the story quality is consistent with Episode Prompto, playing out pretty nicely seeing Ignis' perspective of the battle at Altissia and actually seeing Ravus' character.
Gameplay is a bit similar to Noctis, even giving him a hookshot that acts a bit like Noct's warping ability which can even be used in combat against the soldiers holding flags and the mechs which instantly kills them. Combat for Ignis is definitely the most "thought out" of the other two Boy Band DLC episodes. Giving him three different elements tied to his daggers that can be switched immediately and each has a different moveset definitely makes the combat more interesting, even changing his Clarity move depending on what element you have out. Overclock is a nice buff tech and High Jump being a really good AOE attack. Ice daggers are pretty broken in this DLC though due to the many soldiers present with not many elemental weaknesses. Bosses were also pretty ok.
The alternate ending present in the DLC was pretty cool to see. A hint in what was planned for the rest of the DLC lineup that unfortunately got cancelled.
I also finished the other challenge present in the DLC called "Friendly Match" where you fight against Noctis as Ignis and was pretty hard when I first tempted it. But now I find it pretty easy to defeat Noctis. Fight itself is a really fun challenge figuring out how to abuse High Jump against Armiger and just figuring out the fight in general.
Gameplay is a bit similar to Noctis, even giving him a hookshot that acts a bit like Noct's warping ability which can even be used in combat against the soldiers holding flags and the mechs which instantly kills them. Combat for Ignis is definitely the most "thought out" of the other two Boy Band DLC episodes. Giving him three different elements tied to his daggers that can be switched immediately and each has a different moveset definitely makes the combat more interesting, even changing his Clarity move depending on what element you have out. Overclock is a nice buff tech and High Jump being a really good AOE attack. Ice daggers are pretty broken in this DLC though due to the many soldiers present with not many elemental weaknesses. Bosses were also pretty ok.
The alternate ending present in the DLC was pretty cool to see. A hint in what was planned for the rest of the DLC lineup that unfortunately got cancelled.
I also finished the other challenge present in the DLC called "Friendly Match" where you fight against Noctis as Ignis and was pretty hard when I first tempted it. But now I find it pretty easy to defeat Noctis. Fight itself is a really fun challenge figuring out how to abuse High Jump against Armiger and just figuring out the fight in general.