Final Fantasy 7 Remakedoesn’t cover the entirety of theFinal Fantasy 7story, and instead only adapts Cloud’s first exploits inMidgar. While the game’s title may not give any such indication, Square Enix only plans for it to be the first in an upcoming series, but it has never mentioned how many parts said series would be exactly.
Thus, the interviewers behind theFinal Fantasy 7 RemakeUltimaniawent ahead and asked when they had a chance to sit down with Producer Yoshinori Kitase and Co-Director Tetsuya Nomura. The duo’s answers were then shared online by the Twitter account aibo, before being translated by IGN Japan.
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According to Kitase, theFinal Fantasy 7 Remakedevelopment team has no idea how many partsRemakewill be, so it’s pretty much impossible for them to talk about it right now. This echoes past claims, showing that the project is in, more or less, the same place. He then followed up this comment saying: “It seems that many people think it will become a trilogy,” referring to the fans and followers of theRemakeseries.
Tetsuya Nomura added to this by saying it all depends on how the Square Enix team tackles the project. If it decides to handle it in bigger chunks, it will take longer to release. On the other hand, small pieces would allow them to get it out faster. “Personally, I would like to deliver it fast,” Nomura said of his opinion on things.
If done Nomura’s way, then thesubsequentFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeinstallmentswill cover smaller portions of theFinal Fantasy 7story and expand on them. This option would probably be the most comfortable one as it would keep the following games in line with the first episode. It would be somewhat jarring for the first game to cover and expand something so small only for its successors to do the complete opposite.
It would also follow the plan that theFinal Fantasy 7 Remakedevs had in mind for the series. InKitase’s previous talks aboutRemake’s episodic release, he said his team split the game into segments because the whole of its events wouldn’t fit on one installment, not without them cutting portions of it or sacrificing graphical improvements. But doing it in segments would give them the ability to not only focus on graphics but to expand on the lore whenever.
In the Ultimania, Kitase claims it’s taking things one step at a time, but with Square Enix currently in the middle ofdevelopingFF7 Remake’s second part, it’ll have to work out its plan soon.
Final Fantasy 7 Remakeis available now for the PlayStation 4.
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