Filmmaker Reacts: Final Fantasy XVI Trailer - Ambition

[@PhilipHarts]

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[@ben1805]

I don’t know what it is because I’ve seen this trailer many times but at the end when she says “The war…” *bang* (Logo reveal) “of the Eikons” I get chills every time

[@casualnerd8139]

I feel this way at the line: Rise you crownless kings

[@UltimaLuminaire]

The way shots portray Eikons and Dominants more intimately than you'd expect feels like a promise of great character writing to come, and I'm happy you're around to break down what techniques they're doing. Good stuff, Creative Business Unit III. Keeping the bar high with their hybrid of Ivalice world-building and snappy, classic crystal lore.

[@mistandmako]

Your videos are such great lessons on visual storytelling, I learn so much from watching you. This game looks absolutely insane! The world seems so rich and full of history, I really hope we get to explore all of the beautiful cities and locations shown off in this trailer.

[@PhilipHarts]

Thank you so much! I am loving the historical feeling of this world

[@cloud1stclass372]

As a skeptic from the last few trailers, I am 100% sold. This looks incredible.

[@BynByn93]

It's not just camera angles used for Hugo (Titan's dominant) to make him look big. He IS big. Massive. An absolute unit. You can see it in a previous trailer (Dominance trailer) for the game. He's mountainous.

[@SigmaXcelsior]

Love the FF5 song “A New World” in your intro! Such a nostalgic vibe!!

[@PhilipHarts]

Thank you, I love that song so much!

[@TyLe0n]

If you look at the picture at the end the Summon /Eikon at the top can't be Bahamut since he's at the bottom above Odin. The one at the top is unknown and possibly the true form of the Fire Eikon, since we know from prior info that there are two Eikon's of Fire for the red crystal situated on the Island of Drake's Breath which is seen at 3:14. Since Rosaria has Phoenix, and the sudden appearance of Ifrit as indicated by another trailer by someone showing their surprise that there is another Eikon of fire other then phoenix. As for the other Eikons in that image from left to right Garuda, Ramuh, Titan, Shiva in the middle, Odin at the bottom, Bahamut above him, and Leviathan above him and above them all is the mysterious new Eikon which I'm assuming is a fusion of both Ifrit and Phoenix into its true form.

[@Varizen87]

I made a similar comment. I'm wondering if that fusion is Raktapaksa, which in FFXIV is a fusion form of Ifrit and Garuda from the Eden raids.

[@ComickerSeikatsu]

I kinda had the image that it was Zodiark. With all the wings and the overall sillouette, it kind of reminded me of Zodiark from FF12

[@Varizen87]

@@ComickerSeikatsu I don’t think Yoshida would let Zodiark be a major element of 2 games he was involved with. You don’t want to keep making the same game over and over. While I don’t think Raktapaksa would be the ultimate villain or anything, that seems more likely as it wouldn’t use the exact same major antagonist again.

[@spiraljumper74]

Damn bro, you really called all that.

[@handono5382]

Yes Philip. They're yelling "Now die" Damn i got goosebumps.

[@jesusdadiel9668]

I believe there yelling “now die” but I could be wrong Awesome video by the way love you’re breakdown of everything that happens with the camera

[@PhilipHarts]

That would be awesome! Maybe it’s a ritual war cry?? I love stuff like that, thank you so much !

[@jesusdadiel9668]

@@PhilipHarts you welcome Also something I notice is the fact this is the second trailer the show the titan boss fifth in both the first and second trailer maybe there hinting that this boss fight will be a really epic one. Really looking forward to it and the other Eikon boos fights when the game comes out

[@connorsimpson9423]

I can't believe how graphically good it looks !

[@harrenysk]

Jun Akiyama, who worked on the cutscenes for vagrant story all the way back in the ps1 days, is working on this game, i think. the vagrant story cinematography was amazing back then.

[@Masamune_91]

I think they might be yelling.."Now die!" perhaps?

[@agranosclem]

It's important to note we do NOT have an open world as confirmed by dev statements. Which I honestly appreciate. I'm not too keen on open world settings (Breath of the Wild being the only open world game I've completed). I much prefer a more streamlined progression style.

[@apoema42]

It seems that the Ramuh dominant is the one traveling with us (hiking in death valley). On his establishing shot we can see he poses his left arm in a weird way, often associated with Samurais in Japans. However, we later get to known that his left arm is damaged/decaying, which may explain the earlier shot. If you get that together with what they are saying at the time, it seems that is not the blight but a side effect from using the Eikon's power, which would be a cool bit of additional lore.

[@tylerbaker2405]

The implication from the voice over is that what you're referring to as the Blight at 19:41 for instance is that these are dominants and the eikon's power is literally draining their bodies to a withered husk.

[@agranosclem]

Apparently someone translated the japanese trailer and...yeah, that's basically what's going on. Something along the lines of them turning to stone or something if I remember hearing correctly.

[@xerpp2]

Music similar to Final fantasy 2,3,4 battle music!!!!!!!!!

[@PhilipHarts]

Good catch! Love the classic feel!

[@Ower8x]

Soken is a master of that taking elements of classical FF songs and using them in new but recognizable ways

[@xerpp2]

@@PhilipHarts omg it was bothering me for a while because I know what it sounded like but couldn’t pinpoint it till now,it’s actually the final fantasy 6 battle music sampling!!!

[@cloudmushu]

No, actually its just soken being soken

[@matthewwatkins233]

So much hype for a new Final Fantasy! Can't wait for summer haha

[@Kasaaz]

This might be the first game where you really NEED HDR to get the full effect.

[@zacatkinson3926]

Did you notice that the guy spilt the ocean and ocean floor when he walked forward from materializing from the black? thats Odin AKA Barnabas

[@KeiKurono90]

One question: Have you considered to react to "Bad Apple!!" from Touhou Project? Just saying. xD

[@ImmortalCain999]

I wish for dlc we could get gear from final fantasy 14 as cosmetic or something for final fantasy 16

[@Kiddy7180]

Takeshi Nozue the CGI cinematic director on FFXV and the director of Kingsglaive FFXV are working on FFXVI so I'm not really supprised that the shots are as good as they are. This was confirmed by FFXVI's famed producer, Yoshi-P

[@madjoe8622]

17:40 The one that kills him wears a Rosaria armor, that's why he didn't pay attention. Looks like a traitor.

[@chocobojam8776]

Somehow this trailer gives me a darksouls/elden ring vibes. Even the narrator sounds like ranna from elden ring.

[@vault29a]

Touch grass.

[@tiensimon1263]

It's confirmed its not open world.

[@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865]

I hope there isn’t a huge gap of time between 16 and 17.

[@reesew6599]

Unless they've given a new business unit the charge of XVII, I wouldn't expect to see even a trailer for it until at least 2027. CBU3 is still actively developing XIV alongside XVI and CBU1 still has 2 more parts of VII Remake to release... personally I'd bet on a 2028-2030 release of XVII at this rate

[@zacatkinson3926]

@@reesew6599 9 is being remade too

[@reesew6599]

@@zacatkinson3926 Is that confirmed though? I know it's been mentioned in some leaks and w the anime coming along I wouldn't be surprised, but I was under the impression that there's been no official acknowledgment of it yet. Either way, I don't see CBU1 or CBU3 working on that project personally. Not that I don't think it's coming, but I think it'll be closer to a 1:1 remake with some updated graphics that another unit could handle.

[@zacatkinson3926]

@@reesew6599 I dont know, if the animated show for FF9 is in development then remaking 9 is possible as it would be marketed with the show

[@dbkunbr]

Or maybe phil, she, benedickta is trying to trick the character in front of her, because on the website it says she's extremely smart. lol

[@MyNindo2000]

I agree. I don't think their relationship is a romantic one.

[@WonOneWun]

he said no birds not no words

[@zacatkinson3926]

Phil do you play Zelda at all?

[@PhilipHarts]

Yes I love Zelda! OOT and MM are my favs!

[@zacatkinson3926]

@@PhilipHarts cool just curious

[@bloodbadger5378]

Any one can make graphics, music is awesome. I want a story.

[@zacatkinson3926]

They killed his dad the king not his teacher

[@WonOneWun]

720p vids in 2022 smh