Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus
Gladio, one of the three faithful comrades who accompany Noctis on his journey will become a playable character for the very first time in his own episode with a completely different type of gameplay and an…
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus is an adventure developed by Square Enix Business Division 2, released 29 November 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus is
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus is an adventure game developed by Square Enix Business Division 2 and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gladio, one of the three faithful comrades who accompany Noctis on his journey will become a playable character for the very first time in his own episode with a completely different type of gameplay and an all-new story. Picking up from the events from the group’s encounter with Ravus, Gladio leaves the group to train alongside Cor and become even more powerful. He sets on a path to face challenges by encountering larger than life monsters along the way.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus is the 226th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy Awakening in 2016. Its critic score of 58 is 19 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 6 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladiolus launched on 29 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian and Watch Dogs 2. 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: Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Watch Dogs 2.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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