Whereas chatting with Closing Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida in Sq. Enix’s Tokyo, Japan, places of work final 12 months for Recreation Informer’s cowl story on the sport, he instructed me there was at present no plans for DLC. Nonetheless, just a few months after the sport’s June launch throughout The Recreation Awards 2023, Sq. Enix revealed FFXVI can be getting two DLCs.
The primary – Echoes of the Fallen – was a combat-centric DLC launched that very same night time. The second – The Rising Tide – is a extra expansive, story-focused DLC in regards to the Leviathan Eikon curiously lacking from the principle recreation. Whereas we nonetheless do not know when to count on The Rising Tide aside from this spring, I spoke to Yoshida and DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka about what gamers can count on and extra, and you’ll examine that in my preview right here.
I additionally requested the duo if the staff, often called Inventive Enterprise Unit III inside Sq. Enix, is involved in extra DLC for FFXVI. In any case, the explanation Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide exist is as a result of “[after] seeing that constructive reception, the constructive feedback from followers, in direction of the world of Closing Fantasy XVI, in direction of Valisthea, we felt that this can be an excellent alternative” to revisit the sport, Yoshida tells me.
Whereas Yoshida will not say by no means, leaving the door simply ever-so-slightly open, gamers in all probability should not count on extra DLC for FFXVI.
Ifrit versus Leviathan
“That is a tough query,” Yoshida tells me via a translator once I ask about extra DLC. “My trustworthy reply is, ‘I do not know in the intervening time,’ however on the identical time, the likelihood is not completely zero. I do not need to bar out any actual potentialities presently. The reason is is that we did spend loads of effort […] and time creating this recreation […] and we put loads of leading edge know-how into this recreation.
“And due to that, we have been capable of acquire loads of expertise, loads of learnings, that we are able to probably apply to our subsequent challenge or title. So my trustworthy feeling is that the staff does need to tackle a brand new problem and transfer on to a special challenge – possibly it is a utterly new recreation, maybe in a totally new type of leisure. I really feel like finally, that is perhaps one of the best route for not simply the gamers, however for us as effectively, too. However once more, to reiterate, the potential of extra DLC content material for Closing Fantasy XVI isn’t zero.”
And there you might have it. As a giant fan of Closing Fantasy XVI – you’ll be able to learn my Recreation Informer overview of it right here – I might love one more reason to revisit this world. I might take extra DLC, a sequel, or perhaps a film tie-in a la Closing Fantasy VII: Creation Kids, to be trustworthy. However my takeaway from this interview is the staff is able to transfer on, and I may also respect that.
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