By the end of the game, instead of feeling an indirect emotional attachment to the characters like in past 3D Final Fantasy games, they will instead feel like they've journeyed and made friends with real people from another world. Jun Akiyama gave Daisuke Watanabe creative freedom when writing the script and would only tell Watanabe to make changes if he felt he didn't match the writing style of Yasumi Matsuno.
Jun Akiyama
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