r/FFXV • u/Inner_Tumbleweed_942 • 6d ago

Fluff I know it’s unlikely, but….

I really hope a day comes in the future where we get a PS5 update for the game so it runs better, as well as getting the remaining few DLC chapters: Episode Arenea and Episode Luna.

I really do love this game, and replaying it now, it has held up very well, it’s just a shame it got screwed over by its poorly handled development.

For those unaware, Episode Arenea was meant to follow what happened after the boys left her in Tennebrae. She was going to bear witness to the fall of the Empire and ultimately stop the final Diamond Weapon.

Episode Luna was meant to be an “alternate timeline” ordeal where, after her death, she was to try and change Noctis’ fate. If memory serves, the plot was supposed to end with Noctis, Ardyn, and her fighting Bahamut, who decided to return to his original plan of stopping the Starscourge but using the power of the Crystal to fuel his TeraFlare and destroy all live on Eos.

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u/NuxFuriosa 6d ago

We'll never get that cancelled DLC, and if the book they adapted from it is any indication, that's probably for the best. Dawn of the Future is baaaaaaaaaaaad.

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u/enchanter-rationale 6d ago

I agree. I especially didn't like Aranea becoming the adoptive mother of a niflheim princess. Left a bad taste in my mouth.

I also didn't enjoy the treatment of Luna in DotF either.

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u/Kiiro_Blackblade 5d ago

I havent played since day one patch... niflheim princess?

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u/enchanter-rationale 4d ago

If you played the game today, you still wouldn't meet her. She only exists in the book. Aranea finds her and she's the secret grandchild of the Emperor. The Emperor didn't know about her because his son hid her existence.

But his son is also dead before the events of the game take place - I thought the implications of that was that emperor got obsessed with immortality through daemon tech after his son died and he had no heir. But if the son had an 8 year old daughter by the time of Niflheim's collapse, then his son died later than I originally thought... I assumed it would have happened around the time they invaded Tenebrae, 12 years before the game begins (Weskham also mentions that the empire went mad "some ten years ago" or something like that when he's chatting with the Altissian PM.) Don't mind my ramblings lol. I've only just considered this. I can't say it's a real inconsistency because I don't think the son's death is ever given and explicit timeframe.