However, Nguyen said it was also possible that, for the players who like "The Sims" for its narrative possibilities and engage with "the fiction of the game," explorations of death could have deeper personal significance.
Games, exploration, psychiatry and many other fields could all be revolutionised.
Fish describes the game's changes during development as "organic"—they tested different kinds of levels and replicated the types of in-game exploration that the team appreciated most.
The in-game exploration is chiefly based on walking and running; however, there are instances when swimming and sometimes flotation is involved.
IGN praised the game's exploration, saying that the ability to jump and climb "adds even more depth to exploration of different environments and distances Xenogears from being too straightforward of a traditional RPG", the only complaint being that the rotating camera is sometimes "clumsy".
But most of the game involves exploration rather than conversation.
This is, then, a game about exploration of both time and space.
But it's more than a game of exploration and discovery.
We wanted to make a game about exploration, and we wanted to make something that was real".
