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I want Aranea to heal me. #FFXV

Just to put this in perspective, FF7 has sold 15.5m as of January 2026, it's nearly outsold every mainline FF.

It's funny how people still cling to those old Versus XIII CG trailers as if they were ever an actual representation of the entire game when in reality its purpose was the same as the KH secret ending CG's where it was just conceptual and not what the tone of the actual game was. These people are almost always KH fanboys who weren't even born when Versus was announced and didn't even know it was a thing until KH3. Like when those Versus XIII CG were made in 2006-2008 Nomura said himself "absolutely nothing has been done for the story yet" in 2006 and then by 2007 he said the story was only "1.3% done", by 2008 the game had only 20 devs assigned to it and it wasn't even until 2011 that Versus XIII had an actual script, and by that point the entire visual direction and game direction had already changed compared to earlier stuff already. Like NONE of that CG from 2006-2008 could've been used in the 2011 version of Versus anymore because the designs and visual direction had changed and were already scrapped by 2011, even that Noctis meeting Stella scene was scrapped twice and by 2012 was being turned into a Visual Works CG scene just before Versus got cancelled. In reality the only "Versus XIII" is the 2010/2011 trailer stuff, anything before 2010 is not even reflective of what was even being presented in 2010/2011 Versus XIII. The 2011 Versus XIII trailer is also the ONLY trailer ever officially uploaded to youtube and the 2010/2011 trailers are the only trailers ever actually shown to the general public, the 2006-2009 trailers were all only shown behind closed doors at exclusive events then only put on limited release DVD's as a bonus, like on the CLOUD magazine in 2006-2007, or event exclusive DVD, youtube barely even existed back then. Also the entire reason that 2013 prototype build gameplay trailer does a pseudo recreation of the 2006 PV with Noctis on the steps getting shot at by a horde of Niflheim soldiers but with the bros with him now was because TABATA was the one who chose to do set it there, Nomura even said in 2013 that was because of Tabata choosing to set the FFXV prototype build as a recreation of the 2006 PV like that and it was Tabata's build that got FFXV greenlit after Versus XIII had been cancelled in mid 2012. Like Nomura has gone on record in 2007 literally saying stuff like "do not be fooled by the trailer into thinking its dark and gloomy" and has said that the actual tone of the game in Versus he planned is quite literally the tone you see actually realised in FFXV where it's more jovial with flashes of happiness with the roadtrip, where Nomura said the bros are always mucking around and laughing over silly jokes toghther, that they're boisterous and lively in their interactions, and that's precisely why when the end of FFXV arrives and it has a darker tone like that early Versus XIII CG it was effective in creating a natural escalation in the severity of the story and stakes and why that choose a photo moment manages to hit so hard. Like even with BBS Recreating The Gathering scene with in game PSP models the tone of that version of the scene feels absolutely nothing like the CGI version did in the KH2 secret endings and 95% of BBS is just doing Disney shit in colourful worlds. The DeepDive shit in KH1s secret ending didn't even get an actual implementation until 358/2 Days on the fucking DS and that also comes nowhere close to the tone of that DeepDive CG, even moreso where 90% of Days is more colourful Disney shit and even the OC world stuff isn't dark in tone like DeepDive was. I feel like I'm under psychosis every time I see people acting like the actual tone and core of Versus XIII isn't exactly what FFXV realised, even more so when people unironically say shit like KH4 or Verum Rex somehow is the Versus XIII tone or "the actual Versud XIII" when it's even further removed from the actual tone and core concept of Versus XIII than literally anything in FFXV or even Kingsglaive was.

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I should probably make some more FFXV vids 🤔

Posting this just to make Mageknight14 seethe 😭 [NS2] Final Fantasy Resonance <RPG> (Square Enix) {2026.10.22} (¥6.980) - 52,268 / NEW [PS5] Final Fantasy Resonance <RPG> (Square Enix) {2026.10.22} (¥6.980) - 50,452 / NEW [NSW] Final Fantasy Resonance <RPG> (Square Enix) {2026.10.22} (¥6.980) - 30,471 / NEW [NSW] The World Ends with You: Final Remix <RPG> (Square Enix) {2018.09.27} (¥4.800) - 14,216 / NEW [NSW] NEO: The World Ends with You <RPG> (Square Enix) {2021.07.27} (¥6.800) - 18,799 / NEW [PS4] NEO: The World Ends with You <RPG> (Square Enix) {2021.07.27} (¥6.800) - 9,248 / NEW [NDS] The World Ends with You <RPG> (Square Enix) {2007.07.27} (¥5.695) - 76,717 / NEW

Good job proving you know nothing about XV since you don't know enemies have different weapon resistance attributes so different weapons stagger enemies differently, it's weapon and stat dependant like Dragons Dogma stagger you fucking dumbass 😭 nitter.cf/NMageknight14/status/2…

It is finished and FFXV was advertised by Tabata and his team as a roadtrip with the bros where you play as a prince who has teleporting and weapon summoning powers and you journey through a world that is a mix of modern setting mixed with fantastical elements, magitek and anachronisms on a quest to reclaim the throne, that is what is has always been and that has never changed. Just say you're an idiot and have no idea how game development works, every single game goes through changes in development, the original FF7 plans are even more different to the final game is than whatever early Versus stuff was shown in relation to XV.

TWEWY fan mad that a console remake of a delisted mobile game is a success 😭 TWEWY FR really did nothing to revitalize the IP on console despite being released mutliplat. Even with TWEWY getting a 3rd chance with NEO it flopped, mind you NEO TWEWY had more advertising than FF Resonance had leading up to its release, had a ton of trailers uploaded on the official Nintendo and PlayStation and Square Enix youtube accounts and all their socials on top of actual merch for TWEWY and NEO being sold, plus a TWEWY anime leading up directly to NEO putting the TWEWY IP firmly into the zeitgeist as much as possible, as well as literal IRL events in Shibuya. NEO TWEWY was released multiplat yet sold less than the original TWEWY on DS which had less marketing and no IP awareness to begin with, I always see TWEWY fans blame marketing for why NEO flopped yet somehow it sold LESS than the original TWEWY which had even less marketing and had no established cult following.