The final main piece of content material for 2023’s Ultimate 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’s going to value $19.99, or gamers should purchase the $24.99 Enlargement Move to achieve entry to each The Rising Tide and the primary DLC, Echoes of The Fallen. The enlargement can be centered round a brand new space of the map, and also will reply one of many largest questions from the bottom sport: 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 shocking blue sky, providing a nice distinction to the drab, overcast skies that dominate the later elements 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 gorgeous panorama seems simply as attractive as the bottom sport’s locales.
The trailer’s unknown narrator provides 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 folks of Mysidia creating a brand new mom crystal by means of the sacrifice of a single little one, presumably the Dominant (people who wield the facility of godlike beings referred to 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 also 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 sport.
