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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Has Been Considered For A Long Time

Published Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:45:34 -0500

by Patrick Dane

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Before it was announced, a Final Fantasy 7 Remake had been considered for a long time. After several false starts, things finally aligned at this year's E3 where the game was finally revealed.

It turns out it wasn't just the fans who were considering the possibility for a while either though. Speaking to OPM (via GamesRadar), the game's director Tetsuya Nomura explained that the game has been in consideration by the core creatives for a long time and they all needed to be in the right place at the right time:

And in terms of why it was time to start production: you may have seen three names come up in the trailer: Mr Kitase, Mr Nojima and myself . The availability of these three key members finally aligned, and we were able to see a window in which we can start production with these creators, so it made it possible for us to move forward with the project.

He continues:

Actually, the discussion of doing the Remake has been a long one.Even internally it came up and it went away, and it was kind of an up-and-down ongoing discussion that was going on. So now that we've finally announced it, I'm just looking forward to getting through with it. The gravity of this game… it's just such a large title. Not only the expectations, but the production of it too

I don't particularly have much nostalgia for FFVII, but I know the magnitude of expectations on this title. At least it seems Square Enix is doing it right by waiting until everyone was in the right place at the right time. I just hope this gets near the impossibly high expectations for the game.

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