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do you think venum rex is gonna be more popular than ff15 ?

Being completely honest, I do not know.

As a fan of the franchise in general, I followed the work of Nomura with Final Fantasy Versus XIII very closely for just over 6 years. I absorbed like a sponge all the information I could (interviews, reviews in magazines and others).

I fell in love with each of the trailers of the game to the point that, if I see one to this day, I think: “where the hell was all this?!”.

In fact, with the commotion of the secret ending of KH3 and Verum Rex, you can notice without looking too much that the old trailers of Versus XIII are being filled with comments from fans and users about the fact. It `s hilarious.

Let’s just recap a little:

Since Nomura was removed from Versus XIII in 2012 (leaving Tabata as director and renaming the game as FFXV) he did not re-draw anything related to FFXV. That until November of 2017 when he drew Noctis for Dissidia NT. 5 years passed.

Redesigned Riku to look like Noctis.

He chose Ray Chase (the actor who gives his voice to Noctis) to be the Master of Masters.

He named an entire original world in KH3 “Scala ad Caelum”.

He gave Sora the movements planned for Noctis in Versus XIII.

He made public his disdain to the DLC and claimed that he made COMPLETE games.

He did not put any Final Fantasy character (sacrificing with this the appearance of characters dear to him, such as Cloud, Squall, Tifa, Lightning, etc.), but instead made a kind of tribute to Versus XIII through Verum Rex.

The Verum Rex girl is undeniably a tribute to Stella. 

Verum Rex, by the way, means in Latin “True King” and the protagonist is called Yozora (Noctis Caelum in Latin, it’s hilarious the obviousness of this, my God).

Halfway through the secret ending of KH3 it is impossible to listen to the background melody and Yozora’s pensive attitude… and not remember Insomnia, Somnus and Prince Noctis of Versus XIII.

Is this being mean? His Magnum Opus artistic and creative(Final Fantasy Versus XIII) was murdered by Square Enix executives mercilessly.

I watch the Verum Rex commercial and then the secret ending of KH3 and I can only think (as an artist) how frustrating it must be to not finish something you loved so much.

I know that Final Fantasy XV is not a bad game (do not blame Tabata either, he did what he could in a too short time range), but it’s definitely not what Nomura dreamed it would be.

I still want to know what Nomura wanted to convey with the lyrics of Somnus (and why the hell I never saw it in FFXV). I still want to see the Noctis he imagined for his game.

We could expect some of that in Verum Rex, maybe, but honestly, I do not know if it’s enough (both for him and the fans).

There is an undeniable conclusion to all this: Nomura REALLY wished to do Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

Verum Rex is a kind of tribute (and protest) to Versus XIII.

Nomura wants FF Versus XIII, fans want FF Versus XIII. Everyone knows it (Square Enix included) … that’s why there is so much consternation and excitement around the subject.

Tetsuya Nomura is like the diva drama queen of the Square Enix and honestly … I love him for that. C:

Was scrolling through my DeviantArt account and saw this old work of mine, so might as well posting it on my Tumblr lol. Something about Cloud trying to attack Stella, and then Noctis came, obviously displeased with the entire situation. This fake scene is purely fan made, I do not own the characters there, Square-enix owns Final Fantasy and its characters.

SO SAD.

December 17th 2017 was just such a cool day. I saw ONE OK ROCK live in Vienna, the gig was amazing! And we were so close to the stage!

Life is truly strange. Because of December, 18th 2017. Just another day, but completely different. It’s been a while since a loss hit me that hard, actually it never did before, not this hard. Never gonna forget this date.

I know how people feel about long posts that are not relevant to the topic that people liked my page for. I just feel like our modern, digital, short-living world that cares so little has become so cruel, to the point of being unbearable for some of us - including one of my favourite singers, an innocent soul who just commited suicide. The tragic news of his death truly hit me by surprise and left me devastated. I’m still in a state of shock. I’m a big fan of SHINEE since over 7 years. I truly loved them. They helped me through hard times. I especially adored Jonghyun sooo much. Never in my wildest dreams did the thought ever occurred to me that one day (and it was so soon too!), I’d wake up to the shocking news of Jonghyun commiting SUICIDE? Why? He was successful in many ways, beloved, talented, good-looking - a ‘perfect’ person. But that seemed to just be his superficial outside self. I just… love life so much and I can’t imagine how hard… unbearable… lonely… dark it must have been in his soul… that led him into taking his own life. Why didn’t he tell anyone? Suicide is really no solution to anything because the end awaits us anyways, so why not trying anything else before that? Why giving up… Life is so much more than the things that you see or feel right now. And I know it’s selfish but it hurts so much to lose someone that you like! Please someone tell me that this is a bad dream. It would be the best Christmas present ever! I feel sooo sorry for this poor soul. I have so much more to say but I keep forgetting it. It’s hard to keep living a normal live and pretend like nothing happened because it’s just “another loss” in this cruel world. I’ll always remember. May he rest in peace, poor poor Jonghyun. He was 27.

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