Final Fantasy XV
"Final Fantasy XV" similarly had additional media released around it, forming a dedicated multimedia expansion dubbed the ""Final Fantasy XV" Universe". The majority of its content fleshed out the background for "Final Fantasy XV"s plot, which would have required multiple video games under normal circumstances. While comparing the "Final Fantasy XV" Universe to the overall structure of "Fabula Nova Crystallis", the game's director defined it as an attempt to make the narrative of "XV" work in current times rather than attempting to "reinvent" the original concept. An anime produced by Square Enix and A-1 Pictures, ', details the backstories of the main cast and how they came to be journeying together. It is being distributed online through the months leading up to the game's release. A CGI feature film produced by the same team as "Advent Children", ', was released in July 2016 in Japan and in August in America; it focuses on the main character's father Regis Lucis Caelum, alongside original characters. The cancelled DLC was turned into the novel "".