The first Final Fantasy 16 review score is in
The first review score for Final Fantasy 16 has been revealed.
Reviews from other publications are due later, but weekly Japanese magazine Famitsu has arrived in some readers’ hands and is therefore the first publication to score it.
As reported by ryokutya2089, the magazine gave the game a score of 39 out of 40.
Famitsu reviews are scored by four separate reviewers, each scoring the game out of 10, meaning Final Fantasy 16 received a 10 / 10 / 10 / 9.
According to ryokutya2089, the magazine claims the game takes 35-40 hours to complete the game’s storyline, and about 70 hours if you play extra content.
The score means the game narrowly misses out on being the 30th game in history to score a prestigious ‘Famitsu 40’.
Somewhat unusually for the publication, it recently gave out two scores of 40 in the space of a month, first giving one to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, then giving one to Street Fighter 6 weeks later.
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Only two Final Fantasy games have ever scored a perfect 40 in the publication – Final Fantasy XII in 2006, and Final Fantasy XIII-2 in 2011.
Final Fantasy 16, however, becomes the sixth game in the series to get a score of 39 (along with Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy 13, Final Fantasy Type-0, Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn and Final Fantasy 7 Remake).
Final Fantasy 16 will be released on PlayStation 5 on June 22. A playable demo for the game was released on the PlayStation Store last week.
During a pre-release live stream on Saturday, the game’s development team confirmed it will release a day one patch for Final Fantasy 16, despite previouslystating it would not need to do so.
The update will fix progression
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