Ultimate Fantasy 16 could have a brand new recreation plus mode, Sq. Enix introduced throughout its last promotional push earlier than the sport’s launch this week.
In a Japanese livestream on Saturday (as reported by Twitter consumer Genki), the builders revealed Ultimate Fantasy Mode, an possibility that may grow to be accessible on the primary menu after finishing the sport as soon as. Ultimate Fantasy Mode permits gamers to hold their character degree, skills, and tools into a brand new playthrough, with a raised degree cap of 100, and higher-level enemies to face. There’ll be an Ultima Weapon to craft, and a gold trophy on supply for finishing the sport once more on this mode.
The coaching and problem modes accessed through the Arete Stone in-game can even get an improve in Ultimate Fantasy Mode, with an Ultimania problem setting and a tough time-trial mode referred to as Chronolith Trials.
Producer Naoki Yoshida additionally stated that the sport would get a day one patch to repair just a few “very minor” points — an announcement he made with some humility, after the group had earlier pledged to keep away from such an replace.
The patch can be about 300 MB in measurement, and repair some uncommon development and crash bugs, right minor textual content errors, and optimize efficiency in just a few areas the place body charge was struggling. Making use of the patch gained’t be required to play the sport.
It had been some extent of delight for Yoshida’s group to launch a extremely polished, completed model of Ultimate Fantasy 16 with none delays to its launch date, and Sq. Enix’s intensive promotion of the sport in latest months — together with the discharge of a really warmly acquired demo final week — has spoken of its confidence within the title. On this context, the patch is the smallest of setbacks.
Ultimate Fantasy 16 launches June 22, solely for PlayStation 5.