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On Final Fantasy XV and the real world

Added: 06.04.2015 8:17 | 7 views | 0 comments

KSD: A few weeks ago, Square Enix released a trailer for Final Fantasy XV that focused exclusively on the games wildlife. Not combat, not story, but wildlife: the trailer begins with a shot of the games four protagonists running into the background while a simple frog sits placidly in the foreground, signaling loud and clear that this is a showcase for the creatures that creepeth along the same plains, many of them invisible to the player. The trailer calls itself World of Wonderor WOW, with a silhouette of a chocobo in the middle of the Oand does a surprisingly good job mimicking the structure and rhythm of a 1980s nature documentary, minus David Attenborough. Static shots, many of them close to the ground, some of them peering through dense thickets of blurry foliage, frame creatures large and small, from the Final Fantasy universe and our own. Theres a familiar combination of the mundane, the majestic, and the fearsome: black chocobos waddle aimlessly toward what is desi...