IGN interview with Yoshinori Kitase and Takeshi Arakawa

[Channy]

I hear a lot of mixed feelings about IX from different people, but I never really liked it. I couldn't play a game with 10 year old child models without feeling like a dirty pedophile.

 

[Makoeyes987]

How could you remake FFIX? It looks good as it is. Not every FF needs a remake or would benefit from one. An FF that actually still looks good despite its age hardly needs a remake. Like FFVIII to FFXII.

The first 7 you can justify since they're either completely two dimensional or....look like polygonal shit.

 

[Max Payne]

....


It doesn't need a remake.

At least not as far as visuals go.

I wouldn't mind a remake with new features in the interface and battle system, and upgraded environments and exploration. But as far as graphics go?

Hell no.

 

[Munatik]

Pardon my embarrassing fangirly-ness, but to me, FFIX is the closest to what a Final Fantasy should be: artful presentation; a well-written, perfectly paced story; clear and powerful themes; a huge diversity of places and characters; great side-quests; and a beautiful soundtrack. Zidane/Garnet's romance was convincing, too--much better than FFVIII imo.

And I love stuff like anthropomorphic townspeople. How can you not love a family of hippo people? I even liked the pointless card game. The Trance system definitely sucked and it was absurdly easy, but I was sort of happy with the latter. I never got stuck, so I could keep moving on with the story.

Anyway, this ideal the big reason why I would love to see more based on the FFIX world. I agree that it doesn't need a sequel, but I would be thrilled at the opportunity to do more with the characters I love in a world I love.

I remember tearing up a little at the end of FFIX, not so much because of the happy ending, but because the game was over. I know that sounds really fucking lame but it's true.

And while FFIX is one of the best-looking games on the PS1, I sure wouldn't mind seeing it in high def.

 

[Cthulhu]

On that 'FFVI remake', do they mean an actual remake and shit, or just a port?

 

[Dark and Divine]

It must be a full-fledged remake, like they did for FFIII and FFIV.

 

[ForceStealer]

Not for DS!!!! I don't want FF6 with shitty graphics, I want good ones! Why should it go from top-of-the-line 2D visuals to crappy, deformed 3D ones?

PSP at the least please.

 

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, they shouldn't make too much changes in the graphics, they rule . I wouldn't mind more 2-D 'cg' scenes like the opening sequence though, that looked pretty awesome.

 

[OneWingedDemon]

A fully rendered FF6 in awesome CG would be epic
And I agree. Make it for PS3 or somethin

.....I didn't like 9. Boo. NO remake/spin-off please

 

[ForceStealer]

And I agree. Make it for PS3 or somethin

As awesome as that would be, it would never happen. PSP would be the best graphical version they'd give us.

 

[Channy]

I could see it happening more for PSP than PS3... and sadly, more for DS than the other two.

 

[Max Payne]

I'd go for a wii version

 

[Channy]

That'd be interesting to see. Could they incorporate enough motion shit for it?

 

[Max Payne]

They really wouldn't need to. But of course everyone tries to shoehorn that shit in.

 

[ForceStealer]

Sabin's Blitzes?

 

[Channy]

It's the major point of the Wii, iirc.

 

[Max Payne]

It's the major point of the Wii, iirc.

that a lot of third party publishers don't give a shit about.

 

[Channy]

Yeah but a good game like VI they'd have to incorporate something somewhere.

 

[Max Payne]

use it to control the cursor.

 

[Channy]

Oh that's too simple.

 

[Max Payne]

it's more use than it's get otherwise.

 

[Channy]

True, but I see them sooner porting it to DS or PSP than Wii.