Square Enix showed a new trailer and gave a release window for its next mainline Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy 16, at Sony’s State of Play on Thursday. Final Fantasy 16 will be released in summer 2023. The trailer reveals new story details about the world of Valisthea and the clashes that will shape its world.
Final Fantasy 16 is currently being developed by Creative Business Unit III, with Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14) serving as the game’s producer. The game is currently planned to be released on PlayStation 5 and Windows PC. The new trailer showed clashes of epic proportions, including fights between the magical summons like Shiva, Titan, and Ifrit.
Final Fantasy 16 was delayed in December with the developers citing complications related to COVID-19 and also stating that more news about the game would be revealed in spring 2022. In April, Yoshida said that the game was in the “final stages” of development and further elaborated a week later to say the game was in debugging stages and would get a new trailer soon.
Final Fantasy 16 follows the journey of a warrior named Clive Rosfield, who from the looks of previous trailers, might be destined to follow a tragic path ending with a clash between him and his younger brother, Joshua Rosfield. Trailers have shown all the regular trappings we’ve come to associate with the Final Fantasy franchise like Chocobos, aether, and known summons like Ifrit and Shiva.
