Vi vet att världen i kommande Final Fantasy XV, som efter åratal av utveckling äntligen börjar bli redo för release, inte är helt öppen i traditionell bemärkelse. Istället kommer spelet bestå av en serie av stora områden och när vi träffade game director Hajime Tabata på E3 i år frågade vi honom mer om hur filosofin bakom världdesignen såg ut för spelet.
Han svarade:
"First thing we did to create the world was to make sure we had the world as a base, before we added anything else, we made that first. We created a wide world with all sorts of different scenarios and different places in it, and made a real living world with all sorts of creatures there and the full day/night cycle which changes with time. So we first got back down to solid base to carry on the development."
"So after we created the world as a base the next thing we did was creating the action core game systems themselves, so you can seamlessly travel through this open world to get there, go into combat as well as exploration seamlessly - the idea of traveling together with your comrade characters and they move together with you. And we wrote the storyline that obviously that you're adventuring through that world. And that's how we went about creating it".
Vår intervju, som ni kan se i dess helhet här nedan, berörde fler ämnen än detta så de som är intresserade av spelet bör givetvis kika på den.