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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-03-30 06:55 pm

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Re: spoilers for ffxv

[personal profile] fishnchips 2017-03-31 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I also guess they were waiting for the DLC to be settled before they go back to the timed quests. I'm definitely glad I killed those snakes just the day before they got pulled haha!

That's a perfect description of what Ardyn looks like, I'm crying!

Heh, 8-9 miles is even swimmable if you really had to.
I think they also had the plot conflicting with a bigger world, even if they'd wanted to have one. It's not very believable that one Empire has the majority of a huge world with dozens or even hundreds of countries under their control... But it would make the day/night cycle logical, and even though I believe that's not actually intentional, it's kinda nice. (I was pretty amused in-game about wondering with my friend about "wait, does it get dark at 3 pm already?" and characters mentioning it... several chapters later as if they only just noticed.)

I'm kinda expecting a bit of a brainfuck chapter with Prompto, considering I guess they'll cover his time spent in Ardyn's clutches. His head got messed with quite a bit during that time, I expect.

I could see them using a few older, now updated Insomnia pieces for the simple reason that a LOT in this game looks like it was designed with "we can reuse this in the FFVII remake" in mind.

Re: spoilers for ffxv

(Anonymous) 2017-04-01 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Those AP rewards, hnnnngh. Finally got to limit break both Gladio and Prompto, and holy shit they wreak havoc now, haha. Gladio + Impulse especially. My god. I do hope they keep the astronomical rewards rather than neuter them at all, 'cause there's something really satisfying about it.

I'm sort of willing to suspend disbelief about the world size, I think, just because I've run across the idea of one country/empire/what have you holding the majority of the land even in worlds of our size-- the city-states of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia from 1984 come to mind, for instance. So I could believe Eos is either really tiny (which really does seem to be the case, to be fair), or more or less Earth-sized with a lot of actual space cropped out for ease of motion/gameplay. It's an interesting discussion topic for sure! I do agree with you that the day/night cycle vs. world size probably isn't intentional at all, though, haha.

Oooh, yes, his chapter's gonna be rough. I'm almost certain it'll start on the train (where Ardyn is using illusions to make Noct attack Prompto), and go straight through to his being tortured by Ardyn. There's a lot of room in-between for brain-fuckery. (Especially considering that Chapter 13 Verse 2 confirmed that Ardyn can and will take Noctis' form to mess with people... you know he's going to do that to Prompto.) Not to mention the whole mess with the MTs. Ugggh, poor thing.

Oh, huh, I hadn't even considered them re-using set pieces for the VII remake. Insomnia does have a sort of Midgar-but-shinier feel to it, doesn't it? I knew they were going to essentially use the exact same battle system (with a little tweaking to allow for Materia), but I didn't think about other elements. I kind of wonder if the episodic content of XV is sort of a test run to see how well fans take to the concept before they do the same with VII?
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Re: spoilers for ffxv

[personal profile] fishnchips 2017-04-01 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yesss, I really miss those rewards already! And finally getting enough money to buy that damn caviar dish for the recipe...

Yeah I mean most Final Fantasy games have fairly small scale worlds, even those with entire world maps to travel so...

I'm mostly wondering how that trailer/small preview scene in the snow will tie into the Prompto DLC - if that's an actual thing he does or if it's all some illusion that's just all in his head. Hm.

Midgar is pretty shiny on top of the city as well so they can use quite a bit of Insomnia material for that and some of bombed-out Insomnia for the slums beneath. Quite a few monsters are there as well, completely or in part (the Midgar Zolom, some of the weapons, a lot of the machinery...) and the carnival looked a lot like a test run for the Gold Saucer haha!
I guess they might use it as a test run, definitely. Altough I don't think there will be any changes to the episodic release (which I find a bit of a pity but ah, well. FFVII isn't the one Final Fantasy I most wanted a remake for anyway ;_;).