Naoki Yoshida presents a brand new Final Fantasy XVI trailer at The Game Awards

To cap-off the barrage of bulletins and trailers unleashed throughout The Game Awards was a brand new trailer and launch date for the newest single-player installment of the Final Fantasy collection. Game director Naoki Yoshida made his first ever look at The Game Awards to current Final Fantasy XVI’s latest trailer and shared the sport’s launch date — June twenty second.

The Revenge trailer was very quick however very bloody, revisiting one of many first moments of Final Fantasy XVI followers acquired to see. Because of all of the blood, the trailer’s been slapped with a content material warning that means you’ll have to go to YouTube to watch.

Because of the covid-19 pandemic, updates on the sport have been sparse since its first announcement in 2020. But it looks as if the sport’s advertising machine is beginning to spin up in earnest. Earlier this 12 months we acquired two new trailers highlighting the characters, story, and gameplay.

Developed underneath the management of one of many hardest working folks at Square Enix, recreation director Naoki Yoshida, Final Fantasy XVI appears prefer it combines all of the huge political intrigue of Final Fantasy XII with the fluid motion battle methods of FFXV and Final Fantasy VII Remake. In an interview with Yoshida, he talked about how eikon battles — huge fights that includes Final Fantasy summon monsters — have been one of the vital necessary points of the sport to get proper. For the primary time within the collection’ historical past you’ll be capable to management them outright as an alternative of issuing them instructions in battle or them performing on their very own.

“We have these epic summon versus summon battles,” Yoshida advised The Verge. “And these are not only going to be in cutscenes. The players will be able to actually get into those battles and control an eikon of their own and feel the excitement from the inside, not just from an outside type of view.”

The wait is sort of at an finish, Final Fantasy XVI comes as a timed unique to PlayStation 5 on June twenty second.