It was a game about a young, moody prince, dressed in black, who tries to avenge his father.Īs the years passed, the game transformed into something different with every new trailer. The game was first announced at the Electronics Entertainment Expo in 2006, in a trailer that began with a portentous epigraph from the play itself: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” At that point, it was called Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and its scope was defined in simple, Hamlet-like terms. There is no power on earth to be compared to him.īEFORE IT BECAME other things - an interactive road-trip buddy movie, a cooking game, a simulator of days spent staring at the metal rails of highways - Final Fantasy XV was a Hamlet adaptation.
