#remind

I was rewatching the old Versus XIII trailers, and I realized a lot when they got to the 2011 trailer, where the scene from KH3 remind is most clearly recreated.

The first thing I realized immediately is that, the line of Noctis's driver is basically the same in terms of meaning as what Yozora's driver says with Luxord's voice. "Impressive, is it not"? He wants Noctis to look out the window and see. The Shinjuku government building. Which is now, in this fictional setting, a royal palace, a citadel.

Its still the seat of power it is in real Japan, but. Now there's actually literally a seat. A throne.

In KH3, Luxord doesn't call Yozora "prince" before that, but. I didn't realize the similarity of the lines afterwards.

But, in the same trailer, after the scene with Noctis and Stella, at about 17 minutes and 30 seconds in that video, it shows Noctis's father, on his throne, and it says he'll be the last king, and I realized that. He looks the same as the driver? It's hard to tell, we don't get a close up on him at the same angle, and. I don't have any photoshop or image editing skills, so if any tumblr users could play with jpegs like dolls, to make a better comparison, that would help.

For people who only know Final Fantasy XV, this might be confusing because he doesn't look like Regis in that version, but. Regis actually got redesigned between Versus XIII and XV. I also don't know if he was named Regis, but. When they changed Versus into XV, Nomura says he redesigned Stella, and then when Tabata took over, they changed Stella's name to Luna, because there was a different story role.

In Versus XIII, the kings of Lucis were more like. A yakuza family. So Noctis's dad looked like. A mob boss. Slicked back hair and a dark suit. In XV, the kingdom of Lucis was more straightforwardly noble, politically, so he got changed to look more like a refined, elder statesman. Gray hair, a cape.

And, Luxord Kingdom Hearts doesn't look much like. Any version of Regis's design. Aside from having facial hair. And we see Yozora's driver has blond hair and. That is definitely Robin Atkin Downes doing the British accent he does for Luxord.

But. If the scene being recreated where Luxord drives Yozora is one where Noctis was being driven by his dad. Does that mean that. If Yozora is playing Noctis's role, that Luxord is playing. Regis's role?

...This is all moot if the driver for Noctis isn't actually Regis, I guess. But it looks so similar to me, and it's hard for me to tell.

The driver in Versus seems sorta playful and amused by Noctis's comment about the invasion, and "Noctis Oji" isn't the most respectful way to talk to a prince. There's no "sama" implying he's the driver's superior.

Noctis and Regis supposedly have a playful relationship, even in that version, so. I mean, maybe. Or maybe I'm reading too much into the facial expressions.

The car looks like the Regalia, which is Regis's car in XV, though my understanding is that the car got more important later, after Nomura left. Maybe it was just a car at this point.

The person Regis talks to later is probably Ravus/Lupis, who supposedly in the Versus version was chosen by a crystal/is a L'Cie, and wears a white sheet as a shroud. He's sick or whatever, and also maybe jealous of the Lucis family and working for Niflheim like Ravus in XV, unclear. But I don't think he's talking to Noctis, and telling him directly he'll never be king.

Hes not going to let Noctis be king, but it's supposedly an act of love.

...I don't know what it means for Luxord's character, if he's actually a king, or. I dunno, I guess a General or. An Admiral? A captain? If he's the superior of a. "Commander".