FF15 director compares the game to The Last of Us

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VXIII said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Do these guys want to make an RPG or do they want to make a action adventure game? After reading this i'm trying to figure it out. Naughty Dog knows what genre they are in and they know what works for what they make. Square seems confused.

Story. The Last of Us story can easily fit in any genre including RPG.

Also. He only said the story will progress quietly during gameplay, like TLoU, nothing more. It has nothing to do with the vision or the genre. But yeah, SE has been confused for a long time. Things are seemingly getting better though.

No it cannot. Naughty Dog's action/adventure games are tailor made for forward progression linearity. The focus is on looks over huge worlds and set pieces. JRPG's are similar in linearity, but a JRPG offers more freedom than a typical action game and less that of a typical WRPG.