{"id":181755,"date":"2021-01-31T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/final-fantasy-16-clive-ff15-noctis-ff7-cloud-protagonists\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:30:58","slug":"final-fantasy-16s-clive-ff15s-noctis-and-ff7s-cloud-really-show-off-one-franchise-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/31\/final-fantasy-16s-clive-ff15s-noctis-and-ff7s-cloud-really-show-off-one-franchise-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 16’s Clive, FF15’s Noctis, and FF7’s Cloud Really Show Off One Franchise Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Final Fantasy 16<\/em><\/strong> is currently in development, and even without much information released about the game so far, many fans are already drawing comparisons between the new protagonist Clive and those that came before. The debut trailer does seem to make one thing clear: Clive will be another in a long trend that includes\u00a0Final Fantasy 15’s<\/em> Noctis and\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s<\/em> Cloud. Ultimately, the grim, quiet, and aloof protagonist is a long-running trope in the\u00a0Final Fantasy\u00a0<\/em>games, and Clive seems to fit right in.<\/p>\n

There is a history of protagonists in\u00a0Final Fantasy<\/em> games beginning their journeys as emotionally distant and haunted by some past trauma or event that left them with little faith in other people. In\u00a0Final Fantasy 16<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Clive seems to focus on the experience of losing Joshua, though exactly how and if so does remain to be seen. This trend isn’t limited to the aforementioned characters either, but the disposition of characters like Cloud and\u00a0FF8’s<\/em> Squall is understandable when they are pitted against the powerful\u00a0Final Fantasy\u00a0<\/em>villains<\/a> and often have the weight of the world on their shoulders.<\/p>\n

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Players familiar with the\u00a0Final Fantasy\u00a0<\/em>franchise are no strangers to brooding protagonists. While\u00a0FF7 Remake\u00a0<\/em>was the first introduction for some players to Cloud, he was every bit as aloof in the original game. Some translation differences in the original versus the remake made Cloud more in line with the quiet and grim character seen in\u00a0Advent Children, <\/em>but Cloud had reason to be so distant given that his memories were altered and skewed to the point that he wasn’t even sure who he was. Notably, his attitude seems present in the new protagonist in\u00a0FF16.\u00a0<\/em>Clive seems every bit as burdened by his position in the debut trailer, and that is one of a few things that\u00a0FF16<\/em> should expand on from\u00a0<\/a>FF7 Remake<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another similar character is Noctics from\u00a0FF15<\/em>. His being burdened with the fate of his kingdom, his predetermined role in the world, and the responsibilities heaped on him leave the young man as curt and aloof as any\u00a0Final Fantasy<\/em> protagonist could be. The ideas of challenging fate are one of the ways\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> may still be impacting the direction of\u00a0FF16<\/em><\/a>, and it seems that this may be the root of the similarities between Clive and Noctis. Both characters are tasked with what may seem unsurmountable tasks against unstoppable forces like the Eikons that appear to play a pivotal role in the story of\u00a0Final Fantasy 16.<\/em><\/p>\n

The two leading characters from\u00a0FF15\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0FF7 Remake<\/em> aren’t the only figures in\u00a0Final Fantasy<\/em>‘s past that bear the same somber disposition that seems evident in Clive. Heroes like Squall from\u00a0FF8\u00a0<\/em>and Lightning from\u00a0FF13<\/em> also bear similar attitudes. This very common\u00a0Final Fantasy\u00a0<\/em>trope<\/a>\u00a0is more common than not, with Zidane from\u00a0FF9<\/em>\u00a0being one of the few exceptions, but another important theme among those characters is their slow turn towards compassion and their companions. Cloud and Noctis both slowly learn to trust and depend on their friends more and more by the conclusion of their stories, and both heroes end up making great sacrifices in service of ideals they dismiss early in the games’ narratives. However, based on the limited information from\u00a0FF16’s<\/em> debut trailer, Clive might not follow in their footsteps in that regard.<\/p>\n

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