Simply as Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake did earlier than it, Remaining Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s story performs with and subverts expectations in fascinating methods, and although in some ways the remake trilogy is hitting all the principal story beats you’ll count on it to, in others, it’s making some important modifications. Nevertheless, its builders wish to additionally guarantee veteran followers of the unique recreation that by the point the trilogy involves an finish, they gained’t really feel like their expectations had been betrayed.
Talking in an interview with Anime Information Community, producer Yoshinori Kitase offered assurances that the upcoming Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake Half 3 (or no matter it finally ends up being known as) gained’t make too many radical modifications to the story, however that, on the similar time, the event group can be hoping to ship “a brand new kind of feeling of satisfaction to the gamers” that it couldn’t with the unique Remaining Fantasy 7 again within the day.
“We do hear loads of gamers’ completely different conjectures, saying, ‘Oh, how a lot will this story change from the unique?’ And I do wish to remark that I don’t suppose that’s how it will likely be,” Kitase mentioned. “We’ve all the time stored the unique in thoughts, and I don’t suppose it’s going to be a storyline that can betray the followers of the unique [game]. But additionally, on the similar time, [it’s] been 27 years for the reason that launch of the unique Remaining Fantasy 7. There are these items that we really feel we will solely do now within the remake mission that may convey a brand new happiness, a brand new kind of feeling of satisfaction to the gamers taking part in this recreation now 27 years later. What it will entail precisely is one thing we hope gamers will expertise quickly.”
Earlier this yr, the trilogy’s artistic director Tetsuya Nomura confirmed that the event group was already “exhausting at work” on the following instalment. Later, the aforementioned Yoshinori Kitase said that Sq. Enix hoped to wrap up improvement inside three years, which might counsel the corporate is concentrating on a 2027 launch for the remake trilogy’s closing instalment.
