The same friend was super excited about Final Fantasy Versus XIII too, we watched the trailer one night back on the good old days of MSN.
"OMG."
"I know. Man it looks so good"
"What are all of those swords?"
"I don't know but it looks so amazing it's going to be fantastic."
We kept the hype up for the next year. At 15, we would talk more about what was happening in real life than what was going on with the development of Versus XIII, which boy I fancied, how that girl so wasn't good enough for him. Gosh. Slowly, we were over Versus XIII, only ever really sharing the odd tidbit of info that appeared on Wikipedia.
Cue being 16, and the announcement of Final Fantasy XIII - WHAT? Lightning WASN'T going to be in Versus XIII? Was Versus XIII going to be the boy version? We'd be puzzled about it and talk for hours, again, on MSN about this game. We both fell in love with Vanille when she was announced as a character, and then Fang.... The Shiva BIKE? What the hell are they thinking, the Queen of Ice is not a bike...
I remember all of these conversations quite clearly because my friend and I really bonded for 2 years over Final Fantasy. It was after I saw that his MSN avatar was that of an upside down Yuna falling from Bevelle at her Wedding. "Omg you like Final Fantasy?" and that was that. We were friends.
You're probably wondering where all of this is going; well, unless you've been hiding under a rock, you will know that the amount of Final Fantasy XV information that has come out this last week is insane. 8 long years of nothing - and all of a sudden a flurry of information we can hardly keep up with. This is all great, but I feel like my hype-train died a long time ago. Maybe it's because my Final Fantasy friend and I aren't as good friends anymore, and now seeing all of this new information about the game - and how different it looks to those original concepts - maybe I just don't feel interested in it because it stings my nostalgic memory of it.
It seems that some of our Eyes On members have similar feelings on it too... I've been scouring the comments on the forum this week for varying views about the bombardment of news.
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It seems that some of us are quite cautious and disappointed, and most who are optimisic are cautiously so. By what we've seen this week. Square Enix have a lot riding on this game being a big success. If it isn't THE GREATEST FINAL FANTASY OF ALL TIME EVER, then they're going to lose a lot of fans for good. But then again, they could win us all back with Kingdom Hearts III.
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