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Before Tetsuya Nomura went full steam ahead on\u00a0Kingdom Hearts 3<\/em>, there was another very important project he was working on for several years prior. All the way back in 2006, five years before\u00a0Final Fantasy 13-2<\/em>, another spin-off in the Fabula Nova Crystallis sub-series was in the works with Nomura as director. Titled\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em><\/strong>, this additional spin-off was a completely new game that was very different compared to a traditional\u00a0Final Fantasy<\/em> game.<\/p>\n

Over the next several years,\u00a0the original\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em><\/a> would effectively be cancelled as Nomura is moved on to\u00a0Kingdom Hearts 3<\/em> full time and new game director Hajime Tabata took over the project. What fans eventually received in 2016 was the amalgamation of ideas that became\u00a0Final Fantasy 15<\/em>, but\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> ended up being very impactful for the game’s development. In fact,\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> ended up being tangentially impactful on the future of\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> and to some extent\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Originally,\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em> was planned to be a spin-off title in the same Fabula Nova Crystallis universe. The game was planned for release on PS3 and had its debut trailer\u00a0as far back as 2006 alongside\u00a0Final Fantasy 13<\/em>‘s first trailer. While the game’s general tone remained the same, a lot changed in\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em>‘s development cycle. Over time, eventually the project was shifted into\u00a0Final Fantasy 15<\/em> as Nomura moved on to Kingdom Hearts 3<\/em>‘s development full time<\/a>. Both games had been in “development hell” for numerous years, so it finally came time to ramp up development and begin production.<\/p>\n

Everyone would’ve assumed that\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em> transferred entirely into\u00a0Final Fantasy 15<\/em><\/a>, but that’s not entirely true. After Hajime Tabata took over for Tetsuya Nomura on what was\u00a0Versus 13<\/em>, Tabata changed course for the game to a mainline entry instead. With that course correction, the game changed drastically from its origins as Nomura’s brainchild project. Main characters, major story beats, locations, and a whole bunch of Nomura’s ideas had to be streamlined or changed entirely (like the missing “Stella” character) to fit the new ramped-up development.<\/p>\n

What fans received in 2016 was\u00a0Final Fantasy 15<\/em>, but was very much an aggregation of Nomura’s concepts and ideas fleshed out by new narrative leadership. The original concepts of\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em> would be collectively distributed as inspiration on Nomura’s other notable\u00a0Final Fantasy\u00a0<\/em>projects, especially a certain\u00a0Final Fantasy<\/em>-adjacent Disney property.<\/p>\n

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While at first it seemed like a cheeky Nomura easter egg, it turns out\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> is fully incorporating a version of the\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> storyline directly into\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> lore. Yozora’s story in\u00a0future\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> projects is very strongly inferred to be a\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> re-use, even down to a shot-for-shot remake of a\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> promotional trailer in\u00a0Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind<\/em><\/a>. Not to mention, Yozora’s physical appearance is very much a reference to Noctis from\u00a0Versus 13<\/em>\/Final Fantasy 15<\/em>. Considering several of the original concepts from\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> never really made it in\u00a0Final Fantasy 15<\/em>, Nomura is seemingly reincorporating those concepts into\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n

Rather than serve as an inspiration,\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> could quite literally be remade into a\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> project. It helps that\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> was an original project from Nomura, because adapting it into\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> lore will undoubtedly be quite the task.\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> is already a series known for having a convoluted overarching timeline full of unanswered questions and an elaborated narrative. How an\u00a0Final Fantasy<\/em> plot conceived by the same creator is incorporated into\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> remains to be seen, but Yozora’s storyline is a direct injection of\u00a0Versus 13<\/em> into\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As for\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em>, the inspirations are a bit more nuanced compared to\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em>. While the story in\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em>\u00a0is almost beat-for-beat accurate, the miniscule changes throughout end up blasting into unknown territory at the end of the game. Originally, Cloud and the crew escaped Shinra’s forces and the world of\u00a0Final Fantasy 7<\/em> opened up to players. However, there’s some serious timeline dimensional rifting going on\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em>‘s ending<\/a>. One place in particular that’s a huge inspiration from\u00a0Fabula Nova Crystallis, and to some extent\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em>, is the Singularity at the end.<\/p>\n

Both\u00a0Final Fantasy 15<\/em> and\u00a0Kingdom Hearts 3 Re:Mind<\/em> have toyed with Nomura’s concept of a singularity: a rip in the time-space continuum, generally leading to different timelines in different dimensions.\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em> is clearly hinting at this with Zack Fair’s survival being teased in the game’s ending. The Whisper Harbinger’s death is a direct symbolization of the breaking of\u00a0Final Fantasy 7<\/em>‘s original timeline, which is going to have serious after-effects on the remainder of\u00a0Final Fantasy 7<\/em>‘s story<\/a>. Considering\u00a0most of the Fabula Nova Crystallis projects (including\u00a0Versus 13<\/em>) were all about changing fate and differing timelines, the same could soon apply to\u00a0Remake<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One day,\u00a0Final Fantasy Versus 13<\/em>\u00a0may blatantly return in a\u00a0Kingdom Hearts<\/em> game<\/a>, but the original foundation has served as inspiration to a lot of other Square Enix titles. Whether it’s all a total brainchild of Tetsuya Nomura remains to be seen, but it’s definitely no coincidence.<\/p>\n

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