Retrospective of the complete Final Fantasy XV Universe experience (spoilers)

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I summarize and comment on the plot of every piece of the Final Fantasy 15 expanded universe.
This includes commentary on Kingsglaive, Brotherhood, the main game campaign, Episode Gladiolus, Episode Prompto, Episode Episode Ignis, Episode Ardyn, the Episode Ardyn prologue, Pocket Edition, Monster of the Deep, the Parting Ways audio drama, the Dawn trailer, the Omen trailer, Versus 13 trailers, King's Knight Wrath of the Dark Dragon, Justice Monster Five, a New Empire, the Platinum demo, the Royal Edition bonus features, The Assassin's Festival event, the Chocobo Moogle Carnival event, the Close Encounters of the Terra Kind event, the Adventurer from Another World event, and the Dawn of the Future epilogue novel.
[00:00:00] [Intro]
[00:03:42] [Versus 13]
[00:05:19] [Platinum Demo]
[00:07:29] [Kingsglaive]
[00:31:34] [Brotherhood]
[00:43:57] [A King's Tale]
[00:44:48] [Parting Ways Prologue]
[00:46:16] [Main Game Campaign]
[01:28:51] [Episode Gladiolus]
[01:29:30] [Episode Prompto]
[01:33:30] [Episode Ignis]
[01:38:35] [Comrades]
[01:39:48] [Chocobo Moogle Carnival Event]
[01:40:39] [Assassin's Festival Event]
[01:41:47] [Adventurer From Another World event]
[01:42:20] [Close Encounters of the Terra Kind event]
[01:43:29] [King's Knight Wrath of the Dragon]
[01:43:59] [Justice Monster Five]
[01:44:14] [A New Empire]
[01:44:44] [Omen Trailer]
[01:45:38] [Dawn Trailer]
[01:46:03] [Monster of the Deep]
[01:46:34] [Pocket Edition]
[01:47:20] [Stadia release]
[01:47:51] [Season 2 DLC announced]
[01:48:20] [Episode Ardyn Prologue]
[01:50:14] [Episode Ardyn]
[01:59:15] [Kingdom Hearts 3]
[02:00:32] [Dawn of the Future: A Savior Lost]
[02:04:30] [Dawn of the Future: The Beginning of the End]
[02:10:08] [Dawn of the Future: Choosing Freedom]
[02:27:14] [Dawn of the Future: The Final Glaive]
[02:38:07] [Closing Statements]
That's why the video is two hours and forty minutes long.
This is a narrative analysis of story content primarily and does not focus on review of the game play. If need more FF15 content, consider checking out the following videos/channels:
Super Eyepatch Wolf's review:
• Final Fantasy 15 was a...
Super Butter Bun's review:
• Final Fantasy 15 Fan E...
Resonant Arc's videos on the development of FF15:
• Video
I borrowed footage from other you tubers to complete this essay in a timely fashion.
Dansg08: Main game campaign footage
( / dansg08 )
Corey Smith: Comrades game play
( / @cole9693 )
Boss Fight database: Verum Rex cutscene, Episode Ignis
( / davidthebarbarian1 )
Urizen: Episode Ardyn
( / @urizen4355 )
All the Shinies: Close Encounters of the Terra Kind, Adventurer from another world.
( / @alltheshinies )
Zanar Aesthetics: Comrades ending cuteness, Episode Gladiolus, Chapter 13 verse 2
( / thewalkingdaryl )
Gamer's Little Playground: Episode Prompto, Episode Ignis
( / glplayground )
NEOGURI 너구리: A King's Tale cutscenes
( / @neoguri77 )
Alihsan: Pre-release trailers:
( / aliahsanchannel )
Twitter user Realnoahsan: Crazy Challenges gameplay footage
realnoahsan?lang=en
Obviously Square Enix owns the rights to all the game content, music, concept art, and footage used. A lot of other footage was lifted from promotional footage and material posted to the official Final Fantasy XV youtube channel, the Namco Bandai youtube channel, and the Square Enix youtube channel. Please don't sue me for nerding out for hours on end. Clearly I'm a big fan.
I couldn't justify talking about it in the video but the Pitioss Ruins are a FANTASTIC dungeon and one of my favorite parts of the game.

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@jdgjordan Жыл бұрын

Every one complained about Cindy's design but I never hear a word about gladiolus and his allergicness to shirts

@lolmariolink 3 жыл бұрын

The death of the car was more impactful then Lunafreyas death..

@danielramsey6141 2 жыл бұрын

Man, it’s really crazy to think that the Car has more going for it in the plot than Lunafreya. Sad times man.

@-Nihilus- 2 жыл бұрын

The car was a real one. F for the regalia

@HexManiac-nf1yg 2 жыл бұрын

And both were more impactfull than that one old dude

@LiquidSnake1988 2 жыл бұрын

Than*

@PenguinsAreColdish 2 жыл бұрын

regalia was the homie

@TeamAPS 3 жыл бұрын

Just found this video, but man you deserve like 1000x more recognition. Really solid work!

@Mewd462 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@dustintaylor9667 2 жыл бұрын

I just stumbled on this, and even though I'm only 30 minutes in you got a sub from me!

@jackdevoil9946 2 жыл бұрын

Yoooooo its team APS

@Verum_XXII 2 жыл бұрын

@Team APS Hey Paul, have you any interest in the idea of a Verum Rex project?

@malcolmking3042 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackdevoil9946 a

@feircy 2 жыл бұрын

The credit sequence to 15 was the first thing in a game to make me tear up in a looong time. Since maybe tidus dissapearing in 10. When they pull up your photos and stand by me kicks in, it hits hard. The campfire too

@keelan3585 3 жыл бұрын

It makes me so happy to see someone else who shares the same love for the FFXV universe as I do! This was my first final fantasy game and will always hold a special place in my heart

@FewNewReasonss 2 жыл бұрын

It's by far the worst in the series.

@keelan3585 2 жыл бұрын

@@FewNewReasonss nobody asked but okay

@MrWazeemo 2 жыл бұрын

@@FewNewReasonss guys don't be a loser like drew, no one likes drew

@EsporHB 2 жыл бұрын

well... that is not so much what I get out of this video but.. okay.

@keelan3585 2 жыл бұрын

@@EsporHB bye bye

@samicat93 3 жыл бұрын

I unironically *love* this kind of stuff. absolutely yes please tell me about video game lore for the next two and a half hours. (and this specific video is wonderfully thorough! it really makes everything feel cohesive even though it's broken up into like 12 different components. that true ending stuff sounds like it would've been buckwild if it had ever been fully realized, I wonder if it could have felt like less of a waste/undermining if it had been a game expansion rather than essentially a side novel.)

@IiI_Gogeta_IiI 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry last comment. Certain themes in the story like Noctis being a sleepy head actually has a reason, he comes from the City of Insomnia and insomnia is the lack of being able to fall asleep, Noctis is the opposite he always sleeps he sleeps everywhere, the brotherhood media shows this perfectly

@IiI_Gogeta_IiI 3 жыл бұрын

I guess one thing they should’ve mentioned especially during brotherhood is explaining what the act when he was a kid actually did. The reason Noctis requires to actually go to the tombs of past kings and physically taking their weapons was due to this incident as a kid. Unlike Regis or Ardyn who just have the weapons of the past kings Noctis lost this ability and they say it’s due to an accident as a kid they never say specifically what the incident was but given the significance of the incident with the demon it’s likely that

@chrispysaid 3 жыл бұрын

I loved Kingsglaive. I went into it not "knowing" it was bad so my experience wasn't colored negatively.

@the_foliot 2 жыл бұрын

Same. I actually thought it was one of the best FF movies and I liked them all. It was a great extra part of story as well. IMO of course.

@newagehero9605 2 жыл бұрын

@@the_foliot final fantasy 7 event children was actually a good movie

@duckydae 2 жыл бұрын

@@newagehero9605 the complete version is, the original is just as much a hot mess as kingsglaive.

@uykuykuykkuhkhukuh 2 жыл бұрын

same

@newagehero9605 2 жыл бұрын

@@uykuykuykkuhkhukuh it was a typo but okay lol

@jjjjffff1293 2 жыл бұрын

1:41:48 weeeeell that's not really how it is. It is said in the Ardyn dlc that the majority of god's messengers were on the side of ifrit during the divine war, and that's why their name was removed from history. So it is very likely that Garuda (the One that help us, not that we fight) was on the side of Ifrit in the past. That's just a very little details but I love it

@ami-kun 2 жыл бұрын

Wait so basically the black Garuda was supposed to be in 15 originally?

@IiI_Gogeta_IiI 3 жыл бұрын

I do want to point out that the Omen trailer wasn’t something that actually happened in the sense that let’s say Noctis went through those events. The omen trailer is what Regis sees a vision of sorts. If you watch the whole trailer Regis is shown at the end

@danielramsey6141 2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I mentioned too.

@tristanrios9948 3 жыл бұрын

This is my first time ever using my youtube account to actually comment on a video even tho ive had this account for a literal decade, but i would just like to tell you that this video essay was thoroughly enjoyable in its entirety, and your content is really amazing, and i think this really shows how passionate you are with the videos you put out. I hope you keep up the really great work. Also as a side note i have this video and you to thank for me powering through my calculus work, as i watched this video in chunks inbetween my breaks with problems.

@CyrusOnDemand 3 жыл бұрын

This video was really well done and filled in some gaps for me and I really appreciate the work you put into this. This deserves way more views

@Serenity279 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that i stayed fully awake for the solid 2:40 hours lends credence to how insightful and entertaining this video is. Thank you so much. I genuinely loved this game for the boys but you reminded me of the frustrating plot points and how certain tweaks could have made things cohesive. Anyway, great job on this massive essay!

@Ranakel 3 жыл бұрын

Now, full disclosure I'm only around 50 minutes in the video as time of writing, but just wanted to already comment and say I'm loving the work you're doing there. Seeing FFXV discussed in its entirety is overly complex, but necessary work and I'm so very glad someone's doing it, and doing it with talent, and some insights I can resonate with. I remember so many of my friends hated the game, while I actually liked it a lot. Part of it was that I played the PC version with all the enhancements it had over the years, but part of it was also expectations. They wanted the epic, and were disappointed. I wanted a road trip with the boys, and had so much to love about, and seeing these two clashing aspects discussed right from the start vindicate me a lot.

@TallTapper 2 жыл бұрын

omg its the chorus kid im a huge fan

@flackfingers3105 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful breakdown of all this madness and well put together video. Thank you!

@NobletheSavage 2 жыл бұрын

I love long form reviews and this is up there with the very best of YT reviews. I hope the year break you've had is temporary as your commentary style is SOOOO good.

@Muncheiy 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has beaten almost all the mainline ffs, I loved xv and I’m convinced that people would enjoy it if they gave it an honest chance, now that the royal edition packages all the main story beats. Also… I didn’t think Kingsglaive was so bad! It definitely wasn’t award winning but I thought it did it’s job well enough.

@callsignfatbeard2637 Жыл бұрын

I’ve given it 2 hours so far, and it’s completely bare bones in terms of story and character development. It feels like you’re just supposed to already know and care about these people, and I don’t. I’m trying to give it a chance here, but it’s a terrible slog so far.

@Muncheiy Жыл бұрын

@@callsignfatbeard2637 the charm comes from seeing the characters interact. They did a great job in my opinion simulating four lifelong friends on a dangerous roadtrip

@callsignfatbeard2637 Жыл бұрын

@@Muncheiy to each his own. I have zero reason to care about anyone or anything in this game currently.

@spoogtastic Жыл бұрын

After beating 16 I decided I should give 15 a shot and mannn its horrible. Story is nothing and the entire "the best part is the interactions" which Ive heard from numerous people I find to just not be true in the slightest. Maybe its because I really think 16 did everything 15 tried to do with the characters to a much better level so going back it feels even worse than when it did prior but Im about 10 hours in and I actively dislike the game, probably wont continue.

@MM-mooglebun 2 жыл бұрын

i just beat the game and i really enjoyed your video! your little quips throughout were great, some of them made actually laugh out loud. thanks for all the work put into this so you could share all the juicy gossip!!

@Xelpherpolis 2 жыл бұрын

My view of Luna was someone who always put duty first, no matter what, and never allowed herself to think about what _she_ wanted because of just how important that duty was. Her arranged marriage to Noctis, however, presented her with a rare and unforeseen situation where her duty and her desires _finally_ intersected in some way, but even that is ultimately something that she is denied.

@kevincolditz 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. This was amazing. Great video! I came to the same conclusion essentially. A lot of missed potential but when it's good, it's really good.

@twilightbow6622 3 жыл бұрын

This video was fantastic! I just watched all 2 hours and 40 minutes and I was constantly engaged the entire time. You structured it very well and did an excellent job balancing story summary with speculation and criticism. I think I finally understand what happened in this game now lol. Hopefully this video gets the recognition it deserves! On a side note, I interpreted the alternate ending in Episode Ignis as actually being the worse ending (if you ignore the idea of Bahamut destroying the world, presented in the book). Ignis only destroys Ardyn in the physical world, so he’s still alive in the realm of the gods until Noctis ever takes care of him. But as far as we know, Noctis never does that. So even though Noctis and his friends will have a better life in the present, Ardyn will eventually come back in a couple hundred or thousand years and make a new generation of people go through what Noctis and his crew had to go through. Essentially, Ignis just delayed the inevitable so he and his friends could live a happier life, leaving another group to deal with Ardyn in the future because he didn’t want to lose Noctis. With the original ending, Noctis died and it was sad, but he died to bring hope to the world. With the alternate ending, there’s no hope. Only temporary peace until the dread of Ardyn returning kicks in. There’s some ambiguity with them going to some of the old tombs in the ending montage, but it’s not clear if they’re going there to find a way to permanently kill Ardyn without losing Noctis or what. Like I said, it’s too ambiguous to be certain.

@neonlexicon8958 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what i wanted when i looked up final fantasy xv retrospective thank you

@neonlexicon8958 2 жыл бұрын

Listened to all the way through while here at work lol

@naruto102030100 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! So glad to find someone else who feels the same way I do about this game and its small universe. While I have personally gone through all of this material, I still enjoyed watching you recap it for me.

@DanielFanzwicky 2 жыл бұрын

After playing the game (both vanilla and royal edition) including all of the DLCs, watching the film and the anime, as well as read the novel, I have to say the world of FFXV is exactly like what you described, it’s a beautiful and fascinating world with sophisticated and loveable characters but yet still manages to remind me every bit of missed potentials and multifaceted compromises due to its problematic development cycle. But in retrospect I realized that this flaw for me has subconsciously became the game’s biggest charm. Because it is delivered in a fragmented fashion, everything adding on it essentially becomes a new interpretation instead of the usual extension for a successfully told coherent story. And as players, we inherently know the game’s imperfect and the story’s unfinished, we become actively searching for new interpretations that satisfy our need to complete its story arc and character arcs, thus effectively making this process enjoyable and worthwhile. These fragmented experiences are perhaps a blessing in disguise rather than salt on wounds after all. Because it wouldn’t torture me so much to see Ardyn being mistreated so badly in his Episode if the original story has already completed his character arc. There are no interpretation in this way and I would not take this Episode as seriously as I did. But that being said, I really appreciate the effort put into this essentially FFXV lore induction video and is firmly convinced that this channel and this content deserves much more attention and recognition than it currently has, great work and thank you!

@gnsxsEtrnl 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the huge amount of work it took to compile all this information. Thank you so much.

@calico3202 2 жыл бұрын

this is the second time i finished watching through this video and i appreciate the work you put into it immensely!! ff15 is the first ff game i played, somewhat intimidated by the franchise as a whole until a friend (a long-time fan) sat down and started the journey with me. we went through most of the additional media (brotherhood, kingsglaive, dlc) and i have to admit i was a little confused at some points in the game, even with the added background knowledge, but i fell so deeply in love with the characters and world that i went off and consumed even more media on my own (the prologue, dawn of the future, a king's tale, etc.). getting to watch everything in a condensed format here helped me connect some dots i previously missed and make sense of minor story beats that didn't land for me during the initial playthrough. i'm sure i'll come back to this video many times, because the way you talk about the game is so engaging! thank you for putting it all together!!

@KayMoon24 2 жыл бұрын

Adored this seriously thoughtful, well made, and extremely insightful video! I also really loved your intense homework-like deep dive into its history, film, and anime. When you mentioned in your video the sheer confusion and out-of-no-where moments that occur within the main plot that are mentioned/hinted at within these other media pieces, lmao, that was me, I WAS THAT PERSON DEEPLY CONFUSED-- but committed - to see my beloved boy-band to their end. Also, that insane, dream-like alternative ending where Iggy has the choice to "play along" and not give into the player's natural reaction to fight back in the Ignis' DLC-- what the freaking hell, haha. I had only beaten the game once through when it first released so the DLC stuff escaped me, so your insight as well as your attention to detail really helped me appreciate for everything I already knew-- and often didn't know. Thank you so very much for articulating my feelings about this game! Subscribed. : )

@silvermasked0 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing retrospect, thank you for the video thoroughly enjoyed it!

@BowmansWorld 3 жыл бұрын

I loved the kingsglaive film and didnt find it confusing at all. I watched it and the brotherhood anime before playing the game.

@robosmith8513 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you do another deep dive like this. I loved having the chance to learn the full scope of the story surrounding ffXV. Episode Ardent was awesome.

@Mayeur000Donz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm coming in late and am only really learning of the details of these stories through waching this video, but that episode with the overweight kid had a lot of wasted potential. It had a prime opportunity for a want vs. need character arc. Like, the kid starts losing weight and trying to be more social to be the sort of person Noctis would wand to hang out with, but he falls off the horse when letters he writes back to the palace go unanswered (only VIP letters get through, maybe?), and he starts doing nothing again, and feeling more depressed than ever, until he overhears/sees in a chatroom that Noctis admires how much work Prompto puts into his work regime, and Prompto remembers he was feeling better inwardly while working hard, and realises self-improvement was its own reward, and gets back to it. Some time down the line, Noctis approaches him and asks if he can join in on his work-out regime, because while Noctis is a slim kid, he's not particularly energetic or strong, and the two build muscle and bond together.

@Mewd462 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there is SO MUCH they could've done with the idea and it's frustrating that they didn't

@Ari-ek1dx 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for compiling all of the story here

@blu42nj 2 жыл бұрын

Every time I see Ravus grab Noct's throat, all I can hear is "Boi I will muck you up "🤣

@Zymzack 2 жыл бұрын

The quality of your script is amazing bro! Such an awesome and comprehensive video

@tifleigh2654 2 жыл бұрын

This video randomly came on and I sat and watched it all! Good work :)

@furgy1993 2 жыл бұрын

i just randomly came across this video this fills so many gaps and gave so much info i love it keep on going!

@jahboidb 2 жыл бұрын

Well you definitely earned my like, sub and comment for the algorithm. A lot of work putting a video like this together, and listening to them makes my day of work fly by

@gentronseven 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Kingsglaive had a bad reputation, I liked the movie a ton. I liked FF15 as well, it's probably in my top 5 games in the series but it's hard to pick.

@Paradoxfoxx 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed Kingsglaive but the game was a big dissapointment to me. But I played on release, I hear people who played royal edition as their first experience were more positive.

@Deviljho5 2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@rougestarlight4308 Жыл бұрын

Same

@aronhelios1734 Жыл бұрын

@@Paradoxfoxx as someone who played Royal Edition: yeah... it's patched and has all the dlcs, so it's way more enjoyable

@ItsSVO Жыл бұрын

15 was incredibly fun to play and the world is gorgeous but the storytelling is some of the worst I’ve ever experienced. None of the big moments really hit because they’ve not been earned, there’s so much context missing or things we should know just never gets explained. There was so much potential with the story as the lore and plot is genuinely every interesting. They should’ve halved the map size and had multiple maps and get rid of the endless fetch quests for a more linear experience but still with enough explanation.

@Jschisolm22 3 жыл бұрын

Sensational video!! Truly well made and very informative. Subscribed for sure

@caIicomoon 2 жыл бұрын

I finished this game a couple days ago and I was emotionally exhausted for DAYS. Even with its flaws and story beats that didn't hit at times, the ending scenes made me bawl. But anyways, I was left with a yearning for more content (and curious of all the extra content), so I was glad to come across this video! This was incredibly fun to watch, I agree with a lot of your observations and insights! Even with the game's half-baked clunkiness, there's such a charm to it. Thx for making this video, you deserve more love!

@Gb6902 2 жыл бұрын

An excellent discussion. I did enjoy this game, despite its flaws. You presented the story very nicely looking over all of the content. Great video!

@jakefoley9539 Жыл бұрын

I'll never understand the disproportionate amount of hate Kingsglaive gets. People just blindly hate on it but no one gives any actual reasons its bad. I liked the main cast, the action scenes were great and it had some of the best CGI I've ever seen in a movie. It was honestly the most complete and entertaining part of the entire FFXV experience and that's coming from someone who consumed all of it.

@martinroner5688 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, this was pretty extensive. And very well done. And gave me a lot to think about again, maybe play it one more time.

@danieljbell9077 2 жыл бұрын

Great review and I share a lot of your same opinions. It was a huge missed opportunity as a game, but I am glad the extra content at least gives us some sort of "stitched together" closure.

@igeljaeger 2 жыл бұрын

that was excellent. Thank you for making this

@jwwilliams5407 2 жыл бұрын

I like the true ending. Makes the other ending seem like a dream, calling back to how noctis was suppose to be always sleeping and dreaming

@Zinkolo 2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. The original ending wasn't even the best and left a lot to be desired as did the game as a whole

@TheDenKnight 2 жыл бұрын

Solid video and breakdown man. You definately deserve more love from the algorithm👍

@Nerex27 2 жыл бұрын

Epic vid, thanks bro. You deserve lot more for this.

@jhsrt985 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this and your other videos are so well done. You're quality is easily better than most, the alg needs to push you

@Falto 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this video 👍

@PutoAldas 2 жыл бұрын

I actually loved the movie Kingsglaive

@dylanv.4970 2 жыл бұрын

I loved kingsglaive. I don't know if maybe not going in hearing about it's negative reputation helped but it was my first introduction to XV and really drew me into the series

@aaroncross6874 2 жыл бұрын

Same for me too. It was at least better than final fantasy spirits.

@LoneWolf-wu6yn Жыл бұрын

I liked it as well, even after hearing the negative. I never allpw others to dictated my joy.

@Poruasecas 2 жыл бұрын

this was a great video! I never got to play anything since episode propto(which I loved btw) and watching this video only makes me wish even harder that they would have finished all the DLC...

@ChaoticDuelist 2 жыл бұрын

FFXV is my single greatest guilty pleasure. I love every little piece of stuff for it. I dont know why but Ive done 3 full playthroughs and still would like to play it again.

@stephaniegardiner 2 жыл бұрын

i thought i knew everything about ffxv but no! there was a heap of stuff here that i had no idea about! thank you for making this!

@tk9102 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reminding me why I loved this game

@rynepell3280 2 жыл бұрын

Great video and really helped me to finally understand this grand and conveluted story that is FF15

@cloudstrife206 2 жыл бұрын

We hold every new final fantasy instalment to an incredibly high standard set by the legendary titles of 7,8 and 10. 15 is a great game with a few missed opportunities and flaws but overall an experience to behold

@forcelightningcable9639 2 жыл бұрын

You know, it’s bittersweet to find a mind capable of such nuance and to find out this person stopped uploading. I hope you’re doing great, wherever you are.

@jbcatz5 2 жыл бұрын

Final Fantasy XV is also cross-promoted in Assassin’s Creed Origins, in a side quest A Gift from the Gods. The side quest takes Bayek, the primary protagonist of the game, to tomb whose entrance has a pictogram wth Adryn and Noctis and the Roman numeral XV under a pictogram showing a clue to the puzzle needed to be solved. At the conclusion of the side quest Bayek witnesses Ardyn and Bahamut, and is rewarded with a sword based on the Ultima Blade, a shield based on one Noct and Gladio can equip, and a camel mount resembling a Chocobo called a Kweh.

@highroller6244 3 жыл бұрын

Thats my Friday afternoon gone right there. But it was worth it. A really well made explanation on the main question i had in my head after finishing the game: What the hell just happend?!

@binglee8000 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful story retrospective mate thank you for the hard work it truely does makes me sad that 15 never got to it’s full potential and no I don’t blame Nomura or Tabata for that I blame upstairs management mismanagement for all the behind the scenes muck ups actually

@danielramsey6141 2 жыл бұрын

Almost 12 years to wait for this damn game to come out! So I’m not surprised it was virtually a fuck up by upper management! And funny enough I find it amazing that FF14 - 1.0 was announced just as they were still sorting all this shit out.

@guillermotesoro 11 ай бұрын

This was very good, thank you

@olima7015 2 жыл бұрын

you forgot to Talk about the logo change in the very end, which is a very important, emotional and impactful thing! I love that logo change (but don't want to spoil so I'm better going on here). besides, I don't think that the alternate ending from the novel cancels out the original games ending. The novel tells a story that is just as heavy and impactful as it is, because we know and have played the original story ending. The novel ending would not be so strong, emotional and intense if it wasn't for the original one, if we would not know and would not have experienced the heartbreaking alternative (=the game's ending).

@Athlynne 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a newbie to FFXV, have totally fallen in love with it, and you give so much great info here. Thank you!

@elidasilva5558 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, love this vídeo

@MrDueltube 3 жыл бұрын

Wow nice video, very detailed. I gotta say Nifleheim sound very similar to Nilfguard from the Witcher series. Menacing evil empire that dress in intimidating armor and just like to conquer places.

@DCAMM720 2 жыл бұрын

I've played Final Fantasy since 5 and this is one of my favorites. Didn't enjoy how everything was separated...but at the same time I kind of loved just how much content there was for this world.

@tevinmike1403 2 жыл бұрын

FFXV’s story was probably one of the best storylines and games I’ve played. I hate seeing it get bashed on YT 😂 I loved this retrospective. I’ll need to read the novel after this.

@itshikachu 2 жыл бұрын

Just adding a comment to make myself remember to watch this in the next week. I played this game but before release of so much dlc, so maybe 2/3rds of the content. I love Square Enix games though and to see someone devote over 2 and a half ours to explaining one is a real sign of someone who likes them even more than me. Hoping that once I have the requisite attention span watching this will make me revisit

@Digital_David Жыл бұрын

I have to first explain that Final Fantasy is probably my favorite gaming series EVER, even above Super Mario, which is the only tattoo I have, to give some insight. When Final fantasy XV came along, I pre-ordered the collector's edition, as did my boyfriend. I watched my boyfriend play the beginning hour or so of XV and was very disappointed that square-enix decided to do away with turn-based combat. I mean, one of the reasons why I first loved Final Fantasy games was because JRPGs had become my favorite genre. I was angry that my favorite series was no longer turn-based. It seems like they cowtowed to popular demand for financial security or even gain and that felt like a slap in the face to myself as a die-hard fan. I stayed bitter. I didn't play XV for the first time until about 2 months ago. I finally bear it this week and am currently doing the end-game dungeons. I played on my PS5's online gaming - my collector's edition copy is still sealed in the original UPS box, 100% unopened. I loved this game. The story has a lot of missing pieces, but I was able to make sense of most from the dialogue that came from my completionist gameplay style. This game really gave me an emotional response to the characters that I haven't felt since Final fantasy 8. I didn't feel like any of these characters were duds. Loved them all!

@MrXavierv773 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I know this video is older, but I just started getting into the story of xv again. Considering the ending novel, I don't think it really changes the God's (mostly Bahamut's) intentions, as much as actually finally making it clear. In Pitioss it's shown Eos body housed the scourge, and had she stood in the underworld, if Ifrit never got her body out, then technically Baha could have had all the scourge in one place to cast Terraflare. This plan was ruined by Ifrit, and he needed to come up with a new course of action. The other astrals that did not agree with his ultimate plan, either didn't know about his true intention of destruction earlier, or couldn't do anything about it as their own lives would have been lost in going against him and killing him, like they did in the end. Only after seeing more of mankind's resilience and drive to live could they have changed their minds and sacrificed themselves. As for Luna's change of resolve.. I don't think it's hard to imagine that after being dead and waking up in a world full of daemons and eternal night, after following the divine plan, that she may question the God's intent for mankind. And this may not prove anything, but considering XV was supposed to follow FNC, where XIII was all about fighting fate and certain Gods' malicious intent, then it's not hard to imagine that the God's in this universe weren't all benevolent from the start. Think the story was just told poorly to begin with. Great video! loved the exposition! Thank you.

@taka3000000o 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I came for in the comments

@bishopcruz 2 жыл бұрын

Mostly agree, though I don't quite think that Bahamut was always planning to nuke the star. He would do it if he felt it was necessary, or he just got tired of the BS. Of course, I still have to read the final novella, so that might change, have the video paused after the Luna chapter.

@cubescast 2 жыл бұрын

Bahamut didnt always plan to nuke the planet, he just resorted to it at the start of episode luna because Ardyn had grown too powerful for his original noctis plan to work out. The book explains how Bahamut presides over many worlds, and weeding one rotting one out of his vast garden makes a lot more sense to him than Gentiana and the other astrals who only preside over Eos.

@CucasNerdyCorner 2 жыл бұрын

Wow 🥺 that was an awesome 2 hours and 40 mins!! 😍 Especially about the part of the dawn of the future novel! Learned so much! Thanks 🙏 by the way, I'm surprised you didn't talk about the ffxv episode duscae demo 🤔

@LS1Highwind 2 жыл бұрын

Just started watching now but I thought it was cool that you gave a shout out to the other streamers I'm a big Resonant Arc fan those guys go pretty deep lol

@jayhit4212 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video

@jccdsym6605 2 жыл бұрын

Love the video! I want to add my two cents as well: About Ultros on Kingsglave monsters, given he doesn't speak (and he does according to Regis on King's tale) and he has more of a squid head, I think that is probably FF4's Octomammoth/Octokraken. As for the Knight wall, probably someone already pointed it out but those are probably a homage to FF7's Knights of the Round.

@tropichawk850 3 жыл бұрын

You missed the Duscae Demo content! How could you?! You should be ashamed of yourself. I'm ashamed for you. Seriously, though, I've been actively searching for a video just like this ever since Episode Ardyn was released. Right up until the time this current pandemic hit, to which I grew busy worrying about another, slightly more pressing matter. That matter aside, this video is everything I could've ever asked for. Well, aside from perhaps the order you feel would be best to consume all this content, and, far more egregiously, the highly essential Duscae Demo content. Letting that monumental transgression slide, however, I want to thank you so much for all the love, effort, and dedication that went into this video. It absolutely shines through for anyone even remotely interested in this sort of content. You know, I've consumed every last one of these pieces of FFXV content to some degree, excluding the novel. Yet despite Episode Aranea being my least anticipated DLC for FFXV's 2nd Season, it ended up being the only one I feel we really missed out on. I was sort of wishing Luna's Episode would take place before her death and flesh out her relationship with Noctis. Yet, based on what you've said here, it seems as though what we got only serves to detract from what we already had. I'd also hoped Episode Noctis would make a point to add on to the pre-existing finale: Complete with one final boss fight against Ardyn in the Beyond. You know, whilst also potentially revealing Bahamut's true intentions, which I'd assumed would be something better. Obviously, this wasn't the case either. Somehow this disappoints me a helluva lot more than the initial FFXV experience did. Still, it's nothing that can be changed any longer. Merely an interesting, albeit somewhat self-indulgent side note. Again, I truly appreciate all that went into this video, and I eagerly anticipate whatever you create next. Until then!

@SydNyd 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video, ffxv was the first one I played within the series when it launched, followed by ff7 remake. Although it has it's bad moments I still have an attachment to it. Great Video 🙌🏾🙌🏾

@Arizat0 2 жыл бұрын

As a longtime fan of FInal Fantasy who was massively disappointed with the way Final Fantasy XV turned out I found this video so very interesting. I played through the "original" experience back on launch in 2016 before any of the major patches came out. I found the experience hollow and the story really lackluster. I just started thinking about it today and ended up finding this video. It's incredible how much the story was expanded over the years. While many things still fall flat due to other problems. Like Lunafreya not really getting a personality or character depth, for example. Along with the recurring problem that it never felt that Lunafreya and Noctis never really cared for each other due to us almost never seeing them interact in person. I can still appreciate that they at least tried to include her and make her more important to the overarching narrative. Thank you for this video. I was enjoying it the entire way through.

@Deoxys_Used_Mimic 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s remind ourselves that in that illusion, it was actually Prompto that had Arden at gunpoint. Best boy, right there!

@DeathsFlagShip 2 жыл бұрын

Great video :)

@ProMr.Frazier 3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the video. When i noticed Nifflhiem was not explorable but much unused content still remained, i started glitching and exploring. The Ep Aranea part really caught my attention... So many unused roadways and railways in Nifflhiem it might be possible to map out the traversal path Aranea and Sol would have taken. 🤔

@christianmaestas4435 2 жыл бұрын

I actually really like the pacing of FFXV. I swallowed up the world whole and loved roaming around aimlessly. I feel like switching from the open world to a linear plot based experience works with the themes and can be harmony between story and gameplay. Noctis wants to roam and be prince but duty calls him to be king and the burden of the crown starts pushing him inexorably forward. And you can return to the sandbox, it’s done by going back in time which i felt like was noctis remembering the good old days before Altissia.

@Baguettish 2 жыл бұрын

I feel... conflicted about the alternate ending. On the one hand, I did kind of wish the gang got a happier ending. On the other hand, I actually really respected the writers for (at least initially) comitting to a very bittersweet ending when Final Fantasy games tend to end on a fairly high note. However, I think the Lunafreya story would have made for an interesting spinoff, like a XV-2 or something. The story does kind of conflict with the very convicted Lunafreya we saw prior, but I don't think her having a crisis of faith as she learns and experiences more would necessarily be unbelievable. As for the lack of chemistry between Noctis and Lunafreya, I definitely agree. I think a lot of it was due to them almost never being shown interacting with each other. We are TOLD that they love each other, but unlike many other Final Fantasy romances (such as Tidus and Yuna, or Zidane and Garnet), we don't get to see the relationship developing as the game progresses, nor do we really see the characters' devotion to each other outside of just them doing their duty (think Snow and Sarah in XIII. Their relationship is similarly established before the start of the game, and what we do see of them together is largely in flashbacks, but we see Snow fighting to save her, which better drives the point home that he loves her). Lunafreya in particular--largely because she doesn't get a lot of screentime and suffers HEAVILY from being more of a plot device than a fleshed-out character--never really shows that she is doing anything because she loves Noctis, just that she's doing what she must because destiny. It's a shame because it sounds like there were the makings of an interesting character with Lunafreya, but those ideas just never made it into the final game.

@Sonic_jams 2 жыл бұрын

“Powering up with the power of mom friend” hilarious

@TheRaatikka 2 жыл бұрын

Very great video.

@jonathansoko1085 3 жыл бұрын

Random thought... Those random grunts they always seem to focus on in the game seems to be a FF trope. Several FF games in a row do that, its gotta be intentional lol

@danielramsey6141 2 жыл бұрын

Feels like one big failing attempt at trying to make everything feel Cinematic! When in reality it’s Pseudo-filmmaking with very Japanese sensibilities!

@DevilHunter1994 2 жыл бұрын

Wow...I'll be honest, after hearing that book summary, I'm actually so incredibly glad that most of the cut content never saw the light of day in the game itself. I genuinely hate the vast majority of these story retcons and I'm honestly fine with the idea of pretending that the Dawn of the Future novel never existed. Aranea's DLC sounds like it could have been a fun addition to the game, but the rest of this just sounds terrible to me. FFXV may be a heavily flawed game, but I was and still am happy with the ending that the game gave us.

@bishopcruz 2 жыл бұрын

He does kind of misread Bahamut's motivations. Bahamut is doing the Teraflare plan because Ardyn's bucking of his fate has made the original ending now impossible. If you look at Bahamut throughout the game, he acts as if everything, every fate on the planet is preordained. In the first timeline it is all going according to his plan, the light burns out the starscourge, then Noctis transports to the afterlife to completely kill Ardyn. However with Ardyn now being too powerful for the ring to deal with, Bahamut returns to his old standby, FLARE it. It is a reframing of the old war, but I tend to actually like it quite a bit. There was always this idea that the Gods didn't give three craps about humanity, or better said, a lot of them did not. So Bahamut basically wiping the planet and starting over I don't think is a massive change in characterization.

@DevilHunter1994 2 жыл бұрын

@@bishopcruz Wait, when exactly did Ardyn overcome his fate and become too powerful for the ring? I know there's the ending of Episode Ardyn where he refuses to play along with Bahamut's plan and tries to kill Noctis in their final battle instead of just allowing himself to die, but even if that's the case, Noctis beating Ardyn anyway, despite his efforts to fight against his fate, is still an option that is entirely on the table as far as I'm aware. In fact, wanting to kill Noctis in their final duel was how I always read Ardyn's intent in the original game. After all, if he wanted Noctis to kill him, why put up a fight at all? We could just skip the whole final battle, Ardyn could let Noctis kill his physical body, and then Ardyn could just wait in the great beyond to eventually be released from his torment with the power of the ring. He didn't do that though. To me it always seemed like the gods expected Ardyn to lose to Noctis when they eventually had their showdown. Ardyn meanwhile heard this plan and was like: "So that's your endgame huh?...Okay. I'll humor you. I'll let your little "Chosen King" acquire all the power he needs. Hell, I'll even help him get it, but when your chosen one is all good and ready to fulfill your cute little divine plan...I'm going to destroy him while you watch. Then when your savior is lying dead in a pool of his own blood, and the world you created is forever trapped in darkness, you'll know that betraying me and leaving me to rot was the worst mistake you ever made. I'm better than this brat you've shown your favor to, and when this is all over, EVERYONE will know it." Then of course chapter 14 happens, and well...Ardyn was wrong. Despite Ardyn throwing everything he possibly could at him, Noctis does prove himself, overcomes every challenge and ultimately comes out on top in their duel. Then he uses the power of the ring to finish the job. Bahamut planning to use Tera Flare just because Ardyn isn't going along 100% with his plan feels kind of unnecessary, at least at this stage. Now if Noctis should actually lose to Ardyn, then okay. Fair enough. Go to plan B. Nuking the planet when there's still every chance that Noctis could still win though doesn't really seem to add up.

@bishopcruz 2 жыл бұрын

@@DevilHunter1994 But that's not the story exactly. According to the novel Ardyn when he "defies fate" basically keeps collecting more and more starscourge demonic power. At that point Bahamut thought that the crystal no longer had enough power to defeat Ardyn, so he went for plan B. The original Chapter 14 is apparently Ardyn agreeing with his fate and basically leading Noctis to eventually kill him.

@DevilHunter1994 2 жыл бұрын

@@bishopcruz If that's what the book is suggesting, then it really does seem like the novel and game just outright contradict each other. Ardyn putting up such a huge fight in chapter 14 makes no sense if all he wants to do is die. It makes even less sense with the expanded chapter 14 in Royal Edition, since all the extra boss fights in that version would accomplish nothing except delaying Noctis, thus making it take longer for Ardyn to finally find peace. Worse yet, if Noctis was somehow defeated before reaching Ardyn in any of these early fights, then Ardyn would be dooming himself to an endless life of eternal darkness. Why bother taking that risk? Better to just impale himself on Noct's sword and wait in the beyond for his salvation. With the exception of Ifrit, (because he's already contaminated with the scourge and therefore needs to die) all the fighting in chapter 14 only really makes sense if Ardyn is earnestly trying to kill us.

@ashleycornwell67 Ай бұрын

I think the idea behind the dogs/notebook is that Luna lives under constant surveillance and is essentially under house arrest so magic untraceable dogs are required lol

@glentq 2 жыл бұрын

I really love this game and actually considering to replay.

@imreplyingtothiscomment2378 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite RPG's please more

@soulmechanics7946 2 жыл бұрын

"Damseled"?! Brilliant. 👏👏👏

@garrnk Жыл бұрын

I find it intresting how in that last book the explores the parallels between luna and ardyn. How she like him is a healer and probably healing in the same way that ultimately corrupts the body and soul.

@bunnyphang 14 күн бұрын

"This game is not worth any of your money. But it might just have been worth my time." - Max0r

@broshmosh 3 жыл бұрын

1:21:55 "It feels like a moment loaded with potential that was botched". This sentence sums up my feelings on almost every big plot set-piece in the whole game. Titan's fight, Leviathan's fight, Altissia, the empty open world, the meaningless side quests, Niflheim, the fight with Ardyn... So much potential, so much botching. The fact you can respond to almost all of this with "It's fixed in the DLC" goes to show I wasn't alone in feeling like this.

@RobtheStampede 2 жыл бұрын

I think the part I realized how deeply flawed the game's priorities were was when Lunafreya's death scene, a character who is basically a non-entity in the story, is treated as the most dramatic thing ever while Ignis being blinded happens entirely off camera and we're just told about it. The fact that they took a major plot event about one of the main characters of the game out of the story so they could sell it to you again later only made it worse.

@soulmechanics7946 2 жыл бұрын

"I'm in love with my fiance." "Sure.. your fiance, from another country.. that nobody has ever seen.." 🤣

@Tarmax94 Жыл бұрын

Kingsglaive is my guilty pleasure, I watch it from time to time when I'm bored. The anime, watched it once for context but would probably never watch it again, the game itself and its DLCs, absolutely love them. I first started FFXV like 2 years later after its initial release, I played the Windows Edition back in 2018 (currently sitting at 160 hours on Steam) and I couldn't understand why people was so pissed about the game, I started it without knowing anything (nor story or development related), so I didn't know that I was playing a much completed version than what was initially released on PS4, then I googled how bad it was and I felt lucky for coming across the game much later. I bought the game again (the Royal Edition) like 3 years ago for my PS4 and currently playing it on my new PS5 (that I bought for FFXVI, currently at 100 hours), and I'm thinking about getting The Royal Edition for my Xbox SS as well. Loved both FFXV and XVI.