Hino also commented during last month's presentation that Rogue Galaxy will be his greatest challenge to the RPG genre. One goal of Rogue Galaxy is to implement a feature no other RPG running on disc-based media has been able to accomplish thus far: zero loading time. Technically, Rogue Galaxy will be reading data from a disc, but Level 5 is hoping to eliminate any recognizable loading time when players enter a building or move to a different planet. Hino told Famitsu that he understands the difficulty in developing a seamlessly playing game since he was originally a programmer, but it was something that he always wanted to attempt.
Rogue Galaxy's graphics feature a unique mix of anime-styled, cel-shaded 3D for the characters and detailed, realistic 3D for the backgrounds. Hino says that Level 5 has been using anime-styled graphics since 2001's Dark Cloud, emphasizing that his company knows the best ways to handle the technique.
