Nearly 18 months after the preliminary launch of Final Fantasy XV, the story is lastly drawing to a detailed. The launch of the newest piece of DLC, Episode Ardyn, will wrap up the story on March 26.
The episode will give attention to bag man Ardyn, and takes place a few years earlier than the occasions of the principle game. Previous episodes – specializing in Gladiolus, Prompto, and Ignis – had been launched all through 2017, and targeted totally on the game’s well-meaning ensemble characters.
An animated prologue to episode Ardyn was launched final week. The video, which you’ll be able to watch additional down this text, is ready two thousand years earlier than the rule of Noctis, ‘the Chosen King’, and gives some additional context for the remainder of Ardyn’s story. It additionally gives a number of transient glimpses on the DLC package deal itself, though it’ll be tough to piece something collectively from what’s introduced there. All that mentioned, Ardyn is wanting extraordinarily dapper in these photographs – which seem in direction of the tip of the trailer – a pleasant Loki-esque villain so that you can like to hate.
While loads of DLC packages had been initially deliberate for the game, Episode Ardyn is the final one that may truly see the sunshine of day.
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Game director Hajime Tabata quit Square Enix last year. His departure meant that three DLC episodes – hooked up to Aranea, Lunafreya, and Noctis, respectively – had been canned, and solely Ardyn’s episode truly launched.
Despite the cancellation of these three episodes, Final Fantasy XV has nonetheless had a fairly lengthy tail. Nearly a yr and a half has handed since launch and the ultimate episode, however now it’s time to look in direction of no matter Square Enix decides to do with the franchise going ahead.
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