versus xiii plot leaked

-Noctis met and fought Aranea for the first time in this game/chapter. She is a mercenary hired by Niflheim, and stops working for them when they stop paying her in the later games, pretty much exactly like in the final version.

-Ravus was the final boss of the first game/chapter. He and Stella Nox Fleuret were both from Tenebrae, and Ravus knew about the true intention of Niflheim to invade Lucis, while Stella did not. After several encounters throughout the first game/chapter with his hood on, he reveals himself as Stella’s brother in the final boss fight. Although nominally a general of Niflheim, he was secretly working for Ardyn, and was specifically there to protect and capture Noctis under Ardyn's orders (during the first game/chapter, Ardyn's identity as Ravus's master is hidden). At the end of the boss fight, Ravus manages to escape from Noctis.

-Ardyn was portrayed as a silly and disinterested bureaucrat for most of the first game, kind of like how he is portrayed in the final version, in contrast to the other serious and calculating generals of Niflheim, with very few hints dropped in the first game/chapter that Ardyn is somehow the one pulling the strings behind the scenes

-The first game/chapter ended with Niflheim's invasion of Lucis being a success, and a new puppet government of Lucis being set up under Clarus, who agrees to share his crystal's energy with the rest of the world. Noctis and his gang escape the city and look for a safe haven to plot "revenge". Other characters also escape from the city, such as Cor, Iris, etc.

-In the second game/chapter, Noctis and his gang traveled across the continent and meet up with Cor Leonis, who reveals to Noctis that Clarus worked with Niflheim to kill his father and take the throne, sending Noctis into a rage. After calming down, Noctis and Cor decide to keep Clarus's role from Gladiolus a secret for now. (Leaker’s note: Gladiolus, Iris, and the others assume Clarus is being held “hostage” by Niflheim, not that Clarus was actively helping them)

-Cor's plan was to organize a resistance among the other nations against Niflheim by announcing that the true king of Lucis is still alive, and tells Noctis to meet him in Accordo

-During discussions with the leader of Accordo, an informant who didn’t trust Noctis told Niflheim about Noctis's presence there, causing Niflheim to send an army to reoccupy the city, which previously enjoyed a privileged status under Niflheim (Leviathan is awakened during this part to "defend" the city from Niflheim, and Noctis is forced to kill Leviathan because it was losing control)

-As the city was no longer safe for Noctis, Cor and the gang decide to head to Tenebrae, who in the absence of Ravus and Stella Nox Fleuret, is currently under the watch of the “Oracle”. Noctis also hopes to learn the whereabouts of Stella, whom he met in the first game/chapter during the infamous "party scene" where they talked about both being able to see Etro's light, and has since appeared in his dreams/hallucinations.

-Upon arriving in Tenebrae, they met with the Oracle (Gentiana), who hails from the lands "north" of Tenebrae (this region of the world was removed from the final game, and Gentiana’s role changed). She wears oriental-style clothes, unlike the rest of Tenebrae, who wear more fantasy European-style clothes. She has two assistants, one male and one female, who can shapeshift between human and animal forms.

-(Lore flashback) Gentiana told Noctis about the origin of Eos, which was created by the goddess Etro, who appointed a guardian to watch over the people of this new world. That "guardian" noticed that the humans of Eos were always fighting eachother over the powers of the four crystals, so he came up with the idea of creating a common enemy for the humans to unite against to end the fighting amongst humans. That enemy became known as demons. Etro did not approve of his plan, and stripped him of his powers, forever trapping him in the body of the mortal. Gentiana fears that the current demons used by the Niflheim army could be these same demons created by the guardian, and speculates that the ruling family of Niflheim is related to the guardian. Gentiana tells Noctis to travel to Niflheim, where Stella will be waiting for him, and find and destroy the source of the demons, and that Tenebrae would help Noctis take back the throne.

-The continent of Niflheim was based off of industrial age Great Britain, and there are large mines and smelting factories all over the continent. The capital itself is more modern.

-Noctis and the gang arrived at where they were supposed to meet up with Stella, but instead they get ambushed by Niflheim soldiers, led by Ravus, who is badly scarred from their last encounter

-In jail, Ravus explained to Noctis that he is not Noctis’s enemy, and that he is also working to free Tenebrae from Niflheim. He frees Noctis and his friends, and tells him the location of where research is conducted on demons, led by Verstael.

-Once in the laboratory, Prompto started losing control of himself, and leaves the party. There is a lot of human experimentation in the laboratory, especially on humans from Solheim and outer Niflheim. In the original plot, demons were supposed to be the “true” form of humans. The party finds Verstael, who is in control of Prompto, who reveals that Prompto is his son that he conducted experiments on that failed. Verstael’s goal is to unlock the true potential of humans, and he turns himself into a half-human, half-demon. The party defeats him and rescues Prompto.

-The party then decided to defeat the Emperor. The party finds the Emperor, who reveals his goal is to use the energy of the final crystal to conduct research to create technology that can replace the energy of the crystals, allowing the Aldercapt family to rule over the world forever with a monopoly on the technology. They fight, but Ardyn intervenes, killing the Emperor, saying that such research would be a waste of time. Ardyn then reveals that he was the master of Ravus in the first game/chapter, the “guardian” that Gentiana spoke of, and the one who provided Verstael with the research on demons (leaker says this is supposed to be very surprising, Ardyn receives pretty much no screen time up until this point in the game).

-(Lore flashback) Ardyn says he has been helping Niflheim for centuries since Niflheim’s founding to help conquer the other nations. He created the “demons” by unlocking the raw emotion in humans, but Etro became jealous of his power, and sent a son created out of love to rule over the world instead; this eventually became the Nox Fleuret family. But before Etro returned to her realm, she got seduced by lust by another mortal, creating another family that had the power of Etro; this eventually became the Lucis Caelum family. Etro was so ashamed by her actions that she left the world to never return. Ardyn’s goal is to use up all the remaining crystals in the world, creating a conflict between the descendants of Nox Fleuret and Lucis Caelum, and between humans and demons, causing Etro to open the gate to this world as Etro unconsciously desired to meet with her children (Nox Fleuret and Lucis Caelum), and allowing Ardyn to finally return to the realm of the gods. For this to happen, he needs Noctis to unleash all his raw emotion, and he sends a resurrected, uglier version of Verstael’s demon after the party (final boss fight). This causes a large part of the capital building to explode, forcing Noctis and the party to run away. As they are trying to escape the building, Stella rescues them (the first time Stella appearing in game since the beginning of the first game/chapter). The second game/chapter ends with Noctis, his gang, and Stella leaving Niflheim, with Iedolas being announced dead and Verstael (somehow) being announced as the new Emperor of Niflheim.

-The final game/chapter began with Noctis, his gang, and Stella returning to Tenebrae. Noctis is still in shock from the news he heard from Ardyn. Stella explains that she learned the truth about their families from Ravus, who learned it from Ardyn. Ravus believed that Etro had to return to this world to return light to the three expired crystals, and that the only way to do this was to defeat Noctis and the Lucis Caelum family and relieve Etro of her shame. Thus Ravus worked with Ardyn to achieve this goal, until he learned that Ardyn’s only goal was to return to the realm of the gods, and that he was willing to destroy Eos to achieve this. Meanwhile, Stella, with the help of Gentiana, believes that there must be another way to return Etro to this world, and that as descendants of Etro, they should have the ability to communicate with Etro (Etro’s light). Noctis, still angry at his father who he assumed knew the truth about his family, agrees with Stella for now and they decide to return to Lucis to speak with the crystal.

-On the way to Lucis, Noctis and Stella acquired the seven Astrals (summons) in order to speak with the crystal: Ifrit (near Solheim, now near Niflheim), Bahamut (near Niflheim), Fenrir (near Tenebrae), Shiva (Tenebrae, in the acquisition of Gentiana), Leviathan (Accordo), Titan and Ramuh (near Lucis)

-In Lucis, Noctis and his party infiltrated the palace, where they encounter Glauca. This is an unbeatable boss fight, and you have to run away.

-Gladiolus found out that his father was the one responsible for killing King Regis, and leaves the party due to doubts about whether he should be loyal to Noctis or his father.

-Noctis confronted Clarus, who tells him that his father (King Regis) was prepared to end his bloodline in order to end the curse of Etro, but that Clarus was not prepared to let him do that, so worked with Niflheim to take the throne from him. Clarus then swings at Noctis, but Gladiolus blocks the blow, killing him, causing Noctis to unleash his raw emotion and killing Clarus (fulfilling one of Ardyn’s conditions).

-Ravus arrived and says that he must defeat Noctis, who now resembles a demon. You play as Ravus in this boss fight. After the first stage, the boss fight is unbeatable in the second stage, and Noctis defeats Ravus.

-Ravus told Stella that the fate of Eos is now in Stella’s hands. Noctis absorbs all the remaining energy from the Lucis crystal, causing the four crystals in the world to break, which causes many people to unleash their emotions and turn into demons. The area around the Lucis crystal turns into a gateway to the Kingdom of the Dead, drawing everybody in.

-In the Kingdom of the Dead, Stella and the party found Etro (each of the party members, including Gladiolus, had to go through their own trial in the Kingdom of the Dead). Etro is sleeping (same pose as the logo) and Stella pleads with her to wake up, but Ardyn arrives and says that it is useless, as Etro no longer cares about Eos or its people. Ardyn then attempts to kill Etro to take revenge, but is instead absorbed into her. This causes Etro to wake up, who is horrified by what has happened to Eos, but is happy to finally be reunited with the Nox Fleuret (Stella). Etro asks Stella to stay with her and leave Eos behind, but Stella refuses, causing the Ardyn part of the Ardyn-Etro hybrid to grow in prominence, and absorb Stella too.

-Now in control of Noctis, Noctis went through his own trial in the Kingdom of the Dead, involving his father and his mother, Aulea Lucis Caelum (childhood Noct gameplay portions). After seeing how much his father and mother loved him, his hate for his family and his family’s origin subsides, and he becomes less demonic. Noctis emerges from his trial to find the Ardyn-Etro-Stella hybrid. Now reunited with his party, he fights the hybrid, first destroying the Ardyn-Etro-Stella hybrid, then a Etro-Stella hybrid, and then finally a solo version of Stella (final boss fight). After freeing Stella, Noctis tells her that he will stay behind in the Kingdom of the Dead with Etro, freeing Eos from Etro’s shame once and for all, while Stella pleads with him not to. Noctis fuses with Etro, and then opens up a gateway pushing Stella and the rest of the party to the other side. The final game/chapter ends with both Lucis and Niflheim ending their monarchies, with Lucis being headed by Ignis, Stella leaving Tenebrae in the hands of Gentiana and heading off on a journey, and Noctis sitting on the throne of Lucis sleeping.

Miscellaneous

-There were a maximum of four interchangeable party members. Additional party members could be unlocked for “non-story” missions upon fulfilling certain conditions: Cor (after meeting him in the second game/chapter), Aranea (after finishing her mercenary group’s line of quests in the second game/chapter), Iris (after finishing her line of quests in the second game/chapter), and Stella (third game/chapter).

-Ravus fought with Nox Fleuret Armiger, similar to Stella’s. Ardyn, in his human form, fought with a gun hidden in his umbrella.

-There were a line of side missions involving Loqi, a general of Niflheim, beginning in the second game/chapter. He looked different than in the final version.

-Driving was not like in the final version, and although open world areas existed around the cities and major areas (Accordo, Tenebrae, and Niflheim), they were much smaller and you teleported from one to another after finishing an area

-Solheim was not an area, although you saw a lot of it in flashback cutscenes, and most of its residents were dead in the present era

Wait, Stella wasn't dead all along then?

can you put this in a fucking pastebin or something

>>375891665
https://pastebin.com/gKiAL6Jj

Hold on, there was several leaks that said that Stella was dead all along and that the crystal made Noctis kill her when they were kids is that not the case?

>>375892350
dunno, it seems like stella could have been dead in the first half of the game before she appears again. wouldn't surprise me if her role was rewritten and rewritten several times.

>>375892259
based paste

Where is this from?

>>375892454
That wouldn't surprise me, since Roberto Ferrari did say the story was constantly being changed every few months. Where did this leak come from?

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>The evil looking brotherfucker ended up being evil
Calling bullshit on this

>>375891063
I legitimately like Ardyn's motivations in the final game better than this

Much of the rest seems like an improvement over what we got though

>>375891301
well that went full retard at the end didn't it?

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>>375890679
Let it go.

Final Fantasy XV is an excellent game. More so than your fanfic versus ever would have been.

>>375893069
sounds exactly like a nomura written plot/ending, in both a good and bad way.

>>375893069
Typical Final Fantasy, shit always goes weird to say the very least at the end

Kinda funny that the final boss seems like your usual giant humanoid monster, Nomura hasn't done one of those ever since the first Kingdom Hearts

>>375893171
/thread

>>375893247
how many games has he even made since kingdom hearts? and the final boss fight of this story reminds me a lot of kingdom hearts 2, where it's a "reverse" giant humanoid monster -> regular human style.

>>375893456
he's made another 4-5 kingdom hearts games

>>375893456
Only Kingdom Heartses actually, all of which ends with a mano-a-mano
Well, except 358/2 days, kinda blocked that one on my head so i forgot about it

>>375890679
so stella ends up as the last boss fight. would have loved that, since that's what it always felt like it was setting up anyways. i was even hoping you would be able to fight luna somehow.

>>375893830
I'll never forgive Omen trailer for gearing my expectation that way

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>>375893875
demon noctis will live on forever!

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>>375894308
Down with Osea!

>>375894308
That trailer's existence is basically a big fuck you to the fans who were worried we wouldn't be getting the darker story promised for Versus and thought it would be this dark because of the trailer.

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>>375890679
So this mysterious guy in the trailer was Glauca/Cor's twin brother?

aka turned into Drautos in the movie

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how come there's a new version of "verusis xiii" every 3 months? last time stella killed herself within 10 minutes of the game starting

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>>375894815
compare to the shot of cor in the same trailer. has the mystery finally been solved?

>>375893171
Final Fantasy is the only game I have ever knowingly thrown away/deleted.

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>>375891359
Another day another fake versus "leak".

>>375891665
Don't bother.

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>>375894917
People have been speculating that guy who looked like Cor was Drautos ever since we saw Drautos last year.

>>375892640
it's from 2ch, a japanese guy wrote all of this there at least a couple months back

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>>375894819
It's just nomurafags making fake leaks again, notice how none of these "leaks" mention the high ranking military general Safay Roth from Niflheim that was revealed in the ultimania, who was ultimately cut in the final game during rewrites, but the SAF on the Niflheim airships was mentioned by Tabata as a nod to the "famous general" who used to be in the game and who was originally going to be one of the villains next to Ardyn.

I don't know who Safay Roth was but it's possibly this guy standing behind Iedolas in the 2013/2014 trailers who was never seen since.

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>>375895698
i always thought that was the guy turned into loqi.

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>>375895698
Also "Safay Roth" has got to be the dumbest nod to Sephiroth that I have ever heard. If such a character did ever exist, I'm glad he was removed.

>>375895698
He was never supposed to be a villain alongside Ardyn. Ardyn REPLACED Safay Roth as the villain. So this Safay guy got cut a loooooong time ago.

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>>375895847
I feel like Loqi and Caligo only existed since 2015, Caligo was definitely supposed to have a bigger role because he was abusing loli Luna in the dawn trailer, which is still canon btw.

>>375895979
Well the ultimania says he was a character that got cut. These "leaks" also try too hard to look legit by mixing in the thing about Umbra having a human that was a ninja sort of like the kingsglaive, who Ferrari mentioned on his facebook Umbra having a human form was a thing in versus, pic related bring Ferrari's design for what he looked like as a human. But they failed to mention Ferrari confirmed Gentiana was originally Stella's messenger between Tenebrae and Niflheim and that Ferrari said Gentiana had two outfits with one originally had a white armor on her arm and a great sword, the other a formal dress, and he mentioned that her final dress is a mix between the two he originally made.

>>375896243
This Safay Roth probably got cut before 2010 then since Ferrari joined versus in 2010 and Ardyn existed since 2010 at the earliest, and according to Ferrari Ardyn was always the main villain, so this Safay Roth was most likely cut before even Ferrari joined the game and he possibly didn't even know there was a Safay Roth

>>375896639
The ultimania specifically says that ardyn replaced safay roth as the villain. so it would make no sense for safay roth to be together with ardyn.

Also, you complain that the leaks should have safay roth, who was confirmed removed, but you complain that the leaks SHOULDN'T have umbra, who was confirmed in the game? Which is it? You can't have it both ways.

>>375896639
Half the reason these leaks are popular in Japan is that they called a different role for Gentiana before the Ferrari comments got translated into Japanese, which was months after they got translated into English (quite recently), which itself was apparently months after the original French? that Ferrari posted it in.

>>375894603
No it isn't.

>>375896991
Safay Roth was something from Versus, it's unknown exactly when he was cut even if Ardyn became the main villain in 2010, that happening doesn't mean Safay Roth didn't have a reduced role for a while until they eventually cut him altogether. If you can't see how desperate this "versus leak #4676286458 this week" all is, then I don't know what to say; especially since pretty much everything mentioned here is something that has at some point been mentioned as either someone's speculation or theories, or things we already knew were in the game and things mentioned after the fact to have been in the game.

Clarus was for a long time speculated as being a traitor and possibly related to Regis, hooded guy aka Ravus was for a long time speculated as being Stella's brother, the guy who looks like Cor was speculated for a long time for being Cor's brother/ Drautos was speculated for being Cor's brother. etc.

Just because someone makes a post saying "wooow ebin leaks Noctis gets the sharingan!" doesn't mean it's an actual leak.

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>>375896639
>But they failed to mention Ferrari confirmed Gentiana was originally Stella's messenger between Tenebrae and Niflheim

This leak would seem a lot more fake if it DID mention an insignificant detail like that. Then it would just seem like it copy and pasted whatever Roberto Ferrari said.

>>375897291
Ferrari's comments I believe are from December last year.

>>375897625
>hooded guy aka Ravus was for a long time speculated as being Stella's brother

uh, he is stella/luna's brother

>>375897693
Nope, they were actually posted in the beginning of November on Roberto Ferrari's Facebook page. It's just nobody in the English-speaking world noticed until the end of December because he posted them in Italian, and nobody fucking speaks Italian.

>>375893171
Fuck off and kys xv-kun

>>375897634
It says Gentiana had male and female assistants that could shapeshift from human form to animal, Umbra originally having a human form was literally some insignificant detail Ferrari mentioned offhand in the comments section of his facebook. By the way Ferrari also mentioned Iris's name wasn't originally Iris either, but this "leak" has no mention of that.

>>375897718
He's saying that people long theorized it before it was officially confirmed.

>>375898007
then what does that have to do with the leak? because people theorized it, it must be false? wut?

>>375897718
I know. It was still widely speculated that he was Stella's brother ever since 2008 when they were first shown. Some even thought hooded guy/Ravus was Stella. Hell I remember people thinking Aranea was Stella too.

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>>375898007
Literally every possible theory was "theorized" at some point by somebody. There was a crapload of speculation for this game, since that's all there was to do since it took so long to come out. Don't see how that's relevant to literally anything.

>>375898084
That there is nothing in this "leak" that isn't something people didn't already speculate for a while, it all just reads like someone is mixing their speculation of what they thought Versus was with things we knew were in Versus with some of the things mentioned after XV was out about Versus.

>>375897969
>By the way Ferrari also mentioned Iris's name wasn't originally Iris either

source? ive follow ferraris fb page and i never once saw him say that

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>>375898273
There is no source because he just made it up.

>>375898273
https://pastebin.com/f3S2EPpP
He says Iris had a different name when he created her.

>>375898794
So basically, when he submitted Iris's design to management, they took the design and changed the name.

>>375898747
See >>375898794

>>375898920
that's just the regular character design process..sounds like her name was changed mid-design, not mid-story from what ferrari originally said.

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>>375899238
Yeah, again, this leak would seem more fake if it DID mention an insignificant detail like that, considering Iris's name was never anything else post-design. Tabata fanboys btfo again

>>375898920
It's common. Cloud was originally Joe. Hell Tifa and Aeris were originally one character with the name Tifa and design of Tifa and she was Sephiroth's sister, before they created a new design and name for that character which was the current Aeris design and name, then the Tifa design and name was repurposed into the current Tifa. Barret was also originally named Blow.

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>>375899491
>Joe
>Blow

Although Cloud isn't really much better.

>>375899468
He said her name was different when he designed her, which would have been in 2010 onwards because he only joined starting in 2010, the name Iris wasn't revealed until 2016. If this "leak" was real then it'd use her original name just like it mentions Stella instead of Luna too. Nomuracucks are so desperate for their leak of the week to be real.

>>375899715
Why the hell would it use a pre-design name? Try thinking a little bit before speaking.

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>>375899715
Iris's "original" name was Iris. There was never any other name. That is like complaining Cloud isn't called Joe. Tabatacucks are showing their desperation.

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>>375890679
This is the Stella I always wanted. Lunafrena the "Strong" is like a hallowed out, anorexic version of the beautiful yet also courageous Stella.

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I'm still disappointed they removed the Fabula Nova Crystallis lore and along with it the darker, death themed tone.

>>375890679

>even the "supposed to have been" text sounds bloody awful

Was there seriously just no salvaging this project from the start?