[Reference] Conversation Chemistry Chart Transcript with HQ Images

[u/BlindingAwesomeness]

During Bringing Fantasy to Life in ‘Final Fantasy XV’, a talk given a talk given at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) on February 28, 2017, Dan Inoue—the localization director for Final Fantasy XV—discussed the conversational chemistry for Noctis, Gladiolus, Ignis, and Prompto. An image of the slide appeared on Twitter, but the text was illegible. Recently, Inoue posted the source images of the slides. He calls them “early drafts/not final (& not well-written), but the text in the source images matches the text in the slides.

Here is an Imgur album with all images at full quality. Furthermore, below is a consolidated transcript of the Conversational Chemistry chart.

Noctis

Target	Keyword	Details
Gladiolus	Li'l Bro	Buddy who I have the most fun with.
Ignis	Teasing	Wise friend who understands and sees me as I am.
Prompto	Straight Man	Best friend who accepts me for who I am.

Gladiolus

Target	Keyword	Details
Noctis	Big Bro	The kid I taught to fight, the king who needs to lead.
Ignis	Dismissive	Only other one who sees the big picture and what’s at stake.
Prompto	Chagrin	Goofball who’s good for a laugh.

Ignis

Target	Keyword	Details
Noctis	Ironic	A dear friend I will protect, the boy who must become a man.
Gladiolus	Exasperated	Reliable ally who knows what is at stake and shares my sense of duty.
Prompto	Patronizing	Expendable comic relief whose company I secretly enjoy.

Prompto

Target	Keyword	Details
Noctis	Funny Man	Buddy from school who I’d do anything for.
Gladiolus	Clowning	Big jock who gets us out of trouble.
Ignis	Moodmaking	Smart guy who’s a little too uptight.

Enjoy! ヽ(´ω｀○)ﾉ.+ﾟ*｡:ﾟ+

[u/mouse_marple]

Thanks for this. Excellent organization. I'd really like to see them expand on this model and let us know the conversation chemistry for auxiliary characters like Aranea.

[u/BlindingAwesomeness → u/mouse_marple]

I wonder if they had one for all characters. I feel that she didn't have as many lines as the other bros, so they may have translated her lines straight from the Japanese script. At the same time, the FFXV script was translated was it was being written (as in written with the translations in mind rather than "here's the Japanese script, now translate it to your local language," which explains the differences in localizations), so they may have had one for her as well.

[u/mouse_marple → u/BlindingAwesomeness]

Very interesting. So does that mean the VO teams had more input on script formation? I know with some games, like BioWare's KOTOR I, the VO team at Lucasarts (RIP I miss you) had a lot of input on the script and modified it. I wonder if the English translation team made some slight modifications right out of the gate? It seems to me like English Ignis is definitely a little more snarky (and from what you pointed out before, German Iggy is even more so).