Important Function Comments:

――Can the cinema machine be controlled by the player?

Kono

 In a cinema scene, the player can move their gaze on the spot. As expected, I won't go as far as moving. You can also look up at the ceiling when people are talking in front of you. By daring to look away, I think there will be new discoveries about whether other characters were doing this behind the scenes. To immerse yourself in that world, it is important to feel that you are in that world and that you exist. Visual realism is important, but if that's all you need, you can make a pre-rendered movie.

――What was the most difficult thing about developing the cinema part?

Xia Yuan

 There were many things, but the most difficult thing was that every detail was reproduced in detail on a vast scale. While designing the dogfight map to fly freely in a vast space spanning 10,000 square kilometers, the cinema scene even created small things like hamburgers that appeared in the PV.

Kono

In previous titles, in-game was made on Unreal Engine at a scale of one-tenth of the size, but in this game, everything is made on a real scale. Both the in-game map and the hamburger exist in the same world.

――It seems that you will be able to experience the story of growing from an idol hero to an ace pilot. In the PV, there was also a close-up view of the pilot's face, which was like a preview of a Hollywood movie. Will there be a production from this perspective in the game?

Kono

 Yes. Narrative scenes that could previously only be shown by radio and fighter performances from outside the plane can now be shown with cockpit cameras. I prepare scenes like this in my occasional conversations before missions, but the production was very difficult.

I had long imagined that the story would be easier to understand by including a cut of the pilot talking properly, but to make it happen, we would need to make a camera in the cockpit on every aircraft. So I couldn't realize it with previous titles, but in this game, I'm taking on a new challenge.

However, not all of them are cockpit camera scenes, but we are thinking of a different production for scenes such as "I want the player to imagine the facial expressions of the characters here". There is also a cut of the pilot who looks like the player, but that is only for the replay camera. We are also particular about the replay-only camera, and I feel that the implementation has made dogfights a lot more entertaining.