Lemay-Comtois: There are so many aspects to it, but for the destruction in particular, we really wanted to pay homage to the katana. You can slice through rocks, according to legends, so we developed some slicing tech. From there, we were like: Okay, how can we push it? If you kick somebody in that stuff, how does it break? How does it roll off? And you can actually slice individual oranges in the game.
　
　
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