5 things you might have missed in Final Fantasy XVI's 'Revenge' trailer

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While many great trailers were revealed during The Game Awards, few had as much emotional heft and impact as Final Fantasy XVI’s Revenge trailer. Naoki Yoshida and his team at Creative Business Unit III provided fans with another look at the next mainline entry to the Final Fantasy franchise, and it certainly did not disappoint.

If you didn’t watch the trailer all the way through or skipped it completely, we’ve got five important takeaways from Final Fantasy XVI’s latest trailer that you might have missed. This was an important trailer for the storyline, as well as, most importantly, the release date. Will fans have to wait long?

Note: The Japanese version of the trailer was used, since the American version is age-gated on YouTube.

The Final Fantasy XVI trailer isn’t titled “Revenge” for no reason. For months, it’s been fairly clear that FFXVI was going to be a more mature story, and that it could even have a dark narrative, but nothing made that more clear than this latest trailer. It seems obvious that Clive is motivated by vengeful emotions.

Watch: Can Clive control it?

What was the reason, though? What is driving him? Was it just the attack on his home kingdom? Perhaps that’s the reason he wields Ifrit and summons him to battle in the new trailer. Ifrit has always been an aggressive and angry summon, no matter what game he’s been a part of. One thing seems to have motivated Clive to take this darker path and that’s likely Joshua.

At the beginning of the trailer, there's an attack on Clive’s home kingdom. As a chocobo is slain, its blood splashes across Joshua’s face. The way the trailer frames these moments implies that Joshua was killed. Perhaps he tried to activate the power of the Phoenix, but it was not successful.

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