"This is Actual Gameplay?!"

[@Somerled_Pox]

They really said "yeah Asura's Wrath was cool, been a while though"

[@fudwgemar]

Absolutely, first thing I thought of when seeing the gameplay.

[@r3zaful]

Destroyer of joystick

[@SpectreAdept]

And then they said “You know what Asura’s Wrath needed? Particle effects”

[@stitches1110]

Dude, I had a similar thought. Was watching MaximilianDood and he was making references to Panzer Dragoon, which I never played, but more than a few times during the Phoenix scenes and especially this one o was thinking, “This looks totally like the shooting sections of Asura’s wrath.”

[@ericstaples7220]

More like "God of War 3 was really good."

[@jf4156]

The transition between cinematic and gameplay is so good, first game to actually look next gen

[@halogalaxy5612]

Doesn’t the dead space remake do the same thing?

[@jf4156]

@@halogalaxy5612 true but it definitely isn’t anywhere as close of a visual spectacle

[@halogalaxy5612]

@@jf4156 I think most people would disagree with that

[@leebard9335]

What about Bugsnax?

[@ulforcemegamon3094]

Unrecorded would also fill the next gen look if it is real

[@warhammerguy]

Yoshi-P should rename himself to Atlas because right now he is carrying the entire company on his back.

[@ZezanB]

true

[@brandonn161]

For real! They really need to put him as the CEO and give him a huge pay raise/bonus instead of these NFT hungry idiots that they have running this company.

[@Shamanierrro]

@@brandonn161 Or just give him a massive raise. He's good at making games, that talent would be wasted as a CEO.

[@caster269]

@@brandonn161 It's crazy how you have perfect examples, like Satoru Iwata, of a passionate developer turned CEO skyrocketing the reach of Nintendo and meanwhile 99% of other industry CEO's know about money, but almost nothing about gaming, and destroy reputation for short term profit.

[@Dracobyte]

What about Team Asano, Yoko Taro, FF 7R team and DQ team?

[@blitzcrank4840]

Cinematic-like gameplay gets me everytime. Asura's Wrath, Bayonetta, DMC, and MGR-Revengeance were fking bangers

[@Jedi-Slash]

And I ask myself why FFXV couldn't be like this.

[@mikerelf]

@@Jedi-Slash Development hell and mismanagement, as well as trying to be too big for it's own good. They've done a movie, an anime and I think a novel based on the game's world, but the game itself suffered as a result.

[@sane7527]

Revengeance is so underrated bro!! Absolute baller of a game

[@trendybistro]

@@Jedi-Slash That engine was a nightmare to work in apparently.

[@kill3rbyysight]

DMC is cinematic??

[@LoDaFTA]

It's incredible how as soon as I heard the music I knew it was a final fantasy game. Soken is unmistakable.

[@IceFire1800]

i really here there's a secret unlock to get some otomatone songs in 16

[@jacobteague635]

​@@IceFire1800😂😂

[@DawnAfternoon]

"bUT nOTHING aBOUT tHIS iS FF!!!!"

[@DJkazma66]

​@@DawnAfternoon 😂😂😂

[@blacky8987]

@@DawnAfternoon .... Because? You do know what final fantasy means right? "FINAL FANTASY" just mega badass guys fighting with crazy powers thats it. I remind you that there are about like what? 20 games? and they are all in different universes... why? Should they all be played the same way? I tell you people like you are a plague.

[@Artixes]

This is what I’ve been wanting from any new games just true unbridle badassery boss fights

[@skuld9618]

cute

[@elsosa7863]

Temple Run 3D

[@joshuab1707]

Harkening back to God of War 3 in terms of hype boss fights.

[@legendp2011]

i would recommend Nier Automata as well if you want some epic boss battles (although you have to reach ending e to get the epic boss battle)

[@brightestlight9462]

clearly you never played metal gear or dmc or so many others that have already done this

[@yammoto148]

This is amazing, it feels like playing a PS2 hack and slash all over again with how awesome it is. I just hope its a bit less scripted than the Leviathan fight in FF15.

[@Umipumi]

It do look like a hack and slash. I would have preferred a turnbased rpg, though.

[@ShojiKareza]

Thou scripted fight are more spectacles then the later

[@yammoto148]

@@Umipumi If you knew how many JRPGS were on the PS2 that were as good as FF that didn't get as popular you would not be suprised about Squares changes to more global appeal vs local appeal. Because honestly turn based as a genre became so saturated at a point I think there was even a JRPG that made you do dance dance revolution to be unique. So imo, I am happy with more hack and slash like gameplay from FF over turn based. I have played way too much turn based in my life that I am perfectly happy only having D&D games or tactics games being turn based.

[@Xepent]

​@@Umipumi buy chained echoes friend I promise

[@skyezblue3136]

Reminded me of asura wraith tbh

[@zohmbie1579]

love it when games play cinematics seamlessly with the gameplay

[@erikrivera5946]

Kojima said the future of gaming isn't in graphics but depth of mechanics. This seems to be both

[@cloroxbleach9222]

With depth in mechanics depth in graphics usually is included too, some games have excellent graphics but still lack depth

[@Retrofire-47]

Kojima also said that Quiet from MGS was scantily clad because "air makes her suffocate", that he sortaaa would rather make movies, and [paraphrasing] that Americans are uncultured swine who cannot relish in the grandeur of his epic creation Death Stranding - a game with a gameplay loop SO sufferable that it became synonymous with bad game design. He is also so arrogant that he felt it appropriate to name an entire studio after himself.

[@aggravatedintrovert7074]

@@Retrofire-47 thank you for saying all the things needed. As an addition, he also said the Europeans were more cultured than Americans and would understand his game better. European sales were less than American lol.

[@Retrofire-47]

@Nam Gge Titles do tend to breed titles - Kojima might regard himself as King Overlord the Godmaster but claiming that Death Stranding is "his" game, or "his" work, is total bollocks. Video games are this incredible marvel of engineering - unless Kojima is an omniscient polymath there is no conceivable way he could have "made" Death Stranding... not with the scale of that game. It is disrespectful to the hard-working artists "beneath him". Are you familiar with the name Chris Sawyer? He is the creator of the Rollercoaster Tycoon and Transport Tycoon franchises. He spent a decade working 16 hours days, every single day, to learn the requisite skills to build those games independently. He taught himself Assembly language, visual art, game design, animations, etc, this guy makes Kojima look like a plush kitten - and yet you never* hear about Chris Sawyer, and Kojima names an ENTIRE fucking studio after himself - claiming ALL their work as his own - and then proceeds to get his dick stroked by everyone. the dude is a twat, idc i'm saying it. and Geoff Keighley is also a fucking twat, btw, his biggest fanboy aka "Dorito Pope" sold out years ago...

[@The_MEMEphis]

​@@cloroxbleach9222 not really plenty of games look like ass and still have great mechanics

[@filipvadas7602]

This makes me wish more games would take the hint alredy and handle these types of epic large in scale boss fights like this. Asura's Wrath had the formula down back in 2012 and so far *very few* games up until now have taken that formula and tried to expand on it.

[@mangomariel]

God of war 3 in 2010 tho

[@OxygenC2]

Bayonetta 1 in 2009

[@filipvadas7602]

​@@mangomariel not quite the same. Don't get me wrong they do it *very well* , but most of the big bosses are literally just you dodging their telegraphed attacks while they stay in one place and you wail on them. Again, GOW 3 does it *really well* with the sheer brutality and the spectacle with Kronos being a basically perfect example of how to do enormous bosses like this right.

[@filipvadas7602]

​​@@OxygenC2 Temperantia was good I'll admit, but with the other bosses it felt like the size worked against them a bit as it made it tough to see wtf you were doing with so many effects flying around ans with Bayo herself being so small made it harder to adequately time your dodge as well.

[@OxygenC2]

@@filipvadas7602 It will be the same thing with 16 lol. So many effects? Being so small it's hard to block/dodge? Same problem when fighting huge bosses bro. In the end what's important is enjoying it

[@Hagosha]

They really looked at the titan fight from 15 and said "bigger"

[@1Death2Many]

Now is the Adamantoise from ff15 gonna be bigger as well

[@forrrrestjohncave]

@@F34RDSoldier805 Wasn't FF14 Bahamut the size of a moon?

[@kamanira]

@@forrrrestjohncave Not quite. Dalamud was more of a Space Station. Don't get me wrong, Bahamut was MASSIVE, but I think Titan Lost is easily larger.

[@gryphon2251]

@@kamanira When you look at images of the full Bahamut and then look at the arena you fight on in the 5th coil raid in which you're fighting on the palm of his hand and its one of the largest raid arenas in the game to this day you'll understand a bit more about how big Bahamut was. Bahamut was easily more than 6 kilometers tall and his wingspan was over 12 kilometers (someone actually did the math for this based on the images and the arena size of the palm).

[@chinhthehugger9284]

@@gryphon2251 if I remember correctly, someone even made a render of him or something with the calculated measurement. bro is huge

[@GetOverHer3]

Even the soundtrack is absolutely slapping

[@BlueTeaMate]

nah this is worst part

[@Art0fKuma]

Souken is a fucking king.

[@helpy8973]

@@BlueTeaMate Definitely not, absolute banger

[@mightytalos2454]

It’s final fantasy what did you expect?

[@jacobteague635]

​@@BlueTeaMateL

[@Hydrus96]

As someone who play Final Fantasy XIV on a daily basis I am super excited and hyped to have Yoshida as director of XVI I believe this game is going to be something real special and I can NOT wait to dive in

[@KainH93]

Specially since after this presentation is clear that 16 is ff14 on steroids with an add of Kaiju Battles

[@Hydrus96]

@@KainH93 ABSOLUTELY

[@vagabond2797]

he’s the producer but Yoshi being this involved in the project is definitely good to have.

[@evov8748]

@@Hydrus96 😂fh

[@myboy732]

And so how do we feel now?

[@flochforster6892]

The music, cinematography, lighting, EVERYTHIING about this looks great. This is what next gen gaming should look like.

[@LaVitaNouva]

Final Fantasy always delivers in aesthetic part, the music, the setting, the scenery, all of it. There are a few FF i don't particularly love, but they never fail at all of this.

[@nawro8433]

Instant asura's wrath vibes and i fucking love it

[@wever4873]

trueeeeeeeee, i plat this game back in the time

[@lilbladeknight]

Yes slap orchestra music n we got something i cant even describe

[@wever4873]

@@lilbladeknight yeah the dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" was so good

[@Salmagros]

This make me remember about Asura Wrath.

[@Windy_Artist-Dev]

The perfect cinematic gameplay doesn't exist... The perfect cinematic gameplay:

[@Kanoog]

NGL - Exactly what I was thinking! 😃

[@yummychips_]

I am not a fan of cinematic gameplay... but this... i might actually play it.

[@Windy_Artist-Dev]

@@yummychips_ Darn, I would too, looks great and ACTUALLY playable!

[@Familiar2086]

A 20h long QuickTime event/movie doesn't sound that bad

[@TheRealBillix]

you can run forward and jump! a cinematic will transition you into the next scene where there is an EXPLOSION wooooooo!!! this is barely gameplay, big companies should be ashamed to even have cinematics as a thing in 2023.. not to start with rts games.

[@adamkmet8936]

Man I would love Yoshi as a new SquareEnix CEO. He would fix that shaked mess of a comapny and turn it into something even greater that the Square Soft era. But on the other hand his potential as a producer would go to waste unless he would still retain his role for 14, 16 and who knows what else in the future.

[@voiddistortion7937]

Being a CEO would certainly encapsulate a more broad control over quality, but it wouldn’t be as defined as if he were actually working on the game itself. He would have an entire company to run and his dedication to actual gameplay would be more staggered

[@Bulsara777]

Well, Miyazaki managed to be both CEO of From Software and direct great games while at it.

[@Aurilion44]

@@Bulsara777 TBF, Square does work on more games at a time and has many other media outlets. From Software tends to focus on one game at a time

[@leeviheiskanen1271]

I just love how cinematic combat looks like

[@TheMexRAGE]

Seeing how much of expectacle they were able to squeeze from ff14 as a mmorpg with an engine designed to be able to run on ps3 (that had 256 mb of shared memory), not surprised. glad they hired Suzuki as combat designer to make the expectacle and the actual gameplay being on equal grounds

[@iSailorBoat]

spectacle... not expectacle LMAO

[@Knight_Marshal]

Maybe if you expect the spectacal, then it becomes an exspectacle .

[@BranBal]

​@@iSailorBoat This is not school, man.

[@Selnathorn]

@@Knight_Marshal I exspectacled someone making a comment like yours lol

[@atikurrahman9304]

Hype levels are ridiculously high for this game.

[@McDinglefart_69]

People love on rail mini games filled with camera paning movies nowdays.

[@senjusan6359]

Shit like this is fun to watch but not to play, I don't want on rail experience when I am playing the game

[@TheOdMan]

Is it? I feel the only games these days that actually make me hyped is Zelda games, I'm such on old bitter man at this point. I mean I'll buy this game if it turns out it's good, but the days of pre ordering and just waiting for release day are long gone. I think I still get hyped for Zelda games because ever since I played Zelda for the first time back in 1985, or 86 maybe, it's never really let me down. I have not played absolutely all of them, there are a few handheld ones I've never played, and the CD-i ones ofc, but those hardly count. Even the oft maligned Skyward Sword I found to be absolutely excellent and I had a great time with it. So yeah, Zelda has been amazingly consistent and the games are truly the only ones I really get hyped for any more.

[@mesmerising4253]

yeah no, this is kind of on rails gameplay we had back in 2005 with god of war

[@Yuxkta]

I think it's going to be mid as fuck but hypetards will still praise it because otherwise they'll have to admit they're wrong. Last good FF was 12, it's been shit ever since.

[@thegoose8663]

He is the kind of person to say that Bayonetta bike sections are "actual gameplay"

[@thatlonzoguy]

This is hype as fuck, end of story. Yoshi-P knows how to make hype fights.

[@Ms7mido]

lol ok buddy

[@ryancampbell6780]

Sick. Way the camera follows Ifrit while running on Titan's tendrils reminded me of FF9 when the Lifa tree was attacking Zidane

[@pedropereira6888]

I don't care what anyone says but ever since video games were invented this is what they were meant to become HOLY SHIT

[@majormononoke8958]

lol, you mean arrow keys and mouse precision on screen?

[@abraxasinvictus1858]

This is just a cinematic QTE It’s like praising 2005 QTEs &/or minimal user input on-rails segments, all it is is a glorified movie section.

[@julianarriola]

It's awesome

[@razz5841]

This "gameplay" is you holding forward while ocassionally pressing QTEs to a scripted cinematic, but if this is video games, be my guest.

[@pedropereira6888]

@@abraxasinvictus1858 amazing how aparently you watched 1 minute of the entire half an hour video. Bet you never even did a combo on dmc

[@brandonn161]

The soundtrack though...OMG gave me chills

[@knuckles543]

that's mayoshi Soken (FF14 lead composer) doing some WORK! and FF14's soundtrack is god-tier

[@thomasway0320]

They actually just made a modern Asura’s wrath, I might need to change my pants because of that

[@scatz4994]

it's so good, i feel like they incorporated gameplay mechanics in some older games and just merged it all.

[@youngrootv]

I love Final Fantasy, I’ve played almost all of them, but someone said that this is Temple Run 3D and I can’t unsee it now 😂

[@gannielukks1811]

It's only a segment, but yeah, it's barely gameplay

[@RonoMorph]

I absolutely can’t wait to play this game! Also really enjoying FFXV right now!

[@dannysegura1900]

What game is it?

[@franciscorivas4914]

@@dannysegura1900 I'm asking the same

[@starkworks6620]

@@dannysegura1900 ff16

[@masterxl97]

Yoshi-P is more or less the sole reason SE even CAN do all that worthless NFT and Live Service bullshit without worrying about going under.

[@cor7590]

I wasn't going to bother buying a ps5 but I legit might just to play this.

[@waifuhunter9709]

Its gonna cum to pc about next year If you can wait and play other games in your backlog, its fine I will wait as well. I am bot buying ps5

[@pedropereira6888]

Honestly its clear that SE wants to regain that must buy console selling games status and Sony is pouring their own resources into making it happen. I'm also getting a ps5 to play this

[@cor7590]

@@waifuhunter9709 ya I might end up just doing this and upgrade my pc a bit, would probably be the better route.

[@kreizytaxi]

Yeah without a doubt buying a PS5 just for this, never before have I bought a console for a single game but shit, this game looks too good.

[@robertjif6337]

​@@waifuhunter9709 yeah, 1-2 years, then 1 more year for the community to patch the performance problem

[@willowingwhispers2612]

Okay, but like, the music?! That music is incredible~

[@proggz39]

Then you go to the Xbox subreddit and you have people saying "Looks like Final Fantasy May Cry, didn't want to play it anyway"

[@schwubmexx]

And secretly they cry that they don't get a great looking game like this on their "more Powerful console" 😂

[@WrangleMcDangle]

that music has me marching to my local boss fight

[@akirachisaka9997]

Another part I really like is how QTE is designed in FF16. The QTEs only appear during combat when your health bar is shown, so there isn't really any jump scares or surprise game overs. Most QTEs also have gradual failure states, and failing one usually only means you lose some health or some potential damage. The game also teaches you to start to instinctively react to QTE, by making sure there is a unique graphical effect before the QTEs. This warns the player, but then also become used for ludonarrative story telling. In many scenes where Clive is losing control to the power within him, the QTE effect flashes to also make you feel a similar "fight or flight" response. It's also nice that none actual QTEs are used for those cases, since triggering a game over outside of combat is very anti-dramatic.

[@mikedimples]

Interesting

[@itsOGP]

I wish more people would notice the smaller details you perfectly encapsulated what makes the QTE’s so good in this game. They nailed the “build-up” too each command while allowing enough breathing room to sit back and watch!

[@jiovanirivera852]

An extra thing as well is that usually you can tell what qte it is based off what is happening visually, flashing red means dodge, blue means attack, and yellow means mash.

[@humha7613]

WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE GOLDEN AGE WITH THIS ONE!!!

[@Kain7x]

Yoshi P and his team carrying Square Enix on his back like true chads.

[@GordKeen]

If this is getting that much praise, then people need to put more on asuras wrath. That game got dogged on because people said cinematic games are not really games.

[@No_OneV]

When i say i want to see a huge boss, this is what i'm talking about.

[@feliph64]

is that scale bigger than shadow of the colossus?

[@No_OneV]

@@feliph64 Waaaay, like x10

[@DawnAfternoon]

Bear in mind Ifrit is massive monstrosity in his own rights, about like 30-40 feets high But here he's DWARVED by the boss size

[@Nobody77246]

Clearly inspired by Asura'a Wrath, and that's awesome

[@johanna_sfmb2975]

Holy shit the music is going crazy

[@tiagoalves2056]

As a die hard fan of final fantasy since 1 im very proud of seing this.But still my favourite ones are ff 6,7,8,10 and 12 im 39 a oldschool gamer with proud☺️💪i still have the remaster versions of these ones on pc.Greetings from Portugal.

[@HamalgamUB]

nice, I love to see more video games with a massive scale like this

[@Vincentvincent-rs2gg]

0:08 running part gives me shadow warrior 3 vibes

[@tavernowl1737]

This game can't flop XD Yoshi-P won't let it hahaa combined with Sokens music genius - can't wait to watch it on streams * - *

[@tavernowl1737]

@Kimi Timoskainen That's the reason why I'm only watching streams first, sadly. But I'm still hyped af :D

[@ironman-fg3jh]

@Kimi Timoskainen that's crazy even a trash game like ffxv sold 10 million copies so as long as 16 is even decent it will sell way more than that

[@TheCubecrafer]

thanks to you i've found the song in the video thank you

[@곰바지]

I'm a 20+ years fan of the Legends of Zelda franchise. Never would have thought I would wish for another game to win GOTY over TotK.

[@aytony4090]

I feel like Zelda will make money no matter what but this FF needs recognition in order to justify the effort.

[@AKABoondock19]

14 fanboys are so pathetic

[@AKABoondock19]

I hope this game fails desperately so they stop trying to push final fantasy on the general public and make it an actual RPG series again

[@Ant-gu6vz]

​@@AKABoondock19 bro if FF doesn't get mainstream sales they will literally stop making the games you're delusional

[@holitinne]

@@AKABoondock19 turn based game play isn’t what defines a Final Fantasy. The world, the story, the characters and *THE MUSIC.* These are elements that define FF.

[@newstart229]

Bro, it's like those ads but it's ACTUALLY the gameplay

[@Omnippotent]

The music is called: Find the Flame By: Masayoshi Soken

[@Catto217]

Yoshi p is brutal madman, carrying 2 megaprojects & still (likely) keep up with insane quality.

[@johnravenhawk8533]

Just a cutscense with a few button prompts here and there and people lose their minds over it.

[@fantasyexplorergg]

that is only a scene transition. The rest of the game play is actual combat where you are controlling

[@fabrizioojeda4288]

You can watch the gameplay trailers and showcases, and realizes that's not the case, but well if you don't like God of War nor Devil May Cry 5 (people who work in it are working here too) to begin with, you are probably not gonna care and still think the same.

[@ocha-time]

On one hand, as an action fan, this looks lit. On the other hand, as a Final Fantasy fan, what the fuck is happening

[@VisualCalculus]

Final Fantasy hasn’t really been turn-based for more than a decade now tho

[@Kostanovi]

Final fantasy hasn't been turn based since 10 get over it.

[@WithBeautyAndWithLove]

@@Kostanovi 10-2 to be exact, but yeah. I don't get why people still care, as if games can't fucking evolve into something that's more enjoyable.

[@aminulhussain2277]

​@@WithBeautyAndWithLove They can, but that's not what's happening.

[@ocha-time]

@@WithBeautyAndWithLove I see we are pretending FF13 doesn't exist anymore. Technically even though 11 and 14 are MMOs and 12 is automated there's still turns. Fifteen was the first one to just say "fuck it, it's an ARPG" but this has more in common with DMC or Asura's Wrath than FF at this point, other than seeing a "summon" here it's unrecognizable

[@bronzelife3646]

Man this reminds me of God of War 3 when Kratos is just destroying all the gods and titans.

[@Darkeep12]

With how good this game looks, it's no wonder Titan Lost.

[@Biggamer026]

man if im buying a ps5 this game gonna be a big reason for it xD

[@Xyrin1]

god the graphics are so good, theres no way this would ever run on my pc

[@davidnegre5665]

I love how after this fight you gotta spend 40 mins buying garlic and nuts

[@phootaphan9166]

Bayonetta 3 if it released on hardware that could actually handle what they were going for.

[@christiandiaz]

Yoshi P's outdone himself with this one.

[@tonykaze]

wow a game that actually uses modern graphics for more than just reskinning 1990s games with more pixels. Hype!

[@NixLotus]

Titan really is a Titan wtf. Look at the size of that thing lol

[@kyu2074]

@Allen Wong Bro I think even this is bigger than aot goddamn

[@Mrshinyshinelive]

You guys see a cutscene button timer pressing minigame and flip shit lol. Gonna be a good game for sure

[@poncho7626]

That was such a weird way to say QTE.

[@johncannon9885]

We are finally getting to the point that actual gameplay looks like the trailer

[@flyintiger7659]

this reminds me of Asura's Wrath and Metal Gear Rising interactive scenes. Both really dope games

[@jeffreypeterson2]

I’m usually not a big jrpg player….but yeah this is probably gonna be my goty

[@grfrjiglstan]

These guys took every bit of budget that would go towards dialogue scenes, and put it in this and the next big fight.

[@AvatarOfWoe6666]

When a game looks cool but then you realize that you have once again been robbed of a true final fantasy game. Selling extra game copies off of a legacy of greatness.

[@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725]

Truth. Rip final fantasy

[@firstorderblade4432]

stfu dawg, no such thing as a "true" final fantasy game. Just because it's not turnbased and doesn't look like shit doesn't mean its a bad FF game

[@AlterRaigo]

"Panzer Dragoon" lives on through this game.

[@ninetyU]

more games could implement what they're doing, adding cinematics that follow up and lead into gameplay with aspects that were directly from that just played cinematic. imo makes the experience 10x better and more immersive.

[@lalithadavi4845]

getting god of war vibes (the og trilogy)

[@TonyKalashnikov]

U mean God of War had Final Fantasy vibes earlier cus FF existed b4 GoW

[@Bambuchurik]

i've got DMC vibes

[@lalithadavi4845]

@@TonyKalashnikov but FF didnt have gaint boss fight like this back then, is was a jrpg, god of wars whole stick was the bosses

[@LeeSong325]

@@TonyKalashnikov but god of war has dmc vibes so it’s actually dmc vibes

[@TheShimmy12]

That looks cinematic, but also seems like quicktime events

[@trollingisasport]

You're a quicktime event.

[@magicmaciej99]

Why can't more triple A studios in American put this much effort into games man :(

[@terenceng5177]

Japanese work culture won't survive in America.

[@benstephens187]

Get a PS5 and you'll see some of the best. Ragnarok and Forbidden West are 🔥🔥

[@Storm1Trooper5]

Idk they make some mid ass games that get praised for no reason

[@fearlessleader889]

​@@Storm1Trooper5 visually epic, mechanically decent, narratively disappointing.

[@rebirthofgodrics907]

@TheMeta__ ragnarok yeah forbidden ....nope alloy can't shut up. Everyone worships her, and she's not even likable. Only good thing is robo dinosaurs they should just make a monster hunter like game in the horizon universe take away alloy and make us play as a quiet customizable Mc that hunts... then It'll be fire

[@md.atikurrahman7445]

Remember, this is a separate demo made for reviewers.

[@endofwarmusic]

Square has been really killing it with sparkles on screen since KH3

[@OvenMonkeyGaming]

if this game pops off like i know it can, Yoshi-P about to be real busy for square enix

[@ryanrushford7918]

If this game doesn’t pop off I’ll be hella surprised. Hyped af lol.

[@john75470]

I hope Yoshi p can pop inside of me

[@ctrdnaskelo2541]

maybe it looks good, but you still win by smashing one button

[@wolfspledge1762]

Reminds me of when GoW was actually GoW, in the best way possible.

[@mikoajbaszczyszyn4568]

Dope. I've seen gameplay of FFXVI and it looks sick, but this was awesome and cinematic.

[@munkeemojo]

So it's Asura's Wrath X Panzer Dragoon?

[@thanglongnguyenvu3815]

This is a Japanese game isn't it? They love those epic cinematic boss fights. And the graphics too.

[@bobabola3399]

It's made by square Enix so yes

[@fermyonds]

He should see Metal Gear Rising or Devil May Cry 5

[@MihiraMihai]

while I do see your point they are not the same level as this

[@FeoThe4th]

DMC 5 combat dev is on the FF16 team

[@mateusgus]

They were good, but FF16 is on another level, true epic sht

[@mesmerising4253]

@@MihiraMihai true, mgs and dmc are better

[@MihiraMihai]

@@mesmerising4253 no way to even know for sure until release, dmc combat designer works on this so who knows, some people might shut up after playing the game themselves who knows

[@hazamax2139]

Please let this guys make Metal gear rising 2.

[@terenceng5177]

Yoshi P can turn metal into gold.

[@yammoto148]

RULES OF NATURE!!!

[@gannielukks1811]

@@terenceng5177 when gold is not even a metal

[@tengo5291]

That music is just godly

[@DemonicReeses]

This is what god of war bosses should have been in the newer games

[@MikeHunchak]

Idk… i don’t think it’s fair to say “This is actual gameplay” though. It looks more like a traditional interactive cutscene. That being said, it is the most well done one I’ve ever seen just from this snippet

[@hi-tech_soldier2558]

they gameplay is not different when you get grabbed by a giant tentacle in deadspace, and the running section is just like subway surfer type of dodging obstacles so nothing new. It just looks well executed and cool, but nothing new.

[@Selnathorn]

@@hi-tech_soldier2558 It doesn't need to be new, it only needs to be fun. Why wasting your time reinventing the wheel, if you can just make a better wheel

[@JayRhea]

It's intricately times cutscenes in the gameplay. This cinematic style is how you fight the eichons. As you fight there will be attacks/QT presses that is still in the fight but leads to more cinematic camera movements throughout the fight.

[@c4ghts1]

WE NEED MORE ANIME ACTION IN VIDEO GAMES!

[@Beer_Wolf]

How I miss the days where Final Fantasy were turn based... now it's like Devil May Cry. I've been gaming since the 70s, I'm old... my reflexes suck for games like this! 😭

[@pauloazuela8488]

just play turn base games like their Octopath traveler. besides this isn't pure action rpg it's kinda mix of both and dunno how to explain though

[@tyrior4294]

There is an easy mode

[@ToxicFume]

There are ways to make the game easier ya know? Your boomer reflexes will still be able to keep up.

[@dangerouslysafe3]

Damn near spit out my drink! This game is going to be good, I can feel it!

[@shadowkras]

Took me a dozen of seconds to recognize that this was final fantasy. I knew the music was familiar right away.

[@SacredShiro]

it looks amazing but its still mostly fancy animations with prompts its nothing new its just God of war.

[@LeeSong325]

It has a dmc5 dev on the team it will be much better then god of war even if this fight looks more like a pretty cinematic fight like ff15 leviathan

[@Dust54321]

God of war>>fromsoftware

[@ruy_u]

He's gonna go crazy when he realizes metal gear rising revengeance did this 9 years ago.

[@WithBeautyAndWithLove]

no it did not. MGR is more comparable to shadow of the colossus if we're talking about the giant mech fight, this is a completely different scale.

[@safer88]

It looks okay i guess, but i don't see how thats going to be fun to play? xD might as well been a cutscene completely so i could enjoy it more instead of filling it with random button presses

[@LeeSong325]

The last few seconds looked like the actual fight

[@craigdyas1091]

It's a 20 second interaction in a much larger fight, it ain't that deep.

[@foulXD]

dude really thinks just from watching a 40 second clip that this is the whole fight. your braincells left your body, dude.

[@lowkey_gamer4298]

Damn Square Enix really learning from From Soft and finally embraced the "medievalistic" fantasy style of RPG than the FF15's kinda bland mix of modern and medieval theme.... Goddamn Square Enix putting everything in this game!

[@zambrano8512]

I've never been a big Final Fantasy fan (I played 4 and 6 on the SNES), but man does this game look awesome.

[@KashraFall]

Gonna presume he's never played FF15 before? Square's been doin this for a while, cinematic combat scenes, this reminds me of the titan scene in the fight with titan no less.

[@knuckles543]

and leviathan to a degree but this is eikon on eikon combat, basically FF Kaiju fights, no way it can't be on this scale

[@zandergamer5429]

It does look cool but it's more of an interactive cinematic than pure gameplay

[@RahzZalinto]

I dunno, just modern QTE. Give me the mobility to move around like this in any direction at any time of my choosing and I'll be impressed. Holding forward, without on screen prompts of when to push right bumper I guess is an improvement but still not impressive lol.

[@jonathanborba9280]

This is just a spectacle fight. All of the summon fights are. The meat of combat is going to be on the ground in human form where you will get exactly what you just said.

[@tjokkerstar1462]

looks like a movie.... There is 0 challenge in this game.

[@choapark3617]

Bro it's like every game combine into one.