They have several new characters?
Yuffie, Cait Sith, Vincent, & Cid are all new characters that they need to do motion capture for for all sorts of animations and things that they'd already have in place for Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, & (mostly) Red XIII.
Because they use the AI system for facial performances, this is stuff that's most likely for cut scene blocking & specific movements & animations for new playable characters that they don't have existing data for from
Remake already. Minor NPCs they'll already have a bunch of generic animations that they can pull from and use, and the returning characters will need some additional animations & need to have the cut scenes blocked out like everyone else.
Remember when we got a gameplay trailer for part 1, only for it to disappear for 5 years right after? Don't do me like that again, Square.
Yeah, but there were a ton of very different circumstances that lead to that happening with the teams & technology & planning. This SHOULD be a lot more straightforward.
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