Final Fantasy 15 provides a free crossover quest-line and Lara Croft’s outfit right this moment

Mega-budget as it might be, Final Fantasy 15 has at all times been content material to stroll its personal highway, so it’s not that bizarre that its newest cross-promo replace is with a game that doesn’t exist but. In a big patch released today, Prince Noctis can stumble into a brand new journey with Sarah, protagonist of upcoming cell RPG Terra Wars. It’s being developed by Mistwalker, a group of ex-Square Enix people. Those enjoying FF15’s on-line multiplayer can now additionally costume up in Lara Croft’s iconic tomb-delving gear, and take heed to some Tomb Raider tracks on the radio in-game. Nifty.

This explicit crossover strikes me as particularly odd as Mistwalker have been via some tough occasions these days. While I’d gladly suggest their puzzle-strategy RPG Terra Battle to anybody with a contemporary telephone or pill, its sequel – Terra Battle 2 – launched badly and by no means recovered, shutting down after only a few months. Still, somebody at Square Enix has religion in Terra Wars (and I’m hoping it really works out nicely – I like Mistwalker), so right here we go. The new quest is on the market in some unspecified time in the future in Chapter 5 of the principle story, and takes Noctis and Sarah to a “new, mysterious world”.

Free updates like this one are simply the tip of the iceberg. While the launched PC model of Final Fantasy XV on PC was the ‘definitive’ version with all of the console model’s DLC included, Square Enix are gearing up for a second season of episodic adventures. This time, telling the story of a number of new characters and lengthening the story in some new instructions. It feels that the Terra Wars crossover may be a warm-up train for the crew as they prepare for his or her subsequent paid DLC launch. You can see the total particulars on this replace here.

The upcoming DLC will let gamers management three new characters –  affable antagonist Ardyn, skilled stabmeister Aranea Highwind, and the magical (and seldom-seen in the principle story) Princess Lunafreya, earlier than returning to Noctis for the fourth deliberate episode resulting in a brand new ending, branching off from the unique game’s story. I’m simply glad they’re giving me one other excuse to come back again to the game – as unusual as a few of its design choices might have been, there’s nothing else fairly FF15. The new DLC is due “2019” – the boys aren’t backing down.