attack choices from a menu, or even spending time with series mascots like moogles and chocobos , than it has been about relentless re-invention.
In this case, the series has reinvented itself into one of its darkest outings to date, with players taking control of the aforementioned Clive, a former lordling transformed, through some very George R.R. Martin life events, into a slave-assassin stuck working for one of several countries waging endless war in a dying world.
The game’s superficiality extends to its story as well, which is emotionally affecting, well-presented, and, yeah, sometimes a little cheap. The game’s various and obviousinspirations—a new-found interest in profanity, sex, and father figures who couldn’t be more transparently doomed if they’d literally cast Sean Bean to play them—cover up what is, beneath, a very traditionalstory.
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