Dark Souls 3 Miyazaki interview (Dengeki Playstation 6/25)

Dark Souls 3 Miyazaki interview (Dengeki Playstation issue released 2015/6/25, dated 2015/7/9)

-The director from the prototype is staying on too so there're two directors on this game
-Release is early 2016 but PC may be an exception (i.e. probably be delayed)
-Themes of the game are "end of the world" and "tales of heroes"
-Game environments as a whole are brighter than Bloodborne's because he wants to depict a world that's withering away, but of course there'll still be dark places
-Approach to the worldview is unchanged from 2. While the basic worldview of the previous games is still there, the story will not rely on them. But of course there will be things for older fans as well.
-Bonfires and the undead still exist, but they're rethinking the penalties for dying so that'll be different from past games
-Humanity is back too, but it probably won't be the same as DS1
-The end of the world theme can be seen in the faded sun, corpses of dragons, etc.
-The center of the "tales of heroes" are the Lords of Cinder (yes, plural). The screaming giant in the E3 trailer is the return of a former great hero, a Lord of Cinder.
-They haven't decided that this will be the last game, but are making it as if it is.
-It was in planning since before the company got reshuffled, and is the last game under the old company system. They've already started work on several other new games.
-Action-wise they're more deeply defining the individual weapons. For example shortbows used to be the same as longbows, just with different stats, but this time you can fire them faster and immediately after rolling/sidestepping so you're like "an elf in a certain fantasy movie series". Meanwhile longbows require to stay put and give you stronger shots.
-Longswords let you take a stance to prepare for enemy attacks, twin scimitars let you spin around, greatswords let you charge in to deal damage with the resolve that you might take large damage yourself, etc. allowing for more character building and roleplaying.
-This applies not just to the attack movements but also to the pre-attack movements
-Throwing knives are changed too, and there will be big ones that work like the old ones and smaller ones that can be used similarly to shortbows
-The player character will generally feel faster than in previous games
-Magic will undergo similar changes, more information will be revealed later
-Estus will be back but they're not sure about the healing gems
-Most of the work is done, and they're now adding missing data, balancing things, and working on improving the quality of the game
-When asked if more unique weapons means less weapons: The types and number of weapons will be "based on that of the previous games", "there won't be far less than the previous games".

>mfw people don't know what a worldview is and think it has to do with warping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view
tl;dr 世界観. Worldview, themes, background, setting, basis for the story/plot.

>corpses of dragons
FYI the word he uses is 竜 (only "dragon") which does not necessarily refer to the DRAGON dragons (古竜/古の竜 lit. "ancient dragons") and can refer to drakes (飛竜 lit. "flying dragons") and such.

Source:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%9B%BB%E6%92%83PlayStation-%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3-2015%E5%B9%B4-9%E5%8F%B7-Vol-593/dp/B00ZBLOITW
http://i.imgur.com/1Aof4Gh.jpg HOW DARE ANYONE BE NEW ON REDDIT THEY ARE TROLLS AND LIARS (separate accounts was because reddit is shit and doesn't let new people post multiple threads because anyone new on reddit is a troll and liar)

OTHER DARK SOULS STUFF I DID:
Dark Souls 2 translation clarifications: http://pastebin.com/gy6v34YE