Final Fantasy XVI has a function to help follow the thread of the story, a Lore Dictionary that will make it easier to follow the story of Valisthea, which we can access from the pause menu even during the cinematics to consult that strange name that they have said .
Final Fantasy XVIlike all installments in the saga, is totally independent: each new game is a world apart, with new characters, locations and background, so we all start from scratch when we play Final Fantasy 16 on PS5.
Despite this, some people are better at memorize the name of characters and remember the events of history in games than others. Following the thread of a game that can last 40 or 50 hours and that you may not play all at once is complicated.
For this reason, Final Fantasy XVI will have a tool specifically designed for help us not lose the thread of historya kind of dictionary of lore.
has explained it Michael-Christopher Koji FoxSquare Enix’s senior game translator, in an interview for Game Informer:
How the Final Fantasy XVI Lore Dictionary works
Koji Fox explains it from minute 8:30. It is a function that they call Active Time Lore (ATL), at least internally, since in the game they are called “the Thousand Tomes” and it is offered to you by a character named Harpócrateswhich will be in the “base” where we can rest between missions.
But the beauty is that this incredible collection of lore can be accessed at any time in the game, from the pause menu, even during cinematics.
Thus, if in a cinematic someone mentions the name of a character that does not sound familiar to you, you will only have to pause and open the “encyclopedia of lore” to search for it in a search engine.
There will be hundreds of pages, with the history of Valisthea, characters, fauna, flora, geography… Everything will be constantly updated as we progress, but previous entries will be saved, which will allow us to consult “previous chapters” and see how they have gone evolving characters.
Final Fantasy XVI It will be very complete and will have many other aids, such as difficulty options, so that everyone feels welcome to play in this immense RPG, with a dark and violent story, very inspired by Game of Thrones.
