'Final Fantasy 15' news: Square Enix changes new outfits from latest DLC due to similarities with 'Power Rangers' reboot costumes
Square Enix recently unveiled the upcoming DLC for "Final Fantasy 15," but at least one part of it will be changed, presumably due to legal concerns about the Magitek Exosuit.
As announced earlier this week, the game's upcoming Booster Pack will be launched on Feb. 21. Included in the DLC is the Magitek Exosuit, a set of outfits for a player's party that gives an "advantage" and "exhilarating experience" during matches. Although the specifics on what the suits do weren't revealed, many fans have noticed its strong resemblance to the costumes in the "Power Rangers" reboot movie.
The company reportedly noticed the similarity, so Square Enix has taken action and is now releasing the DLC at a later date. It turns out that the company behind "Power Rangers" reached out to Square Enix to point out how the two costumes look alike. The Exosuits are currently being redesigned, and they are expected to look more different than how they originally appeared like to avoid legal issues.
"Final Fantasy 15" is still far from perfect, but developers are now using it as a benchmark to further push graphical boundaries. Dualshockers sent one of its reporters to the Square Enix studio in Tokyo to get a closer look at how the developers work to improve the video game's quality. According to the correspondent, the company's latest technical experiment is nothing short of impressive and stunning.
"Vegetation, draw distance, density, detail... Everything on the screen appeared extremely vivid and lifelike, and considering that I'm used to what games look like nowadays, for a moment it was difficult to believe that all that visual glitz was actually running in-engine," the source said. "It certainly looked like Final Fantasy XV, but pushed to limits of graphical fidelity that I didn't even imagine while playing the game. And yet, there it was, running right in front of my eyes," the source added.