The FFXIV Fall Guys event is just what the Gold Saucer needs

The FFXIV Fall Guys occasion is right here, and it’s surprisingly sturdy. What may have been a easy throwaway function to behave as a collaboration undertaking between the 2 video games has turn out to be some of the sturdy Gold Saucer updates we’ve seen in Remaining Fantasy 14 for a while, and is providing extra informal gamers a glance into some raid-style mechanics, and all of us a surprisingly good time.

Having questioned fairly how in-depth the FFXIV collaboration with Fall Guys could be, I used to be nonetheless fairly impressed by simply how concerned the occasion is. Upon heading to the Gold Saucer, the in-game on line casino for the critically acclaimed MMORPG, you’re despatched to a devoted ‘Blunderville’ foyer space adorned within the vivid, easy colours of Fall Guys.

Matches are three rounds lengthy, culminating within the traditional Fall Guys hill climb for the final eight gamers to vie for the elusive Victory Crown. Spherical one options two completely different gauntlets, every of which has you racing by means of a number of problem zones, whereas spherical two offers you one in every of a pair of problem minigames to finish – both racing round a loop of traps and slender platforms to remain forward of the competitors or delivering coloured balls by means of a collection of impediment programs earlier than your rivals.

A whole lot of these minigames incorporate ideas which are seen in different FFXIV trials and duties, equivalent to icy flooring the place any motion will trigger you to slip a set distance in that path, the ‘compelled march’ that sends your character in a sure path, and ‘momentary misdirection,’ the place a spinning hand above your character determines the path they’ll begin operating once you maintain any motion key.

It is a nice thought, and it’s one thing I’d like to see the Saucer used extra for. A few of its present minigames, equivalent to ‘The Slice is Proper,’ are an effective way for gamers to follow struggle mechanics in a enjoyable, low-pressure setting, and letting folks become familiar with these will solely assist them really feel extra comfy with making an attempt extra superior content material. It features as a welcome stepping stone to extra superior ideas – and there’s no fear that you just is perhaps holding different gamers again if you happen to fail.

On prime of this, gamers on the FFXIV Reddit are discussing how Sq. Enix has taken nice pains to make sure that the collaboration matches throughout the FFXIV lore. The Fall Guys beans are stated to have impressed Gold Saucer architect Godbert Manderville to create the function. That’s proper; these little beans are an official a part of Remaining Fantasy XIV canon now.

Then there are the rewards, which embrace a colourful hoodie and tracksuit bottoms together with a pink bean as a pet, an emote, a mount, and loads of different bonus goodies. Very similar to many of the Gold Saucer rewards, they don’t require an excessive amount of time taking part in to earn – particularly if you happen to’re capable of make it by means of a number of rounds. The small print even go proper right down to ‘Fall Guys’ being written in Eorzean script on the clothes.

The entire thing is an absolute triumph – the one slight draw back is that it’s as soon as once more reinvigorated the dialogue round latency and the sensation of being ‘hit’ by mechanics that you just’re fairly positive you averted, one thing that high-level raiders have been debating for a very long time now. However that, to me, is just an indication of how extensively loved this new mode is.

Talking at a press occasion attended by PCGamesN throughout FFXIV Fanfest London, recreation director Naoki Yoshida remarked that the group is at all times longing for any collaborations to be made as a full crossover. “We make our personal proposal and ship it to the opposite firm, and customarily they get fairly stunned,” he explains. “They’re like, ‘What, you don’t wish to simply do costumes?’”

That strategy has given us a number of cool items of content material prior to now – together with the Monster Hunter struggle towards a Rathalos (a undertaking that additionally noticed FFXIV’s Behemoth arrive in Monster Hunter World) and the full-length Nier Automata alliance raid within the Shadowbringers enlargement.

With how a lot love the FFXIV group places into these, hopefully we get to see much more sooner or later – and I’m personally hoping that this explicit occasion offers Sq. Enix much more concepts for a way the Gold Saucer will help new gamers take these first steps into endgame content material.

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