In the Weekly Famitsu issue no. 1224, published on May 31st earlier this year, a 12-page coverage of Final Fantasy VII’s plot and production history was included. Two of these pages include sketches and images from pre-production. Interviews with Kitase, Nomura and Nojima (and two anonymous PR staff) can also be found here, where they talk about the making of the title. We are proud to present the Kitase interview which has been humbly translated by TLS veteran Hitoshura. Thank you Hito!
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Hey Hito, thanks for Translating this, it was a good read.
I hope we can treasure that energy in the future as well, and not forget the enthusiasm we had at first as we make new games.
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Square need to get back to producing Final Fantasy from a creative vision rather than by committee-thinking.