While speaking with Final Fantasy XVI manufacturer Naoki Yoshida in Square Enix’s Tokyo, Japan, workplaces in 2015 for Game Informer’s cover story on the game, he informed me there was currently no plans for DLC. However, a couple of months after the game’s June launch throughout The Game Awards 2023, Square Enix revealed FFXVI would be getting two DLCs.
The initially – Echoes of the Fallen – was a combat-centric DLC launched that exact same evening. The 2nd – The Rising Tide – is an extra extensive, story-focused DLC concerning the Leviathan Eikon oddly missing out on from the major game. While we still do not understand when to anticipate The Rising Tide apart from this springtime, I spoke with Yoshida and DLC supervisor Takeo Kujiraoka concerning what gamers can anticipate and a lot more, and you can check out that in my sneak peek here.
I additionally asked the duo if the group, referred to as Creative Business Unit III within Square Enix, has an interest in even more DLC for FFXVI. After all, the factor Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide exist is due to the fact that “[after] seeing that positive reception, the positive comments from fans, towards the world of Final Fantasy XVI, towards Valisthea, we felt that this may be a good opportunity” to review the game, Yoshida informs me.
While Yoshida will not state never ever, leaving the door simply ever-so-slightly open, gamers most likely should not anticipate even more DLC for FFXVI.
“That’s a difficult question,” Yoshida informs me via a translator when I inquire about a lot more DLC. “My sincere response is, ‘I do not understand right now,’ yet at the exact same time, the opportunity isn’t completely absolutely no. I do not intend to disallow out any type of actual opportunities right now. The factor being is that we did invest a great deal of initiative […] and time developing this game […] and we placed a great deal of reducing side modern technology right into this game.
“And because of that, we were able to gain a lot of experience, a lot of learnings, that we can possibly apply to our next project or title. So my honest feeling is that the team does want to take on a new challenge and move on to a different project – maybe it’s a completely new game, perhaps in a completely new form of entertainment. I feel like ultimately, that might be the best route for not just the players, but for us as well, too. But again, to reiterate, the possibility of more DLC content for Final Fantasy XVI is not zero.”
And there you have it. As a large follower of Final Fantasy XVI – you can read my Game Informer review of it here – I’d enjoy one more factor to review this globe. I’d take even more DLC, a follow up, or perhaps a film linkup a la Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, to be sincere. But my takeaway from this meeting is the group prepares to go on, and I can additionally appreciate that.
For plenty a lot more concerning the game, head to Game Informer’s Final Fantasy XVI coverage hub for special behind the curtain functions, video clip meetings, and a lot more.
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