{"id":6945,"date":"2015-02-17T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2015-02-20T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:54:29","slug":"namco-bandais-interview-with-xenoverses-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2015\/02\/namco-bandais-interview-with-xenoverses-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Namco Bandai&#8217;s Interview With XenoVerse&#8217;s Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our countdown to the release of Dragon Ball Xenoverse in one week with a Jump Festa 2015 interview featuring Masayuki Hirano, the producer behind the game. Not only are villainous characters talked about in the game, which mainly relates to known characters getting extra boosts of power to alter their timeline, but also delves a bit into parallel missions. More about all of this after the break, including the interview video.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It seems these villainous boosted characters can be fought in the parallel missions. These seem to be separate challenges from your storyline missions. Also, it&#8217;s noted in the interview that losing in these missions can actually cost you items. This is to add more tension to the battles.<\/p>\n<p>One week left! In just seven days the time travelling Dragon Ball XenoVerse game will be released!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fmpyu8zhBVU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our countdown to the release of Dragon Ball Xenoverse in one week with a Jump Festa 2015 interview featuring Masayuki Hirano, the producer behind the game. Not only are villainous characters talked about in the game, which mainly relates to known characters getting extra boosts of power to alter their timeline, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,3,419,5,586],"tags":[1126,1125,1127,536,1166,629],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation3","category-playstation-4","category-xbox360","category-xbox-one","tag-dragon-ball","tag-dragon-ball-xenoverse","tag-fighting-game","tag-interview","tag-masayuki-hirano","tag-namco-bandai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DBXV-Interview.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-1O1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6828,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2015\/02\/join-the-battle-with-your-own-character-in-dragon-ball-xenoverse\/","url_meta":{"origin":6945,"position":0},"title":"Join The Battle With Your Own Character In Dragon Ball XenoVerse","date":"February 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"With just over two weeks away, it's almost time for Namco Bandai's North American release of Dragon Ball XenoVerse. 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