Final Fantasy 16 is absolutely playable, however voice recording and fight fine-tuning are protecting it from releasing

We’re solely a couple of 12 months out from Final Fantasy 16 releasing – however the full recreation is definitely playable from again to entrance, proper now.

In an interview with PlayStation Blog, Square Enix veteran and Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida reiterated that the sport is just about executed – there’s just a few tweaks, fixes and fine-tuning that should occur earlier than it may be unleashed upon the world at massive.

“Right now, the game is fully playable from start to finish, but we have a lot of voiceover in several languages that still need to be recorded,” he informed the weblog. “Final Fantasy 16 is a very action-oriented game, so we’re also doing a lot of playtesting to fine-tune the difficulty levels, as well as putting the final touches on the cutscenes, and going through a full-scale debugging process. A year is a short time in game development, so we’re all straining at the bit to get it over the line.”

Here’s hoping, then, that the sport will stick with its nice-and-vague ‘Summer 2023’ launch date, and that we can’t see any extra delays between now and the sport lastly being in our out-stretched, grasping arms.

It’s not the primary time that we have heard the sport is just about able to fly, both; again in April, Yoshida famous that Final Fantasy 16 is in “the final stages of development.”

In the identical interview, Yoshida additionally famous: “For those who have grown up and realized that reality isn’t kind to you, and have drifted away from Final Fantasy, we hope that Final Fantasy 16 will be a game that can bring back the passion you once had with the series.” An odd technique to say fairly a pleasant factor.

In a spate of interviews that launched at the moment, we additionally realized that Final Fantasy 16 takes “inspiration from recent triple-A open world RPGs”, however is not really an open world recreation itself.

We look ahead to seeing this courageous new entry within the collection in all its glroy when it launches subsequent 12 months. So far, it has solely been introduced as a PS5 recreation – although it is rumoured the title will hit PC (and perhaps different platforms) later.