At a press conference held a day after Unacovered, the director Final Fantasy XV Hajime Tabata said that Square Enix expects to sell ten million copies of the game. This is a lot … But is it enough to recoup the production of a full-length film, anime series, mobile game, damn breakdown of a demon and everything else and everything else?..

I already wrote that the epic with Final Fantasy XV Reminds what is happening with Final Fantasy VII -with the only difference being that the meta-united there was built for one and a half decades, and then it is simply taken and unclenched in six months. But after the conference, the difference became quite obvious.

Why is it all real?

And the difference is. All sorts Dirge of Cerberus , Last Order , Before Crisis , Advent Children and other prequels-skewers-lucleles to the "seven" acted better as a fan service on those who are already familiar with the main story. In the same case, side stories, on the contrary, should help acquaintance with the main. These are, in fact, marketing materials – only self -sufficient and sometimes in themselves capable of bringing money: full -length cinema KingsGlave They will show in cinemas and on the network (on what conditions, it is not yet clear, everything is on the conscience of Sony Pictures), but in mobile pinbole Justice Monsters Five There will be micallors (“But no Pay-to-Win,” the director of the game is on duty).

► KingsGlave will have a production playing like a “unique” Audi R8 luminous in the frame and advertising signing of real companies. Supposedly a cinema city is sculpted in the image and likeness of Tokyo and try to make it realistic.

► In Justice Monsters Five it will be possible to play in the Final Fantasy XV itself and on the mobile phone.

Final Fantasy XV is, as they say, “Ultimate Experience”, which all paths converge. With the help of other media, Square Enix gives him in different images to interest people with different interests: in Kingsglaive – the action and drama for old fans in the last week Platinum Demo – Sleepy fairy tale for festive incidents, in Episode duscae – Open World for Hardcores, in anime Brotherhood… Well, there is anime. To the question “But are you afraid to ultimately position the game as it will not be?»They answered simply: no, not very.

► Sean bin (alas, was not present at Uncovered), Lena Hidi and Aaron Paul will voice the main characters only in Kingsglave. In the game for the king of Regis, the Lady Luna and the Guardsman of Nicks will speak other actors.

So why is the boy group here?

A team of four guys – a move for roofs is not a typical. But rather, not at all typical. Tabata explains: “There are two main reasons for the fact that we stopped on the men's team. Firstly, I wanted to show the connection, the feeling of real and purely male friendship-we did not do this in Final Fantasy before.

Secondly, we wanted to put our own experience. Young Japanese often gather with comrades on such a trip, and it was with me too. Therefore, we decided to convey real sensations from a long car trip. But, of course, the story is much wider and affects much more characters and events of a completely different scale. ".

► It is unlikely that Japanese youth meets such dinosaurs on their road trips and ride a chokobo. But we caught the essence.

Along the way, the Tabata was asked if it was not impressed from whether from Dark Souls A fight was made. “Now it is easy to say about anything that it is impressed by Dark Souls. The main difference, it seems to me, is that at Souls you are fighting with specific opponents in specific places, and in the Final Fantasy XV you can face anyone and anywhere. We also needed to observe the balance between dynamics and thoughtfulness – for those who are used to step -by -step battles. Well, with regard to sensations, we relied more on Batman's games. On Arkham asylum , More precisely ".

There is a car in Final Fantasy, and the car can be improved, and once it will just take and take off. “We want to make people like traveling on this car,” says Tabata. – At the same time, I wanted to create in flight a sense of risk and danger, as when I need to land the plane. It is not difficult to fly up, but it’s much more difficult to sit right. You will not be careful enough, and the car will go to the yuz ".

► The same frame with a flewing car.

Doubts are still causing an open world and pumping. With regard to the design of the world, the main source of inspiration is Ocarina of Time , But what is meant by this, the Tabata did not explain. He enthusiastically talks about the progression of “in the spirit of the old parts”, about collecting, setting up equipment, but especially notes that the studios were important that the players felt like discoverers simply from walking around the world. The world is really unusual-here the Japanese fantasy is mixed up, some baroque futurism, American wilderness (look at the diners), and in some places it gives a great foreign gigantism Xenoblade Chronicles X. The latter and inspires, and yet it scares a little.

But in the eyes of many Final Fantasy not always about characters and drama. She is also about stupid life moments, such as Claud’s dressing as a girl, or an entertainment park “Golden Six” in the seventh part, or, say, matches in blitzbol in the tenth. Judging by how heroes in trailers pulling to a pinboat machine, this will be in the fifteenth.

► Final Fantasy is one of those series that can afford such an eclecticism and not look stupid.

About other things (including PC version)

• A lot of people work on all adjacent stories in Final Fantasy XV, but only Yoko Simomura writes soundtracks for them. Her music can be heard in Legend of Mana , Parasite Eve , Kingdom Hearts , Xenoblade Chronicles and in several dozen games. The first and chief composer of Final Fantasy Nobuo Wematsu, she even worked with him on a couple of projects, was greatly influenced by the first and chief composer. But only now, under her control, the sound of a whole Final Fantasy and all her branches. "がんばります!"-throws Simomura-san after the translator.
• Someone from the audience asked if the Final Fantasy XVI would be built on the basis of all this. “Nice!" – answered Tabata. And added: "The fifteenth is the fifteenth". Will there be other stories on the basis of the same universe? It is possible, but it will become clear later.

► before Final Fantasy XV Hajima Tabata directed the development of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Type-0 for PSP.

• The developers are interested in the VR, experiment with technology for about a year, and would be happy to bring something cool on it to life. “But, in my opinion, VR cannot be used for things, already somehow realized. Need to invent a new one ". So Tabata put a cross on all thoughts about the VR functional in the release Final Fantasy XV. But further?
• At the conference, they could not help but ask a question about the performance of Platinum Demo – she, to put it mildly, disappointed. According to Tabata, the main task of the demo is not to be pushing the technology to the stop, but to show different chips of the game. Therefore, it is arranged approximately equally on both platforms, and the release version is pointedly optimized for PS4 and under the Xbox One separately. The possibility of changing permission on summer is considered for the sake of a more stable personnel frequency.
• PC version? It should be, sooner or later. It is possible that even shortly after the release of console. Apparently, in Square Enix they think about the expediency of DirectX 12: “Now we rely on DirectX 11, with which both consoles are one way or another, but we will look at what to do next, especially when we fix the technical part of the console versions”.

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► Hironobo Sakaguti left Square Enix for a long time, but on Unacovered arrived as the father of the series.

► some of the Final Fantasy XII motifs are clearly manifested in the fifteenth. At least even the heir to the throne, forced to go into exile, among the main characters.

The question “What Final Fantasy is most like the fifteenth?"Made the tobat think. “Hmm … what do you think?"Without hesitation, I answer the question of the question:" The twelfth https://sister-site.org/love-casino/?" -" Oh yes, there is much in common with the twelfth in the atmosphere and everything else! In fact, it seems to me that it turns out something between the twelfth and seventh. ".

Tabata called his favorite “final box” named the sixth than the compartment any questions. Final Fantasy XV should “return the series to the origins,” and it is important to understand these sources – in the end, this series lives more than one seven. But what exactly by "origins" mean Square Enix?

Tabata explains everything with the spirit of the struggle for the championship: “Once Final Fantasy appeared to challenge Dragon Quest. Final Fantasy VII entered the new generation and became the first among three -dimensional role -playing games. With Final Fantasy XV, we are taking on a new test. Now it’s full of high -quality Western role -playing games, and some of them are technologically more powerful than Japanese developers produced. So we must again prove that we are capable of the best ".

Good if they still prove.