Interview and Magazine scans.
The Level magazine discussed with two persons in charge for the development for the project Fabula Nova Crystallis (the new account of the Latin crystal) at Square Enix: Motomu Toriyama (realizer) and Tetsuya Nomura (realizer and character designer). Revealed information is not scoops, but has the merit to specify our thought on what awaits us.
Ever play a game a game only to discover at some point it transforms into a horror game? No? Well Netto's Game Room shares six games that do just that!
Not necessarily a ‘horror’ moment, but I remember feeling really tense and anxious when the Flood were first introduced in the original Halo. I never felt more on edge or nervous in that whole game as that moment. I think it was the whole buildup that something terrible was coming but you didn’t know exactly what.
Another non-horror game that had me feeling it was Subnautica. The deep dark depths, and knowing that sea monsters were lurking nearby, had me jumping at every sound.
I remember being scared of the Asylum level in the most recent Thief game from 2014.
Kazuyuki Shindo, who worked on games including Legend of Mana, Final Fantasy XIII, and SaGa: Emerald Beyond, has left Square Enix.
A new datamine of game files from Final Fantasy XV has revealed a cut scene from Chapter 14 that didn't make it into the final release.
always liked 15, but the development was shch a shitshow. it could have been so much more.
but Tabata did a good job with what he had regardless
Ff15 was a missed opportunity from square as they transitioned from turn based to real time.
One of the issues is that it was 30 fps. The combat mechanics required precision dodges to activate Noctis teleport ability and it was difficult to do at 30 fps. I am glad they rectified that in FF16. The story and flow also felt like it went through a chopshop similar to how some live service games end up when they are trying to meet a deadline. Those extra episodes they sold as dlc should have been in the maingame.
FF15 is one of the weaker entries in the series.
Dodges don't activate the teleport ability. Teleport was R1 + O. Dodge was just the O button. Explain the Black Hood (the item that automatically Dodges for you)
Ah yes; FF XV.
The beginning of me coming to the realization the series was no longer for me.
16 was a lot better, I think 15 was just a big mess with how development went and all. The music though, one of the best in the series, probably the only reason I finished the game.
At least FF15 had RPG elements . 16 was just an action game from beginning to end.
Then call it something else then FF. I got scammed with FF16. Nothing of what i expected it to be.
Even the action is bad in it, especially after the demo section where absolutely nothing happens until the very end.
FF15 isnt a great game but it has some variety at least.
That initial trailer with the Leviathan fight was the game I wish we got. The actual retail release was watchdogged to all Hell and while there’s enjoyment to be had in the game, it’s such an incomplete product and so many elements feel so slapped together without any cohesion.
Like, don’t get me wrong, I loved fishing, cooking, and the first third of the game, but I much rather they made a story that didn’t feel barely there and the the last third of the game didn’t feel so rushed and unfinished.
Every time a party member left for a period of time screamed future paid dlc. It was horrible.
Imagine Dagger and Steiner making the party go to sleep in Lindblum in FF9 disc 1 and then taking off to Alexandria by foot themselves, but then never playing their side of the adventure in disc 2 when they smuggle her through the South Gate in pickles, take the cable car and fight the Waltz, head to Treno and start the quest to find Supersoft. They just eventually reunite with the main party in the future without explanation of what went on in their adventure.
Or Sephiroth's backstory in the famous Kalm flashback being added as a dlc pack. Same goes for Vincent, Cid, or Yuffie for that matter.
Oh and anything to do with Jenova, the Ancients, Aerith, her mom and Gast, shoved into a 2 hour CG movie or 5 hour anime ministries that's considered required viewing for anything in the main game to make sense or have characters actually be interesting.
I enjoyed FF15 at the time, and finished it, but it's bright spots are marred by a bad development cycle and a worse marketing scheme.
What’s sad is when I watched a vid on the entire story (that wasn’t properly told in the actual game)!it was really solid and could’ve been one of the most epic stories in any FF. I think a lot of the compilation and cross-media stuff really f*cked it all up.
FFXV was underrated in my opinion
I have played all of the final fantasy games, and I loved this game
turn based to me takes too long, I like active battle
the extra dlc and chapters should have been included in the original release, but it is nice that they fixed the game later
I am unable to get the link for the translated version of the interview. Google only gives me the link for the news headline page in English.
I got it to work just click on the ALTERNATIVE SOURCE LINK.
The Level magazine discussed with two persons in charge for the development for the project Fabula Nova Crystallis ( the new account of the Latin crystal) at Square Enix : Motomu Toriyama (realizer) and Tetsuya Nomura (realizer and character designer). Revealed information is not scoops, but has the merit to specify our thought on what awaits us.
For recall, Fabula Nova Crystallis is the name of the new project of Public garden-Enix, which will include several plays: Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII on PS3, Final Fantasy Agito XIII on portable telephone and Final Fantasy Haeresis XIII whose platform is still unknown.
. The general concept of Confabulated Novas Crystallis
Motomu Toriyama: The development of the three plays (FFXIII, FF Versus XIII and Agito XIII) started at the same time, moment when sought we to them a common guiding principle. Consequently, each team worked independently one of the other. Each play thus evolves/moves with its way and the worlds which we create, just as the characters, are completely different according to plays'. To be clear, there is truly no bond between these titles.
Tetsuya Nomura: If it is not perhaps the initial topic of the crystal... and still.
. Final Fantasy XIII
Level: How were you implied in a so great project?
Toriyama: We completely had to re-examine our way of working. There are of course the crystals which define Final Fantasy and projects XIII, but each play has its own orientation (characters, history, world). Although Nomura created Lightning (heroin of FFXIII), it remains our character.
Level: Who is it exactly?
Toriyama: I cannot say much of it to you, if it is not that it is kind to like that it is called Lightning, that it is a woman, and that it very far from resembling Yuna (Final Fantasy X).
Level: 10 years ago, Final Fantasy VII became a true symbol for PlayStation. In will it be the same with Final Fantasy XIII for the PS3?
Toriyama: Final Fantasy VII was an important chapter in the history of PlayStation. The play completely changed the way of seeing RPG and founded new tendencies. Final Fantasy VII mixed the topics with the fantasy with futurism, and we are making the same thing with Final Fantasy XIII. Except that for this opus, we mélangons a new type of fantasy with futuristic elements never yet seen before. The PS3 is really interesting: once that you maitrisez it, the result becomes incredible and what we carry out could not be done without the PS3.
Level: It thus acts well of a meeting Fantasy and Science fiction?
Toriyama: The preceding time, we were largely influenced byAsia for Final Fantasy X. We want this time to show something of completely different. The futuristic topic will be thorough with its paroxysm, and FFXIII will be a true definition. How you will see will never have been made before!
Level: You work at Square Enix for a long time now, but it is the first time that a so large project Final Fantasy is entrusted to you? Do you manage to manage the pressure?
Toriyama: The difference between the side projects (projects with share) and the projects Final Fantasy of the series, those with the figures, is not so important. I must conclude this project but I have the same optics of work as on Final Fantasy XII Wings Ghost for example (RPG on Nintendo DS). The pressure most difficult to manage is without any doubt that of outside. Many people see Final Fantasy XIII as the play which will decide success of the PS3. For my part, I cannot allow myself to think of that, we had much time to prepare our play and from now on we work with full mode.
Level: Concerning will the graphic performances, in what FFXIII be a play next-gen?
Toriyama: Graphics do not do all, but one cannot deny their importance for the experiment of play as a whole. The technical evolution enables us to create characters so realistic that the player will have the impression that they are true alive people. That adds an undeniable emotional side to the play, until in the combat where you will consider your characters and will feel their feelings like never before. To make simple, when you play Final Fantasy XIII, you do not control any more one simple character modelled in 3d but almost a real being.
. Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Nomura: I for a long time wanted to carry out Final Fantasy completely different from what the producer wanted. It is not a question to compare the ideas of one or other, it are not good or bad, but different. I always wanted to explore the human emotions for a play. It is a risked bet, because you limit the target of the play whereas Final Fantasy address generally to a large audience. Final Fantasy Versus XIII sounds the hour to take such a risk. The scenario not being finished yet, I do not know a this fact until where I will go. The characters will deliver all their humanity letting truly the player feel the character in all the body.
Level: You said to want to carry out Final darkest Fantasy ever created...
Nomura: When I produced Kingdom Hearts, the universe was so clear that I failed to become blind. It is time for me to pass to another thing. Perhaps that has it something to see with my taste for the extreme things. Versus XIII will put in scene a man in the real world. In this direction, the play will contain less fantasy that usually. We created rather dark environments and revealed them in our bands advertisements, but the whole of the play will not be kind, it is only the beginning.
Level: You about real world, do you insinuate speak our world in an immediate future?
Nomura: I do not want that the characters of the play have the air manufactured, this is why their design passes above all by the fact of insufflating more humanity to them. They must be perceived like human beings, like somebody that you and me would have met in the street. The world of Versus XIII unquestionably points out it our. It is not a question to be inspired by existing places or people but rather to give a certain credibility to the places and characters of the play, as if you see them in your daily newspaper. I wanted to make of this concept an experiment of Final Fantasy : such is in any case the challenge that I was given!
Level: Here thus the way in which you will exploit the power of the PS3?
The PS3 is a so powerful machine that the technical possibilities have a great influence on the design of the play and with the final one, on the total experiment of play. I cannot deliver all the details of my ideas to you but the majority of those could not beings not realized with the consoles of the preceding generation.
With believing these last declarations of them, it seems not very probable to see these two titles becoming multimedia...
It's the exact same interview posted a week ago or so, but in French.
the thing that excites me the most is where he says you'll essentially be controlling a real person, not a 3d model.. mmm... next level of immersion.
positive remarks about the PS3 architecture. I can't wait to see what they've been accomplishing over the past year.