d21lewis on 14 March 2010
Latest issue of Game Informer featured an interview with FF13's creators. According to them, the linearity of the stages, the simplified battles where you only control one person, and the lack of towns (which was also supposed to make the story more realistic) were all design choices that they felt needed to be made for the genre to advance.
I'll be playing it extensively, tonight. Enjoying it thus far. Good read in the OP, too.
