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Noctis's mission evolves from simply reclaiming Lucis, to saving the world from the darkness of the Starscourge, as without Lunafreya's powers as the Oracle the world is being plunged into an endless night. Noctis hopes to use the light of the Crystal to combat it.

On his way to Tenebrae, the home of the Oracles' bloodline, Noctis is tricked by Ardyn into pushing Prompto off the train. Noctis learns Lunafreya's contact with the Astrals was slowly killing her, and he receives Shiva 's blessing from Gentiana, who reveals herself to be the Glacian in human form. Noctis is haunted by Ardyn's disembodied voice as he reunites with his allies and rescues Prompto. The foursome comes face-to-face with Emperor Aldercapt , who has been turned into a daemon.

Noctis reluctantly leaves his allies behind to approach the Crystal, believing it has the power to destroy daemons. He is absorbed inside it, and transported to the Astral Realm where he learns from Bahamut he is the prophesied True King. He could end the Starscourge by eliminating Ardyn, a Lucian healer and Noctis' ancient ancestor from 2, years ago who became corrupted and made immortal by daemonic influence.

Noctis returns to the mortal realm a decade later, and joins with Ignis, Gladiolus, and Prompto to confront Ardyn in the ruins of Insomnia.

Noctis defeats Ardyn in a climatic duel, ascends the throne, and gives his life to end the eternal night that has consumed Eos by channeling the power of the past kings and the Crystal's light.

Returning to the Astral Realm, Noctis teams up with Lunafreya and his ancestors to destroy Ardyn's spirit. The True King and the Ring of the Lucii fade away as peace is restored to the world. The sun rises, daemons disappear, and the spirits of Noctis and Lunafreya fall asleep on the Lucian throne.

The story of Final Fantasy XV focuses on war. We initially decided on three keywords: 'Journey', 'Companions' and 'Car. We spent time experimenting with how to convey a sense of travel, making the world as seamless as possible and offering the player a panned-out vantage point.

The most transformative element of the journey is the presence of your "Companions. That's why we paid a lot of attention to details such as small habits and behaviors, all the way down to the sense of distance maintained by each character in their relationships with Noctis.

It's a lot of fun to hang out with Noctis and the gang. The 'Car' has its roots in our core theme, 'parent and child. The car connects the son and his father. It's both pivotal to the story experience, and a means of travel. It can also be customized as a game mechanic. This theme has carried over to Final Fantasy XV in the form of a seamless open world. If Final Fantasy XIII is a deconstruction of the crystal mythology , Final Fantasy XV is a realistic affirmation of it in many ways, and an ancient prophecy story coming to fruition in modern times.

Final Fantasy XV has many callbacks to the early series with the theme of an antagonist empire capturing the crystals of the world, the Crystal choosing a person to save the world, and the theme of light and darkness. Whereas prior installments, such as Final Fantasy X , Fabula Nova Crystallis , and the Ivalice Alliance , explore the concepts of defying established religions, the choice of one's destiny and fate, and emphasize the power of mankind, Final Fantasy XV explores more classic elements of fantasy regarding the spiritual and theological.

These include the communion of the gods and mankind, and their affairs within their world, the maturation of a royal youth into their birthright as ruler, the rise of a hero who becomes a messianic figure , and the concept of inescapable fate. Luna, whose name means "moon" in Latin, is an Oracle who keeps the darkness of the Starscourge at bay with her powers, stopping the world from being swallowed in an eternal night, similar to how the moon offers a point of illumination in an otherwise dark night.

Noctis's name on the other hand is the genitive singular form of the Latin word nox meaning "night". The darkness and light theme appears to extend to the concepts of life and death.

The past kings lend their powers to their descendants, and the royal tombs are places opened for the current king to receive this blessing from the dead. In juxtaposition, Niflheim also gains power from death in the form of daemons, but this is a dark power that at least in Ardyn Izunia's case prevents one's ascend to the afterlife.

The Ring of the Lucii, a Lucian royal heirloom, gains power through death as the Crystal's power is transferred into it when the ring-bearing king dies. The True King can restore light to the world by sacrificing his own life.

The powers of light and dark, and life and death, are represented as the Crystal and the daemons and the plague that plunges the world into perpetual darkness: Starscourge. The Crystal is said to hold the soul of the world of Eos, the world's name itself referring to the theme of light and dark: in Greek mythology, Eos is a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn. The Oracle uses their powers to extend the life of the world and its people by keeping the Starscourge at bay, while the King of Lucis must use their own life force to wield the Ring of the Lucii.

The high-ranking Niflheim officials dress in white, whereas Lucians dress in black. Ardyn Izunia's attire uses both colors, and in many ways exists as juxtaposition to Noctis. When Ardyn uses powers similar to Noctis's, he glows red as opposed to Noctis's blue. He represents the forces of darkness where as Noctis is the King of Light.

Ardyn is unable to truly die and enter the afterlife, whereas Noctis must sacrifice himself to free the world of Ardyn's influence. Shimomura's pieces encompass themes of "friendship" and "filial bonds. Since she was initially hired to work on a spin-off title, Shimomura did not feel pressured to follow in the footsteps of other Final Fantasy composers.

She had a clear concept for her music, thus she was not affected by the transition into Final Fantasy XV. The transition did mean new music had to be composed, however. The piece's title refers to Hypnos , the Roman god of sleep, in accordance with the logo.

It is the second piece from the game's soundtrack to have been released to the public, and it is a bonus track on Yoko Shimomura's compilation album, memoria: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura , which was released in A new piece from the soundtrack served as background music for the game's trailer from Tokyo Gameshow The game also includes tracks that were arranged from Nobuo Uematsu compositions. The Blu-ray version also includes a video recording of the live Final Fantasy XV piano performance in Osaka from It operated on a new engine, and Hajime Tabata became its director.

The game is meant to be a "fantasy based on reality," thus its look is derived primarily from present-day Earth. During the development Square Enix staff went on trips in small groups. They explored caves, visited a zoo, and climbed mountains for research purposes. Creating a realistic fantasy proved challenging for developers, but they were able to get further inspiration from the depiction of from the film Back to the Future II. Many of Square Enix's resources had to be allocated or outsourced; the company allowed the architecture surrounding its office in Kyoto to influence that which appears in Final Fantasy XV.

This served as the basis of its new story, which is a "road trip adventure" focusing on brotherhood. The game was later delayed until November In the trailer, there was a line that read 'A World of the Versus Epic,' which suggests that it will be part of an epic. While Final Fantasy XV will have one climax, as a story, we plan to continue it further. Obviously we haven't decided yet. We don't have any concrete plan for a future sequel of FFXV, it would be good if we could do that but we can't announce it or say anything into detail for the moment.

Square Enix has stated its purpose is to "expand the story and world of Final Fantasy XV to other media," as well as to eliminate the necessity for sequels.

Final Fantasy XV was originally slated for release on September 30, , but was delayed until November According to Hajime Tabata, September 30 was chosen as the initial release date of Final Fantasy XV when he became the game's director in December, Those with a PlayStation 4 could obtain a dynamic theme.

The digital version of the "Day One Edition" was available for purchase until January 9, It depicts the moon. There is no special version of PlayStation 4 Pro. As of version 1. By purchasing a Season Pass, players can access downloadable content. Anyone who purchases this obtains the Gourmand Set, as well as guaranteed access to the following:.

The Holiday Pack was released on December 22, It contains a new outfit for Noctis, " Mog Choco T-Shirt ," and carnival tickets that allow access to a special event held between January 24 and February 20, Final Fantasy XV has been updated with various patches since its release, adding new weapons, DLC and story scenes, as well as various quality of life improvements and bug fixes.

Owners of the original release can purchase a Final Fantasy XV Royal Pack to also access some of these features, although the previously released Season Pass content is only included in the Royal Edition , not the Royal Pack.

Save games from the base edition are compatible with the Royal Edition ; however, once a save game is upgraded, it can no longer be loaded in the base edition.

Thus, Square Enix approached Nvidia and asked them to help out on the PC version, and Nvidia adapted their tools and systems for them. Initially, Square Enix thought of allowing user-generated content and providing a level editor so players could create their own quests. As far as other mods go, the team would have looked at how the PC audience reacted to the Windows Edition with these and how many of them actually engage with it.

Depending on that, the team might have started thinking about what to contribute or what other tool sets to provide. The team had some concerns at how "extreme people might take the mods" and hoped people would take advantage of it in good taste.

In October , the team reached about 50 per cent completion on this mode, but it's been well-received among those in the development team. In providing this mode, the team needed to make large adjustments, like the player character's VFX, displayed animations and camera movement.

According to Tabata developing a PC version has been easy compared to the console release, which required reconstruction from the start for both the game and the engine. In a global PC market, games need to be played on a wide range of specs, but as of October , Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was at the high end of these settings.

The team was in the process of pushing things out on a lower spec then, because PC represents the smallest of the game platforms in Japan, the team doesn't expect to see a similar performance to the console version. The Google Stadia version includes the main game and all DLC content as well as Comrades matching only with among other Stadia users , as well as a minigame collection "Crazy Challenge", a new feature for the Stadia version that includes the following minigames [44] playable from the title screen : [45].

The Avatara System and at least most of the crossover content, such as Master Assassin's Robes for Noctis and the Kings Knight items, are not included in the Stadia version. It was soon discovered that the Stadia version of Final Fantasy XV suffered from a save game bug that prevented players from saving their game after playing around hours, [46] but a fix was deployed on 6th of December.

Technical tests to see if the same native engine used on other console versions would work on the Switch were unsatisfactory, and the team is looking at customizing the engine. Square Enix had talked to Epic Games owners of the Unreal environment about a possible partnership.

No details of these talks have come forward, but Pocket Edition HD was announced on September 6, and released to the Switch a week later. Final Fantasy XV received generally positive reviews, though its review scores were lower than usual for main series entries. The game was praised for the portrayal of the friendship between the main characters, expansive open world, with criticism directed to its storytelling and to the second half of the story that felt flawed.

A key point of praise was the relationship between the four main characters. Polygon described them as the "most well-drawn, fully-developed characters in Final Fantasy history", [57] while Game Informer credited the "smart and often funny dialogue" as well as for their interests being sewn into the gameplay and story.

Many critics praised the open world and the gameplay. IGN posited the game is "constantly and thoroughly beautiful", and never compromises in "scale or detail" [56] , while Polygon felt that the "world of Lucis is so interesting, so detailed and begging to be explored" that excuses to travel were "welcomed".

Critics criticized the story, particularly for the second, linear act. Polygon felt it was as if "developers had to scale back the size of the open world and the scope of the game's plot, and squeeze everything into half the time intended". It concluded that with regards to the side characters and pacing, the game "doesn't have all the time it needs to get things done" despite being a "plus hour game".

The development team is aware of the feedback of the game feeling unfinished, and this has been said to be the biggest issue for them.

Though there was not enough time to include everything the developers had wanted to, and though they would have preferred to put these things in the main story, the team plans to keep including the parts that have been left out via updates and DLCs. Because it takes time and money, the team will prioritize the things with strong demand.

This is a highly streamlined experience with simplified controls and visuals. It was later given an HD release on Windows 10 and home consoles including the Switch , meaning that the PC, as well as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 , has access to two different versions of the game—the computationally expensive normal version and this less intensive version that runs on more machines.

An anime short titled Episode Ardyn: Prologue was released on February 16, Tropes A to C. Aborted Arc : There's a story mission where the heroes decide to kidnap a high-ranking imperial official as revenge for killing Jared Hester, chamberlain to the Amicitia household. The official quickly escapes and nothing more is heard from him in the main story, he only returns in an optional sidequest and only in voice and name, not a direct appearance.

Averted with the release of Episode Ignis , where he plays a major role during the events in Altissia. In Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV , it's shown that the Lucian territory outside of Insomnia is a demilitarized wasteland full of people who hate King Regis for seemingly abandoning them to Niflheim. In game, we never see any devastated lands or cities in Lucis the ruins we do see look like the inhabitants willingly left when the wall shrank, with the only damage being from time nor do we meet any disgruntled citizens.

We also never meet any of the hundreds of refugees who fled Insomnia at the end of Kingsglaive. Gathering the Royal Arms is a major plot point early in the game. Save for a brief diversion in Chapter 10, it's forgotten after Chapter 3, when attentions turn to getting the blessings of the Astrals and finding Luna. All in all you're able to play through the game collecting maybe half of the ones available.

Likewise, the plotline with getting the blessings of the Astrals is dropped after Chapter 9. However, it's justified in this case — of the remaining three Astrals, two of them are dead as far as the party knows, and the sixth Astral is almost never seen by humans and no one has any idea where to look for them. Besides, the only person who can talk to them is dead , so it's not like the party would be able to ask for their blessings even if they did meet them.

Absurdly High Level Cap : A rare aversion for the series. While it's perfectly possible to complete the game around Level 50 as is often the case, sidequests into the end game and post game will advise party levels well up to Level Moogle Charms also give bonus xp as well, for even faster leveling. One of the patches raises the cap to Keep in mind there are some DLC bosses that have levels as high as , though the levels after 99 require vastly more experience to acquire, and none of the enemies in the DLC are any worse than Omega or Angelus Acceptable Breaks from Reality : Stores and NPCs you need to obtain and turn in quests are pretty much always open and always in the same spot.

Very helpful in a game with loads of sidequests and where using the Warp Whistle takes into account the time spent driving in the car. In the ten years since Noct was away, she's fashioned herself as "Iris the Daemon Slayer".

Aranea, another Guest-Star Party Member , is the commodore of a troop of the Imperial Army, and kicks all sorts of daemon ass. Ardyn is very similar in appearance and demeanour to Ali al-Saachez. In addition, his adopted surname, Izunia, is evocative of Izana. Ravus's final form and boss fight are very similar to Cid Raines'. Adaptation Distillation : Pocket Edition bills itself this way.

It removes the vast majority of Side Quests and all Wide-Open Sandbox elements; the Action RPG battle engine with attendant Button Mashing is largely automated allowing greater tactical depth and removing the Interface Screw of having your hand all over the screen ; the Ascension tree is simplified immensely; and the game's Super-Deformed , low-poly art style operates well on smartphones.

In the meanwhile, the entire plot is present, down to the voice acting, music, Cut Scenes and motion-capture, allowing the player to experience the entire adventure in 10 or 20 hours. Adapted Out : Pocket Edition removes Item Crafting , including Elemancy; all the Heroes Gone Fishing minigames though Ignis's recipes are retained through very brief scavenger hunts; the ability to camp and register levels at the player's discretion; the Regalia Type-F upgrade and, indeed, the ability to drive her manually at all, save for the attack on Zegnautus Keep ; and several NPCs.

Advertised Extra : King Regis, Emperor Aldercapt, and Minister Verstael have their own promotional art and featured more in the trailers than their brief appearances in the game. Adventure-Friendly World : The beginning part is meant to be very friendly and open space but it gets more linear over time. Somewhat justified, since most of the characters with Latin names are from high society in Lucis, while the common folk have the common names.

Although her Granddad shares the same name, he serves more of a minor role. Chapter 14 takes place after a ten year timeskip. In that time, daylight has been extinguished and daemons roam the earth. You're told the only bastion of civilization left is Lestallum; practically every other city and outpost has been abandoned. The Moogle Chocobo Festival appears to be one as well, considering the fact that it's completely divorced from the game's timeline and features Noctis hanging out alone with Carbuncle.

All Myths Are True : Following the first time Ramuh summoned in battle , a speechless Prompto can only muster the following: "I know now. I know why the tales are told. Tropes D to G. Dangerous Forbidden Technique : Wearing the Ring of the Lucii if you are not of the royal lineage is this.

Ravus has his arm obliterated, and wears a prosthetic as a result. Nyx uses it to defend Luna in Insomnia during the events of Kingsglaive , and dies as a result. And in Episode Ignis , Iggy uses the ring to fight Ardyn; the first time costing him his sight, the second his life in the alternate ending, although Noct saves him using the Crystal's power. The game even strongly implies that being of royal blood is not enough. Noctis ends up in massive pain whenever he simply looks at it. Only after fully embracing his role and enduring the pain is he able to wear it without issues.

Dark Action Girl : Subverted with Aranea; while she works for Niflheim, she isn't villainous like her bosses and actually is as heroic as Noctis's group. Dark Is Evil : The endless night that envelops the world after Noctis disappears allows the daemons to move around Eos unencumbered and cripples society to the point where almost every city has been abandoned due to the sheer number of daemons occupying it, with a very sparse number of safe places left. Hence why everybody from Regis to the Amicitias to Noctis' friends are all in black.

The color makes even more sense when you realize the symbol of Lucis is The Grim Reaper. Darker and Edgier : Tetsuya Nomura : The game's going to be more human than the science-fiction caricature Tropes H to M.

At Altissia, Lunafreya is killed by Ardyn and everything changes. This half is linear with disconnected levels that transport the player automatically. The tone is darker and protagonists are killed off, kidnapped and disfigured. Contrasting the road trip feel, Noctis is essentially on his own for Chapter 13 and the beginning of After completing Kimya's quest, the party discusses whether her advising her nephew to believe in himself and make his own decisions is always a good idea, since following that led to a rift forming between Kimya and her sister.

Ignis : "Do not follow. Trust yourself. Gladio : Reasonable enough, if a bit obvious. Prompto : Though you could say that's what led Kimya to start a family feud.

Noctis : How can you trust yourself to always be right? Ignis : Not as sound as I thought, perhaps. When the party first meets him in Chapter 1 "I'm afraid you're out of luck. The boats bring you here? Well, they'll not take you forth. When the party confronts him near the end of Chapter 14 "I'm afraid you're out of luck.

The throne brings you here? It seats only one. Hajime Tabata : This setting is a violation of the age rating criteria for games in some countries, so we cannot push these themes.

A king pushes onward always, accepting the consequences and never looking back. But, the world is ever changing Tropes N to R. Never Trust a Trailer : Due to the many changes to the game's story and design, no trailer or gameplay footage released before is a wholly accurate representation of the game.

The player retains all experience and items, and your hunter rank goes back to level 1. Non-Malicious Monster : The Garulas, who will not attack you unless they're provoked first. Non Standard Game Over : Besides Noctis dying or the current character during battle , crashing the Flying Car during takeoff or landing or flinging the off-road car off an extremely high cliff also results in a Game Over.

The warning about instant-loss conditions is always "[do this] or the game will end ". Noodle Incident : In Episode Duscae 2. No further information is given. Nostalgia Heaven : The end of the main story sees Noctis and Luna reunited in the hereafter and sharing the wedding they never got to have in life. In fact, it's implied that Chapter 15, which occurs after the main story is completed, is this, with Noctis and by extension, the player given the chance to have continued adventures with his bros in a largely unspoiled Eos.

Aside from complaints about the cumbersome UI, uncooperative camera, inability to switch party members and difficult-to-follow story due to several plot points not being properly explained, there's a lot of Dummied Out world areas not accessible in the final game, including Tenebrae, more of Altissia, Angelgard island, and the World of Ruin beyond Insomnia.

Many patches post-release added party switching, new story scenes, the ability to explore Altissia and the ocean on the boat, and a lot of other things, but it was clear the developers were patching in things they had intended to have already but didn't have ready in time for the game's launch. At the moment, it is currently used in boss battle music. At Least On The Surface Final Fantasy XV has you and your two bros go on a long, genuine, car-based road trip punctuated by magical swordfights and personal revelations.

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