Final Fantasy XV and Kingsglaive: Why You Should Be Excited

"This week I was looking around the internet for news on Final Fantasy XV and came across something that should make everyone, newcomers and veterans excited. I have seen some of the gameplay for Final Fantasy XV, but it was the promotional material for Kingsglaive that made me really excited. For a newcomer to the series with very little knowledge, the brief snapshots of the different environments in the Kingsglaive trailer, a mixture of steampunk machinery and magic, were something I had never seen before."

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I watched Kingsglaive this Monday and even though the CG is some of the best I have seen for a long time, most of the lead characters (except for Sean Bean and the voice actress Luna) was pretty forgettable. The fade to black transition for the first 25 minutes was used so much and with so little time in between that I almost mistaken it as a long crappy modern trailer. The storytelling felt very flat, the lack of locales was depressing (which is a shame because the few times that they did were beautiful to say the least) and the last half of the movie really fell apart at the seams due to it's predictability and visual overload. What I found most disconcerting was the blatant product placement that rivals most modern Adam Sandler movies (Audi somewhat makes sense but I have never seen a city where EVERYONE drove one).

I really wanted to like this movie and the Omen Trailer, which was directed by the same team, showed that they have amazing talent (I feel that the Omen itself should have been the movie's original premise seeing that there is speculation that it followed what happened if Noctis traveled alone while feeling almost respectful to the original vision of Versus XIII) but this felt like an cash-grab. The only good thing from the film it shed necessary light on who the King was talking to at the end of the recent trailer.

[Irishguy95]

Yeah, its not surprising, the movie only really was to set up the game, and a cash grab, i'm sure the king(regis) has more than 10 lines in him. I guess thats all they could afford for Bean. For some reason they needed to have these actors with so few lines in them.

It had nice action i'll say, but thats it.

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However, its totally forgivable for me, for one...it sets up the game...and well, thats it. I'm sure Regis and Luna get their lines in the game. And the anime brotherhood showcased the main 4 characters well imo. Much better character development that kingsglieve.

Its nice to see that Nocts kingdom uses 'outsiders' in their army though, and the racism. What were they expecting in the end? You know? When half the Glieve betrays Lucis. The worst offense the movie gave however was leaving Cor leonis out. What the hell? Shouldn;t he have been the real main C or at least supporting main lead? Nyx was created so he could die in this movie. And have no relevence, just an attempt to let kingsglieve be more than just a set up for the game. But thats exactly what it is, a set up and nother more(than some eye candy I guess)

Eh, anyhow, FFXV is gonna be awesome as ****

[carloshp11]

You both really think so? I was actually very content with the film.

No spoilers, but if you compare this film to Advent Children Complete (much better than the original version), they have improved a lot. And FFVII is my favourite game of all times, but the film is just not a film, it's an attempt of film.

In Kingsglaive, though, I felt like I was watching a real film. Most action films have a much more shallow plot than this. And they do a very good job of introducing the new universe to newcomers.

I only desired the last half were not so long. It's an action movie, but it would have benefit from a slighly deeper plot and some less minutes of flashy action.

In the end, I really enjoyed it.