Without these two important bits of media ( which are, admittedly, both good and worth watching), you're effectively thrown into the middle of a story that's nearing the end of its first act and are expected to absorb everything in media res, and Final Fantasy 15 isn't doing a great job so far of getting everyone up to speed. These are important contextual details, and they seem to do a lot of Final Fantasy 15's initial heavy narrative lifting, while allowing the more immediate open-world gameplay to take center stage. Then there's Brotherhood, an anime series you can watch for free on YouTube, which explores Noctis' relationship with his friends, his strained relationship with his father, as well as some of the finer details about this world and how magic exists within it. Kingsglaive, a recent animated film from Square Enix and Sony Pictures, tells the story of the fall of Lucis, explaining the deep, political ties between these two warring nations and why they're even fighting in the first place. Then I remembered something: there are prologue chapters - they're just completely divorced from the main game. It's like there's a prologue missing, where the connections between family lines and kingdoms could be properly developed and explained so the important story beats actually feel important. But since we don't know why Nifelheim would even want to invade (other than some obliquely evil-sounding references to a ring and 'The Six'), the main narrative thread ends up losing its way. It makes sense - Noctis and crew are effectively cut off and their kingdom dissolved, so it's not like they'd know everything that's going on elsewhere. While all of this turmoil is going on miles away in Lucis, Noctis and his pals are trying to figure out their next move, help the prince acquire powerful weapons and magic secreted away in lost tombs, and evade capture by the Nifelheim empire. It's an interesting set-up, but these relationships are barely explored in Final Fantasy 15's opening chapters. Things are never so easy, and within the first few hours, you learn that your homeland has been invaded by the neighboring kingdom of Nifelheim, your father has been slain, and Lunafreya is presumed dead as well.
This is clearly a political marriage, though Noctis and Luna both knew each other as kids, so they're not entirely against the idea.
First things first: Final Fantasy games are known for their stories, and the story in Final Fantasy 15 so far is… fine? You play as Prince Noctis, sent off by his father, King Regis, on a road trip to wed Lunafreya of Tenebrae.
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