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You can play Comrades solo, but the shaky teammate AI just doesn’t do a good job of holding you up as you fight tougher enemies and take on harder missions later on. However, for the player base that wants big single-player experiences it may have a hard time holding their attention. Multiplayer does hold appeal for some players, and hopefully, Square Enix diligently updates the new expansion. How many fans are still going to stick around for the content coming to XV, especially if it’s spread out across 2018? After the main character episodes are out of the way with Ignis releasing in the next few weeks, there’s little motivation for fans to return, unless something really drastic happens. Not yet anyway, and I question if him appearing in things like Tekken can really help with that. Noctis is a good character, he just doesn’t have that same gravitas that someone like Cloud, or even Lightning has. It almost feels like Square Enix is trying to force Noctis into becoming a great icon of gaming. I’m all about anything that adds to the main story of XV, like the upcoming Episode Ignis, but find myself wondering why we need Pocket Edition or Noctis in Tekken. But even for me, all of this is starting to feel a bit gimmicky. I consider myself a fan of FFXV, heck it was even my favorite game of 2016. Square is absolutely fine for the time being, but if they start doing to every big game what they did to FFXV, it might be a different story. Yet, after a while all these different properties you need to buy or take part in start to wear on people. It’s an approach Square Enix could take with the likes of Final Fantasy VII Remake, which we already know is episodic in some way. The experience you had with FFXV when it launched is not the experience you get now, although the core would be the same. They’ve added constant updates and patches to the game, tweaking and changing things here and there, adding in new cutscenes and story options, and more. It’s clear that FFXV is Square Enix’s testing ground for trying out a games as a service model, while also trying to recoup whatever funds it lost on its long development cycle.

However, this doesn’t change the fact that we have don’t have a good idea of what the future of the franchise will be. The good news is that the game is now well above those projections.

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During a presentation at GDC (Game Developer’s Conference) earlier this year, Game Director Hajime Tabata spoke about how FFXV could have been the last game in the series had it not cleared its 5-6 million sales projection. Fans may not realize the jeopardy the series was actually in, and how much was riding on FFXV’s success. Lore that’s just hard to uncover if you’re only playing the main game.Īt this point, we don’t know how much money Square sunk into Versus XIII and FFXV over the ten-year development cycle, but it’s fair to say it was probably a heck of a lot.

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All of this is a lot to ask players to commit to just to get the full picture, let alone within the launch window of the game. Of course, the overall narrative that all of these properties weave is fascinating and the world of FFXV is brimming with lore. Even past that we had Justice Monsters V the mobile game, the GameStop pre-order bonus exclusive A King’s Tale, and a mini-novel that actually served as the opening act to the game, which didn’t get an English translation until much later. The main game provided the basis of the story, but if you really wanted the full picture you’d need to watch Kingsglaive and Brotherhood. FFXV’s success is quite apparent with early sales for the game and, of course, how much Square Enix keeps trying to push its extended universe on everyone. But it was a good game with a strong central cast of likable characters. Was it the second coming that some fans were waiting for? No, it wasn’t. Fans, worried about the fate of the franchise after the divisive Final Fantasy XIII games, and the flop of the original iteration of Final Fantasy XIV, looked to FFXV to bring the series back to its former glory. Final Fantasy XV was a big moment in the series.