Final Fantasy XVI builds a world constructed around something as horrific as human slavery and then for the most part disregards it.
. It gives us massive kaiju-esque monster fights, magic spells, vigilante chocobos, a very good dog, a Moogle bounty hunter, and many, many swords. It looks great and feels urgent and exciting to play. What it lacks, unfortunately, is an ability to engage with the themes it presents in any truly meaningful way. Most damning are the ways it refuses, or is simply unable to interrogate the world built upon slavery in which it takes place.
The stage is set for Clive to effect real change: he has connections to a noble line; he has the perspective of someone who has seen the injustice acted upon the Bearers first hand, and he is, afterall, the main character. Despite this, he has almost no thoughts on the balance of power in the world until he meets Cid, the revolutionary rabble rouser and host to the lightning Eikon, Ramuh.
More egregious than setting up your story to be about slavery and then mostly ignoring that the story is about slavery is that the game’s solution to the injustice of the enslaved Bearers is assimilation. Before his death, Cid comes up with a plan to destroy the Mother Crystals, massive floating stones that provide each nation with magic. His reasoning is that, with the Mother Crystals gone, the Bearers will no longer have magic, and therefore be freed.
The only character who seems to actually want to free the Bearers and abolish slavery as a concept is Clive’s father, Elwin Rosfield. Elwin dies in the first chapter of the game and never actually speaks of his plans to free the slaves. In fact, you only find out his intentions if you elect to do an optional late game side-quest that is more about bonding with your brother Joshua than it is about honoring your dead father’s wishes.
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