Well, if you think about it, both the Pokemon Company and Square Enix started off in Japan, and up until Final Fantasy XI, most of the main games of both franchises were extremely similar when it comes to gameplay, especially the battle sequences.
What...?
Um, no. No they do not have similar gameplay or battle sequences. Not... At all. The only commonality between FF and Pokemon is they're "turn based" and RPGs. I... Don't know what you're talking about. They are not "extremely similar" at all.
The only Final Fantasy that came anything close to Pokemon in terms of similarity of gameplay is World of Final Fantasy. And that game came long after FFXI.
They had issues with 4Kids' history and still do? That sounds too much like how Square Enix still has issues with Nintendo even after a decade or two or even three.
.....What are you talking about? Square's issues with Nintendo ended
in the early 2000s.
Now?
Cloud Strife is in Super Smash Bros with Midgar as the stage. Square's ported almost every Final Fantasy to the Switch. They were releasing improved ports of classic Final Fantasy titles
for the Gameboy Advance. There's been no "issue" for a very, very long time.
And plus, the guys who did all of the FFVII titles certainly lied about continuing the Compilation for ten years, with Nomura having said that there would've been more FFVII sequels after taking a break from re-doing Advent Children, and then went up back in 2017 and finally told the truth that it wasn't meant to be at all and instead the series ended with Crisis Core without saying anything and that the main reason why they didn't do more was because of money.
Actually that wasn't literally what they said they were gonna do. They said that given the amount of stories they had in mind, they could continue it for 10 years, but that wasn't a planned goal for them. People rode on the literal words of that answer, way too hard. They never intended to just keep going a decade making titles for it.
So, given the choice, they can easily decide to make a new reboot series without even saying anything until they bring it up on people. They wouldn't necessarily throw out their previous work, just...start right from the beginning without throwing away their other titles. Or for better words, they can still keep the Compilation around without getting rid of it while working on a new series all together.
Plus, they probably don't want to remaster Dirge of Cerberus due to it's gameplay and graphics in-game, and their excuse for not remastering Crisis Core is "because it already is in English".
...Except they don't plan on making a rebooted series. That's not what the remake of FFVII is for. Again, why would they do that? The same people who drafted the Compilation of FFVII are the same people doing the remake, and what the hell would make them decide, "Yeah, let's just do it all over again cause fuck it, why not?!" Considering the amount of pressure and hard work went into AC that took *years*, no. They're not gonna just do that all over again for funsies.
And why would they have
TWO spin off series for FFVII?? What the fuck..?
That's some DC Warner Bros levels of
derp that I don't see Square undertaking for no reason at all.
They probably don't see a reason of remastering DC or CC because one is a PS2 era game they've probably lost given their track record of losing master game files from that era, and CC because its a PSP game and they had a hell of a difficult time bring Type-0 to the PS4. It's not easy. Maybe if the Remake does well and they've got nothing to do they'll remaster them but now they're focusing on their current projects that need more attention than those games.
