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taus90 on 13 December 2016
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Hynad said:
taus90 said:

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.

If you knew anything about the project, you'd know that most of the things you talk about and attribute to "Nomura's vision" were only used in concept material and got through many changes by Nomura himself. As for the rest, there's just so much BS in there that you take for granted despite not having anything from Nomura that backs it. You call your own interpretations and fantasies as facts.

You looked at concept footage of Versus XIII and ended up extrapolating, theorizing and ultimately fantasizing in your head what all of it could be. But Nomura wasn't going to make the FF you had in your head. Sorry.

again as i said these are not based on rumors, go look it up for many nomura's interview in famitsu mags and various jap events over 7 to 8 years there are lot of info dumps on characters and story by him, nojima and other staff during the launch of Final Fantasy 13 and various versus 13 trailers events (there was a strong community @ novacrystallis.com dont know if the site is still there or not, but that was one place where every japnese interviews about the games development got published) So if you lack knowledge or skipped on info about the games development, doesnt mean that everyone is theorizing or fantazising. And also no one gets excited about by envisioning an entire game in their head, there is a reason a concept and a trailer is shown for a movie or a game to sell you an idea. And I was sold on the idea of Final Fantasy Versus trailers, I was also sold on FFXV omen trailer which showed me that not all was lost, Noctis could be evil and maybe luna would have significant story. But hey! guess what? the things which I envisioned when Tabata announced those changes affected the game exactly the way i expected it.

Also there are way more gameplay video's of versus running and showing exactly what concept showed in 2006, even during Final Fantasy XV 2013 e3 anouncment and multiple gameplay's which followed that year was exactly what I was expecting. And staying on the theoriszing and fantazing topic  majority of the theories about the story was right, but wasnt included in the game, instead it was shoved into kingsglaive... spoilers for kingsglaive.. Instead of Luna and Nyx escaping with the ring from insomnia ... it was noctics and gang escaping the open city of insomnia with the ring this scenario was confirmed by nomura himself. And if you have played the game you and followed its development you would exactly know what was missing from certain section of the and what would have made the game better, especially the last image the logo behind the FFXV title when u see that it was incomplete you would know how big love was suppose to be in this story. 

In simple terms nomura wanted it to be a shakespearan tragic story about character's burden and Tabata went ahead and made it a war story with huge plot holes.