Whereas talking to Ultimate Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida in Sq. Enix's Tokyo, Japan, workplaces final yr for <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/FFXVI"><em>Sport Informer's </em>cowl story</a> on the sport, he advised me <a href="05/23/final-fantasy-16-there-are-currently-no-plans-for-dlc">there was presently no plans for DLC</a>. Nevertheless, just a few months after the sport's June launch throughout The Sport Awards 2023, <a href="https://www.gameinformer.com/the-game-awards-2023/2023/12/07/final-fantasy-xvi-is-getting-two-dlcs-and-one-of-them-is-available">Sq. Enix revealed FFXVI can be getting two DLCs</a>.
The primary – Echoes of the Fallen – was a combat-centric DLC launched that very same evening. The second – The Rising Tide – is a extra expansive, story-focused DLC in regards to the Leviathan Eikon curiously lacking from the primary sport. Whereas we nonetheless don’t know when to count on The Rising Tide apart 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 group, referred to as Artistic Enterprise Unit III inside Sq. Enix, is fascinated by extra DLC for FFXVI. In spite of everything, the explanation Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide exist is as a result of “[after] seeing that optimistic reception, the optimistic feedback from followers, in the direction of the world of Ultimate Fantasy XVI, in the direction of Valisthea, we felt that this can be a very good alternative” to revisit the sport, Yoshida tells me.
Whereas Yoshida received’t say by no means, leaving the door simply ever-so-slightly open, gamers most likely shouldn’t count on extra DLC for FFXVI.
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Ifrit versus Leviathan
“That’s a troublesome query,” Yoshida tells me by way of a translator after I ask about extra DLC. “My sincere reply is, ‘I don’t know for the time being,’ however on the similar time, the chance isn’t completely zero. I don’t wish to bar out any actual prospects at the moment. The reason is is that we did spend plenty of effort […] and time creating this sport […] and we put plenty of leading edge expertise into this sport.
“And due to that, we have been capable of achieve plenty of expertise, plenty of learnings, that we will probably apply to our subsequent venture or title. So my sincere feeling is that the group does wish to tackle a brand new problem and transfer on to a special venture – perhaps it’s a very new sport, maybe in a very new type of leisure. I really feel like in the end, that is likely to be the very best route for not simply the gamers, however for us as effectively, too. However once more, to reiterate, the opportunity of extra DLC content material for Ultimate Fantasy XVI will not be zero.”
And there you may have it. As an enormous fan of Ultimate Fantasy XVI – you may learn my Sport Informer assessment of it right here – I’d love one more reason to revisit this world. I’d take extra DLC, a sequel, or perhaps a film tie-in a la Ultimate Fantasy VII: Creation Kids, to be sincere. However my takeaway from this interview is the group is able to transfer on, and I also can respect that.
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