Final Fantasy XV’s demo has seen some changes since its original conception, director Hajime Tabata admits. With the recent news of the oft-promoted car seeing its removal, Tabata took a bit of time during tonight’s Active Time Report to address some concerns that have been floating around since.

The car will still be very important to the full version of Final Fantasy XV as the game is really pushing for that road trip feel. Following feedback from last year’s Tokyo Game Show reveal, however, Tabata came to the conclusion that fans wanted to know more about playing the actual characters and getting a handle on the battle system and explore the large world. After discussing with the development team, Tabata decided it would be better to have players walk around on foot to gain a better sense of that world. As a result, walking has become the main form of transportation.

The original plan for the demo had players walking around a meteor area with about one hour’s worth of gameplay. Instead, the portion of the game where the demo takes place has been shifted and now for story reasons the car is temporarily out of service – although some of this will be hidden in the demo for spoiler reasons. This new area will prove a deeper experience and for those who play normally, can complete it in about two hours.

Regarding the inclusion of airships, Tabata says that is still to be determined. The team has a desire to do so, however there is a great technical challenge to it so they can’t promise anything right now. The team did, however, recently overcome a big milestone in terms of making the natural areas of the game horizontally seamless, but they still face issues with the game’s cities.

Tabata’s main concern with the airship is he’d like players to take off and fly over the land and right now that’s a big challenge. There is the ability right now to fly at bird’s level but Tabata doesn’t think that would be too fun – and according to him, only Just Cause managed to make that happen in an exciting way so far. The team will try and overcome the issue, but again, no promises.