A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV is a 2D, side-scrolling brawler set 30 years before the events of Final Fantasy XV. This game features retro-style inspired graphics centered around a fast-paced combat system…
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Empty Clip Studios, released 30 September 2016 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV is
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Empty Clip Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Restless before bed young Noctis asks his father, King Regis, to tell a fairy tale full of fantasy and adventure instead of just another generic bedtime story. Regis begins with a peaceful day being disrupted when monsters raid the royal capital, Insomnia. Young Regis, joined by Weskham, starts his adventure from the royal capital. Eventually they are joined by friends Cid and Clarus, where they travel to the plains of Duscae only to discover a mysterious cave where their enemy resides. Throughout the tall tale, King Regis and Noctis interject their own commentary, adding depth and perspective to the story itself.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV is the 219th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was World of Final Fantasy: Limited Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 60 is 17 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 6 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV launched on 30 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Battlefield 1, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI and Sid Meier's Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, Battlefield 1, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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