Final Fantasy 16 Drops Decades of Class Identity, But It’s Not Completely Lost Yet

Whenever a new game arrives as part of the Final Fantasy series, especially a mainline entry, it’s a huge deal within the video game industry. Final Fantasy 16, which was released in June of this year, was certainly no exception to this. With a huge budget behind it, the first game in the franchise to release on PS5 arrived with the expected amount of fanfare and hype surrounding it. However, despite delivering a highly polished game with fast-paced combat and a multi-layered narrative that fans of the series have come to expect, Final Fantasy 16 controversially turned its back on many of the traditional RPG elements it’s known for, such as class identity. Whether this will be the norm for mainline entries now remains to be seen, but with a franchise as big as Final Fantasy, these elements should eventually return in some form.