- Less fan influence from the beginning so it does not need to be influence by fans afterwards to be updated. Just do what you want from the get-go (that does not mean there can be no sequels, et cetera)
- Yoshinori Kitase as Director, Tetsuya Nomura as Character Designer, Kazushige Nojima as Scenario Writer, Masashi Hamauzu, Nobuo, Uematsu, Keiichi Okabe for the music with Emi Evans as singer
- An actual villain