The final main piece of content material for 2023’s Closing Fantasy XVI now has a launch date. The Rising Tide, the second of two deliberate post-release DLCs, is coming to PlayStation 5 on April 18. It should price $19.99, or gamers can buy the $24.99 Growth Go to achieve entry to each The Rising Tide and the primary DLC, Echoes of The Fallen. The enlargement might be centered round a brand new space of the map, and also will reply one of many largest questions from the bottom recreation: What occurred to the Eikon of Water?
The Rising Tide will transport gamers to the brand new land of Mysidia, which lies within the northern area of the map and has been hidden away within the northern territory of Storm. As proven within the trailer for the DLC, Mysidia has managed to stay untouched by the Blight, the sport’s all-consuming plague, and nonetheless has a surprising blue sky, providing a pleasing distinction to the drab, overcast skies that dominate the later components of the sport. How this is ready to exist is a thriller that gamers might want to unravel. Mysidia will sound acquainted to longtime followers of the franchise, because it has appeared as a city title in previous titles (equivalent to FF4) and often acts as a location closely tied to magic. That seems to be the case in FF16 as nicely. In any case, Mysidia’s beautiful panorama seems to be simply as beautiful as the bottom recreation’s locales.
The trailer’s unknown narrator offers us a little bit of lore for Mysidia. The land seems to be one thing of a haven for Bearers (magic customers who are sometimes enslaved on the earth of FF16) who ran away from prosecution. The narrator speaks of the individuals of Mysidia creating a brand new mom crystal by means of the sacrifice of a single little one, probably the Dominant (people who wield the ability of godlike beings known as Eikons) of Leviathan, the Eikon of Water. FF16 lore talked about that the Eikon of Water had been lacking for ages, so Clive and crew might want to uncover the historical past of Mysidia and its origins. Jill can be from the north, and the trailer for The Rising Tide makes heavy point out of Shiva, which Jill is the Dominant of, so we are able to solely hope she’ll get extra depth and company within the DLC than she did within the base recreation.