Game Preview: Final Fantasy XV

The most anticipated game of the year “Final Fantasy XV,” will be released on September 30th later this year and will be available for PS4 and Xbox One.

Final Fantasy has been one of the most popular role-playing video game franchises for over two decades, and is still going strong. In the new installment of the FF series, which is FF XV, will be bound to be more engaging than ever before.

Gameplay Trailer

Final Fantasy XV is significantly different from previous games in the series. The setting of this game seems to be a mixture of modern-day Earth combined with fantasy elements. Episode Duscae begins with the main character Noctis, the Crown Prince of Lucis, and his four friends waking up after their car broke down. They begin to explore the game’s large open world in search of a way to earn enough gil to pay for the car to be repaired. They discover a sign that boasts a 25,000 gil reward for anyone who hunts down and kills the Behemoth that has been terrorizing the area.

The Behemoth named Deadeye is huge and nearly unbeatable, but Final Fantasy wouldn’t be Final Fantasy without the need to level up your team. Final Fantasy games have typically used a turn-based battle system, but FFXV uses an action battle system. This makes the game feel more immersive and require more control by the player. The demo is largely tutorials in the beginning, and learning how to fight as Noctis, with his variety of weapons that just appear in his hand, is a fun preview of what Noctis can do later on in the game in battle.

FF XV Episode Duscae – Walkthrough Part 1

The Duscaen landscape in the demo, while displaying characteristics of our normal world, is filled with fantastic beasts and your team will quickly begin to battle some of them in order to level up for their battle with Deadeye. And, of course, you’ll likely find yourself losing HP pretty quickly in the beginning until you get the hang of the gameplay. A welcome feature to the battle system in FFXV, however, is the level of HP that appears above your enemy as you’re fighting, indicating how close you are to defeating the enemy.

Storytelling has always set the Final Fantasy games apart from other games, even as many more games are taking video game storytelling more seriously. The story in FFXV concerns Noctis’s homeland Lucis, which has been invaded by another nation of Niflheim. Niflheim has taken the last remaining crystal in the world from Lucis and begins to attack all the other nations in an attempt to achieve world domination. Noctis, the son of Lucis’s king, is determined to go to Niflheim and retrieve the last remaining crystal and defeat Niflheim. The stakes are high, as with any great story, and Noctis and his band of friends make a great team of protagonist and supporting characters who are after the story goal of rescuing the world from Niflheim’s domination. Because this story is about Noctis and his friends, we get to see some significant characterization through the interactions of the friends, which makes for great storytelling.

When FFXV is released, it may be the most anticipated game of the year.

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