Director Hajime Tabata has revealed that 10 years pass during Final Fantasy XV’s story.
"The whole change in Noctis’ appearance from when the game starts compared to when years have passed [is so] that people would feel the passing of time, and that they were actual living, breathing characters rather than just symbolic characters,”
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“the one important part for us was to see a little bit of Regis in his appearance 10 years later.”
I thought the following was also interesting.
“It’s not typical to see a lot of Japanese RPGs with a mid-aged man as the main character,”<..> A lot of people who like Japanese RPGs would be surprised by the fact that they’ll see this character age in the way that he does, so it took a lot of courage for us as developers to do that. But we felt that it was important in communicating [the party’s] development and wanting to express it in a way that we only can with the current generation of consoles.”
- IGN
Change my name to Luna if old.