{"id":31150,"date":"2023-03-01T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/why-final-fantasy-16-returned-to-fantasy-over-sci-fi\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:07:35","slug":"why-final-fantasy-16-returned-to-fantasy-over-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/news\/why-final-fantasy-16-returned-to-fantasy-over-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Final Fantasy 16 Returned to Fantasy Over Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While it\u2019s not accurate to say that every Final Fantasy<\/em><\/strong> game is either a medieval fantasy or sci-fi title, those have historically been the franchise\u2019s most popular and prominent genre flavors. Sci-fi Final Fantasy <\/em><\/strong>games obviously have fans and have historically been very successful (just look at what Final Fantasy 7<\/em><\/strong> did for the series), but it seems like there is always a loud cry for the franchise to return to its medieval fantasy roots.\u00a0While some recent Final Fantasy <\/strong><\/em>games have tried to blend sci-fi and classic fantasy concepts, those hybrids have done little to quell the cries for a mainline, single-player Final Fantasy<\/em><\/strong> adventure that offers a more traditional setting<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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While it\u2019s not accurate to say that every Final Fantasy game is either a medieval fantasy or sci-fi title, those have historically been the franchise\u2019s most popular and prominent genre flavors. Sci-fi Final Fantasy games obviously have fans and have historically been very successful (just look at what Final Fantasy 7 did for the series), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150","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=31150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31153,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions\/31153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}