Final Fantasy XV could be a game from the creators of the last Deus Ex, developer confirms

Jonathan Jacques-Belletête, art director of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided.
In a recent interview with True Achievements, he confirmed that we have lost a curious alternate universe, where Final Fantasy XV is made in the Canadian Eidos-Montréal.FFXV has a very long history of creation, which stretches back to the not yet released, but announced Final Fantasy Versus XIII era PlayStation 3.
Square Enix was restarting development of the project and among other things was considering handing it over to its western studios.
That's when the authors of the last Deus Ex had time to work on Final Fantasy.
I was the art director there for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Then I became the executive art director of Mankind Divided.
Then we tried to make Final Fantasy XV.
Then they decided to bring the game back to Japan.
I think it was a big mistake, but that's how it happened.
Our [vision for the game] was very, very cool.Jonathan Jacques-BellettIn 2012, Jacques-Bellett wrote in response to a fan that the next Eidos-Montréal project would blow the roof off with its coolness.
Here he seems to have meant Final Fantasy, not Mankind Divided.Other details Jacques-Belletet does not voice, but perhaps Super Bunnyhop knows them: back in 2018, the blogger, citing his own sources, said that Eidos-Montréal was at one point working on a new Final Fantasy.
The Super Bunnyhop video revealed the following details:The idea to create an RPG that is heavily inspired by Final Fantasy was born at Eidos-Montréal around 2011, when Human Revolution was already out, became successful, and the studio was wondering what it would work on next.Square Enix management approved the idea and suggested making it the next flagship Final Fantasy, not just a similar game.
Square Enix mistrusted their Japanese studio after FFXIII received bad reviews and FFXIV had a terrible start.The project was codenamed Project W.Around 2012, Jacques-Belleth published pictures on his blog - Super Bunnyhop believes that they somehow refer to Project W.In 2012, the Eidos-Montréal team flew to Japan to present the game.
There they presented a list of the main features: RPG in the format of an epic sci-fi space opera, which focuses on what Final Fantasy is attractive in the eyes of Western players.The visual motif was based on fractals, which folded into a kaleidoscope of space.
Thus, space was not empty blackness.The engine had to render seamless transitions from the planet's surface to space and back.The hero wandered the galaxy in search of the love of his life, named Nova.
But at some point, a love triangle with a \"25-year-old femme fatale\" was forming.The tense relationship between the three characters, who are forced to fight together, was supposed to add up to \"exciting and visually superior action.
\"Square Enix executives didn't like the project.
They tried to push it as a new franchise, but in the middle of 2013 this plan was also abandoned because the risks were too high.As Super Bunnyhop supposes, the death of Project W is connected with the fact that Final Fantasy is extremely popular in Japan - the Square Enix bosses were not sure that the Western \"finale\" will go in their native country.
In addition, in 2013, Square Enix got a new president - Yosuke Matsuda.
Judging by the further crises in the Western SE studios, Matsuda does not really understand what to do with foreign teams - Project W may have died because of this.

The new \"Chip and Dale\" has Sonic the Freak from the first \"Sonic in the Movies\"

Remember when the first \"Sonic in the Movies\" trailer showed a Sonic so unsuccessful that the movie was sent back for revision with a redesign? Well, the ancient evil didn't disappear, but lurked: the original Sonic the Freak is back with a cameo for the new version of Chip and Dale Rush to the rescue.In the fresh film, the cartoons coexist with humans.
Sonic the Freak has become a celebrity of sorts, sitting in a booth named after himself at a fan festival and signing autographs.
And, of course, he's working his memetic self to the max: And they'll love me for who I am, not like that time the Internet saw my human teeth just once and burned me to a crisp! Oh, you want me to rush off somewhere? Nah, that's a Sonic thing.
The Sonic the Freak thing is different - he's slow, baby! The Sonic the Freak segment once.The new \"Chip and Dale\" was filmed for Disney+, but there are other cameos, including ones from outside the Disney franchises.
Director Akiva Schaffer says they tried to introduce characters from other companies into the film for a variety of reasons: for example, to maintain the spirit of the animation industry as a whole, not just Disney animation and so the film doesn't seem like a guileless advertisement for Disney+ cartoons.Sonic the Freak Two.Crossovers with other people's franchises are difficult from a legal standpoint.
They say \"Chip and Dale\" doesn't have the same eerily complicated cameos as the Donald Duck (Disney) vs.
Daffy Duck (Warner Bros.) battle in \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?\" but it was still a sweat:With the characters you see in the movie, sometimes we had to try two or three variations before we found someone to license.
It was a long process.
Usually when you finish watching a movie, you don't run out to thank the lawyers, but we really owe a lot to the Disney lawyers for how team players they are.They stayed very positive and really saw the value in getting the rights to other people's licenses, which they had to work hard for.
It's easy for me to say things like, \"Oh, and it would be cool to have the ponies from My Little Pony run through the hallways!\" But the lawyers have to call Mattel, present the movie to them, tell them that the movie doesn't make fun of them, and then they have to come to me and so on.
So it's a long process.
But it makes the movie so much better.Akiva SchaefferFirst reviews for \"Chip and Dale\" are positive: 67 out of 100 on Metacritic and 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
According to the film's plot, Chip and Dale's glory days are long gone - their animated series was shut down years ago.
Chip immersed himself in suburban life and works as an insurance agent, while Dale hit nostalgia, got himself CGI surgery and is riding around fan festivals to try to get some of his popularity back.
At some point, their former filming buddy goes missing, so Chip and Dale have to rush to the rescue again - and try to repair their friendship.
\"Chip and Dale Rush to the rescue\" is out now on Disney+.