Battle Screen's Gregory Edwards discusses the recent news about Final Fantasy XV, and what it potentially means for the franchise as a whole.
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World of Final Fantasy
Gary Green said: With my fondness for (most) Final Fantasy games and my side goal of finishing off games in my collection with loose ends, a return to Final Fantasy XV seemed inevitable. It also serves as my third Final Fantasy platinum trophy after VII and VIII, a reasonable substitute since Final Fantasy IX is nigh on impossible to master.
Final Fantasy 15's director has revealed why he left Square Enix back in 2018.
Hajime Tabata famously resigned from Square Enix two years after Final Fantasy 15 shipped in 2016. In a special livestream at the time, Tabata announced his decision to resign from the company, cancelling three of four new story-focused DLC episodes for Final Fantasy 15 in the process.
Man inherited a train wreck and was expected to release this game in under two years after it spent a better part of a decade in development hell. At one point there was even plans to make FFXIII Versus a musical. He did what he could.
Whatever the behind-the-scenes went on over the many years, at the end of the day it was a radical change in direction that I could not go along with. Also why I never bought 16.
100% Agree
NO! If anything Final Fantasy needs to go back to its roots. Final Fantasy 1 thru 9 and to just a slightly lesser extent 10 has always been able to be fresh while maintaining its identity. Now the series has the same problem as resident evil. Its forgotten what's made it so great in the first place. There's nothing wrong with square enix making a game like Final Fantasy 15 just don't call it Final Fantasy because a bunch of bro dogs cruising around in a convertible will never be a true Final Fantasy game to me.
It generated a lot of interest because people didn't know what was going on. While I had hopes in Nomura and his KH style game, I feel like Tabata is bad for this game. Noctis as the only playable character, how is that positive in any way??? FFXII had gambits, but you could at least play with all the characters. And this sounds worse than XIII. While I had the option to ignore the Auto button there, it seems like this time the Auto-attack button will be the only option.
I hope for more clear news, because after all the updates they gave us in the past 2 days, my anticipation for this game really dropped.
If it was up to FF purists every release would have a top down game world with static backgrounds, random battles and text based dialogue. Any use of modern technology to realize all the combat moves we've seen in boxed animations, creating dynamic open world, explorable areas, etc is a regression
It must suck hating change that much :/