
One of the creatives behind the original Final Fantasy 7 wanted to remake the classic RPG as he was worried someone else at Square Enix would beat him to it.
Game Informer has published an extensive interview with Tetsuya Nomura and Yoshinori Kitase, Final Fantasy 7 Remake's creative director and producer, respectively. Kitase recalls how he was on a North American media tour for Final Fantasy 13 back in 2009 and suddenly began getting a series of questions during multiple interviews asking when Square Enix would remake Final Fantasy 7.