One thing is sure about "Final Fantasy XV" — full-scale battles and explorations will all be staged in one massive terrain. Game creator Hajime Tabata took time to inform fans that traversing every corner of the now-knitted world in the forthcoming title will not entail water expeditions or air travel. This is because the ground was made more like an enormous terra firma rather than an archipelagic locale.
But alongside this big change comes a crucial element that will make players feel at home, too.
"The towns and the cultural references that you see throughout the world, you'll get a sense of realistic towns and cultures. That's one aspect that has remained since the title was first named Versus XIII," Tabata told GameSpot.
Tabata recalled the showcases his team made in the past weeks so players will feel like they are in Shinjuku, Japan at one point. Another area resembles Havana, Cuba. One was made to be all about Venice.
"So those are some cultural references that have been made within the game," Tabata explained.
The game creator also takes pride in the dungeons slipped into the game, as he generally calls them "chaotic" and "uncontrollable." In "Final Fantasy XV," these spots will enter a whole new level of "strangeness."
"In the dungeons, there is this kind of strangeness where something that shouldn't necessarily be there in real life is existing. That kind of strangeness, the non-normal, that feeling you get in those circumstances, will be experienced in XV," the game creator assured.
As the world was made more unified and vast, the "Final Fantasy Type-0 HD" demo coming on March 20 (Europe) will not allow early buyers to explore the world inside a car. Tabata explained in an interview with Siliconera that this will allow gamers to explore the landscape more freely before facing it off with monsters.
Talking about the release date of the much-anticipated action role-playing video game, Tabata plans to pull off a wide-reaching launch.
"We don't want to impose any big delays to players from around the world, so I'm hoping that everyone will be able to play the same Final Fantasy XV together within as close of a time frame as possible," Tabata told Mexican site Level Up as translated by Gematsu.
