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What do you mean there’s a cut scene of Noctis being imprisoned in Angelguard by Bahamut!!

What do you mean Bahamut literally imprisons him until Noctis accepts his fate to give up his life!!!

What do you mean this was cut

It actually approaches disasterpiece levels. What if we had a boyband road trip, but it’s actually a royal convoy, but it also makes zero sense as a royal convoy cuz the convoy is an idiot boyband. What if you spend the entire game rolling around a dying world with these idiots, and you get really attached to them in spite of yourself because you spend all your time fishing and camping like normal people. What if the game was just an ad for Coleman. What if you stay up all night fishing while the demons swarm you while your Coleman camping gear is safely enshrined in holy light. What if there’s a resort that’s also the only port in a bajillion miles, and that’s apparently normal and also it’s always busy but nobody uses it. What if the villain isn’t a villain at all but just the broken half of your savior narrative because the villains are the gods actually and you’re going to act out their fucked up sacrificial narrative no matter what. What if there’s a train to nowhere and everything is demons. What if the heroine is the most important character and we don’t even make her a character. What if we don’t even put the story in the base game at all.

Oh and the combat is a frustrating mix between hold-button simulator and a genuinely innovative and fun teleportation magic system. Good luck.

#XVtober Day 7: Camp ⛺🌧

Did you know that the Starscourge, the main driving force of the plot of XV, being a disease that can turn humans into daemons, the thing that Noctis has to sacrifice his life to get rid of because even the gods can't do it, is only revealed to have come from the meteor that Titan caught (and thus be from beyond the stars) in the German localization?

there is legit unique lore in the owner’s manual for the one-of-a-kind custom Audi that they commissioned in advance of the game? A car, the Star of Lucis, that can only be owned by one ridiculously wealthy person, HAS ORIGINAL LORE

The Great Azure Serpent and the Woman Clothed with the Moon (Mixed media on watercolour paper, 2024)

You have learned the beginning; Go from mine to the other.