>>538743387
that's not the open world part you fucking idiot
are you retarded?
nothing was usable you retard they were ps3 assets
and barely anything was made by 2012 to begin with
barely 20% of versus was done
that was just some insomnia assets, some part's of leide desert with nothing in it yet and some empty grassland area
every model asset had to be recreated from scratch in 2013 onward

and no they were never struggling since they were confident in doing it once they achieved it with duscae

by your logic naora being hesitant on ff7s direction means what kitase did was bad because they had never made a 3d game before and they struggled to make ff7 a 3d game

they never told anyone not to do anything
nomura wanted it open world as seamless as possible
tabata agreed and helped the team achieve that even despite their doubts

also even all of niflheim is one massive seamless map and you can break out of bounds and fly from Cartanica to tenebrae to ghorovus rift with shivas corpse to gralea without any loads too

>>538745087
literally entirety of lucis with leide to cleigne to duscae to angelgard to altissia is all seamless

ff13 is on rails
ff16 is on rails
ff7r is on rails