Rather, Weerasuriya insisted, it was Ready at Dawn's focus on creating a variety of mechanics that meant there was more work to do than if it had made a straight up third-person shooter.
"If you want to talk about the number of gameplay mechanics, we probably have a lot more than normally any single game would have," he said.
"Across the board, like the different melee systems, from the different gun systems, the breadth of guns you can use in the game, the different navigation stuff, even on the puzzle side, the interactive cinematics, all of that stuff, we actually probably, piece by piece, if you look at it, and the diversity of it, we built more content than a lot of games would.
"We didn't rely on the same content. That's one of the things we did. We didn't want to be the one trick pony that went, all right, we're making a shooter, so basically forget everything else, you're just going to pick up a gun and you can go around and shoot at people. Not to sound like I'm putting anything down, it's actually easier to do that and say, look, that's all we're going to do.
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