Game:

Final Fantasy XVI (2023)

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Let's Play

Duration: 1:06:17

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In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, known as the First Shield of Rosaria, and is tasked with his protection and is subsequently blessed with some power from Phoenix, the Eikon of fire. The brothers accompany their father duke Elwin to the Phoenix Gate where they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers, the duke’s death triggering Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix. Clive attempts to reach his brother when he encounters a mysterious figure, another Eikon named Ifrit emerging moments later and kills the Phoenix. Clive's mother Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing and betrayed Rosaria to preserve her bloodline, has him enslaved as a magical soldier in Sanbreque's army. Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter’s Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. He deserts to free her, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit’s Dominant. Tracking word of Ifrit’s Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda. A disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits, and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact he is Ifrit, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation.

After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in the occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are draining aether from the land and causing the Blight. The three infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but encounter a monster within the Mothercrystal who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal destroyed. The monster is revealed to be an extension of a being called Ultima, attempts to possess Clive. Joshua, who survived Ifrit's attack due to Phoenix's powers and was the Dominant held by Benedikta, stops and contains Ultima within himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated into believing Cid is responsible, and destroys their hideout. Five years later, Clive−now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on the old Cid's mission−uses the growing war between Sanbreque and the Dhalmekian Republic over the occupied Crystalline Dominion as a chance to destroy the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal. Ultima continues working through the worshipping Barnabas and the form of Anabella's son by Sanbreque's emperor. Clive later fights and wounds Hugo, who is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into overusing his nation's Mothercrystal in pursuit of revenge. Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal, gaining full control over Ifrit in the process.

Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process kills his father and comes under Ultima's control. Clive and Jill destroy the Dominion's Mothercrystal and rescue Joshua and Dion, while an unhinged Anabella kills herself. Clive then moves against Barnabas, killing him and destroying Waloed's Mothercrystal, but Ultima reveals this to be part of his plan to shape Clive into a vessel through fights with other Dominants, a power tied to Ifrit. Joshua's research reveals that Ultima's people, the alien Fallen, created the Mothercrystals to siphon aether from Valisthea to perform a powerful resurrection spell on his people. Clive, Joshua, and Dion mount a combined attack on Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where the Fallens' spirits merge with Ultima for the resurrection. Dion is killed, and Joshua−left mortally wounded after the Ultima fragment is forcefully removed−sacrifices himself to grant his powers to Clive. After killing Ultima and absorbing his powers, Clive resurrects Joshua and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea; Clive's fate is left ambiguous. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future shows a family living without magic, owning a book Joshua wrote about the game's events called Final Fantasy.

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