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Spelling it out

I Valisthea is not an open world, but contains some massive areas to explore. Hiroshi Takai tells us, “We have, I think, four zones that are about two kilometres by two kilometres.”

II XVI’s structure is comparable to those of earlier titles such as X and XII. Naoki Yoshida explains, “We have what’s called a world map. And on that world map you have the areas that you can travel

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