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Final Fantasy XVI’s next DLC gets a trailer and a release date

The Rising Tide will unleash the Leviathan on April 18th.

For no good reason, I haven’t played a new Final Fantasy game in years, but I trust Ash Parrish’s conclusion that the Leviathan being missing has been an error in need of correction. The Rising Tide also debuts a new increasingly challenging 20-stage battle mode called Kairos Gate that Square Enix writes will bring “new materials and weapons,” with scores uploaded to a global leaderbord. The company says there will also be a “reimagined version” of the Curtana sword from past Final Fantasy games, and two new hideaway background tunes, “Torn from the Heavens and “Through the Maelstrom.” And there’s a new stage, called Aire of Hours, set in the ruins of a former civilization.

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