You’ll never guess which celebrity inspired Noctis in Final Fantasy XV!

I must apologize for the headline, but it’s true. At least, I would never have guessed the person if it wasn’t explicitly spelled out for me. In a presentation at GDC this week, Final Fantasy XV Localization Director Dan Inoue spilled a little inside information on the hit game, and one bit of information was the inspirational figure behind the English voice of Noctis.

It’s none other than Nirvana’s iconic lead singer, Kurt Cobain. Yeah, I don’t see it either, but Inoue has his logic.

Generally, Inoue doesn’t like to use actual people as inspirations for his voice acting crew, and he prefers larger than life personalities that you don’t often find in the real world. For example, Prompto, the happy, bumbling dweeb of the group. Nobody would be friends with someone like that in real life.

However, Inoue broke his rule for Prince Noctis when thinking of an inspiration, and he told his voice actor to channel Cobain because he always had an extra layer to his emo that most grunge singers did not. As for Noctis, he too could have easily been a generic emo figure, but his voice actor and Inoue chose to interpret him as a popular figure who still struggles with his place in the word. A sort of “a rockstar who spurns the spotlight.”

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/03/02/youll-never-guess-which-celebrity-inspired-noctis-in-final-fantasy-xv/