Closing Fantasy XVI Has A Neat Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime Nod

Closing Fantasy XVI, a extra action-focused tackle the RPG franchise, clearly pulls inspiration from numerous different common media. As Recreation Informer reported again in Could, Sq. Enix was impressed by blockbuster movies and hit collection like Recreation of Thrones, Godzilla, and Neon Genesis Evangelion in the course of the recreation’s improvement. And it’s that final supply of inspo that’s garnering consideration after gamers observed an in depth homage to the mecha anime collection.

ResetEra discussion board consumer Girl Bow posted a video evaluating a battle between anime protagonist Shinji Ikari and Sachiel in Neon Genesis Evangelion’s Tokyo-3 (a post-apocalyptic model of Tokyo) to a cataclysmic battle between Phoenix and Ifrit throughout the early hours of FFXVI. 

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The Ifrit battle (which is playable within the demo, btw!), takes place between two summons, which manifest in FFXVI by principally turning the participant into a large kaiju model of a deity. Early within the recreation, one of many outposts within the recreation’s fictional kingdom of Rosaria is ambushed. Phoenix does its damndest to guard it from the rampaging Ifrit. Sadly, the Phoenix getting torn from ass to urge for food within the scene is Joshua, the youthful brother of FFXVI protag, Clive. You may try a GIF of the video beneath.

And similar to in NGE with Shinj and Eva Unit 01, this battle showcases a point-of-view-esque depiction of the large kaiju mounting its adversary and shelling out wild strikes to their face earlier than clubbing them with a double-arm hammer fist punch.

The similarities between the fights additionally makes Clive begging the hulking titan to stop his onslaught all of the extra tragic. Clive’s determined plea considerably mirrors Shinji begging his father, Gendo Ikari, to cease his mecha from crushing his good friend’s entry plug after his unit went AWOL. They’re like poetry as a result of they rhyme, you see.

And there you’ve got it: not solely is Closing Fantasy XVI a online game with comparable grit and political subterfuge as George R.R. Martin’s Recreation of Thrones collection and bombastic Satan Could Cry-esque motion, nevertheless it’s additionally the newest online game to pay homage to NGE creator Hideaki Anno’s physique of labor. We like to see it.