{"id":30920,"date":"2023-02-28T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/final-fantasy-16-preview-approachable-action-spectacular-cinematic-boss-fights-and-torgal-the-dog\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:11:49","slug":"final-fantasy-16-preview-approachable-action-spectacular-cinematic-boss-fights-and-torgal-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/final-fantasy-16-preview-approachable-action-spectacular-cinematic-boss-fights-and-torgal-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 16 preview: Approachable action, spectacular cinematic boss fights, and Torgal the dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During my hand-on session with Final Fantasy 16<\/a>, I find myself in the heat of battle against the giant winged Eikon, Garuda. It’s a spectacle, with the massive summon towering over me and all but eclipsing the stature of protagonist Clive Rosfield. Garuda’s wind-infused powers create a vortex that pulls me in closer, and her large talons swipe at me in different directions. Thankfully, as Clive, I can directly channel Eikonic abilities of my own in combat. During the demo, I have access to three different Eikon skill sets I can switch between using the real-time action system, including the powers of Garuda – which turn out to be very useful when I’m actually fighting her. After dealing a certain amount of damage, I put the special Deadly Embrace move to use, which acts as a grappling hook that pulls the mighty Eikon onto her side; clearing the way for me to deliver a flurry of hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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During my hand-on session with Final Fantasy 16, I find myself in the heat of battle against the giant winged Eikon, Garuda. It’s a spectacle, with the massive summon towering over me and all but eclipsing the stature of protagonist Clive Rosfield. Garuda’s wind-infused powers create a vortex that pulls me in closer, and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30923,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30920\/revisions\/30923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}