The release of “Final Fantasy XV” was a highly anticipated one, and there was a very exciting build-up leading up to it. At the same time, many fans were anxious about what the game would bring to the table, and there was a lot of worrying in the community. Considering the huge delay in releasing this game, it’s easy to see where fans were coming from. In the end though, everything worked out more or less fine and the game was met with a very positive response.
However, certain parts of the design were seen as a bit odd by some fans, and the plot of the game is probably the most notable among those. The story works more or less fine, and it’s consistent and coherent in pretty much all places. However, at the same time, it does raise some questions that might be hard for even the developers to answer, and some fans have been discussing the plot structure in detail lately.
Those who have been wondering about specific plot details should look up the “Ultimania” guide books that were recently made available, which delve deeper into the game’s story in various aspects, and clarify the writers’ intentions about certain things.
The guides are particularly good for those curious about more minor details, such as the backgrounds and ages of some characters, as well as the overall setting of the game. While “Final Fantasy XV” might do a bit of a poor job exposing those elements in the main storyline, the guides should fill those gaps quite nicely and give players access to all the extra information they could have been missing.
Is this going to be enough to please fans? We don’t really think so, considering how difficult gamers can be to please at times, and then, the community around the “Final Fantasy” franchise tends to be even more difficult. Part of that is due to the old age of the franchise, but there are other factors at play as well.
It should go without saying that those who haven’t finished the whole “Final Fantasy XV” yet should definitely do so before opening the extra guides, as they will inevitably contain many spoilers for the main story. On the other hand, those who’re feeling more impatient with the game’s gameplay and want to rush through it just to see how the plot unfolds now have an interesting alternative to that.
There is a lot more left to uncover though, and learning things like the real father of Prompto and the ages of various characters is hardly going to be enough to keep fans at bay. It’s also worth pointing out that while the guides do a nice job at expanding the game’s world and backstory, they also fail to touch on some points that gamers have been bringing up in their discussions.
But then, it’s probably hard to respond to every single thing people are saying about the game, especially with a title as major as “Final Fantasy XV”. It’s still great to see that the studio is willing to address their community in some ways.
The release of this game should have been an interesting learning experience for the people behind it too, considering all the trouble they went through to bring it to the market. Some are saying that the controversy was actually overblown and there wasn’t that much attention focused on the game, but it did manage to stir up quite a lot of controversy even before it came out.