Final Fantasy XI celebrates Halloween

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 October, 2004

Well, it's a Harvest Festival actually, but...

Master of terror Square Enix has announced that it's Harvest Festival time in Vana'diel - the realm in which its recently released Final Fantasy XI MMORPG is set - and that anybody playing the game ought to celebrate by running around singing hymns about apples, gathering straw and buying home made angel cakes from five year-olds.

Actually, we think Squenix may have confused matters slightly; the Harvest Festival the company is actually running sounds a lot more like Halloween. The idea is to dress up as monsters and employ other deceptions and then run around scaring the bejesus (and the items and other treats) out of your fellow gamers.

Townsfolk in the San d'Oria, Windurst and Bastok areas of Vana'diel are being encouraged to take part. If you're around there, watch out for players masquerading as ghosts, and feel free to swap various treats with them and the other locals. As for getting in on the act yourself, apparently when you offer certain NPCs a treat you'll be transformed into a monster or beastman. At least visually.

The FFXI "Harvest Festival" is running now and should conclude on Monday morning at 7am GMT, so if you fancy getting in on the act, make your way over to one of the regions we've mentioned and start pulling a scary face. We're off to a singles night to do much the same thing...

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (3) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Zero Beat #1 7 years ago

    I wish more multi and single player online console games had downloadable themes like Sonic Adventure. Developers seem short of ideas for Xbox Live DLC but there's an old idea staring them in the face. Imagine starting up Halo 2 on Christmas eve and seeing Master Chief wearing a father Christmas suit, grunts dressed up as elves and elites with fairy lights draped over their shoulders.

    *dreams*

  • dan13l #2 7 years ago

    Meh! City of Heroes is planning a Zombie Invasion by the looks of it. That's far more exciting.

  • moridin #3 7 years ago

    hurrah for sqeenix, they regularly spruce up the game with stuff like this... easter eggs, summerfest, and now the return of the halloween event from last year... I'm off to grab me a pumpkin-head and a treat staff :D

  • #4 7 years ago

    zombie invasion on city of heroes? heh. neat.