Alongside the release of Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition and Royal Edition on consoles this calendar week, Square Enix dropped the FFXV Royal Pack expansion for those who already own the base of operations game. Is it worth it? Practise you lot need it? That depends on which aspects of the game yous enjoy the most, as information technology will appeal to some fans more than others.

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New story additions come to Chapter 14 of 'Final Fantasy XV' in the Royal Pack expansion. Square Enix

Final Fantasy Fifteen Royal Pack: What's Included?

The Royal Pack retails for $14.99 on PS4 and Xbox 1. Hither's Square Enix'due south official rundown of what yous'll get:

・ Indisposition City Ruins - new map leading straight to the game's climactic terminate

・ First-Person View - mode allowing players to run into Eos through Noctis'southward eyes

・ Armiger Unleashed - powered-upwardly combat style

・ Regal Cruiser - open up-sea exploration, new fishing spots and recipes

・ Regalia Type-D - new acquisition and enhancement quests

・ Additional Trophies

While the full-game bundle Royal Edition includes all the Flavour Pass DLC, the Majestic Pack does NOT include Episode Ignis, Episode Prompto, Episode Gladio or the multiplayer Comrades expansion. The Imperial Edition represents a pretty solid savings for those who haven't yet purchased the game. For those who already have a re-create of FFXV, you lot'll need both the Flavour Laissez passer and the Imperial Pack to have the equivalent of the Regal Edition, the most complete collection of all the game'south DLC and bonus content.

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'FFXV's chocobros get nautical on the Royal Vessel. Square Enix

Is the Royal Pack worth the cash?

If you enjoy line-fishing, want to fight some extra bosses and see more of Insomnia and the game's supporting cast, it's worth the toll. Notwithstanding, there are some caveats to the Royal Pack worth bearing in mind before clicking that purchase button.

Despite its very slick aesthetics the Purple Vessel is a bit of a dud, unless you dear FFXV's fishing minigame. On your spiffy new boat, you tin can take some photos, unlock a new recipe, and catch some new fish. That's basically it. You tin buy fishing supplies onboard, similar the shop in the Regalia carte. Yet, y'all can't drop pins in the map to help you navigate like you can on land, which means a lot of toggling back and forth between screens.

Enticed by the prospect of new areas to explore past sea, I was disappointed to find you tin only disembark at Altissia, Cape Caem and Galdin Quay. You'll bask in the dazzler of the vast expanse of sea and sky, merely to proceed bumping into invisible walls. Worse, they plow you around in such a way that y'all end upwardly having to toggle back to the map once more and over again. In that location's lots of deserted islands dotting the expanded body of water map, but you can't actually become to any of them, despite existence a magical prince with infinite teleport powers. (Y'all tin't go to Angelgard?! C'mon, man.)

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The Regal Pack gives players free access to the Royal Vessel in 'FFXV,' just its perks are mainly for anglers, not explorers. Square Enix

Thankfully, the new Insomnia content offers far more for FFXV fans to savour. Await virtually iv or five hours of gameplay to practise everything, mayhap more than for completionist types. In that location'due south more to practice than in any of the previously released character DLC, including new side missions and bosses. There are a couple optional stealth areas, which I was not especially pleased to discover, only they're straightforward enough to be fun and not infuriating.

The Royal Pack vastly expands the metropolis ruins, with fascinating scenery that lends heft to Noctis and his friends' nostalgia for simpler times. Newly added supporting grapheme cameos also give more dimension to a chapter of the game that felt bare-bones in the initial release, and draw some rewarding connections to Flavour Pass content and other aspects of the "FFXV Universe."

While the new story elements more often than not avoid feeling bolted-on after the fact, accessing the new content and integrating it into your chief playthrough feels clumsily executed. In order to access the new cutscenes and bonus bosses, you'll have to become through the Chapter Select menu, cull Chapter 14, and proceed from in that location. While you'll go on all your items and progress from the ported salvage, you won't keep whatever of your quest or map data. This means if yous call Umbra to get back to Lucis, you won't exist able to fast-travel anywhere, considering the game doesn't "remember" you've been there. All of your hunt and sidequest data will also be gone. This might be prissy for those looking to grind experience, but for the remainder of u.s.a., it means keeping a separate set of saves just to see the new Chapter 14 stuff.

If you desire many of the items you can only arrive the new Insomnia map on your main/Affiliate 15 salve file, utilize Umbra to visit Insomnia instead of the Chapter Select bill of fare. That volition allow you to collect some, but not all, of the new items and equipment available in the area. If it sounds needlessly complicated and abrasive, that's because information technology is. Hopefully this tin be ironed out in a future patch.

The verdict: The substantial Insomnia additions justify the cost for diehard FFXV fans and lore buffs, merely aspects of the Purple Pack may disappoint or frustrate sporadic players. Since Foursquare Enix volition go on to release new content for FFXV throughout 2018, nosotros'd love to run into a like, futurity expansion have on Tenebrae or other areas of the world that there isn't much hazard to explore in the base of operations game.

Will you be picking upwardly the FFXV Royal Pack? What future expansions would yous like to see for the game? Let united states know in the comments.