In late April,Final Fantasy 14introduced a new high-difficulty raid called the Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate). Just recently, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of theFinal Fantasyseries, announced he would be challenging the newestFinal Fantasy 14Ultimate raid alongside his raid group.
During his time at Square Enix, Sakaguchi was heavily involved in everyFinal Fantasygame it released all the way throughFinal Fantasy 10-2. He later went on to foundMistwalker, the studio responsible for thediorama adventure RPGFantasian.
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Final Fantasy 14’snew Ultimate raidis a massive, seven-phase fight that reprises many of the battles acrossHeavenswardand cranks them up to maximum difficulty. Now that some players have begun to clear the difficult battle, Sakaguchi is stepping up to try the battle himself.
Sakaguchi has yet to say how the fight has gone for him and his team, but it will likely take some time before he completes it. Dragonsong’s Reprise is the most difficult Ultimate raid inFinal Fantasy 14so far, and it took teams of hardcore raiders over a week to clear it for the first time. However, Sakaguchi has alreadydefeated the Pandaemonium (Savage) raids, so with enough time and practice, he should be able to conquer the challenge.
Sakaguchi beganFinal Fantasy 14at the end of Septemberlast year. In just over a month, he had blazed a trail through the Main Scenario up throughShadowbringers, allowing him to play throughEndwalkerwith the rest of the community. From there, he began branching out and experiencing other content inFinal Fantasy 14, from raids and dungeons to side quests. He even began leveling his crafters and created an in-game faux-fashion brand comically called “sakaGUCCI.”
Sakaguchi’s fans and followers on Twitter immediately showered him with praise and wishes of good luck in Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate). Some fans recounted their own failed attempts at the raid and asserted they knew Sakaguchi could succeed where they had failed. These fans eagerly await word of Sakaguchi’s success, be it in a couple of weeks or months.
Final Fantasy 14has recently seen a fair bit of controversy surrounding endgame content like Dragonsong’s Reprise.FF14has a strict zero-tolerance policy on third-party toolsand add-ons, and several teams who cleared the recent Ultimate had done so while streaming with mods, leading to suspensions and bans. However, this has also promptedFinal Fantasy 14to commit to improving its own UI in the future with the hope it might eventually make mods unnecessary.
Final Fantasy 14is available now for PC, PS4, and PS5.
