Final Fantasy VII: Remake

It was ten years ago that SquareEnix released a PS3 Tech Demo of the intro of Final Fantasy VII, of how it might look if they redid it. Fans exploded. Surely this meant something. But alas, we were given Advent Children, the CGI movie sequel. Then came the PS2 sequel, the PSP prequel, the anime shorts, the remake of Advent Children... and every year, usually at April Fools and sometimes on other occassions, a rumour would circulate of a FVII Remake. Some Japanese scans would come in, fooling people. And that's all they were. Just rumours.

Until today.

Today, even before the E3 Convention has started tomorrow, SquareEnix has officially announced the Remake of Final Fantasy VII. Fans have begged and pleaded for this to happen and it's FINALLY HERE. There have been a lot of doubts over the years "Oh, what about the full rendered backgrounds" and "The materia system would be changed" or "What about all the retconning because of the compilation?" Well, to all the naysayers, I say NAY. True fans won't pick and prod at all the little imperfections, whatever they may be. True fans will be appreciative that SE finally listened and allowed us to revist our favourite world (just a little prettier this time).

Nothing has caused as much of a stir as this has... and SE is being pretty forefront about it too, so it has me believing this is the real deal. But, yeah... probably not until the 20th Anniversary/2017.

A lot of fans are split... they'll either bitch and moan that things are changed too much (very wide percentage of fans) and those who will just love it as is. It seems though that SE is considering a lot of things, and are ready to make some changes but still keep the things that made it just as charming as the original.

Tetsuya Nomura said:

“The original version is a game that came out in 1997, and if you look at it today, you can feel how dated the graphics and the game system are… However, that’s also part of Final Fantasy VII.”

“We haven’t shown any gameplay yet, but since we’re updating them quite a bit, please look forward to that… Since we now formally revealed Kazushige Nojima’s name for the scenario, there will be more plot devices in the story, so I think you can also look forward to that.”

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I take this to mean that they'll consider the whole compilation... easter eggs for DoC and AC, and references to old characters/events from BC and CC.

http://gamerant.com/final-fantasy-7-remake-changes-e3-122/

Tetsuya Nomura said:

It all looks very dark and serious – as indicated by the gravelly voice throughout – but in an interview with Eurogamer, director Tetsuya Nomura indicated that the sillier parts of the game wouldn’t be scrubbed out.
When asked whether we would still see Cloud donning a dress, he said “Please look forward to it.”

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http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/17/fin...-to-crossdressing-cloud-in-the-gritty-remake/

So smaller, sillier scenes like the cross-dressing rescue Tifa from Don Corneo mission is obviously still intact. And maybe even smaller things, like the Junon ship scene where Red XIII is trying to stand on two legs and Barret looks like a marshmallow, may not make it... but if they do? In HD? And Cloud jumping/riding a dolphine to an electrical tower?

I MEAN COME ON.

Not anymore! Final Fantasy XV can go suck an egg.

It's not just the original though, SE is still pursuing a ported version of the game with some cleaned up graphics to the PS4. So the FFVII Purists will have their untouched unicorn in all it's original glory but a little shinier, while a lot of other fans will have the remake they've been begging for.

I'm also glad they got a lot of the original staff onboard again, and hope they bring back Uematsu to remaster/touch up his music. A lot of the Compilation title music was lackluster when they got someone else... especially Crisis Core which was just the same themesong rehashed a million times. I mean, I love CC a lot too as a companion to the series, but it had its flaws, and the music was a big one. (Some other songs on the soundtrack were nice though).

With the massive delay in XV, I can see VII taking over. XV finally got somewhere (i.e. 2 demos and some new footage, etc) once Tetsuya Nomura left to focus on the new KH3 project, but now he'll also be tied up with VII. It's great that (mostly) original staff are involed but they announced alot of E3 and hopefully they won't split themselves too much.