Final Fantasy XV comes out tomorrow and any other time I would’ve already been searching all over the web for spoilers but not for XV. Anyone that knows me in the forum knows how much I love spoilers so why not with XV? Well part of the reason is that I’m going to be recording myself playing the game and that wouldn’t work if I already know what’s happening but there’s a bigger reason.
I was discussing with some friends my feelings on the game coming out tomorrow and why I wasn’t more excited about it. Basically XV is my Schrödinger’s cat experiment, a part of me is elated about the fact that after 10 years I’m finally going to play this game. The game that for a time I thought was dead and I would never get to see it come to life, is actually happening. I was looking at the game while it was downloading and I just kept thinking I must have been dreaming. In a couple of hours I’m going to be playing XV, it’s unreal.
But then comes the hesitation, the uncertainty about XV. The game that I was waiting for the majority of those ten years isn’t there anymore. The character that I was looking forward to the most isn’t there anymore. I don’t know if I’m going to like this game and that wouldn’t be a big deal for most releases but it is for a game that most of us have been waiting for a decade. There’s this fear at the back of my head that something is going to happen during XV that is going to make me hate it.
This isn’t really the game that I wanted and in some ways I’ve come to term with the fact that Versus is gone and this is something else. But Versus was the game from which I had built my expectations in my head and between those long gaps without new information it was the only thing I had about the game.
XV can’t live up to the version I have built up for years in my head but honestly Versus wouldn’t have either. So I would like to hold on to my version of it a little while longer. In a couple of hours the ten year saga of Versus/XV will be over and I have no idea what happens next.
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It depends on what the game is actually like. The reactions in everyone will be different. You just have to wait and see and try it out, but I know how you feel, I really do. I’ve been waiting for Kingdom Hearts 3 since 2006-ten years ago and I still have to wait for another two years. Though it seems like everytime the extra two year wait is halfway over, they then announce either more spin-off KH games or re-re-re-RE-release the previous games for new console and forces me to wait for another extra year, bringing me right back to the two-year wait all over again.
Not to mention that I’ve been waiting for a remake of Before Crisis-Final Fantasy VII and a sequel of FFVII set after Dirge of Cerberus and expected the Remake of the Original game to be the last on Square Enix’s mind. Instead, I get the complete opposite and those hopes and wishes I’ve wanted for years will never be made a reality despite that Nomura had said that they had more ideas for future Final Fantasy VII titles after Crisis Core. It’s worse when no one has confirmed whether those ideas were scrapped and that the Compilation is dead or not and it’s been years now. The silence is WAAY too long.
But I know how you feel in regards of a game that you’ve been waiting for only for something to happen and you’re left with losing the excitement that no longer exists.