Final Fantasy XVI just received a free content update and is now $20 off
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With so many major game releases happening this year — and even this week — you could almost forget that a new mainline Final Fantasy dropped just a couple of months back. Well now, it’s already on a sizable sale. Final Fantasy XVI is selling for $49.99 ($20 off) at both Amazon and Best Buy, its lowest price yet.
Final Fantasy XVI is the most gritty and blood-soaked installment of the series to date, taking a chapter or three from George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones when it comes to sex and political intrigue. It may be rote to describe it as “this ain’t your daddy’s Final Fantasy,” but once you hear main protagonist Clive drop some f-bombs, it will be clear. The game also brings some interesting new twists on series mainstays, like the guardian / summon characters being humongous kaiju-like creatures that fight in big, cinematic battles. And while the PlayStation 5 is the only home for the game for now, producer Naoki Yoshida announced that, in addition to an upcoming PC port, Final Fantasy XVI will get two paid DLC expansions and a free update that just dropped with new weapon and character cosmetics.
The latest mainline Final Fantasy game is a bombastic roller coaster of an RPG infused with a dose of Game of Thrones medieval intrigue and gritty violence. It’s also quite the cinematic spectacle of the PlayStation 5’s graphical prowess.
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