The discharge date for Last Fantasy 16 has lastly been confirmed, with the role-playing recreation set for launch subsequent June.
Introduced final night time (December 8) at The 2022 Sport Awards, Last Fantasy 16 will likely be launched June 22, 2023.
Alongside the launch date, Sq. Enix additionally shared a brand new, revenge-driven trailer that exhibits off extra of Last Fantasy 16’s medieval setting in addition to giving gamers their first glimpse at what monsters they’ll be battling – test it out under.
Final month, director Hiroshi Takai stated that Last Fantasy 16 was about “95 per cent” executed, with the crew now largely specializing in debugging the title. “We’ve forbidden anybody so as to add new code in case new bugs seem,” he stated.
Talking about Last Fantasy 16 earlier this 12 months, Takai stated: “In contrast to a web based recreation that entails many gamers on the identical time, Last Fantasy 16 gives a unique expertise the place it focuses on the person participant and immerses you within the story. I feel it’s a really fleshed out story.”
He continued: “For individuals who have grown up and realised that actuality isn’t form to you and have drifted away from Last Fantasy, we hope that 16 will likely be a recreation that brings again anew the eagerness that you simply as soon as had for the sequence.”
Nonetheless, following the discharge of a brand new political-heavy trailer, Takai was compelled to defend the obvious lack of range throughout the medieval Europe-inspired recreation. “The story we’re telling is fantasy, sure, however it is usually rooted in actuality,” he stated.
“It may be difficult to assign distinctive ethnicities to both antagonist or protagonist with out triggering viewers preconceptions, inviting unwarranted hypothesis, and finally stoking flames of controversy,” he added.
It’s additionally been reported that FF16 will launch as a six-month unique title for the PS5, in accordance with an advert from Sony.
In different Sport Award information, one attendee has been arrested after having access to the stage in the course of the present’s finale.