This article contains Final Fantasy 16 spoilers.
If you’ve playedFinal Fantasy 16, you’ll know the door I mean.
And then the door opens.
What’s behind it?
A brief couple of hours of dungeon crawling and an enjoyable, if hardly taxing, boss battle.
It’s just a hint of a side story from the past that doesn’t impact the main plot.
The Sagespire tower itself is glorious, the pinnacle of Fallen engineering prowess bathed in sunlight.
Disappointingly, it doesn’t add to combat all that much.
There is a slight cheapness to the presentation though.
I do wonder if this DLC has been spun out of cut content.
After all, that door has been there conspicuously since the start.
All that said, the forthcoming The Rising Tide DLC will likely be far more substantial.
Yoshida himselfpreviously said he’d love to make Cid playable, for instance.
Yet DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka recently noted toFamitsuthat playable characters other than Clive would require a new battle system.
Final Fantasy 16 is, above all, Clive’s story.
In this DLC’s brief runtime, there’s still room for a little poignancy, at least.
On the topic of a certain character’s death, Torgal questions, “Where did he go?”
As if that moment wasn’t already heartbreaking enough.
