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Kari5

  • Eastern Canada
  • Joined Nov 20, 2007
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A short related to FF15, this "prologue" shows bits of the origin story of the video game's antagonist, Ardyn. If you have not played the game, or do not plan on playing it, this is not worth watching. There is very view details given about the characters or setting to know whats really going on, so its more like a summary of some important scenes in Ardyn's life. It has minor spoilerse for FFXV, just because you don't know who the villain is right away, and his appearance in the game is releaved at the end.

Story

Not much of a story here.  As mentioned, this feels more like a bunch of semi-related scenes than any sort of full story. We don't know much about the setting, other than a few general statements, so it fast the feel of something only partially finished. If you've played the game (I've played a couple hours), you can fill in some holes, but it does take place a long time (generations?) before the story of FFXV.

But what they do explain, do I care? I think so. I haven't gotten far enough into FFXV to properly meet Ardyn yet (just a quick cameo scene) but background info is always good. The only thing I'm not sure about (not far enough into the game, may update this statement later) is if this is needed. If the game does a good enough job of telling the story, then it isn't, but if this provides background that the game does not, then I'm happy it exists! 

Characters

Basically same statements as above; they are not fleshed out, not even the main character, so I don't really care about any of them. I don't believe any of the characters aside from Ardyn are even in the game, so I especially don't care about them. 

Overall

I like the idea of this short. I enjoy the fact its background on the antagonist that may not be covered in the game that I'm playing right now. Do I wish it was better? Yes. I also believe the other FFXV shorts are better. Ten minutes just isn't enough to capture the amount of details a Final Fantasy game has. However, I would still recommend it to anyone who has played the game because of its length. Only ten minutes for more background story!

5/10 story
?/10 animation
?/10 sound
4/10 characters
5/10 overall

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