Online, there has also been some confusion over who will be playable in Final Fantasy XV. To be clear, Tabata also mentioned to 4Gamer that the only playable character in Final Fantasy XV is Noctis. According to Tabata, the party-play aspect, however, is based on tactical commands you give other characters, and then they act independently. In a separate interview, Tabata told Kotaku that the gameplay feels "very natural."
Spidey said: Looks pretty good, and heavily influenced by the direction of Xenoblade with the huge environments and giant monsters and battle system. Time will tell but the characterization seems a looot better than FF13. They must be doing the all male thing for a reason. Also nobody knows if a female joins your party later on. Is it confirmed that they don't? You actually play as only ONE character: Heh. Guess what other games only have 1 playable character who is male? Metal Gear Solid Kingdom Hearts.... Assassin's Greed GTA <Insert 500 more popular games here>
Spidey said: Heh. Guess what other games only have 1 playable character who is male? Metal Gear Solid Kingdom Hearts.... Assassin's Greed GTA <Insert 500 more popular games here>
Rhaegar said: None of those other games (aside from Kingdom Hearts) have you leading around a full-time party, either.
Scribe said: Also fun fact that Tabata, in his first main entry, said that he wants this to be the most critically acclaimed entry.
Inquisitor said: Final Fantasy XII has grown on me over time, but otherwise the series is an afterthought.
shooter_mcgavin said: I recall gamestrailers being harsh on FFXII during their review but 8 years later in their top 10 Final Fantasy games the game was ranked 4th I believe behind FFVI, FFIX, and FFIV. So yeah the game is going to grow over time for a lot of people who didn't appreciate it at first but I would have to thank FFXIII for that. I forgot who said it but they felt the appreciation of FFXII grew once FFXIII turned out the way it was. Since the complaint of FFXII was it was nothing like FFX and the successor of X was FFXIII, fans got what they asked for but the turned out to be pretty mediocre. To be fair though FFX is a very good game with some noticable flaws but FFXIII for some reason decided to leverage on FFX's flaws and amplify it. I am upset that it seems Square-Enix has somewhat disowned FFXII even acknowledging their dissapoitnments towards the game. While both FFXII and FFXIII were heavily critisized games FFXIII was the one more hated by the fans while FFXII still managed to have a strong following with others being lukewarm toward the game. Yet FFXIII seems to be defended by Square-Enix even to the point they would manufacture the popularity of the game and create two sequels and have the 2nd Dissidia game revolve around Lightning. What is strange though for all it's flaws FFXII had the right idea in the direction Final Fantasy should have gone to stay relevant in the 7th generation. It was an open world (open worldish game) and was a free roaming game for the most part, it had a more fantasy setting that made Elder Scrolls and Dragon age successful on consoles, and had a battle system in which even Bioware took elements from (Dragon Age's Tactics system was inspired by the Gambit system ). If only Square-Enix refined these elements more we wouldn't be talking about the downfall of the Final Fantasy franchise. In the end I actually have a feeling that FFXII is going to hold up better than FFX and FFXIII.
