State of Play April 2023 livestream announced for Final Fantasy 16

Sony will broadcast the new State of Play presentation Thursday, April 13. the PlayStation maker announced Tuesday. The showcase will focus on one game (and one game only): Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 16.

April’s State of Play will stream live at 5 p.m. EDT/2 p.m. PDT on PlayStation’s Twitch and YouTube channels.

Final Fantasy fans can expect “more than 20 minutes of new Final Fantasy 16 gameplay,” Sony said in a tweet announcing the new State of Play broadcast. Final Fantasy 16 is slated to arrive (exclusively) on PlayStation 5 on June 22, a date that the game’s producer promises isn’t moving. In a teaser video, Square Enix and Sony highlighted some of the game’s Eikons — Final Fantasy 16’s version of summons — with footage of powerful giants like Ramuh, Ifrit, Shiva, and Titan.

Final Fantasy 16The story will be told by Clive Rosfield (a soldier known as the First Shield in Rosaria) and Joshua, his younger brother, who is a Dominant with the power of Phoenix. These events took place in FF16Clive is sent on an unforgiving and perilous road of revenge by the warring factions in the kingdom Valisthea, who are fighting for the Mothercrystals. Final Fantasy 16 will focus heavily on character-action-style gameplay, which you can read more about in Polygon’s hands-on preview with the game.