I’d apologise for the extreme protection of Final Fantasy XV recently, however that might be fallacious, so as a substitute I’ll simply admit to being fairly excited for the overhauled PC launch of Square’s quirky and distinctive mega-budget male-bonding magical realist street journey RPG, and the modifications coming to it.
Katherine has been serving because the spirit of FFXV’s each present and past, however right here I deliver you a imaginative and prescient of Final Fantasy XV but to come back: It’s a recent wave of episodic DLC, and it might be rolling out all the best way into 2019, beginning with an opportunity to play as smirking, flamboyant antagonist Ardyn, pictured above.
As revealed throughout a (Japanese) interview with Famitsu Magazine, there at the moment are 4 character-focused DLC packs set for launch after the PC launch, increasing from their unique plans to solely do three over the course of the 12 months, and presumably stretching past their preliminary intent to wrap the sport up totally in 2018.
The DLC plans open with an opportunity to play because the bad-guy for as soon as, getting into the ever-polished footwear of Ardyn Izunia, who you will get a good measure of from this clip from tie-in prequel film Kingsglaive. Slightly spoileriffic, I’d add earlier than you click on, however we’re almost a 12 months and a half from the unique launch of the sport.
After Ardyn? The sky’s the restrict. In the interview, they talked about that followers have been calling for an opportunity to play as Princess Lunafreya as effectively, a personality typically talked about however seldom seen in the course of the recreation. I can assume of some different characters that folks may need to have an opportunity to play as, most notably Noctis’ wayward sister Iris and all-round badass Aranea Highwind. It can be good if three of the 4 new characters had been main girls, wouldn’t it?
It needs to be price noting that these are virtually definitely going to be near-standalone tales, fleshing out characters that won’t have gotten as a lot screen-time within the recreation as they deserved, and shouldn’t be thought-about obligatory and even deliberate components of the unique recreation. I anticipate to see them bulking up the multiplayer a bit alongside the best way, too.
And all of this on high of the expansion to online multiplayer that’s launching in parallel with the PC model, and the ridiculous Half-Life tie-in gubbins for these leaping aboard the fashion-train early. For those that need extra FFXV with out paying additional, there are plans to increase the mod instruments after launch to permit for the simple creation and injection of recent quests and situations.
No pricing, launch date or season move plans have been introduced for the brand new episodes, though if it’s something like the unique recreation on consoles, particular person character-story DLCs weigh in at round £four/$5 every, and clock in at roughly movie-length. Final Fantasy XV itself might be hitting PC on March sixth, simply over every week from now, and contains all DLC produced up to now.
