The pressure of restarting an Eikon battle-when they take an age to defeat under the best of circumstances–is a painful thought, but Final Fantasy 16 only pushes you back a little to the last checkpoint, and it’s apparent the game wants you to progress instead of pulling your hair out.
Even if you began the hunt with one potion, the defeat will see you respawn with a full inventory, giving you a head start on round two. The boss battles are also incredibly forgiving should you perish fighting a high-ranked Notorious Mark, for example. Even though I knew the assist was on, the easy win still radiated gratification, the endurance was all me, and the story progressed effortlessly. By default, I jumped on Story Mode, leaving Action-Focused Mode in the dust, and my first encounter with the Morbol in Stillwind was a seamless victory thanks to the game’s Timely Rings that controlled Focus, Evasion, Strikes, Assistance, and Healing for me. By and large, learning to select the easy mode before a fresh playthrough negated any trepidation I had going into new titles by removing the need to prove myself when all I wanted to escape anxious self-reflection.Įnter Clive Rosfield’s journey in Valisthea, where the protagonist has a number of flashy accessories to make gameplay velvety smooth. This is not to say I didn’t enjoy some challenges, like defeating Sephiroth on the first try on Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s Normal difficulty, as everyone needs an ego boost from time to time especially if you’re piloting a hero. The puzzles in earlier Zelda games left me agitated and deflated because I thought I wasn’t intelligent enough to solve them, while trying to escape the Variants in Outlast made me doubt I could survive a zombie apocalypse (anxiety overload!).
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