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taus90 on 12 December 2016
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Hynad said:
taus90 said:

Yes and No. I Remember reading in one of tabata's interview about the change, he said that square wanted to make changes in the way final fantasy games are developed, like eliminating hierarchy withing the team (refering it to as Final Fantasy Diseases) and also make the story which was spanning over three games to be told in one single entry.  So I assume it was tabata's decision to axe out the story of Insomnia invasion and dumb down levianthan fight, and the strange thing is that both of those sequence were up and running and were demoed in 2013. So in the process of condesing the story tabata took this short cut, instead of giving us 70+ hr game he made a 25 hrs game.

Also I loved Luna, but she was downplayed tremendously which only goes to show that stella's story arc was so essential to the story line that the final image (if u have finsihed the game) just completely loose its impact and falls apart. The bottomline is I think Nomura and Nojima story was more focused on love story, and tabata is focused on Friendship.

Tabata didn't write the story of FF XV. Saori Itamuro wrote the scenario based on the original draft by Nojima.  And according to Shimomura herself: "The basic scenario and story concepts haven't changed that much. They're quite similar to what they were originally. There have been some changes, small scenario tweaks and the game's functionality itself has changed."

There's so much bullshit being spread left and right about the production of the game. Yet nobody know a single thing about what changes were truly made, when they were made, and who made them. And people also talk as if Tabata did everything himself. He's the director, but that doesn't mean he is the only creative force behind and driving the game. -____-

Ok so you are the expert in the fabulanova crystalis mythos and the versus XIII development??. Where did i mention or imply that Tabata wrote the story! he just made changes to things which he saw fit would help tell the story in a single game and those changes are bullshit, and yes The basic Story "concept" and scenario's havent changed of course it hasn't, it was always about the last king reclaiming his throne, but it was also about choosing it over love. 

And about knowing nothing as to what was removed from the game and those "minor changes", which you say were tweaked were the removal of the entire Insomnia crown city, treaty-signing between Lucis and Niflheim (noctis meeting stella for the first time, but was included Kingsglaive ), Kings Regis still being alive during the summoning at altissia, not to mention how useless cor was it was clear that his plot was cut out too, Ravus arc was dumbed down too which was expected as stella was axed from the game. And these info's are all from ATR, Jump Festa, TGS, Famitsu articles and various Nomura interview among them of course the trailers which I have been following since the game was announced back in 2006.

Also Nojima story wasnt a draft it was complete, he was also the scenario writer on versus 13, but was replaced by Itamuro because changes needed to be made in order to bring it up to a mainline final fantasy and make it in one single game.

PS - The entirity of last years Dawn trailer has been omited from the game.