Alongside the release of Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition and Royal Edition on consoles this week, Square Enix dropped the FFXV Purple 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 you enjoy the most, as information technology will appeal to some fans more than others.

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New story additions come up to Chapter fourteen of 'Final Fantasy XV' in the Regal Pack expansion. Square Enix

Final Fantasy Xv Royal Pack: What'due south Included?

The Imperial Pack retails for $xiv.99 on PS4 and Xbox One. Here's Square Enix's official rundown of what you'll become:

・ Insomnia City Ruins - new map leading directly to the game's climactic stop

・ Kickoff-Person View - fashion allowing players to see Eos through Noctis's eyes

・ Armiger Unleashed - powered-upwards gainsay mode

・ Majestic Cruiser - open-bounding main exploration, new fishing spots and recipes

・ Regalia Type-D - new acquisition and enhancement quests

・ Additional Trophies

While the total-game bundle Majestic Edition includes all the Flavour Pass DLC, the Royal Pack does Non include Episode Ignis, Episode Prompto, Episode Gladio or the multiplayer Comrades expansion. The Majestic Edition represents a pretty solid savings for those who haven't still purchased the game. For those who already have a copy of FFXV, you'll need both the Season Pass and the Royal Pack to have the equivalent of the Majestic Edition, the most complete collection of all the game's DLC and bonus content.

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

Is the Royal Pack worth the cash?

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

Despite its very slick aesthetics the Majestic Vessel is a bit of a dud, unless you beloved FFXV'southward fishing minigame. On your spiffy new boat, you can take some photos, unlock a new recipe, and catch some new fish. That's basically information technology. You tin buy fishing supplies onboard, like the store in the Regalia menu. All the same, you can't drop pins in the map to assist 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 by sea, I was disappointed to find yous can but disembark at Altissia, Greatcoat Caem and Galdin Quay. You'll bask in the beauty of the vast expanse of sea and sky, simply to proceed bumping into invisible walls. Worse, they plow you around in such a way that you finish upward having to toggle dorsum to the map again and again. In that location's lots of deserted islands dotting the expanded sea map, only you tin can't actually go to any of them, despite being a magical prince with space teleport powers. (Yous tin can't become to Angelgard?! C'monday, man.)

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

Thankfully, the new Insomnia content offers far more than for FFXV fans to relish. Expect most four or five hours of gameplay to do everything, maybe more for completionist types. There'south more to practice than in any of the previously released grapheme DLC, including new side missions and bosses. There are a couple optional stealth areas, which I was not specially pleased to notice, just they're straightforward enough to be fun and not infuriating.

The Imperial Pack vastly expands the city ruins, with fascinating scenery that lends heft to Noctis and his friends' nostalgia for simpler times. Newly added supporting character cameos also requite more dimension to a chapter of the game that felt bare-basic 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 afterwards the fact, accessing the new content and integrating it into your main playthrough feels clumsily executed. In club to access the new cutscenes and bonus bosses, you'll take to get through the Affiliate Select menu, choose Chapter xiv, and go on from in that location. While you'll keep all your items and progress from the ported save, y'all won't keep any of your quest or map information. This means if you call Umbra to go back to Lucis, you won't exist able to fast-travel anywhere, because the game doesn't "remember" y'all've been there. All of your hunt and sidequest data will likewise exist gone. This might be squeamish for those looking to grind experience, but for the residue of us, it means keeping a separate fix of saves just to see the new Chapter 14 stuff.

If you desire many of the items you can only go far the new Insomnia map on your main/Affiliate xv save file, use Umbra to visit Indisposition instead of the Chapter Select menu. That will let you to collect some, but not all, of the new items and equipment available in the expanse. If it sounds needlessly complicated and abrasive, that'southward because it is. Hopefully this tin be ironed out in a future patch.

The verdict: The substantial Insomnia additions justify the price for diehard FFXV fans and lore buffs, just aspects of the Regal Pack may disappoint or frustrate sporadic players. Since Square Enix will go along to release new content for FFXV throughout 2018, we'd love to see a similar, future expansion accept on Tenebrae or other areas of the world that in that location isn't much take a chance to explore in the base of operations game.

Will you exist picking up the FFXV Royal Pack? What future expansions would y'all similar to run across for the game? Let u.s.a. know in the comments.