Guide Final Fantasy XV

The superfans guide to Final Fantasy.

The superfans guide to Final Fantasy.

Game System

- The game engine is changed from Ebony (PS3 Environment) to Luminous Studio (with Ebony integration).

At time being the data is porting to Luminous Studio.

Battle System

- The system named Active Cross Battle (AXB)

- Can't switch between characters

- Choose one weapon to be main weapon, which can be switch during combat

- There are skills attached to each weapon

- It's important to set the right weapons before entering combat

- Tandem attacks can evolve and be chained together

- Parrying a stronger enemy's attack flows into a tandem attack

Button Navigation

- Attack

- Mash or holding down attack button perform basic combo attack (Note: button mashing will execute normal attack and chain them in a combo)

- Timing the attacks will result in using special attacks (counter or parry)

- Defense

- The block button (block or evade) costs MP

- Skill

- Not mentioned yet

- Jump

- Able to jump

- Parkour (Aerial-move)

- There will be parkour attacks that are unique to each of the tougher enemies

- Shift

- The state of all movements at warp-like speed for speedy battles. (plus a bunch of swords fanning out from Noct.)

Game Aspect

- Noctis friends react to the situation and will voice their opinions or explain the situation to you from time to time

- There's a feature to fish in lakes, ocean and rivers

- Player can drop by to a gas station to take a rest, eat meals or obtain information

- There're monsters that become more active at night

- Chocobos might be included in the game (showed at the demo)

Time Play

- The plan is for a 40-hour game if player only focus on the main scenario. Take much longer if player go explore the world (dungeons, etc.)

Trivia

- FF XV has same style in regards to attacking with FF Type-0 (in term of hold down button for basic combo)

- Player character designs were heavily influenced by Kingdom Hearts characters

- The Luminous Studio engine support for more than enough to surpassed Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

- The development team climbed mountains in order to depict them in the game