Speaking with DualShockers at PAX West, Final Fantasy XV‘s Hajime Tabata has confirmed that the game switches from an open world to a linear environment near its conclusion.
“To go back on the more linear part of the game, it actually transfers into that linear part of gameplay when the story ramps up and gets into its final stages,” Tabata said. “Rather than the latter half of the game, it’s very close to the end of the game so to speak.
“After the train segment, the whole structure of the game completely changes. You cannot go back and forth on the world map between the two parts. That said, there is a gonna be a menu function that allows you to access the earlier areas that you roamed around in the earlier parts of the game.
“Once you’re done with the train segment, it’s not yet the end of the game. There is still another set of events that awaits you. I can’t tell you what it’s going to be, but it drastically changes up [the game].”
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