Kingdom Hearts Fans Point Out That Final Fantasy 16 Basically Has A Shotlock
Kingdom Hearts fans have pointed out that Final Fantasy 16 has a gameplay mechanic that looks an awful lot like the Shotlock function that was introduced in Birth by Sleep and featured in Kingdom Hearts 3.
Earlier this week, Square Enix lifted the lid off of Final Fantasy 16 with a new State of Play presentation that gave us our best look yet at the game. In fact, it might have ended up giving away too much thanks to some errant spoilers. Thankfully, lore drops aside, the showcase was mostly focused on gameplay and showed us how extensive Clive's combo list is going to end up being - in fact, it looks like it borrows a little bit from another of Square Enix's series - Kingdom Hearts.
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Around the seven-minute mark of the showcase, Square Enix shows a few minutes of various battles, basically giving us a look at what Clive can do. In one scene that takes place in the courtyard of a castle, Clive can be seen using an attack called Blind Justice which lets him aim at enemies, lock on, and then fire a bunch of different electrical projectiles at them.
It's a flashy attack that we see Clive use several times throughout the showcase, but that's not the reason why it stands out so much. The reason it was such an interesting scene is that the move looks exactly like a Shotlock from Kingdom Hearts. For those who don't remember, Shotlocks were introduced in Birth by Sleep and then featured in Kingdom Hearts 3, and they let Sora and the gang do exactly what Clive did in the Final Fantasy 16 footage. Only, Kingdom Hearts did it first, of course.
Fans quickly took notice of the similarities too. Over on Twitter and Reddit, several Kingdom fans pointed
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