Editing Cactuar (section)

== Development ==
According to Japanese [[Game art design|video game artist]], game designer and director at [[Square Enix]] [[Tetsuya Nomura]], the concept of the Cactuar is based on a doodle he drew on a notebook when he was attending high school as a teenager.<ref name="VJump"/> The design of the Cactuar's face resemble ''haniwa'', a type of terracotta clay figure traditionally used for ritual and funerary purposes during the [[Kofun period]] in [[History of Japan|Japanese history]].<ref name="VJump"/>

[[Alexander O. Smith]], who played a major role in the [[Video game localization|English localizations of games]] developed and published by Square and later Square Enix like ''[[Vagrant Story]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', helped re-write translations written by a Japanese native translator for one of the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] ''Final Fantasy'' games in the 1990s. One of the notable errors he corrected prior to the game's release was the original in-game description for the Cactuar, which was [[Engrish|translated from Japanese to English]] as "It ejaculates needles!".<ref name="1UP"/>

For ''Final Fantasy XV'', the developer team noted that they had to make careful considerations on how to deal with the inclusion of comical or cute characters in a game designed to be more realistic than its predecessors. The Cactuar's physical texture and the depiction of the inside of its mouth was emphasized by the designers to make it more realistic as a type of wildlife in the game's world.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=''Final Fantasy XV: The Complete Official Guide Collector's Edition''|location=[[Tokyo, Japan]] |publisher=Piggyback |date=April 2016 |isbn= 978-1-90817-298-3}}</ref>