May
2
2008

The rumor that will not die… because Square Enix just won’t let it

posted by nikki at 10:31 am.

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I’ll tell you right now, every time I come across one of these interviews you’re going to be hearing about it.

The rumors, possibilities, and outright demands for a Final Fantasy VII remake have been floating around the web for ages now, and Square Enix has never officially come out and said they’re going to do. Oh, they’ve repeatedly said that it’s something they would like to do, that the fanbase would eat it up, and that they would make gobs of money if they did it (ok, to my knowledge, they’ve never actually said that last bit, but we all know they’re thinking it), but they’ve never actually given any sort of proposed timeline for such a project.

And, shockingly, they still haven’t. If you missed the sarcasm there, I’ll try to make it more blatant in the future.

But, on the bright side, they’d still love to do it. Someday. Maybe.

Courtesy of Kotaku, Yoshinori Kitase, director of the original FFVII had this to say:

“My feelings are that if a remake were to work well then all the core members of the original team must be reassembled, all the artists and designers.

The problem is that, although all of us have an idea of what a remake should be and how to do it, organising such a thing right now is logistically very difficult. All the different members are now involved in very new, very large projects like Final Fantasy XIII and those projects are going to take a while.

Maybe, when all those games are finished then we can look at doing something like that.”

Personally, I’m not going to argue with that. FFXIII is comprised of three separate games, after all, and a project that big certainly isn’t going to get put on hold or even slightly delayed for a mere remake. And, as I recall, some of the original FFVII team are also working on the new Kingdom Hearts projects, another major franchise for Square-Enix.

Okey dokey, so an FFVII remake will have to wait until they’re done with FFXIII. But what’s this? Kitase also added this little gem:

“Of course, that said we came up with the idea for Crisis Core in just two days. It was a case of ‘this is what we want to do, so let’s do it’. So, you can definitely expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point, but it’s hard to predict.”

So… if you REALLY wanted to do it, you’d do it? Does that mean you don’t really want to do it? That last “definitely expect the probability at some point” absolutely kills me. A simple yes or no would be far less aggravating than “sure, definitely, maybe, if we feel like it, someday”. This only reaffirms my belief that Square-Enix employees get some sort of sick, twisted joy out of tormenting those of us who want to see this remake happen.

I hate you Square-Enix. I hate you, and yet I love you.

Nikki Blight: is still trying to find that damn princess... when she's not writing fresh code for the217.com.

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