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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

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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

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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

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"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

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director defends the JRPG's overlong filler, but says he’s "striking a balance" with Part 3: "Players just have too much to do and too much to play"

Naoki Hamaguchi doesn't think certain sections were longer than needed.

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says all that timewasting filler was good actually

Naoki Hamaguchi thinks we "just have too much to do and too much to play".

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A New Assassin's Creed Rumor Could Have Nintendo Fans Facing A Tough Choice

Rumors of 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' Switch 2 launch date put it directly in the path of Nintendo's biggest game this year.

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"This is sacrilegious!": Final Fantasy 7 Remake's new cheat mode is controversial even at Square Enix, but the JRPG's co-director Naoki Hamaguchi believes "the player should have the choice"

"That's why I pushed for it"

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake series devs knew JRPG fans wanted to know "what's gonna happen to Aerith," so they tried to make sure players "won't be able to tell… until the very end"

Square Enix is "trying to push boundaries" with the trilogy's story

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Xbox has a problematic "lack of memory," but Final Fantasy 7 Remake director says Square Enix's "multiplatform approach" doesn't hurt Part 3 development "whatsoever"

Xbox catching strays right after taking a bazooka blast to the chest

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake series lead doubts that "the exact same battle system" from the revamped JRPG trilogy will make it into his future games: "We want to keep it surprising"

It might still serve as "a basis," though

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake lead says Kingdom Hearts' cloud versions for the Nintendo Switch were something Square Enix "experimented with," but ultimately decided "didn't feel right" for the 2020 JRPG

"Once we learned what the Switch 2 could do, it felt like a natural and positive opportunity"

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director says fan feedback can only go so far, the upcoming JRPG "should be a better experience" but the "creative vision" at Square Enix won't change

"That creative vision you have has to come from the creative team"

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After stumbling out of the gate with poor sales as a PS5 exclusive, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth director says it's 'doing very well on both PS5 and PC,' while 'a lot of the content is already playable' in the upcoming third game

Maybe the next one will sell better if it's on PC from the jump.

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After Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's controversial ending, director insists Part 3 is "in safe hands" and the JRPG's finale will "really reward everyone for sticking with us to the end"

The climax will be "a really great send-off for the game"

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "shaping up nicely" with much of the JRPG "already playable," says director Naoki Hamaguchi: "Development is going extremely well"

The "game's direction and form are firmly set in place"

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Peak recognizes peak as Donkey Kong Bananza gets a shoutout from Final Fantasy 7 Remake series director as one of his "top picks" of 2025: "I thought it was amazing"

"I felt that the sort of interaction that one can gain with the world inside of it was truly amazing"

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FF7 Remake trilogy director wants us to accept Game-Key Cards, and yeah, no.

Locking games to internet downloads will inevitably make them unavailable.

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"I love that sense of freedom and choice": Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says his favorite Xbox series is Fable, and the action RPGs have "had a positive influence on my own creative work"

As for the upcoming Fable game, "I'm eagerly awaiting it."

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director would love to work on "something completely new" after a decade of FF7, but if he had to choose another remake it would be Final Fantasy 6

It's also Naoki Hamaguchi's favorite mainline Final Fantasy JRPG

GamesRadar

Switch 2's controversial game-key cards "let us do things that maybe we wouldn't otherwise," says Final Fantasy 7 remake co-director, but "I really get where people are coming from in terms of their negativity"

Naoki Hamaguchi wants fans to come to terms with the controversial game-key cards

Windows Central

Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi explains why the Final Fantasy maker has returned to Xbox

We spoke to Naoki Hamaguchi, game director in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, to learn all about Square Enix's growing support of the Xbox ecosystem.

Inverse

'Final Fantasy 7' Is Coming To Other Consoles. Director Explains What That Means For The Finale

Inverse talks to Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi about bringing the game to new consoles, and what that means for the franchise's future.

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy 7 Remake director takes a hammer to difficulty discourse as the JRPG reveals ultimate god mode, says he's played games where he "gave up because of the time it takes to level up characters or traverse the game"

With the Switch 2 and Xbox release date confirmed, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is getting a "Streamlined Progression" setting with unlimited HP and MP, and damage "always" dialed up to 9999

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads follow up meeting their JRPG idols at Square Enix to exchange "visions and ideas" with praise from another genre icon over dinner: "My favorite game"

Sandfall Interactive developers have been busy

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