Quote Originally Posted by Sapphic View Post
Irrelevant, only way to see it in game is in FCoB. And it expands on the story in FCoB showing what happened after the WoLs where zapped into the future, with Bahamut and how Louisoix became Phoenix.
doesn't change that it's mechanically a pre-existing cutscene given as a "reward" for beating t12.
It's the exception that proves the rule.
What most likely happened was the full cutscene was created as part of the end of an era cutscene, but when looking over it they realized "Maybe we should keep this part ambiguous?" and split it off for later. The t12 cutscene was not created with t12 in mind, t12 was created with the cutscene in mind.
Especially since the HW trailer has been shown to use out-of-engine renditions of things that happen in-engine, which tells me this will be the route they will take down the road. We will very likely not be seeing any out-of-engine cutscenes for the game ever again.