The boys are low-poly now. As somebody with a reasonably fancy PC, it’s straightforward to overlook generally that not everybody has the GPU muscle to run the likes of Final Fantasy XV. An different presents itself in the present day (for Windows 10 customers, a minimum of – it’s OS-exclusive, sorry) within the type of Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition, a low-fi demake of the sport designed for cell gadgets, however now accessible for much less beefy desktops. There’s even a demo.
While the Pocket Edition of FFXV does miss out on among the perks of the full-fat model of the sport, resembling modding, the non-compulsory co-op multiplayer mode and the character-specific DLC chapters, it does current a whole – if abridged – run by the cinematic JRPG’s principal story arc. While simplified just a little, the evasion-heavy fight engine remains to be there, and you may see how among the greater setpiece moments of the sport maintain up in cute bobble-headed fashion within the comparability trailer beneath.
Of course, this all begs the query; Which is the Best Boy now that they’re all teensy and twee? Prompto’s pictures loses a few of its edge when the textures are so simplistic, and Ignis’ meals isn’t wanting practically as scrumptious right here, so I’m simply hedging my bets and saying Gladio wins, as a result of they needed to make his character mannequin twice as huge as everybody else simply to slot in his naked chest.
This isn’t the final we’ll be seeing of Final Fantasy XV on PC both. While the Pocket Edition is self-contained, the entire mod toolkit for the sport correct remains to be but to be launched, plus there’s an entire second season of DLC in the works, together with the prospect to play as among the main women, and shoot for a happier ending in an alternate timeline.
Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition is out now on the Windows 10 Store. The first chapter is free, with the rest accessible per-episode, or all collectively in a $20 bundle (almost definitely round £15) offered in-game.
