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With Kingsglaive, Final Fantasy XV Story Cuts Make More Sense

Final Fantasy Union: "I don't know about everyone else, but we're still trying to recover our breath from Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV! It was a rather stunning show that still managed to keep plenty of surprise announcements, even if some of them were leaked beforehand.

One of the strongest announcements was that of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, a full-length feature film starring Lena Headey, Sean Bean and Aaron Paul. It will focus on King Regis and his Glaives as they look to take a stand against key antagonists within the Niflheim Empire.

The trailer itself (seen below), clocks in at just under 2 minutes, but those with a keen eye might have noticed some similarities with what we have seen before in trailers for both Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy XV."

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fozzness2947d ago

Really interesting to compare how the game looks now to how it looked when it was first announced as Versus XIII! I was wondering how they were going to fit in Regis' story and I'm glad this is it! :D

Satou2946d ago

Eh, I really don't trust S-E with movies, FF:TSE, FFVII:AC both turned my interests down, and KG:FFXV just seems like more b-list level sci-fi. Overly materialistic, and in my view has a pretentious edge thus far.

Now Brotherhood FFXV was actually spirited and pretty good, Didn't need the flashy car, tech, or graphic even to convey it's message. I'll give this a whirl, but it seems like one of those things overly hyped. When they showed the techie-watch for instance, and car, I was immediately reminded of FFVII-AC with it's flashy phone at the time. Did it really even add to the story? Will the hype even seem relevant to me? I mean, I'll never afford the KG:FFXV Audi, and it just doesn't seem all that important to me.

Hopefully trailer 2 shows some substance over style.

DethWish2946d ago

I'm just hoping they're not removing too much of the story-content from the game... Sure the gameplay seems awesome but I want it to have an awesome story too.

glassgannon9092946d ago

there's a 50hr long story after it got cut, and it aimed to be 40, longer than any ff not called xii.
so rest assured if the story was hollow or barebone ,those parts wouldve been cut to fit that 40hr goal

xGrunty2946d ago

Length doesn't determine a good story. There are plenty of games out there that are extremely long with very mediocre stories...

TheOneWhoIsTornApart2946d ago

There isn't content cut from the game. There was content cut from when this was supposed to be a multi part FFXV game series. They used the stuff they couldn't fit in for one game and made a film out of it. I am absolutely fine with this. This movie looks gorgeous.

glassgannon9092946d ago

@xGrunty
except im answering his first question, which is regarding story content.i havent said anything about it being good

phoenixwing2946d ago

if the movie is good enough it'll propel the games sales to the 10million they're hoping for

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Here Are The Games Leaving PS Plus Extra & Premium In May 2024

Here are the games that will be leaving the Extra and Premium tiers of the PS Plus subscription service in the month of May, 2024.

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gold_drake9d ago

crazy, glad i own the ones i wanted to revisit and play

ChasterMies9d ago

Absolver Downfall
Abzu
Adrift
Ashen
Elex
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X | X-2
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
How To Survive 2
I Am Dead
Jotun
Last Stop
Minit
Moster Jam Steel Titans 2
My Friend Pedro
Observation
Sundered Eldritch Edition
The Artful Escape
The Messenger
This Is The Police
This Is The Police 2
World of Final Fantasy

Asterphoenix9d ago

Glad that I absolutely can't stand subscription services.

Petebloodyonion9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

I don't recall Sony forcing you to subscribe like nobody forced you to go to Blockbuster to rent games instead of buying them.

SonyStyled9d ago

Pay-per-view was almost cheaper than the cost of gas and rental fee from Blockbuster. Blockbuster doesn’t exist today. Are you being sarcastic?

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Final Fantasy XV Review – A Royal Road Trip

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.

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Final Fantasy 15 director reveals why he left Square Enix, and announces he's working on 2 new JRPGs

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.

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Knightofelemia141d ago

FF15 is like FF13 its subjective people either like it or hate it.

raWfodog141d ago

I liked it. I haven’t played the royale edition yet but I’ll get around to it one day.

gold_drake141d ago

no no, 15 wasnt trash.

15 had a tremendous difficult development.

FinalFantasyFanatic139d ago

I really believe 13 was better put together and more complete than 15 ever was.

EternalTitan140d ago

Found the pathetic troll.
How is your jobless life going?
Dot worry, you will never get a job or a girlfriend haha!

Hofstaderman141d ago

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.

TheColbertinator141d ago

I didn't care much for XV and I always wanted the original vision of Versus XIII but I think the dev team did what they could to salvage the project

Inverno140d ago

And yet people still blame him for the game turning out the way it did, rather than SE for the horrible mismanagement of 13 and Namura for being overly ambitious.

Dwarrior141d ago

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.

gold_drake141d ago

this is also why Sakaguchi (spelling) left.