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Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XV is an open-world action RPG developed and published by Square Enix, released worldwide on 29 November 2016 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and ported to Windows in 2018. Directed by Hajime Tabata, it follows Prince Noctis Lucis Caelum and his three companions, Gladiolus, Ignis and Prompto, as they drive across the kingdom of Lucis toward a wedding with Lunafreya Nox Fleuret while the Niflheim Empire seizes the crystal and destroys their home city of Insomnia. The road trip structure sets it apart from the series: the party travels by the Regalia, camps at havens, cooks meals for buffs and takes on hunts, with chapters that tighten into a linear late game. Combat is fully real-time, built on warp-strikes, point-warps, the thirteen Royal Arms and the Armiger surge, with companions fighting on their own and triggering link-strikes. It shipped with a multimedia push - the film Kingsglaive, the anime Brotherhood and the mobile game A King's Tale - and was expanded through a season pass of character episodes, the Comrades multiplayer mode and the Royal Edition.

• Open-World Road Trip - the journey across Lucis runs through three connected regions, Leide, Duscae and Cleigne, and the Regalia carries the party between them; the early chapters are open, while chapters 9 onward constrict into a linear run to the capital.
• Active Cross Battle System - combat is fully real-time and target-locked: Noctis closes distance with a warp, holds an attack button for combos, and his three companions act on their own AI, taking blindsides and parrying on their own.
• Warp-Strike and Point-Warp - Noctis throws a weapon at a target for damage and teleports to it, or warps to a perched point to refill MP; the MP bar that governs warps, dodges and magic is the central resource of the fight.
• Royal Arms and the Armiger - thirteen ancestral weapons from the Lucian kings each carry a stat trade-off and drain Noctis's HP while equipped, and collecting them feeds the Armiger surge, which calls all thirteen at once for a burst window.
• Elemancy - elemental energy is drawn from deposits scattered around the world, then crafted at camp into fire, blizzard and thunder flasks whose potency, cast count and added effects depend on the items mixed in.
• Ascension Grid - almost every action earns AP, from kills and warps to roadside photography, and AP is spent on a shared grid of combat, teamwork, exploration, recovery and stat nodes rather than a per-character level tree.
• Camping, Resting and Cooking - resting at havens or camper vans banks experience and levels the party, and Ignis cooks a meal from collected ingredients that grants attack, defence or elemental resistance buffs until the next rest.
• Companions, Link Strikes and Techniques - each companion has a technique gauge spent on signature moves, and positional play triggers link-strikes from parries, blindsides and warp-strikes for coordinated damage.
• Hunts, Diners and Side Quests - tipsters and diner boards post hunts for gil, ingredients and unique rewards, and the hunt rank gates the tougher marks behind story progress.
• Day, Night and Daemons - the sun sets on a real clock, daemons spawn in the dark and in caves, and the party's level of danger rises the longer it stays out after nightfall.
• Royal Edition Additions - Armiger Unleashed, first-person mode, the Regalia Type-D off-roader, boat travel around Cape Caem and an expanded Insomnia endgame were folded into the Royal Edition and Windows Edition.
• Comrades Multiplayer - the Comrades expansion turns the game into four-player co-op hunts with a custom Glaive, its own camp hub at Lestallum and a separate progression track.