Hajime Tabata. the director of Final Fantasy XV, has spoken to IGN about the development progress of the upcoming title. Specifically, Hajime reassured fans that the game is moving along nicely, and that once the demo Episode Dumae lands, they will be looking at the home stretch.
“It’s about 60 percent now,” he says, speaking in regard to the last update which had the game at 55 percent last September. “People may look at that and say ‘well, you’ve only done five more percent!’ but it’s actually a lot more complicated than that.
“In some ways I’m being very conservative in my estimates there and not wanting to put out too big a number. Developing big games on a large scale like this… it’s not very even in terms of each area of the game being created, so you have uneven development processes where some things are nearly done, and others are still at prototype stage.”
“But because of the way development works, now we’ve seen a solid milestone, and using that it means the end is in sight in some ways,” he states, talking about the upcoming demo. “After that’s released and we continue on with development there may be times where we move on with massive leaps and bounds, so the overall number shoots up by 10 percent at a time. I think we’re looking at a much faster development in the near future.”
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Dumae comes out with Final Fantasy Type-0 HD on March 17th, 2015.
