FF7 remake for PS4 announced - Page 23

On December 14 2015 02:36 FFGenerations wrote:
fuck just realised we will get supernova summon HD

The scenario of the first part to the Final Fantasy VII Remake is already complete, staff interviews in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals.

As previously announced, Final Fantasy VII Remake is being broken up into parts as the density of the original game would not allow a remake to fit into a single release, according to Square Enix.

In this week’s issue of Famitsu magazine, Final Fantasy VII Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase, director Tetsuya Nomura, and scenario writer Kazushige Nojima had some details to share on the upcoming PlayStation 4 title. [Thanks, Hachima.]

The interview features various details that we previously reported, but Hachima put the following notes on some of the interesting tidbits.

• We’ll get to explore around all the areas of Midgar.
  
  
• Square Enix would like to delve more deeply into Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie.
  
  
• They can’t say how many volumes the entire Final Fantasy VII Remake will be in this stage.
  
  
• As previously reported, the game is using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 to create the game. They’re also getting technological assistance from the Kingdom Hearts team, and may work together for the game in the near future.
  
  
• Cloud’s auditory hallucination scenes are being shaped up to be more meaningful.
  
  
• The “ATB Gauge” that turns red is different from a Limit Break, and Square Enix plans on having a special system, one that they can’t show yet, but it will change depending on the play-style of the player.
  

Separate from Limit Breaks, there is another unique system. They can’t show it yet, but the it will be different depending on the player’s fighting style.

As for the cast, they’re continuing plans with the voice actors from Advent Children, but there are some that still haven’t been offered yet. Red XIII only made a cameo appearance, so his voice is likely to be changed.

Dengeki PlayStation this week features a new interview with Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura and producer Yoshinori Kitase.

Regarding Voices…

Nomura: “Basically, it will be fully voiced. We still haven’t decided the voices of the characters that weren’t in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.”

Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase recently shared some info on the development of Final Fantasy VII Remake in a developers interview for 2016 ambitions in this week’s issue of Famitsu magazine. [Thanks, Hachima.]



“I believe that this year will still be a year of preparations for Final Fantasy VII Remake,” shared Kitase. “I’d like to create a new kind of value for the hardware that is the PlayStation 4 for our next announcement.”

According to SuperMetalDave64 - a YouTuber with a reasonably solid track record when it comes to rumours - Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy XV will both be ported to NX at some point. Furthermore, both versions could end up being the definitive editions, as the source claims that NX will surpass the PS4 in terms of processing power.

It's worth pointing out for a second time that this is the kind of rumour that multiple pinches of salt should accompany; SuperMetalDave64 even explains that his unnamed source in this case isn't a developer on either project, but has given him solid information in the past.

On paper at least, the rumour isn't that hard to believe. In the case of Final Fantasy XV, it's already a multi-platform title confirmed for PS4 and Xbox One, so a release on NX would certainly make sense.

"It will essentially be a full-scale game for each part of the multi-part series. In XIII, each installment told the story from a different angle. It was kind of like approaching an unknown territory, in a sense. Whereas with FFVIIR, we already have a preexisting story, so it wouldn't really make sense if that isn't encompassed in the multi-part series... So, if we're just looking at each of these parts, one part should be on par with the scale of one FFXIII game."

"I, along with Nomura-san and Nojima-san were involved with the original FFVII game. We were the people who created it, so in that sense, we don't think anything is untouchable. That isn't to say we're changing everything!!" The game is still early in production, but fans can safely expect a shorter development timeline than the decade-long road FFXV has traveled.