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Video Games Are Obsessed With Remakes. It Might Be The Only Way To Secure the Future.

Video game remakes are becoming increasingly common, but the developers behind the biggest ones hope that there are lessons and positive emotions in revisiting the past.

Inverse

'Final Fantasy 7 Remake' Is Already Thinking '30 Years Into The Future'

Inverse talks to the director of 'Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth' about trying to redefine a seminal classic, and the benefits of a "multi-part" approach.

Inverse

Final Fantasy 7 producer Yoshinori Kitase shares his top 3 Xbox games right now — as FF7 free demo hits Xbox Series X|S and Xbox PC

Final Fantasy VII is finally coming to Xbox in a few weeks. To celebrate, Square Enix shared a video with us detailing some of the producer's favorite Xbox games.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 has "reached a stage where it's finally starting to match the vision I had for it," director teases, and the "new experience" is "almost complete"

Expect the Highwind to take center stage

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake 3 Developers Close To Choosing Full Title as The Game Awards Approaches

Final Fantasy 7 Remake 3 is reportedly close to getting its full title, with fans expecting a reveal as The Game Awards draws near.

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Square Enix director Naoki Hamaguchi considered giving Cloud Strife a more realistic sword for Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but decided JRPG fans "wouldn’t accept it": "We stayed faithful to the OG"

Big swords or bust

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 lead says the Highwind is an important part of the upcoming RPG, and it sounds like Square Enix is close to deciding on a name

The RPG's leads will choose the title by the end of the year

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"It's really fateful" – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director on charting a new course for the JRPG series with a return to Nintendo, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and outdoing AI

Interview | Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi answers all of our questions - then several more

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director isn't weighing in on the OG JRPG's infamous Tifa vs Aerith shipping debate, but after 10 years of looking at Cloud, "I just want what makes him happy"

Naoki Hamaguchi has spent more time looking at the spikey protagonist than his own family, or so he feels

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"

But only if Naoki Hamaguchi "completely ignored" his role at Square Enix

GamesRadar

FF7 Rebirth director knows a whole heap of people hate yellow paint on ledges, but reckons 'there is definitely a need for that kind of thing'

Get your Cadmium Yellow ready.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "basically nothing" from the original JRPG's development survived: "We're talking about the mid '90s... There's almost no documentation left"

"Game development back then was a lot more Wild West"

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director knows there's a debate around yellow paint in games, but says "there is definitely a need for that kind of thing" and the only real question is "about how it's done"

Take it from Naoki Hamaguchi: "I get there is a debate about that ... That's fine, but I think there is definitely a need"

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Remake lead looked to "story-driven" PlayStation hits like God of War and The Last of Us to help shape the JRPG remake's first entry

With The Witcher 3 inspiring the sequel's open-world

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the team could do a "completely new IP" or maybe "something new within the Final Fantasy series" after finishing Part 3 of the JRPG remake

"I'm really looking forward to it"

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says defying industry norms and keeping the dev team together for the whole RPG trilogy was key to its success: "That's quite a rare thing"

"Our experience really has grown as we work on each new game"

GamesRadar

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's GOTY pick, and not just because it features JRPG-inspired combat: "It gets all of the elements in it right"

Naoki Hamaguchi's also a fan

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Nintendo Switch 2's game-key cards are "part of a larger trend that we can't avoid," Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says, as physical media is becoming "less and less part of the industry"

"The user, the fans, the customers on Switch 2 very much value what's good about physical media. So, for that platform in particular, it's going to be an even slower change."

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GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Remake director promises Part 3 news "in the not too far future" and tells fans he's "running straight to my hotel room and back to checking some of the levels"

"Rest assured it's going well and we're working very hard on it"

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "however much AI might try and intrude and take part in the creative side of things," his team would want to be "good enough creators" that "we could do better than AI"

Naoki Hamaguchi says that using AI for the creative side of development is "not something that I could really go ahead with"

Inverse

The 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake' May Be Far From Over

Naoki Hamaguchi, the director of the 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake' trilogy, is already considering expanding the trilogy past the release of Part 3.

TechRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director praises the Switch 2's divisive Game Key Cards, calling them 'a really fantastic idea for us developers' because 'I don't personally see Nintendo working towards trying to improve the loading speed for the cartridges'

Naoki Hamaguchi believes Nintendo will try to popularize the new format instead of trying to improve the loading speed for the cartridges

GamesRadar

Square Enix is "actively considering" Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 DLC, Naoki Hamaguchi says, or maybe even another installment entirely: "Things are really up in the air"

Don't count on Queen's Blood getting a full release, however

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director thinks "Nintendo will put more effort into popularizing" the Switch 2's controversial game key cards, which he calls "a really amazing new idea"

Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi is fully on-board with Switch 2 game key cards

GamesRadar

"We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans

Clair Obscur's popularity isn't impacting Final Fantasy just yet

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