Final Fantasy 7 Remake producer knew the original would be remade “one day” after so many requests
The producer knew it would be made back in 2009
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Final Fantasyseries producer Yoshinori Kitase knew thatFinal Fantasy 7 Remakewould happen eventually after so many requests from fans.
Speaking in a recentinterviewwith Game Informer, Kitase revealed that years before the release ofFinal Fantasy7 Remake, during the press tour forFinal Fantasy13in 2009, he was “certain” that the 1997 original would be remade due to its high demand from fans.
“We were on the U.S. media tour forFinal Fantasy 13, and we took on a bunch of interviews, and we got a ton of questions from reporters asking, ‘When are we going to make aFinal Fantasy 7remake?'” Kitase said.
“Just hearing that so many times, I did think that we would do it one day, that’s for certain.”
Kitase explained that he approached Square Enix developer Tetsuya Nomura - director ofRemake- after the tour to make the game, which would later be released in 2020.
“Within Square Enix, gradually, remakes were being made, and these ideas for remakes were coming up in other departments,” Nomura said. “If we weren’t going to doFinal Fantasy 7, others were going to do it, so we had to rise up and do it!
“We had the sense that we had to guardFinal Fantasy 7and have to be the ones taking this on, or someone else is going to do it. I thought it may be a bit troublesome is other teams without us took on the project.”
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