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" All the areas introduced from now on are completely open with several towns in the field. If you need to imagine it, think The Witcher 3. it's pretty clear to me this is where the majority of dev time went and that everything up to now was just introduction"
"This is where activities and sidequests become relevant.
Sidequests and Marks grant you renown which unlocks tiered rewards.
Hunts are now open and they're really fun.
A new type of sidequest opens which unlock permanent stuff. They have special icons (like in FF14). One unlocked recipes, one unlocked Chocobos and one unlocked better potion recovery"