11/23/2023 0 Comments Ff xvi![]() Most are enslaved and treated as second-class citizens, and plenty of religious zealots see them as a sin against nature that need to be purged. They’ve been subjugated for so many generations that cruelty against them is ingrained in all of the Valisthean cultures. ![]() Then they spend a lifetime draining their own life force using magic to keep fires roaring for the privileged only for their entire body to crystallize.įinal Fantasy XVI devotes a lot of time to the plight of the Bearers, perhaps because Clive himself bears the Brand. They’re labeled as “Branded” at a young age due to forced, poisonous face tattoos. How would that define entire nations and families? How might the political schemers of the world manipulate such beings for their own gain? How many Dominants would wield their power as a tyrant? And that’s to say nothing of the Bearers, people randomly born with low-level magic powers that society treats as slaves. Imagine if a handful of individuals inherited the power of a god. They don’t always fight to save the world. To do that, characters take a Ted Lasso approach to earnest intimacy. It’s a sick and dangerous place full of people desperate to heal and free themselves from the corrupt powers controlling everything. ![]() But while Westeros is a miserable place for miserable people where there’s very little magic, Crystals and Dominants mean Valisthea is dripping in the stuff. Everything we love about Game of Thrones-the political scheming, epic conflicts, thrilling combat, and mature tone-is here. FFXVI tells a far more meaningful, refined, and unequivocally better story that’s bursting with heart. For every detail that seems to pay rote tribute to the series, there’s a way in which this game goes in a thematically different direction, its narrative focus on humanity and tenderness ultimately functioning as a kind of critique of Game of Thrones’ nihilism.įorget the pointless incest and torture porn. Your concerns that this may be just an empty imitation of that saga, however, will quickly fall away.įFXVI treats GoT with reverence and skepticism in equal measure. There’s even a guy so much like Hodor that it inches towards cringe. ![]() This largely consists of things like overt parallels between the Rosfields and the Starks, and how much the Clive-Torgal dynamic resembles that between Jon Snow and Ghost. Producer Naoki Yoshida previously confessed that the game’s initial core development team watched the entire HBO series so they might capture the more Western “feel” of Westeros. Final Fantasy XVI may seem like it’s cosplaying as Game of Thrones, but it’s far more inventive than iterative in that regard. ![]()
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