Piece: The complex Refantazio lists are designed to increase your feelings

Video game lists tend to fade in the background – but this is not the case with Againage: Population. like a personality Games before thatThe fictional RPG features a spot and aggressive interface, and certainly it is not the type of thing that you will forget. According to Koji ISE, the intention is to create lists that match what the players felt at any moment. “As long as we are able to get to know” at this stage, the player should feel this, “we are able to match the user interface and animation of our work as emotional hurry.”

metaphor It was developed by ATLUS, a spiritual successor of some kind to a personality series. Both are RPGs based on rotation, however metaphor The preparation from Japan in the modern era is transferred to a new imaginary world. This rotation -based nature means that the lists are an integral part of the experience. You do not exceed them to reach the event; they We are the job. since Personality 3The concession has become a great appreciation of its lists of touches, and this is something that he wanted to continue metaphorAlthough it was actually his first work experience in video games.

“Before that I used to work on web designs, and I used mainly a flash to make many animation,” explains. “This allowed us to make very interactive animation, which you may no longer see much. I thought that Forte with creating interactive animation would serve me well with ATLUS in an attempt to create a user interface there.”

The starting point was purely visual. ISE knew that he wanted to create something essential to match the game’s preparation. Early designs included one made of a university degree paper and another tried to simulate the anxiety faced by the leading character throughout the story. “We started from Ground Zero,” Issi says, noting that he did not look at the first game like Personality 5 As a place to start. Here are some early concepts:

But with the continued development of the game, and metaphorThe S features have been completed, things turned into the most functional aspects of the interface design. This is the place a personality The connection came. As we were separating the specifications, there were certain elements of a personality “We have decided to continue,” he says.

The biggest challenge, according to ISE, was the addition of the emotional item. For example, since the fighting can be very difficult in metaphorHe wanted to increase the feeling of speed and aggression by designing the menu. “When the players break an enemy, we assume that emotions rise while they are cheerful,” Ise. “Your life is suspended in balance with every battle. So we wanted to make sure that there is on the user interface.” The proliferation of these feelings involves working closely with the other teams in Atlos.

Likewise, the challenges balanced between ISE’s vision of the visual style with practical interests of formulating a video game user. “There were times in the development process when it looked slightly unbalanced on the aesthetic side of things, and there were reactions from the team that he went a little outside or was difficult to understand.” “So we are trying to achieve this balance without killing the design or visual images. Because if it tends to a large extent to the functional side of things that will take away what makes us Atlus.”

All this requires a great deal of work in terms of design, repetition and coordination. like metaphor and a personality Director Katsura Hashino told me last yearBuilding these lists is “really annoying” because of all that time and effort. Ise agrees, saying, “It was a lot of trouble.” But he notes that “we wanted to make sure that the list has become the face of the title, which is not forgetting the design of the players.”