Welcome to our Final Fantasy XVI guide and walkthrough! This walkthrough will help you find items, provide strategies for fights, and get all trophies. You will tackle difficult boss fights (known as Formidable Foes) and learn how to use gameplay mechanics in your favor. Abilities will also be covered, helping you figure out which abilities will be effective for you.
Side quests are covered and maps are provided to help you navigate Valisthea. Large areas will have exploration sections throughout the walkthrough to help you find items. Notorious Marks are also covered, helping you find these powerful monsters along with strategies to take them down.
Unlike previous Final Fantasy titles, Final Fantasy XVI is mostly about controlling a single character in real-time combat. Battles are similar to games such as Dark Souls III and Devil May Cry 5. You must pay attention during combat and your performance is in your hands. Enemies will have unnamed moves, but any named attacks will be covered when relevant.
Item locations will be listed, but there is a chance that items may be random. What you obtain might be different from what is listed in the walkthrough. You can also return to locations and items will reappear, though they won't be the same items as before.
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Spoilers will be minimized throughout this walkthrough, but jumping to later sections will result in potential spoilers. Read ahead at your own discretion.
Before You Start
- Gameplay Basics
- How To Save
- How To Skip Cutscenes
- How To Change Difficulty
- Timely Accessories Guide
- Alliant Reports Guide
- Stats Overview
- How To Earn Ability Points
- How To Learn Abilities
- How To Reset Abilities
- Why You Should Master Abilities
- How To Precision Dodge
- How To Parry
- How To Heal
- What Happens To Extra Items?
- How To Get A Chocobo
- How To Flee Battles
- How Magic Works
- How To Use Eikons
- How To Use Limit Break
- Story Focused vs. Action Focused
- How To Use The Minimap
- How To Check Objectives & Open the Map
- How To Use Photo Mode
- How To Fast Travel
- How To Transfer Demo Progress
- How Sidequests Work
- How To Fight With Torgal
- Beginner's Guide
Walkthrough
- Act 1
- Act 2
- A Chance Encounter
- Hide, Hideaway
- Fanning Embers
- Louder than Words
- The Dead of Night
- Headwind
- Wings of Change
- Awakening
- The Wages of Guilt
- The Hunter and the Hunted
- Homecoming
- Building Bridges
- A Bearer's Lot
- Holding On
- Back in the Day
- Buried Memories
- The Meaning of Life
- Righting Wrongs
- The Dame
- The Crystals' Curse
- Act 3
- Cid the Outlaw
- Home, Sweet Home
- The Gathering Storm
- Dark Clouds Gather
- Release
- Bloodlines
- Black Light Burns
- Black or White
- Here Be Monsters
- Fire and Ice
- After the Storm
- Capital Punishment
- Bolts from the Blue
- Getting to Work
- Riddle of the Sands
- Follow the Crystals
- Into the Darkness
- Out of the Shadow
- Letting Off Steam I
- Letting Off Steam II
- Letting Off Steam III
- Onward
- To Catch a Thief
- Blood from the Stones
- Fire in the Sky
- Things Fall Apart
- Why We Fight
- The Flames of War
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- Cloak and Dagger
- Evenfall
- A Song of Hope
- Like Father, Like Daughter
- Full Steam
- Through the Maelstrom
- Across the Narrow
- Footfalls in Ash
- The Last King
- Brotherhood
- Streets of Madness
- Back to Their Origin
- Of Gods and Men
Quests
- Hideaway
- Food for Thought
- Make Do and Mend
- A Place For Everyone
- Moving Heaven and Earth
- Red Letter Day
- Needs of the Many
- Caulk & Bawl
- The Fruits of Her Labors
- A Culinary Pilgrimage
- Blacksmith's Blues
- Cut from the Cloth
- The Root of the Problem
- Do No Harm
- The Weight of Command
- Weird Science
- Payback
- A Bone to Pick
- Blacksmith’s Blues II
- An Eye for an Eye
- Not to Be Outdone
- On Balance
- Smooth Like Butler
- Blacksmith’s Blues III
- Tears of Mercy
- Please Sir, Can I Have Some Morbol
- Blacksmith’s Blues IV
- Even Weirder Science
- Self-Determination
- Phoenix, Heal Thyself
- Three’s Company
- Where There’s a Will
- Nobody’s Tool
- Trial and Error
- Aiming High
- Litany of Errors
- More than Words
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Silver Linings
- Priceless
- A Tail to Tell
- Lostwing
- Three Reeds
- Martha's Rest
- Northreach
- The Dalimil Inn
- Laetny's Cleft
- Boklad
- The Krozjit Echoes
- Tabor
- Eistla
Formidable Foes
- Act 1 Bosses
- Act 2 Bosses
- Act 3 Bosses
Notorious Marks
- Ahriman
- Aruna (The Angel Of Death)
- Belphegor
- Dozmare
- Sekhret
- Severian
- Flan Prince (Muddy Murder)
- Fastitocalon (A Hill to Die On)
- Soul Stingers
- Grimalkin
- The Nine of Knives
- Atlas (The Breaker of Worlds)
- Bomb King
- The Ten of Clubs
- The Mageth Brothers
- Svarog (Ruin Reawakened)
- The Pack
- Dread Comet
- Holy Trumpitour (The Man in Black)
- Carrot
- Pandemonium
- Gorgimera (The Tricephalic Terror)
- Gobermouch
- Bygul
- Agni
- Thanatos (Usher to the Underworld)
- Terminus (The Blood Moon)
- Behemoth King
- Kuza Beast
- Gizamaluk (The Wailing Banshee)
- Prince of Death (The Grim Reaper)
- Knight of the Splendent Heart
Miscellaneous