Revelations from NA Fan Fest (July 2023)

[Iscah]

Watching the keynote currently, no time to process.

We're off to the New World Tural -- with Erenville! And we get to visit a Mamool Ja city!

[MikkoAkure]

Obviously we don't have further information, but the fact that there are Hrothgar (and supposedly Viera due to Erenville coming along after mentioning a homecoming in 6.4) is neat.

The New World seems to be split in two parts, with the north remaining hidden. I wonder if it will be further explored in this expansion or if we're staying in the south.

It's also interesting that the Giants were brought up again, they also ruled Abalathia's Spine in the past as well. I wonder if there's a sort of connection.

[Cleretic]

There's not super much to go off here, but the things I noticed from the keynote:

• I was literally joking about 'Beach Filler Episode', hot damn am I into it happening.
• Krile's the only Scion absent from the teaser (and Zero, but that's less suspicious for several reasons), so she is ABSOLUTELY gonna turn up with a new job.
• As one of the several people who named their chocobo 'Tritoch', I'm a pretty big fan of Valigarmanda turning up.
• A schism between the Scions over a war of succession does actually sound pretty good, but I'll tell you all right now, I know exactly which Scion I don't want on the side I pick.
• The first new zone is basically Fantasy Machu Picchu, and you know what, I'm happy: that is exactly number one on my list of places I'd want to go in a South America fantasy setting. The second zone is clearly the Amazon, which is also cool.
• Overall, big FFX vibes and even bigger FFIX vibes, what's not to love? (Well, the lack of blitzball, but we'll live)

I'm pretty happy about this one, all-up, which is a welcome chance from when I basically spent every single 'Endwalker hype' leadup event feeling bummed out that it wasn't doing stuff I wanted. I feel like that might be because Endwalker was the first expansion I was really around for the pre-release hype for (I was cognizant of Shadowbringers' leadup, but didn't really care outside of the Nier raids), so I unconsciously set my hopes wrong; not too high, per se, but more too specific. If you go in wanting Gelmorra and Chemist, and then get neither, you're not gonna like anything you do get.

[Cassar]

Overall very excited with the trailer, it really does seem like this expansion will be the New World only and nowhere else, which I know a lot of people wanted so that's neat

Also, do you think there'll be divergent paths in the story with picking sides with the scions? I'm sure the ending will be the same regardless, but I don't know if we actually get to pick a side in the literal sense, or if it's more of a "our character is neutral in this scenario but we as the players get to pick sides on who we think is right". What do you think?

[Fenral]

[*]Krile's the only Scion absent from the teaser (and Zero, but that's less suspicious for several reasons), so she is ABSOLUTELY gonna turn up with a new job.

I might be blind, but I can't find Alphinaud in the trailer, either. Otherwise, hype is maxed. G'raha has discovered tacos.

[Larirawiel]

The trailer is boring as hell. It seems, it was made for Final Fantasy fan service.




Cheers

[MikkoAkure]

The trailer is boring as hell. It seems, it was made for Final Fantasy fan service.

It's the teaser, not the full trailer. EW did the same thing IIRC and we're also missing Krile from it as well, who is supposedly the most important NPC with us in 7.0.

[Iscah]

The New World seems to be split in two parts, with the north remaining hidden. I wonder if it will be further explored in this expansion or if we're staying in the south.

It's also interesting that the Giants were brought up again, they also ruled Abalathia's Spine in the past as well. I wonder if there's a sort of connection.

You think the giants/gigas might be brought in as a proper race? That would be interesting.

My mind went to Roegadyn since they're known to be seafaring, but there's no reason to be so coy about those.

As for seeing the northern continent... why? It's clearly South America, we don't need to go to North America as well. Not in the one expansion anyway.

As one of the several people who named their chocobo 'Tritoch', I'm a pretty big fan of Valigarmanda turning up.

What's the significance of it? The picture looked sort of like Azdaja.

I might be blind, but I can't find Alphinaud in the trailer, either. Otherwise, hype is maxed. G'raha has discovered tacos.

Big fat tacos, even.

[Lyth]

What's the significance of it? The picture looked sort of like Azdaja.

Valigarmanda/Tritoch is the first Esper that you encounter in FFVI. It was frozen in Narshe during the War of the Magi.

[Fenral]

What's the significance of it? The picture looked sort of like Azdaja.

You need to drop everything and play FF6, right now.

Big fat tacos, even.

So big!