We sat down with the creators of FinalFantasyXVI to learn about the details that went into creating its standout hero, Clive Rosfield.
If you held a March Madness-style tournament to determine the Final Fantasy hero with the most emotional baggage, I’d imagine that Final Fantasy XVI’s Clive Rosfield would at least make his way to the semi-finals. The tortured hero goes through one hell of an ordeal in the action RPG’s dark intro. First, his little brother that he’s sworn to protect gets brutally murdered by Ifrit after a climactic Eikon battle.
Despite featuring enormous kaiju battles, Final Fantasy 16 starts off on a painfully intimate note. Its opening three hours play like a self-contained film, introducing Clive as a bright-eyed teen tasked with protecting his brother Joshua, the keeper of the Phoenix. It’s an intro that quickly won players over in a demo, but it doesn’t actually set up the true scope of Clive’s arc. In fact, Kazutoyo Maehiro describes it as more of a tutorial narrative.
“We start off with that revenge theme in the early part of the game,” Maehiro says. “You can split that into two parts. There’s act one where you’re learning why he wants revenge and then act two where he’s actually going out to get his revenge. In act two, he learns a little bit more about who he is thanks to the help of Cid and then that story transforms from that revenge to the true story about who he is in act three.
It’s that tidbit that helped me understand what Creative Business Unit III was going for in its complex structure. This isn’t just a tale of a character trying to outrun their past, but rather the story of someone trying to find their place in the present. Just as we see the tragic role Clive plays in his brother’s death, we also get to see the positive change he’s able to bring to Valisthea in aiding a fight against tyranny.
“When deciding the original concept for the game, we decided that we wanted the hero to be represented by Ifrit,” Maehiro says. “In Final Fantasy 16, I had a lot of influence from ancient Greek mythology. In ancient Greek, you have philosophers who think that the source of all creation is fire, so there’s that connection. We also knew that this was a story about brothers. So with Ifrit, you also have Phoenix as a symbol of creation and fire. So that’s how we tied them together.
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