I doubt we'll get to significantly explore the city. I never thought (not even in VS days) that we could: I always believed that we'd only be there for battle situations (invasion) and maybe, before or after that, for some leisure, like, for example, a small district to go shopping or clubbing. Or an arcade! I'd love to be able to play in a place like that (with a good amount of people and places to enter, that is):
As for the palace, sure. I recall some fights inside the castle in the 2011 trailer, but I assume they were linked to the invasion. Maybe we can still explore it, though. I'd love to (say, after we recover Imsomnia and the true big bad reveals him/herself), be able to fully explore it as the King, as well as the sorrounding areas. I particularly loved the one with the toll before the palace (from the CG). Love how modern, militaristic and royal/imperial that looked like.
And this one, absolutely adore the colours, so hopefully we can spend some time here (I assume this is an artwork from when we played the invasion, though):
And it seems like there are some forests/Central Park-like places around the edges of the city, no? I guess they need a place to grow their food in!
After watching some of those videos with dialogue from Duscae, I have to say that Noctis' voice has grown on me a lot since the demo was released. I actually like how he sounds a bit different than what you'd expect from looking at him. Though at some points he sounds just too raspy and Batman-like. It definitely needs to be fixed but I hope they don't change him too much. On the other hand, I still heavily dislike Ignis' voice. I'm not sure if it's his accent, writing or line delivery (or a mix of everything) but there's something about the way he speaks that comes off as really forced. He sounds like a cartoon butler to me. Prompto and Gladio are spot on, at least.
I also found my
new favourite line from Final Fantasy.
I can't speak for you, but for me it's his fucking accent. It's so forced and unnatural... the voice itself is fine, I guess. And it seems weird him having such a different accent compared to the other four. I mean, he's supposedly from outside Lucis (don't know if this always was like that), but still.
Gladio's is nice, but he still sounds like an anime character (which I guess he kinda is haha). Prompto's is annoying, but so is the character (and there are a couple lines where he actually sounds alright). Noctis'... well, the voice isn't bad at all, but needs to tone down the Batmannes of it (there are plenty of times where he sounds pretty good, though).
Although well, hopefully it's true that they'll do a Lightning Returns thing and we get the original voices. I can't imagine play this particular game without them, especially Noctis' voice. It's been too long listening to them for now to listen to others.
