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You Can Now Play as Ariana Grande in a Final Fantasy Game

The "Side to Side" singer comes to Brave Exvius in the form of a "Dangerous Ariana" character.

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After confirming her involvement in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius last year, Square Enix and Gumi today announced that an Ariana Grande character is now available in the free-to-play mobile game.

The look of the character, called "Dangerous Ariana," is inspired by the pop singer's trademark bunny ears outfit. To get the character, you need to complete the "Dangerous Woman Tour" stage, though you can do this on easy difficulty, so it shouldn't be a problem.

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There are also "various pieces of equipment" for the Ariana Grande character that you can use in battle, though these were not specified.

A Final Fantasy-inspired remix of Grande's song "Touch It" also arrived today--listen to it below.

Dangerous Woman, which came out in May 2016, is Grande's newest album. A tour supporting the album begins in February.

Grande played the character Cat Valentine in Nickelodeon's Victorious before breaking out as a massively popular pop singer.

You can download Final Fantasy Brave Exvius through the links below:

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I rly dont get all the fuss about the ariana character. I mean its not like they are cutting out half the story to put it in a movie and anime lol. U can just ignore that character if you dont like her.

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That's one way to kill a franchise.

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Touch it? (facepalm)

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For a limited time you can get a licked donut with your preorder

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Why?

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@meta_sentinel why not ?:

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Good for her fans, whoever she is.

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While playing as Ariana Grande, can I lick donuts?

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QUEEN OF RELEASING THE BEST POP ALBUM OF 2016 AND THEN BEING IN A VIDEO GAME 2017

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A middling mage unit with a paltry grind-it-out 'event' for materials, which was very poorly coordinated with other scheduled dungeons that are significantly more lucrative to the player.

Alim & Gumi dropped the ball on this one.

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More proof that SQEnix has completely lost their minds.

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So basically another mediocre cute female singer who basement dwellers masturbate to is becoming an icon somehow?

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@Kezzy123: "basement dwellers masturbate to".........."is becoming an icon somehow?"

I mean you answered your own question :)

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this is almost as bad as that mgs pachinko machine

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Massively popular? On what planet. I still never heard of this silly woman before despite Gamespot publishing numerous articles dedicated to her and her involvement in Final Fantasy. Surely one article would be enough? Someone must be crushing hard for this D-Lister at Gamespot.

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@sirposh On what planet ? Well isnt obvious ? A planet you lived on where you live under a rock with a piles of crap.... How about you come out of that planet "hole" and discover other "planets" ? Go figure sunshine :):

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@roman4545: I have no desire to discover vapid wanna be famous crapsters like "Ariana Grande". I will leave it to you emotionally and mentally challenged lot to lap up her generic crap.

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@sirposh: So billions views on youtube isn't popular now.... Okay.

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@no_one: Clearly not popular enough If I have never heard of her

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@no_one: You tilted, bro?

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Ew.

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Even if they can't make good games anymore, the Japanese still find ways to entertain me :)

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Maybe we will soon see Todd Howard perform with One Direction at MTV Awards.

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I read the article title as "you can now play *with* Ariana Grande"....

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@SexyMiralda: Grande Taco

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Oh happy day.

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((( ̄へ ̄井)

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Because the world needed more garbage...

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Don't know this chick, but the game is really good. It's a cross between brave frontier and the old turn based final fantasies.

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Rather her be in DOA Xtreme

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@chiefwiggum16: She doesn't have the assets for being in a DOA game.

It would be a bunch of busty, athletic women, and then this runty teenager chick hopping around.

Pass.

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@chiefwiggum16: is there anything to see?

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This chick is BAD! So fine. Especially back in her Kat days on Victorious. Shiiiit. Come here kitty kitty. Lmao! #amirite

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@jayskoon93: wtf

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RIP final fantasy

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Square Enix should of went with the more talented Lindsay Lohan

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@Moonco: Now I'm getting ideas. Everyone wants the Everyone vs Everyone fighting game, but it would be so so so much easier to do a rpg instead. Trump could be a mayor, Obama a merchant, Britney a bard, Leonardo a ninja turtle, Homer a town crazy...

100-300 hours of reference after reference. Gameplaywise it could be like FF1, everyone just wants to see who will we meet next

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@Moonco: it wouldn't be politically correct with Japan. She has become muslim.

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@xolivierx: Still....would she be a fighter or a magic user that gets her strength/power from a copious amount of cocaine?

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Well, the song is pretty good. I like it more the amazing FF production and less because of the lyrics. I mean, if she is a long time Final Fantasy fan and was able to score this deal given her celebrity, more power to her. If this is just purely a marketing thing I really question why? I personally don't know many FF fans you are into American pop music though I do know FF has a tendency to introduce American fans to J Pop. Maybe the marketing team knows something I don't and this will be huge success. I doubt it.

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who cares?

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@almatha Apparently you cared to post here ?:

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there used to be Wedge and Biggs.....now in 2017 you get Ariana Grande....it pretty much tells you what went wrong with Final Fantasy.

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Soooo i guess Nicki Minaj is next...

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@zerofrust: SHHH! Don't give them any ideas.

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@zerofrust: yeah, and her summon is a big fat anaconda

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@xolivierx: ... A wing-a-ding?

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