Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

No.

The Chinese site also tried to imply it was because of them that the movie was being made, aka typical Chinese pride to fluff up media like they commonly do.

Well... Yeah. Luna is just Stella renamed. Unless it's for symbolic purposes, there was really no need to change her name and announce that they changed her story when we didn't know much about her to begin with at the time.

I think there's a reason behind that name change, the main reason was that tabata wanted to make the character as the oracle. Stella's role was summoning multiple weapons like Noctis, while Luna is the Oracle, and she wields the trident. I think Luna's storyline will be as same as stella's, but in a different role (Job switch). If Luna's intentions is as same as Stella's, then i'm fine with it.

Luna is Stella with no plot holes. That's the gist of it.

Still want to know why they felt the need to change her name though. It has to be for a symbolic reason.

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I can't remember what it said exactly to be honest I probably remembered wrong but the source wasn't really reliable I believe.

Just pre ordered this game off very said delivery date 30/12/2016

So basically could be earlier could be later

Yep! At this point most people are guessing summer or fall 2016 if that helps you. The upcoming event should be very illuminating, you'll get the release date there at the latest.

A message from Tabata on Square Enix Blog

Square posted also a "new" screenshot.
Is that really in real-time??

Not surprising to be in real time, but yes it is.

To be honest, I think that screenshot actually looks unflattering.
Can't wait for March to come :>

Noctis and Co are celebrating their departure from Duscae ;P

FFXV wont be 100% open world (l think we already expected this)
Tabata compares XV main Scenario with The Last of Us

It will just be like classic FF games where you are gated by story progress and at the end of the game you can explore the whole world more freely based on how Tabata described this. I fully expected this since Versus was announced to be honest, that's just the FF way of doing things. Considering you will have many options of transportation it seems like you will be able to back track to other areas easily in a way that doesn't feel strictly linear. If they ever introduce the airships into the game it will be at end game where you can freely travel the whole map unrestricted from story elements that would normally gate your progression into more difficult areas.

As for TLoU comparison, I honestly rate personally that game a 10/10 in my book, it's one of my favorite games of all time. It's nice to see them make mention of it, as the story telling in TLoU I highly enjoyed, so that to me is a very high praise towards XV's main scenario, I'm looking forward to it.

Sounds like FFXII. Big areas interconnected. As long as traversing through them isn't a pain in the ass like XII, it should be fine.

Yeah, I think it won't be, they'll be much more expansive, plus having the car will help a lot. The world map of FFXII is one of my favorite parts about XII, so this idea carrying over to FFXV is a step in the right direction in my opinion. I was hoping that XIII would do that from XII -> XIII but... yeah... we know how that turned out.

This sound like any FF (or jrpg) only difference being how many KM there are (not complaining).