{"id":3617,"date":"2017-03-02T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/final-fantasy-xvs-four-friends-were-inspired-by-some-interesting-fake-and-real-people\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:04:38","slug":"final-fantasy-xvs-four-friends-were-inspired-by-some-interesting-fake-and-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/final-fantasy-xvs-four-friends-were-inspired-by-some-interesting-fake-and-real-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy XV\u2019s four friends were inspired by some interesting (fake and real) people"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An action star, a spy, a kid playing hooky from school, and a \u201990s music star go on\u00a0a road trip. Who wouldn\u2019t want to play that game?<\/p>\n

Dan Inoue was the\u00a0localization director for Final Fantasy XV, which made him responsible for the English script of the open-world role-playing game. Final Fantasy XV came out last year for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. We loved it<\/a>, in large part because of the realistic bonds of friendship portrayed by the game\u2019s four friends.\u00a0At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Inoue talked about the localization process for Final Fantasy XV.<\/p>\n

Inoue revealed that when writing for these four, he used other characters as inspiration. This helped him find\u00a0distinct personalities\u00a0for each one. He also noted that when looking for these character molds, he prefers using fictional\u00a0people as inspiration. Inoue said that you often know fiction characters better than real people, who usually have depths ands secrets you can\u2019t know or account for.<\/p>\n

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Above: Friendsss.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: Square Enix<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For Ignis, the tall, bespectacled cook and driver of the group, Inoue thought of a suave, logical\u00a0character like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes. He modeled the photo-taking Prompto off of Ferris Bueller, the jokester and fast-talker from Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>. For the tough Gladio, Inoue pictured him as a younger John McClane, the tough-as-nails action hero from the Die Hard<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n

But for Noctis, Final Fantasy XV\u2019s main character, Inoue broke his own rule. He wasn\u2019t sure what he wanted Noctis to be, but he knew what he didn\u2019t want: a whiny, brooding character. These heroes have become a clich\u00e9 in Final Fantasy, notably with Squall in Final Fantasy VIII.<\/p>\n

It was when Inoue talked to Noctis\u2019s Japanese voice actor, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, that Inoue got his personality model. Suzuki told Inoue that he was channeling Kurt Cobain, the singer of the \u201990s grunge band Nirvana, when voicing Noctis. Inoue agreed that Cobain\u2019s introverted but sensitive personality would make a good fit for the character.<\/p>\n

Now I just need a Final Fantasy where they use four different Nicholas Cage characters as inspiration for the cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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