It walked us through how Ardyn went from being a healer, to being the crazy motherfucker we know in FFXV (with supplemental information from the Episode Ardyn prequel anime). Episode Ardyn, while failing to answer who Izunia was, did wonders to Ardyn as a character as it created so much more depth into him. The actual story? Well, I hate to say I thoroughly enjoyed that as well. Like, I know all these powers make it ridiculously easy, but also it makes it incredibly fun. Furthermore, he has all of Noctis ‘ abilities from warping to summoning, to armiger, AS WELL AS a strange like shadow-slide that effectively lets you cover distance extremely fast AND also a finishing move that basically demonifies the enemy.
Why? Because when Ardyn runs out of health he enters into extreme overpowered mode that you just need to live through long enough for his health to reset. There really is no way to die, and I didn’t even get close to it throughout my entire playthrough. But I guess that makes sense considering Ardyn is literally immortal. And when I say that I mean the game play which was incredibly OP. And then I played it, and y’know? I never though I’d enjoy playing Ardyn as much as I did. Being the nerd (and FFXV addict) I am, I had my brother purchase it with my credit card and download it so it was ready to play upon getting home from work. This past Tuesday the final DLC for Final Fantasy XV, Episode Ardyn, was released.
