Anyone who has followed Final Fantasy since the Super Nintendo cartridge days knows that Square Enix loves a special broadcast. In November 2018 it was Final Fantasy XV’s turn: close to completing two years since launch, on November 29, the game got an official program scheduled for November 7, on the company’s YouTube channel.
Expectations were for news about The Dawn of the Future, the four-episode pack announced in April 2018 at a PAX East panel in Boston. The plan included Episode Ardyn, Episode Side Story: Aranea, Episode Lunafreya and Episode Noctis, all for 2019. The idea was to expand the base game’s story, showing more of Ardyn, Aranea, Lunafreya and Noctis himself, and even pointing to a different path for the adventure’s ending.
About Ardyn’s episode, what was known was the starting point: understanding how the villain came to hold so much resentment against the kingdom of Lucis, a hatred that spanned more than two thousand years. It was a chance to see the other side of one of the series’ most memorable antagonists, the kind we used to argue about at the video rental counter. Fans hoped to leave the broadcast with release dates in hand.
What came next
The broadcast brought very different news. On November 7, Square Enix confirmed that Hajime Tabata, the game’s director, had left the company on October 31, and that three of the four episodes were cancelled. Only Episode Ardyn survived: it came out in March 2019. The cancelled stories became the novel Final Fantasy XV: The Dawn of the Future, published in Japan in April 2019 and in the rest of the world in June 2020.
Source: GamingBolt.
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