10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Final Fantasy XV

9. Ardyn Is A Great Villain, Completely Wasted

On paper, or rather, in fans' minds, as we've been forced to figure out the deal with Ardyn by looking into in-game book covers and piecing together clues as to his origin, his tale is quite tragic.

A former monster slayer gifted by the Gods to protect the realm, the King of Lucis at the time grew jealous and ostracised him, resulting in quite the pent-up sense of aggression towards the royal bloodline, culminating in a vendetta against Prince Noctis - someone he wanted to become all-powerful, just so he could strike him down when he least expected it.

Poetic justice, if ever there was any.

All that said, N-O-N-E of that is presented well, surfaced or highlighted in the game at all. Fans only really pieced it together by assuming that one of the characters on the front of an in-game book looks a bit like Ardyn, and went from there, which is insane, when you think about it.

Yes, titles like Dark Souls, DOOM and Hyper Light Drifter rely on environmental clues or item descriptions to flesh out their mythologies, but it has to be done intelligently and consistently across an entire runtime. It cannot however, be used to vaguely hint at what a character's role was 'all along', long after the credits have rolled and we've all taken to forums to figure out just what the f**k was happening.

Speaking of villains...