Potential spoiler warning for Final Fantasy 16 (because who knows anymore)
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Square Enix is a weird company. It’s asking us nicely to be wary of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 16 spoilers ahead of its release, but at the same time seems determined to ruin as much of the game as possible in its marketing. As one of the year’s biggest PS5 exclusives and a project that took several years and millions of dollars to make, I understand this capitalist desire to make sure it reaches as many potential customers as possible, but there’s a way to do this without acting as your own spoiler. Unfortunately, the new theme song trailer goes hard not only in 🅘its music, but also the story.
Shared on the Japanese ꦓSquare Enix YouTube channel earlier this week, the trailer reveals a new theme song set to gameplay footage and cutscenes that appear to span the entire game. We see battles between Eikons, countless new cities and environments, and a handful of characters we haven’t met in either the demo or dozens of trailers released over the past🍷 few years. In many ways, it’s the deepest glimpse we’ve had yet at the RPG.
You could argue these specific moments and visuals can’t be quantified as spoilers without the proper context, which right now only reviewers will have, but I’m not sure this assessment is fair. There are several instances throughout this new trailer that tease combat encounters and character moments we’ve never seen before, and I know Final Fantasy fans are smart enough to connect the dots or u♌se the information we already have to make assumptions that wi💝ll more than likely end up correct.
One shot towards the end of the trailer has Clive, Jill, and company sitting around a grave as a flurry of flower petals are carried away by the wind behind them. It’s a beautifully tragic moment, but also incredibly frustrating the s🙈econd you stop to think about its meaning.
Who has died here to warrant such an ambitious ceremony, and who from the main cast also isn’t present in the frame our wider cast could be mourning? My colleague Meg Pellicio within seconds feared that her future husband Cidolfus Telamon would eventually bite the dust, and I can’t blame her. This is a major character who has been in almost every bit of promotional footage for Final Fantasy 16, and here is Square Enix teasing a major death in a scene he’s absent from right before release. Like, why pull this nonsense while at the same time begging the public to remain tight-lipped? It’s a hypocritical🐷 move, and sadly not the first time we&rsqu꧑o;ve seen it from the publisher.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Remake was subject to ꦫa similarly overzealous marketing blast. The launch trailer was wrought with massive spoilers that only press and the developers would be aware of, and here they were spread acꦆross several minutes of new footage that revealed exactly what the ambitious remake had planned. It was a bummer, and a big deal. Good marketing should be able to sell us on experiences without ruining them in the process to desperately grasp our attention, and that goes double for a series as limitless in its potential as Final Fantasy. Fine lines can be drawn between teasing us with the right amount of narrative detail and
spoiling huge revelations ไbecause your only goal is to drum up tactless hype.
The game is out next week, and reviews will grace the internet ahead of release too, so it’s only a matter of time until we find out whether these theories hold water. Square Enix could be pull😼ing the reddest of herrings on our asses for the hell of it, although history is telling me that isn’t the case and players wh🧸o pay attention to each new trailer will be due a lesser experience as a consequence. Do yourself a favour and don’t watch this new trailer.