VERSUS XIII

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare a versus xiii side blog

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None of this... makes sense to me !!!!!!

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I don't get why Nomura would make Yozora have duel colored eyes, I get that it's to make him stand out, but there's a lot of other protagonists that have eyes that turn red, and it's already obvious that he's making Yozora either discount of pricey-er Noctis. I don't know, the dual colors are cool, but also kind of off putting.

I totally get that, to me duel coloured eyes also is like the “trying too hard to stand out” type. Though they may have a purpose of some sort and if that’s the case then I don’t think it’s terrible. Maybe eyes that see the souls of the dead? ;) Lool jk I don’t think anyone can replace Versus XIII Noctis, but also it has to do with temperament and behaviour as well. Versus XIII Noctis to me was a lot more confident in his actions (when fighting) than FFXV Noct was, Yozora seems to elude that he has that same confidence as VS Noctis but it’s hard to tell. 

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While I'm not a fan of how Stella (whose name is probably Star or Night Star in Japanese) was portrayed in Verum Rex. It seemed like she was mostly portrayed that way to show her strong connection with Yozora in a minute long action clip which might as well have been one scene. But I still want to see her again and hope that she, Yozora and the other 2 guys are either in Kingdom Hearts 4 or Verum Rex gets made into a game.

This is.... super late I apologize for that. I definitely think there’s going to be something to do with Yozora/the world of Verum Rex to do with KH4 since he’s shown in that trailer. He might ask Sora to help him with the robots taking “Stella” (I need to think of a temp name for her haha) or something like that. I also am not the biggest fan of how she was portrayed but I believe if she was also fighting it would become a little too obvious, (how should I say it..) too on the nose? I doubt SE wouldn’t see all the similarities if she was also a fighter.

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Re-creation sketch of Stella Nox Fleuret from Dawn of the Future concept artwork

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Cloud Strife ↪ Final Fantasy VII Remake

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Aerith + Cloud ↪ Final Fantasy VII

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from dotf novel; i found this one particular art interesting.

noctis is shown holding hands with a blonde female in black with a rapier on her left hand.

and guess who? it’s stella.

looking at the artstyle, this one is definitely ferrari’s art for final fantasy versus 13′s storyboard.

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Solara Antiquum from FFXV - Dawn of the Future Novel

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ステラ・ノックス・フルーレ

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just a little psa ? I guess, I’m not back; I’m not really ready to be back quite yet, but maybe someday.

for now take this picture with a grain of salt but we can really see the Versus imagery in some of these. 

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FFXV - The Dawn of the Future Illustrations

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Versus

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There's a theory on Tumblr about Ravus being a versus connection. TLDR what I got from it is that since he's the only one to use Zantetsuken and he has parallels to Lightning's lines and his whole transformation looks like Cie'th Snow. idk rlly either

Actually I didn’t know about the Zantetsuken and the parallels but I did know he is from Versus ! Ravus is actually supposed to be the one under the hood here: 

His Silver Hair can be shown here ^ 

Also the fact that he is actually missing from the FFXV announcement trailer kinda proves it was him as well too! But as for the parallels and Lightning’s lines / Being snow’s Cie’th.... I get why since it is versus xiii after all but ksdflkff,, Personally I don’t think so 👀” I think by Versus XIII it might have just been a parallel world that had apart of the FNC story within XIII

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What do you think of some of the crazier theories out there trying to tie admittedly minor characters to versus?

I actually haven’t heard of any ! Is there any theory specifically that does this?? o: Unless you mean like Nomura’s more recent or other character designs referencing designs from versus then I don’t think they’re terrible !! Like some of them are really convincing and I like hearing theories in general but a lot of it might not be true most of the time (though after kh3 I’m beginning to rethink that haha) q w q ! But do let me know if there is a theory about that because I’m super curious honestly !!! 

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I feel like after everything I've heard from youtube and Tumblr, I believe that Tabata tried to give us Versus as best as he could

Hey there!! Yeah that’s true, but keep in mind ffxv was still his game before Versus was involved ! I believe he was going to plan it on his own with his own characters, etc. but then SE higher ups approached him and tried to make him use Versus concepts / characters so it wouldn’t be a “waste” I guess ! I believe I heard that he didn’t really want to at first but then couldn’t really say no so then with the time he was given (screw SE higher ups) he did try his best to make it his own along with using some //very little if i’m being honest// Versus references ! This is just a mess that’s no directors faults and all falls back to SE higher ups not understanding anything about games and just caring about $$$. Tabata shouldn’t have been forced to take on something he didn’t want to for HIS game, and I believe that’s a big reason why he decided to leave SE and make his own company where he can create the games he wants to make. Which I believe is something I’d do too, so I wish him the best :) !

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Master Aqua in Kingdom Hearts III