A thought spurned on by both the Smash Bros and Advent Children on Netflix news, but how would people feel about roaming summons? Instead of lengthy FMVs, would you be open to having summons fight alongside you via command input ala FFX? Or would you prefer more of a free roaming (do what they want) AI aspect ala Advent Children - with them doing their own thing in the battlefield once summoned?
Since it's more than likely that some open-worldness will be involved in the 'evolved' battle system, I think it could be quite cool to have summons do their own thing once called and fight alongside the party. Depending on your level of mastery of a summon materia, stronger summons could attack an enemy before flying off and scouring the countryside - looking for more targets - meaning that you'd have a cooldown before they return and you can summon them in battle again. Or even bathe everyone in an attack until you level up the materia and gain more mastery and control of that summon.
Could be a pretty neat feature.
Regardless, I really like the 'remnants' of a summon's presence that they we get a glimpse of in XV - with the area thunder-scorched until it slowly fades back to normal. That's something I'd like to see more of, in terms of both magic and summons.
Since it's more than likely that some open-worldness will be involved in the 'evolved' battle system, I think it could be quite cool to have summons do their own thing once called and fight alongside the party. Depending on your level of mastery of a summon materia, stronger summons could attack an enemy before flying off and scouring the countryside - looking for more targets - meaning that you'd have a cooldown before they return and you can summon them in battle again. Or even bathe everyone in an attack until you level up the materia and gain more mastery and control of that summon.
Could be a pretty neat feature.
Regardless, I really like the 'remnants' of a summon's presence that they we get a glimpse of in XV - with the area thunder-scorched until it slowly fades back to normal. That's something I'd like to see more of, in terms of both magic and summons.