Night Fury
10-03-2014, 08:08 AM
Ever since the Final Fantasy XV storm started at the Tokyo Game Show, some of us have sworn we won't play the game, some of us are disappointed, and many are super excited! Despite this, there is that overall air of confusion lingering around the whole thing. So much news has popped seemingly out of nowhere after having so little for so long. It's a good job that the director, Hajime Tabata has been on hand to try and clear up a few concerns...
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-The following interview snippets are from the interview at the Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Extended Talk Show-
Q: Can you change the operational character?
A:Not in its current specifications. Everyone on the development team thoroughly looked into an Active Cross Battle system that made free use of attack, guard, and co-op functions, but as a result they arrived at the conclusion that changing characters would be too difficult. In order to create a new and interesting battle system, we ended up not being able to put in the character switching.
Q: I can’t tell if it’s more like Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy Type-0. Which is it?
A: We explained that when you push the attack button, you invoke the standard combo, which is similar to Type-0. Considering the battle system as a whole, however, it is different from both Type-0 and Kingdom Hearts.
Q: Haven’t you been poor at putting out information?
A: If our fans are uneasy about the information we have released, then our ways of issuing information may in fact be poor. Even though we didn’t have a lot of time, I wanted to make clear the current situation. In the future, our information releases might be poor, but I think we can receive your approval.
As a bonus, Tabata has let us know when we can expect more information.
“I get reports everyday from development staff about what was said on the internet. If we have material, I’d like to release development information again in a live broadcast like this on November 1.”
You can read the full interview here, (http://http://gematsu.com/2014/10/final-fantasy-xv-director-addresses-fan-concerns-new-gameplay#QqfzJx36shjeiuKu.99) at Gematsu.
Tabata also revealed that he is finding the Final Fantasy XV car memes hilarious. He's roflcopter-ing so much he's letting you guys take some car meme assets like the one below to make more. Yippee for Tabata being a cool guy with a sense of humour right?
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59878
-The following interview snippets are from the interview at the Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Extended Talk Show-
Q: Can you change the operational character?
A:Not in its current specifications. Everyone on the development team thoroughly looked into an Active Cross Battle system that made free use of attack, guard, and co-op functions, but as a result they arrived at the conclusion that changing characters would be too difficult. In order to create a new and interesting battle system, we ended up not being able to put in the character switching.
Q: I can’t tell if it’s more like Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy Type-0. Which is it?
A: We explained that when you push the attack button, you invoke the standard combo, which is similar to Type-0. Considering the battle system as a whole, however, it is different from both Type-0 and Kingdom Hearts.
Q: Haven’t you been poor at putting out information?
A: If our fans are uneasy about the information we have released, then our ways of issuing information may in fact be poor. Even though we didn’t have a lot of time, I wanted to make clear the current situation. In the future, our information releases might be poor, but I think we can receive your approval.
As a bonus, Tabata has let us know when we can expect more information.
“I get reports everyday from development staff about what was said on the internet. If we have material, I’d like to release development information again in a live broadcast like this on November 1.”
You can read the full interview here, (http://http://gematsu.com/2014/10/final-fantasy-xv-director-addresses-fan-concerns-new-gameplay#QqfzJx36shjeiuKu.99) at Gematsu.
Tabata also revealed that he is finding the Final Fantasy XV car memes hilarious. He's roflcopter-ing so much he's letting you guys take some car meme assets like the one below to make more. Yippee for Tabata being a cool guy with a sense of humour right?
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