Even though he may not be on screen - we don't see faces - we wanted someone that could play off of Frey and be a contrast,” Mitsuno says.

“We needed Cuff to have a voice and a certain level of presence. Despite not having an expressive physical appearance, Cuff needed enough character to hold his own on screen. As an inanimate object, Cuff seems like a strange secondary character, though we have seen this before in the likes of Nier with Grimoire Weiss. It started from inside out.”Īfter designing Frey, the studio had to choose the perfect partner for her - Cuff. So we brought her into the studio, did 3D scanning, and modelled the character after her. Once we decided we wanted her to portray the character, we said, ‘You know what, let's design the character around her as well’. “She's a complex character, and Ella was able to connect with her and understand exactly what we wanted Frey to be like.

While the team has a strong history with Final Fantasy, they emphasised that Forspoken isn’t aimed at Final Fantasy fans, as they hope it will appeal to a more global audience rather than a particular subset of gamers. “The key point and what we really focused on was what would happen if you add magic into parkour, whether that's going super fast or jumping super high, we wanted to explore what you can't do with parkour in real life, and then bring that to life with magic.” We really threw everything out there to see what we could come up with and what would stick, and the result of that was the magic parkour system and the magic combat system. From the pre-production stage, from the very early stages, we came up with all kinds of ideas. “When you're thinking about creating a new IP, we wanted to create the best thing that we could but also something that was unlike anything else.

It's very difficult,” Takefumi Terada, Forspoken co-director says. “Since we do have experience working on the Final Fantasy series, coming up with something completely new is a challenge.

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