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03/24/2010: "Square Enix's President Will "Explore the Possibility" of an FFVII Remake"


The Final Fantasy VII remake teases have made their way to the top. During a Siliconera interview, Square Enix's President and CEO Yoichi Wada said, "Right now we don’t have a clear direction, but many fans have requested we remake Final Fantasy VII. We’re going to explore the possibility – whether or not we’re going to do it, if we’re going to do it, and the platform."

This comes not long after FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama (who was not on the original FFVII staff [ETA: Dawn Treader has pointed out that this isn't true. He was one of the Event Planners for the Field Section, as seen in the end credits. Thanks, DT!]) stated that if he could remake any game, it would be FFVII.

Special thanks to Dawn Treader for posting this news in the Forums.

Source: Siliconera - Square Enix CEO Comments On Final Fantasy VII Remake

Posted by Reeve at 11:31 AM EST


Comments:

on Wednesday, March 24th, Reb said

Aaagghhhhh why do they keep DOING this. LEAVE THE GAME ALONE, IT WAS FINE AND DANDY THE FIRST TIME AROUND! Better yet! Leave FF7 alone! It's retconned itself into OBLIVION. At least let me cling to the warm corpse of what it once was.

on Thursday, March 25th, MrSparkle07 said

Hey, Reb, why don't YOU leave FFVII alone and let ME enjoy a remake it I want to.

on Thursday, March 25th, President_Rufus_Shinra said

hopefully the will remake it =3 i wanna see which battle system they'd use too FF XIII's one looks good (doesn't own a ps3 or xbox 360 T_T)

on Thursday, March 25th, Vader Scream said

If the remake happens I hope it's so awful that the cash cow finally stops producing milk.

on Thursday, March 25th, Karnij said

I would love for them to remake it but don't change anything! I would just be happy if they cleaned it up a little and re released it for the ps3. My FF7 discs are about dead and won't play on my ps3.

on Saturday, March 27th, Mathew said

If they make a remake.. wouldnt it be on the next generation consoles??

on Saturday, March 27th, Nemesis said

People have to start to realize that if they remake FFVII, it wouldn't be the same!! They'd changed a lot of things...

on Saturday, March 27th, Ed said

FROM HOLLAND

dont change the battle system just make it CTB and leave it like it was

also try to release it on pc like the old ff7 :P tho that kinda is impossible but why not

good choice on remaking ff7 if you choose to do so :D

on Monday, March 29th, Reeve said

Karnij: If you're in Japan, North America, Europe, or Australia, you should be able to download FFVII through PSN.

on Tuesday, March 30th, karnij said

Will it work if I load it when I download it and try to use my save from the disk game? Thanks Reeve! I have checked you site out with the over 100 rumors on it and enjoyed it!

on Tuesday, March 30th, Reeve said

Karnij: That, I don't know :/ If I had a PS3, I could try it out for you, but unfortunately, I don't. Maybe someone here or on the Forums could help you out.

As for the rumors, do you mean this site or the Turk Alliance? If it's the latter, I have/had nothing to do with that place ^_^;

on Tuesday, March 30th, Karnij said

Oh ok! I thought that you did! My bad Reeve!

on Thursday, April 1st, Karnij said

Just to let you know Reeve is that it let's you use the saves from the disc! I just downloaded it on PSN and it worked!

on Thursday, April 1st, Reeve said

Awesome! Glad it worked out for you :D And I'll keep that in mind in case someone else asks in the future.

on Monday, April 12th, Kimba said

I have mixed feelings on this. I think the original cannot be topped by any other game in the genre. Yes, XIII is pretty, but you just can't compete with wonderful characters and epic story line.

I am kind of hesitant to say it would be the best remake ever. After all, the delves Square Enix has made into bringing FF7 back are questionable. Dierge of Cerberus was...absolutely horrible. Crisis Core was good, but again, you can't compete with the original story line with characters that are in the past, and thus, not as developed as the characters in the original game. And Advent Children was...very pretty, and cute, but not really worthy of the FF7 title. So, I do wonder if they will be able to pull it off effectively, should they decide to go through with the remake.

However...if they put enough time and effort (and money) into modernizing the graphics and game play, and made a concerted effort to NOT touch the script and storyline, they could easily have the greatest, most bestselling remake ever created on their hands.

So, I guess I am hesitantly hopeful. If they feel that it would be too much effort to fully reproduce it and want to focus on other things, then they should give this thing a permanent resting place in the halls of the RPG titans and just leave it alone. But, with the right motivation...we just might have the most beautiful realization of an instant classic that the gaming world has ever seen.

on Tuesday, April 13th, Taylor said

Really I'd love it if they'd make another FF7 Compliation! I hope they do! If they do I'd absoulultly love it! I loved all of them...except before crisis...

on Wednesday, April 14th, J3nova said

I so agree with Kimba

on Saturday, April 17th, TFlare said

I would be happy if they just use the same engine,but with HD backgrounds, improve the 3D models and use AA.
Seriously, that wouldn't take too much time to do, and it would look way better than the original.
Also, nerf KoTR.

on Sunday, April 18th, Karnij said

What does nerf kights of the round mean?? Hahaha!

on Monday, April 19th, Nemesis said

I'm intrigued as well! XD

on Monday, April 19th, TFlare said

Wikipedia:
In video gaming, a nerf is a change to a game that reduces the desirability or effectiveness of a particular game element.

I meant to say "reduce the KoTR damage" :)

on Monday, April 19th, Karnij said

They also need to speed it up as well! Hahaha! I don't really use summons anyways. Just all out attacking for me!

on Thursday, April 22nd, Nemesis said

Oh, so that's what it mean! ;) It's fine with me too, I'm an "all attack" as awell! Summons are handy in the beginning of the game though...

on Thursday, April 22nd, Karnij said

Nemesis, who are the 3 do you use the most. I use cid,vincent and cloud.

on Friday, April 23rd, Nemesis said

That is a nice team!

Well, I spent many years using always Cloud, Barret and Red. Although on my last playthrough I swapped Red for Tifa. :P

on Monday, April 26th, TFlare said

A system where everybody participates in battle just like FFX would also be awesome.

on Monday, April 26th, Nemesis said

FFX's system is indeed great, although, we can never have the same team because we need to adapt to every battle.

The fixed ATB battles are nice, it allow us to arrange our own fixed team through the game.

on Thursday, April 29th, Karnij said

I've beaten FF7, 8 And 9 but not 10, 12 or 13. I just bought 10 and I'm really not into the battle system, how you level up and even the story. Very disapointed. 8 was ok and really didn't care for 9 as well. They should put saga frointer on psn! That was another of my favorite rpg. 7th saga was another one.

on Friday, April 30th, Nemesis said

I kinda enjoyed FFX, the story is alright and the gameplay is nice.

FFIX is one of my favourite games of all time. Yeah, it's that great! :P

But nothing beats FFVII, of course!

on Wednesday, May 5th, Karnij said

I really want this to happen but needs they need to hurry because the original players of the game when it came out are getting older and by the time it comes out they may not be interested anymore because they waited to long to do this.

on Friday, May 14th, Dionysus said

This news was posted in the future.

on Saturday, May 22nd, TFlare said

@Dionysus
What?

on Tuesday, May 25th, Xemera said

I really wouldn't have anything against a new video game involving the olf FF7 roster...but to get peoples attention I think it would need something to it.

I'm sorry but the being Sephiroth back a third time (i think) seems kind of lame. Cause we all know that he gets his but handed to him by Cloud! I think when they did DOC it was a good approach on setting it on a character no one truelly understood and take a whole new enemy from it...

So I'm just saying...if they make a new FF7 game...it should have SOME kind of new theme or something to this.

This is me thinking out loud but I agree with Nemesis about them gettint old. By some point the only one formable would be Vincent...I think they should do something involving the generations of the ff7 cast...just think out loud though.

on Wednesday, May 26th, Karnij said

What I think would be cool is if they did one with just red and vincent. Red can live up to hundreds of years and vincent can't die. Maybe do something with the kids of cid, cloud(if he ever gets over you know who) tifa, reeves, barret(which would be Marlene) and have vincent and red be the main two. Just thinking out loud on that but if they remake it, then it would be a remake so it would be ff7 all over again but with better graphics or if they change it, make a ff7-2 like what they did with 10.

on Wednesday, May 26th, Karnij said

I forgot Yuffie! Or they could do something that picks up after the books that they wrote.if you haven't read them, check them out, pretty good! The bad thing is all in Japanese so look them up online. One of the books is called the Madden who walks the earth I believe. (Not a very good speller!! Sorry!!!)

on Friday, May 28th, Xemra said

Heck THAT would be cool Karnij!!!! I wonder if Cloud and Tifa would EVER get together! And if they did how many kids would they have!!! Man it get me thinking about other FF7 characters...and how there children would be like....

on Friday, May 28th, Xemra said

Heck THAT would be cool Karnij!!!! I wonder if Cloud and Tifa would EVER get together! And if they did how many kids would they have!!! Man it get me thinking about other FF7 characters...and how there children would be like....

on Saturday, July 10th, Hypnotic said

I'd be happy enough with updated graphics and nothing else.

Having said that it would be cool to add a few new sidequests and maybe a bonus like "The Answer" from Persona 3 FES that bridges the gap from FFVII to Advent Children.

on Tuesday, August 31st, Panthro said

FFVII needs to be remade without touching the story or the battle system FFXIII was a joke it's like watching some1 else play but you have to keep hitting a single button to make it keep happening.

on Tuesday, August 31st, Panthro said

btw the book is "The Maiden Who Travels The Planet" not "Madden who walks the earth"


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