So I was looking around on google images and I found this picture of Noctis.

Now, once I saw this image, I couldn't help but think about this image here below.

 

Now, in the image for HD1.5, that picture of Sora and company was made a long time before HD1.5 even existed. Notice Sora and Noctis and their similarities? I assume that the image of Sora was made before the one of Noctis and the image of Noctis was based off of the picture of Sora, right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Edited April 1, 20169 yr by KingdomHearts3

I believe that the Noctis picture was based off Sora on the throne. That Sora pic was made when Kingdom Hearts debuted before FFXV or Versus.

Nomura created Noctis and the whole concept of Versus XIII, plus he directed it for a good number of years so the influences from kingdom hearts are not surprising. Oh and also an interesting bit of info for all of you reading this post. This is from July 5th, 2013, an interview taking place in Square Enix Japan between Nomura and a French website named Finaland.

 

Finaland & FFDream:You’ve created a lot of characters for the Final Fantasy series. What’s your favorite character between all those you’ve created ?

 

Tetsuya Nomura:

Hmm if I had to choose a favorite character, I would say Sora, and Noctis. Why them? Of course Sora, I’ve been together with him for more than ten years now, this is the first time i’ve been with a character for such a long time, so he’s very very special for me and he’s been adopted by Disney also, so he’s a very very good boy. More like a good son actually.

 

Also there is Noctis, he hasn’t been in front of you, I mean moving etc yet in a real gameplay but he will soon, in the future.

Do you know the name Sora mean the “sky”, in japanese and Noctis, his family name is Caelum which mean sky as well so basically, Noctis mean “night sky”, so they are kind of complete opposites to each other. There is a reason why I named these characters as opposites. Noctis is kind of like my latest boy, or latest son and I expect him to be more clever than Cloud.

 

Take that with a grain of salt btw, he may just be referring to the names as complete opposites rather than the characters, but it's still pretty cool .

 

Full interview :http://finaland.com/?rub=site&page=news&id=4865

Edited April 2, 20169 yr by Shinobi Palace

That was pretty interesting! Glad I clicked this topic.

OMG that is weird! Wow.

Actually i read about that in the Final Fantasy Wiki...

 

Kinda interesting.

Nomura created Noctis and the whole concept of Versus XIII, plus he directed it for a good number of years so the influences from kingdom hearts are not surprising. Oh and also an interesting bit of info for all of you reading this post. This is from July 5th, 2013, an interview taking place in Square Enix Japan between Nomura and a French website named Finaland.

 

Finaland & FFDream:You’ve created a lot of characters for the Final Fantasy series. What’s your favorite character between all those you’ve created ?

 

Tetsuya Nomura:

Hmm if I had to choose a favorite character, I would say Sora, and Noctis. Why them? Of course Sora, I’ve been together with him for more than ten years now, this is the first time i’ve been with a character for such a long time, so he’s very very special for me and he’s been adopted by Disney also, so he’s a very very good boy. More like a good son actually.

 

Also there is Noctis, he hasn’t been in front of you, I mean moving etc yet in a real gameplay but he will soon, in the future.

Do you know the name Sora mean the “sky”, in japanese and Noctis, his family name is Caelum which mean sky as well so basically, Noctis mean “night sky”, so they are kind of complete opposites to each other. There is a reason why I named these characters as opposites. Noctis is kind of like my latest boy, or latest son and I expect him to be more clever than Cloud.

 

Take that with a grain of salt btw, he may just be referring to the names as complete opposites rather than the characters, but it's still pretty cool .

 

Full interview :http://finaland.com/?rub=site&page=news&id=4865

It'd be even better if they had Noctis and his friends in KH3 as I think about it.