Final Fantasy 16's Time Skip Should Work More Like Memories
There’s not too much known aboutFinal Fantasy 16, but if there’s one thing the trailer makes clear, it’s that there is a time skip in the game. Players are able to see younger Clive engaging in combat, while seeing older Clive later in the game. It’s clear that Clive becomes obsessed with revenge, and there are a lot of Final Fantasy 16 theories about how this ties to Joshua and Clive’s past.
The thing is, EXACTLY when this time skip occurs is incredibly important. It’ll likely impact every aspect of Final Fantasy 16’s storytelling. For example, Final Fantasy 15 also features a time skip near the end of the game, which completely alters the story direction in a major way. Looking at this trailer, it would almost seem as if this time skip happens early on, but perhaps it should be more like memories than chronological gameplay.
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It would not be surprising if the segments related to young Clive happened within the first couple of hours of Final Fantasy 16. There’s a lot of story to clarify, clear elements of detailed gameplay, and a bigger mystery that suggests future Clive’s work is nowhere near done, because of what happened in the past. It’s happened in games before where what seemed to be a large portion of a trailer is actually just all early shots. In doing this, the game could give players an emotional attachment to Clive, they could bear witness to these traumatic events, and they could be invested in the revenge and mystery of it all too.
But, this method—no matter how much it held back—still unloads a lot early on for players. The politics of Final Fantasy 16’s Valisthea, the character dynamics, information on the Eikons, and far more are all things that seem relevant and
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