However, this single-player game may not necessarily imply a single-character experience, since Maehiro has said that players would be able to control characters other than the protagonist Clive Rosfield, at least for the first several hours of Final Fantasy 16. It’s worth noting that the context of his (machine-translated) comment suggests that the producer was talking to an early version of the game in which the devs experimented with numerous playable characters, but whether or not that’s the case remains to be seen.
What is more certain is that, in keeping with the series’ decades-long history, the game will have a party structure. While a previously released gameplay video showed Clive battling alone, Yoshida has since emphasised that this was a stylistic decision, emphasising that Clive would nearly always be accompanied by a travel party. Final Fantasy 15 had a similar concept, although players could still swap between the four main characters in the 2016 game. That will not be the case this time, since all FF16 party members will be totally controlled by the AI, according to Yoshida. In terms of the hero lineup, the creators released the core Final Fantasy 16 character cast last month.
