Final Fantasy XVI - You Are The Hero Edition

Final Fantasy XVI - You Are The Hero Edition is a special version of Final Fantasy XVI akin to Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition. It was released for the PS5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X, being the first FF released on Nintendo and Xbox systems. 
== Changes ==
* The protagonist is not a fixed character with a fixed name. Instead, you can choose their gender and name and customize their appearance. Their default name is Clive or Sophie depending on whether you make them male or female, but you can change it. They are a non-speaking protagonist, instead most of their dialogue (outside of short battle quotes) is either implied, made an unvoiced dialogue option or given to the new character Mog whose job is to talk for the protagonist. Their voice actor (for the few voiced lines they keep) has been recast, being Joe Dempsie if male, or Maisie Williams if female. 
* A new character, a Moogle named Mog, is added and replaces Torgal entirely. Unlike Torgal, Mog gains new skills as the game goes on and his skills can be bought with ability points like all of the other skills for the protagonist. As the protagonist is now customizable, Mog speaks most of the lines that were spoken by Clive in the original version of the game (that aren't turned into player choices). 
* New melee skills and combos are added. 
* Status ailments are added and the player can cause them with the various elemental skills or charged spells. 
** Fire causes burn (minor damage constantly)
** Thunder causes silence (blocks magic-based skills)
** Ice causes freeze (temporarily makes the enemy unable to move or attack)
** Earth causes break (for a few seconds, physical damage received is doubled)
** Wind causes confusion (the enemy attacks randomly)
** Light causes homing (light attacks home in on enemies) 
** Dark causes drain (heal HP equal to half the damage you dealt)
* There are no elemental weaknesses nor resistances, but on the hardest difficulty you can have a few enemies be immune to a specific element. 
* Some harder difficulty options appear, for instance you cn choose to remove checkpoints in boss battles, not to replenish potions once you respawn, or even the "drop equipment once dead" option which causes you to drop your equipment on the ground once you die (and if you die again before recovering it, it's gone for good).
* Equipment is much more central, rather than just minor buffs it can give you major buffs in different stats and many other unique properties such as status immunities or even weirder things (such as the Glass Armor leaving you in permanent break status but having huge magical defense bonus).
* Social Links are added (and are connected to longer, but fewer, sidequests), meanwhile most fetch quests are excised from the game. 
* The game has romance options. 
** Jill, Benedikta and Barnabas can be romanced by both a male or female protagonist, while Dion and Tarja are lesbians: you can romance Dion only as a male protagonist, Tarya as female. Joshua, Jote and Hugo, despite being straight, cannot be romanced at all (Hugo loves Benedikta, Joshua is your brother, Jote is canonically Joshua's love interest). 
** Romancing Barnabas isn't possible in the vanilla game and locks you into an alternate ending where you get Leviathan, turn everyone Akashic, and ally with him: before joining him, he fights you to test you and then gives you Odin. All of your Social Links get broken if joining Barnabas.
* Alternate paths, bosses and endings are added depending on your decisions. Some options such as protecting Benedikta (to prevent her death early on) are added. After the first timeskip (Cid's death) the game is no longer linear as the vanilla version was.
** Preventing Benedikta's death is vital if you want to ally with Hugo (and rebuild Waloed and Dhalmek) but can't be done if you're looking to join Barnabas or emperor Sylvestre. Benedikta will still die later on, as Barnabas will kill her much later due to her betrayal. In that case, Barnabas destroys your hideout instead of Hugo.
** Other than the ending, now called "For My Brother", of the main game, there are four more: "For Divine Power" in which you save Annabella and Sylvestre, hand yourself to the Sanbrequois, and have Annabella forgive you, then join Sanbreque and kill Dion: the Sanbreque Empire becomes much stronger under your rule and conquers the world; "For Human Civilization" in which you spare Benedikta and through her you make peace with Hugo, accept him as the ruler of Rosaria, and rebuild the world in a more peaceful state with non-Akashic Waloeders and Dhalmekians on your side, refusing to destroy the Mothercrystals; "For Eternal Peace" if you join Barnabas and turn the entire world Akashic, then destroy the final Mothercrystal to revive Ultima.
** Final bosses are different: "For My Brother" has Ultima, "For Divine Power" has Dionabas (Barnabas absorbing Dion, which shifts into a new Eikon called Yojimbo formed by the fusion of Odin and Bahamut), "For Human Civilization" has Unlimited Typhon, and "For Eternal Peace" has Joshua, Jill and Dion (who later on fuse into the new Eikon Alexander). 
* The moment you acquire an Eikon changes depending on your decisions, such as choosing to join Barnabas gives you Odin much earlier. 
* A new Eikon power set, the water-elemental Leviathan, is added. You can get it only if you don't follow the vanilla version's established path and getting it locks you in the ending where you join Ultima and fight against the entire rest of the world.
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