30: Final Fantasy XV – Show Notes
SHOW NOTES
First Segment
- A Typical Final Fantasy Encounter
- World Building:
- Magic and Technology Coexist:
- Yoshitaka Amano
- Summons
- Shiva
- Ifrit
- Odin
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- Recurring Themes
- Women in Final Fantasy
- Magic and Technology Coexist:
Second Segment
- Square
- Founded in 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto
- Division of “Den-Yu-Sha” a construction company
- Hironobu Sakaguchi
- Alpha 1986
- Final Fantasy 1987
- Based on Dungeons and Dragons
- Ahead of its time in the genre
- Directed up to Final Fantasy V
- Produced up to Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy XV
- Started development in 2006
- Tetsuya Nomura
- Character design on Final Fantasy V, VI, VII, VIII, and, X
- Lead Developer on Kingdom Hearts
- Originally planned as a spinoff from Final Fantasy XIII entitled Final Fantasy versus XIII
- Was eventually switched to being the main Franchise game
- Tetsuya Nomura was eventually replaced by Hajime Tabata
- Added the Road Trip feel to the game
- Facts and Figures
- Fastest selling Final Fantasy
- 5 million copies sold by December 1, 2016
Third Segment
- How It Measures Up to the Past
- The Impact of Final Fantasy VII
- The Depiction and Role of Women