Speaking of (star-crossed) products, the FFXIII Ultimania has been released for market consumption. To those not fully aware, the Ultimania is essentially a developer's guide book to a Final Fantasy game, regarding every single possible detail about the game and its development that it was written for, right down to the Word of God. In this case, the revelation is that FFXIII did not include towns due to the technological restrictions of its development.
While ordinarily, this is a sign that people are lazy, it can be noted that other PS3 and XBox360 games are full of "towns." Perhaps this may be the warning of deeper problems than simply "poor direction." However, FFXIII has come a long way since its PS2 inception: evidence of what even greater cel-shaded tragedy could have resulted can be seen in these screenshots.
Source: Sankaku (NSFW), FFXIII.net
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