{"id":238894,"date":"2023-07-08T02:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=296980"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:44:45","slug":"final-fantasy-xvi-analysis-a-recommended-final-fantasy-although-with-seams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/final-fantasy-xvi-analysis-a-recommended-final-fantasy-although-with-seams\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Final Fantasy XVI: A Detailed Review Recommends the Game as a Worthy Addition to the Final Fantasy Series, Despite Some Rough Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I could have left everything to the end and served to create a huge expectation until the outcome of this text, but sometimes it is preferable to get to the point: I recommend Final Fantasy XVI<\/strong>. Just like that. However, within this recommendation there are many nuances, <\/strong>since the game has its loose seams that make the work is good, but could have given much more of itself to become excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Because Square Enix’s new release came with the promise of being one of the most anticipated works not only of this 2023, but of the last few years. The team that made up the production was one of those “dream teams” that one rarely encounters: within the vaunted Creative Business Unit III<\/strong> of Square Enix, figures such as Naoki Yoshida<\/strong> as producer (the architect of the rebirth of Final Fantasy XIV), Ryota Suzuki <\/strong>in gameplay (combat director of the incredible Devil May Cry 5), Masayoshi Soken<\/strong> as composer (Final Fantasy or Drakengard, among many other works) and Hiroshi Takai<\/strong> and Kazutoyo Maehiro<\/strong> as directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A high-flying plot that hinted that Final Fantasy XVI would be a huge work from afar, but when we have it in front of us it turns out to be a very good work, but not impressive. Because Final Fantasy XVI makes its greatest virtue also its defect:<\/strong> the combat system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The combat in this installment is spectacular.<\/strong> More typical of a hack & slash than an Action RPG -you don’t steal Capcom from Suzuki by chance-, the amount of combos that can be chained between skills, hits and more allow the playable loop of each fight to be very addictive (even ignoring that most enemies hardly present a challenge). However, this is also its biggest “weak” point: everything introduced as an RPG is of little importance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leveling up, weapons, etc., is quite vacuous, to the point that if it had not been present, perhaps it would have been even better.<\/strong> By betting so much on the hack & slash genre, the game is dominated more by the player’s skill than the stats themselves. Here this writer has killed bosses 10 levels above by the simple fact of being used to play this genre. Therefore, the Action RPG component is relegated to a second or even third plane, where it does not shine and becomes anecdotal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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