Square Enix is releasing its highly anticipated Final Fantasy VII Remake as a multiple-part series.
According to director Tetsuya Nomura, releasing the remake in this way — which sounds almost episodic — will avoid the need to cut content from the role-playing game that’s sold over 100 million units since its 1997 release. Square Enix confirmed to GamesBeat that Final Fantasy VII Remake will come in installments, translating an interview from Famitsu magazine. “Producing a proper HD remake of Final Fantasy VII that maintains the same feeling of density of the original results in a volume of content that couldn’t possibly fit into one installment,” producer Yoshinori Kitase said.
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“If we dedicated our time to a single release, parts of it would become summarized,” said Nomura, as reported by Gematsu. “We’d have to cut some parts … so rather than remake the game as a full volume, we decided to do multiple parts.”
“The idea that a remake of Final Fantasy VII would not fit into a single release was there from the very beginning,” added producer Yoshinori Kitase. “As you can see in the trailer, we showed Sector 1 and Sector 8, but in those areas alone, I think you can see a lot of density. When you’re remaking the entirety of the original version in that quality, it’s not possible to fit it all in one release.”