Omen (Final Fantasy XV)

Square Enix released the short film Omen on 27th October 2016 when Final Fantasy XV was featured on Paris Games Week, to promote the game. The movie was created by Digic Pictures, the team behind the game's full-length companion movie Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV.

The short film
Omen plays out like one long cutscene, stitching together various events, Noctis falling through walls and floors into new scenes. It is a premonition Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII, the king of Lucis, has of his son Noctis Lucis Caelum's journey, and an alternate future he wants to prevent.

The movie progresses like a dream with Noctis feeling his fiancée Lunafreya Nox Fleuret's ghostly presence, and she is his reflection on various reflective surfaces. Noctis chasing chases after Luna's white dog, Pryna, through various scenes, falling through floors and walls as he goes, ending up in a fiery battle with Niflheim forces. His magic stops working and he steals a firearm from the opposition and topples a tower onto a mecha to keep fighting, but his shirt is ripped to shreds and he momentarily appears as a fiery-eyed demon, unable to save Luna. At the end of the vision a voice asks the king for one more life, but the king appears to defy the request. It doesn't provide much insight into the game's story, but seeks to capture the feeling the game is aiming for.

Easter eggs
The movie has a couple Easter eggs. When Noctis rides a subway full of Niflheim soldiers, there is a poster on the wall of a gold disc and the text "Gone Gold". During the event the short film was shown, the development team also announced that Final Fantasy XV had "gone gold" (meaning the master version which would be printed on discs was done). There is also a job posting on the wall, looking to hire employees for a new Business Division 2 project, the Square Enix development team that made Final Fantasy XV. One of the soldiers on the subway is reading a newspaper that has the Assassin's Creed logo on it; Digic Pictures has also worked with that series.

Musical themes
"Share (I Had Dreams)" by Naked Woods plays in the beginning when Noctis heads to the petrol station. The rest of the film is accompanied by "Endlessness" by End of Silence & Really Slow Motion, composed by Andreas Kübler.


 * Lyrics
 * Million lights all washed away
 * Empty space in all its grace
 * Endlessness is here to stay
 * Endlessness won't wash away


 * Endlessness is here to stay
 * Endlessness won't wash away


 * Endlessness is here to stay
 * Endlessness won't wash away

Andreas Kübler and Xaver Willebrand who made the track did not know it was for Final Fantasy when they were commissioned to write a song for an epic trailer, but were excited when they learned of it. Thus, the lyrics were not written with Final Fantasy XV in mind, and Square Enix did not use the entire song for the short film, instead adapting it to their needs. The outro wasn't originally part of the song, but the production company requested for an "epic" movie trailer-like finish.