Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Be Going Beyond The Original Story
Square Enix has received some heavy, but expected, fan backlash after announcing their long-awaited Final Fantasy VII Remake will arrive in episodic form. The developer has already explained their reasoning but Producer Yoshinori Kitase has gone further into detail about their plans.
In a new post on Square Enix's official blog, Kitase states "With Final Fantasy 7 Remake, we have the opportunity to go beyond the story, world and experience of Final Fantasy 7, in ways we've always dreamed of — from the depths of Midgar to the skies above the Planet. The multi-part format enables us to expand the original story and turn it into an epic experience for fans and new gamers alike."
"One thing that we wanted to be clear about during this weekend to accompany the new trailer was the scale of this project. We wanted to tell you this now and not in the future so that you'd share our vision for what we want to deliver. The biggest reason why we haven't done a remake until now is because it's a massive undertaking to reconstruct Final Fantasy 7 from the ground up with the current technology."
"Producing a proper HD remake of Final Fantasy 7 that maintains the same feeling of density of the original would result in a volume of content that couldn't possibly fit into one instalment."