It’s been quite the long wait for fans of “Final Fantasy” who’ve been waiting for the fifteenth installment in their favorite franchise, but thankfully it sounds like their patience will be rewarded soon, as the launch of the game is starting to take some solid form at this point. It seems to still be some time away and won’t be ready for the market in 2015, but on the other hand it looks like it should be ready for a release a bit sooner than some fans were expecting.
The project has seen many changes over its lifetime, including the rotation of people working on it and the replacement of core features at one point or another, and even though it’s started to take a slightly controversial form in the community, people are still highly excited about it and many can’t wait to see what the developers have prepared after all this time.
The latest reports claim that the game will come out at some time “before 2017”, but rumors claim that this is meant to mislead fans into expecting it at some point around the end of 2016. In reality, the game should in fact be ready for a release around the earlier months of 2016, according to that rumor, but nothing official has been said by the developers themselves yet so it’s not very easy to draw any solid conclusions.
It’s also interesting to note that this release is going to move away from the studio’s typical trends in some ways, such as by giving the game to all players around the world simultaneously. That’s right – there won’t be any unnecessary waits for fans in certain regions anymore, as the new game is planned for a synchronized global release. This news alone has been the source of a lot of happiness within the community, as many gamers in certain regions have apparently grown tired of seeing their comrades having fun with the newly released games while they themselves are forced to wait.
Something else that we’ve learned about the new “Final Fantasy XV” is that the game will apparently be a bit heavier on the political themes in its plot, and players should prepare for a more thoughtful, in-depth experience when it comes to the interactions between most characters.
There will also be new characters that will add even more to the drama and conflict, and the game will feel a lot more serious than previous installments in the franchise to a certain extent. Of course, the developers are still trying to contain it within the limits that fans have come to know this franchise for in the first place, and everything should feel exactly like it belongs in the plot. From the characters to the settings, we’re going to see an overall great package that gives fans exactly what they have wanted to see in the new “Final Fantasy” game for so long now.
Indeed, Tabata has been giving some hints that fans should prepare themselves for what he described as the saddest and most dramatic story that the franchise has ever told. Whether or not this will be liked by old school fans of “Final Fantasy” is too early to tell, but it’s good to see that the producers are actively trying to find new ways to spice up the plot and make things more interesting. Sticking to the same old tropes can only work out for so long, after all.