Final Fantasy 16 will have a new Game Plus mode, Square Enix announced during its final promotion ahead of the game’s release this week.
in one Japanese live stream on Saturday (as reported by a Twitter user Genki) the developers revealed the Final Fantasy mode, an option that becomes available in the main menu after beating the game once. In Final Fantasy mode, players can take their character level, abilities, and gear into a new playthrough, with the level cap being raised to 100 and facing higher level enemies. There is an ultimate weapon to craft and a gold trophy for re-beating the game in this mode.
The Training and Challenge modes, accessible via the Arete Stone in game, also get an upgrade in Final Fantasy mode with an Ultimania difficulty setting and a hard time trial mode called Chronolith Trials.
Producer Naoki Yoshida also said the game would be getting a day-one patch to fix a few “very small” issues — an announcement he made with some modesty after the team previously promised such an update avoid.
The patch will be around 300MB in size and will fix some rare progression and crash bugs, fix minor text errors and improve performance in some areas where frame rate was impacted. Applying the patch is not required to play the game.
It was a source of pride for Yoshida’s team to be able to release a highly polished, finished version of Final Fantasy 16 with no release date delays and Square Enix’s extensive promotion of the game over the past few months – including the release of a very well received demo last week – have spoken of his confidence in the title. In this context, the patch is the smallest setback.
Final Fantasy 16 Coming June 22nd, exclusively for PlayStation 5.
