After two years of promises, Final Fantasy XIII is coming to Game Pass
“Good things come to those who wait” is a lesson gamers in the modern world often have to learn the hard way. And perhaps nowhere is this maxim better epitomised than in today’s story – of a game coming to Microsoft’s Game Pass scheme after a bit of a wait. The game? Final Fantasy XIII. The wait? Oh, only two years since the initial announcement. That’s 24 months. 730 days (732 if by some freakish coincidence we ended up with two leap years in a row). Square fans, I salute your patience.
Yep, as Kotaku reports, the thirteenth instalment in the beloved RPG franchise was first slated for Game Pass in 2019, at the XO19 press event. Specifically, Microsoft bigwigs promised that a number of games from the Final Fantasy series would make their way onto the veritable gaming buffet that is the Pass by the end of 2020. A tantalising prospect indeed. In practice, however, only a few of them actually made that intended window, with just as many spontaneously vanishing from the service soon after debuting.
Things are finally looking up, though. On the 2nd of September – that’s yesterday, for those of you with poor memory – they’ve finally got round to adding a major winner in the form of XII, which most critics and fans lauded as “stellar.” A variety of further titles are hitting the platform in the coming days, which you can check out in a handy list below.
September 2
- Craftopia, via game preview (Cloud, Console, PC)
- Final Fantasy XIII (Console, PC)
- Signs of the Sojourner (Cloud, Console, PC)
- Surgeon Simulator 2 (Cloud, Console, PC)
September 7
- Crown Trick (Console, PC)
September 9
- Breathedge (Cloud, Console, PC)
- Nuclear Throne (Console, PC)
- The Artful Escape (Console, PC)
Despite the wait, hopefully there’ll be more than enough to go at here for salivating Xbox users.
Are you excited by this game’s addition? Any others you’d like to see come to the Pass? Let us know!
Via, Kotaku.
