When Square Enix announcedFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeas a multipart series, it took some fans by surprise and disappointed some others. Essentially, the news meant that even though fans would finally getFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, they would still have to wait for years at a time to get their hands on the whole experience.
While Square Enix has provided a reason for its decision in the past,FF7 RemakeProducer Yoshinori Kitase took the opportunity to touch on it once more during an interview with theSquare Enixblog. He addressed the question while answering why Midgar was the only area to appear in the game.
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According to him, the originalFinal Fantasy 7just had too much content to fit into one title comprehensively. If he and the team had gone that route, they would have had to decide which portions of the original game they were going to cut to make the project work, and they knew that fans would be upset if that happened. On top of this, cramming all of the content of the original game onto one title would prevent the team from giving it the graphical improvements and details that it deserved as a modern game, which went againstRemake’s original purpose.
So, when deciding how to tackle the game, the team figured the best direction to go in would bedividingRemakeup into multiple parts. This method would allow them to not only eventually give fans the whole story with the highest level of graphics possible, but to also expand upon the portions and areas where they felt the game was lacking.
For example, in the originalFinal Fantasy 7, there are many instances where the game will skip over particular events, opting to imply what happens instead of showing. In these instances, the screen will go black, and when the game loads again, the player will find themselves in a different location. Kitase refers to these instances as “breaks” in the game, and he and his team will be removing them in favor of showing the events and expanding upon the story.
Overall, in the end, multiple parts would allowRemaketo be more immersive than the originalFinal Fantasy 7altogether. And sinceMidgaris the first area players explore in the original title, it naturally became the area toRemake’s first episode.
Final Fantasy 7 Remakewill launch for the PlayStation 4 on Jul 11, 2025.
