Yoshinori Kitase Speaks About FFVII Remake
Ever since the infamous tech demo was revealed back at E3 2005, PlayStation fans have been long awaiting the day Final Fantasy VII gets remade for the PS3. Sadly the idea has been shot down many times by Square Enix. However, Final Fantasy XIII’s producer offers a glimmer of hope.
While speaking to GameTrailers, Yoshinori Kitase reveals his interest in a “more complete form of Final Fantasy VII”, which can inevitably mean one thing, that’s right folks, a remake.
“I’m really interested to see this more complete form of Final Fantasy VII portrayed more realistically with the voice and animation and all the subtle expressions there.”
“I’d be interested to see that and to make that, it would be a great experience. I don’t get tired of people asking that question, so I’ll continue to answer my thoughts as long as people keep asking.”
Despite this, Tetsuya Nomura commented a while back, saying the remake not being a game in the company’s near future. With so many conflicting reports from the masterminds behind the Final Fantasy franchise, it looks like eager fans will just have to wait patiently a bit longer.
16 Responses to “Yoshinori Kitase Speaks About FFVII Remake”
They said a long time ago in an interview that they will not even consider remaking the game unless they get the original team together to do it. As long as that’s true, they will probably never do this, and the longer they wait the less likely that is. Sorry to dash any hopeless dreams there.
“You can wish in one hand, and sh*t in the other, and see which one fills up first.”
I dont really understand why they would make a tech demo of it but never turn it into a game. It’d sell better than most FF games ever.
@Queef – I was thinking about it when I made my first comment – would it really sell better? Sure, the original is high on the sales chart now, but it only costs $10. A remake would warrant full retail. Are there enough fans out there willing to shell that money out for it? I doubt Square would count on it. They would want to draw in new consumers as well, and in my opinion that requires revamping the game play. If you’ve played it lately, you’ll notice its extremely slow paced by today’s standards, and won’t do well at all without that core fan base. I fear that revamping the game play, if not done very, very carefully, could actually ruin this classic game. Its just my theory, but it looks like this would be the real reason that Square hasn’t followed through with a remake (besides what I said above). I realize I’m downing on the idea of a remake here, but don’t get me wrong, FFVII is my favorite RPG ever, and I’d love to see a remake that does it justice. It just doesn’t look like an economically sound idea for the company, unfortunately.
They made a tech demo of FFVII because using something familiar to people helps give the a better idea of exactly how powerful the hardware actually is. It was also a good idea to use FFVII for the tech demo because people had already seen how good Advent Children looked so, to show that the PS3 could render the characters as good as they looked in Advent Children also made it easier for people to see how powerful the hardware was. It was also a way for Square to show off how far they’ve come since the original FFVII on Playstation.
Eh, I don’t mind if there’s a remake but there better be no voice acting.
A remake in this day and age without voice acting?
Good luck, especially considering
“I’m really interested to see this more complete form of Final Fantasy VII portrayed more realistically with the voice and animation and all the subtle expressions there.”
That’s just him trying to make it sound like it’s not a remake, but no matter what it would be.
ha! voice acting is standard practice now so get used to it!
If they remake it and added voices they would have to add new things here and there maybe level out the materia system and some new summons and side quest.Nothing to huge but it would take time..The pace could be increased by having a more active ATB system. I dont believe the classic game can be ruined if they tryed a remake. They could get away by leaving out voice acting and adding expression to the characters faces.
@ultimaChocochu – agree on the voice acting. It would defeat a large purpose behind the remake if they didn’t do voice acting. Frankly, they should definitely get Mr. T in on it, I think I would die laughing if they did!
l’m getting mad. So are they going to do a remake or not, l’m tired of them saying they will & not remake it. Square just needs to go out to confirm or deny it
id rather they make FFX remake
@BigWoop – Mr. T as Barret would make the game twice as epic!
What Square-Enix has been trying to say. “when you stop buying all of our other FFVII Sh*t, we will finally make a remake. right now everyone is buying our FFVII crap, so we don’t have to give them what they truely want just yet”
@The Queef Sisters
There was a Final Fantasy VIII PS2 tech demo but nobody thought that they were going to remake Final Fantasy VIII.
@megs
FF13 was originally planned as a PS2 release. Ive never heared of a tech demo for that FF13 because in the PS2 era they didnt do tech demos.
Just let it die. Please.
Why do people continue living in the past? FFVII was certainly a landmark game, but what could possibly be gained from making a remake? We already know the story, and if they chose to deviate they’d have millions of rabid fanboys and girls outside the studio with pitchforks and torches.
Even if they made a complete story that took into account the events of Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus, and Advent Children along with the original FFVII game, they’re not really offering up anything original. They’d just be prettying it up. And are graphics and voice acting even that important if you grew up with games like VII? Nobody in that game had fingers for god’s sake, but did it even matter?