Remake Interviews: Catch-all Thread

[cold_spirit]

New Nomura quotes on announcing games ‘too early’:

“...

The same thing happened with the remake of Final Fantasy 7. I am well aware of the fact that we announced it too early, but even in the industry, word was beginning to spread that we were working on the game, so we just decided not to keep it more secret and officially reveal it.”

Source: https://www.khinsider.com/news/Nomu...roperties-dealing-with-leaks-and-rumors-12569

For comparison's sake, here's Nomura's justification in 2015 for announcing the Remake:

Final Fantasy 7 remake director Tetsuya Nomura has said the project’s timing relates to Square Enix’s hopes for the growth of new-gen platforms.

“Why now? This week at E3 we announced several titles coming to the PS4: not only FFXV, Kingdom Hearts 3, and World of Final Fantasy, but [also] a new Star Ocean and more,” he told Engadget.

“Rather than announce the remake after those titles went on sale, we wanted to give gamers something that would make them happy – open them up, perhaps, to buying into the PS4.”

To put this in context: the home console market isn’t doing as well in Japan as internationally, and developers and publishers aren’t happy about it. (I noticed another reference to this today in an interview with Nier director Yoko Taro on Gematsu.)

Square Enix in particular is very keen to increase to new-gen install base in Japan and abroad, and that’s one of the reason why it brought Final Fantasy Type-0 to home consoles.

Source: https://www.vg247.com/2015/06/18/final-fantasy-remake-ffvii-ps4-install-base/

Guess there's no reason it couldn't be a combination of both explanations.

 

[Vyzzuvazzadth]

Someone on GameFAQs just posted this tweet about Kitase-San telling the FFVII Brass concert attendees about his his direct involvement in the development of Shinra HQ floors 69 and 70.

https://twitter.com/DKHF4/status/1010511120975589376

Nothing too fancy, but still quite reassuring in my opinion.

All those tiny tidbits trickling in just after the no-show at E3 this year feels like Kitase and Nomura reaching out to us fans as far as they are able to within the restraints of the higher-ups holding them back from sharing the more demanded information.

 

[Teioh]

I was trying to locate the sources (tweets from attendants) for that last night but after digging around for a while could only find this one. Perhaps others will have more luck.

Even though it wasn't anything fancy, it was big news for us Shinra fans

 

[Shademp]

Nice work Teioh! I sent a message to DKHF4, asking if they can provide links to the aforementioned tweets.

 

[pxp]

The big question is does Floor 70 still look like this?

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/...ile=President-Office-Shinra-HQ-FFVIIR-Art.jpg

 

[Teioh]

I hope so. I really like the artwork for it.

Also here's another Bra★Bra tweet from an attendant. Couple of nice photos attached to that one.

 

[Shademp]

In addition to the link Teioh just shared above, DKHF4 linked these two tweets:
- murasaki3912
- Magunus

 

[Teioh]

I have a question for those who know about these things. According to yesterday's article by KHInsider there will be an interview with Nomura in the July 12th edition of Dengeki Playstation.

My question is that they have stated that this interview will be included in Vol. 266, but the one I can find releasing on that date is Vol. 665, am I missing something? I ask because I have seen KH interview scans of Vol. 665 July 12th 2018 and since I can't read it I was wondering if it is the one KHInsider refers to.

 

[Ite]

I hope so. I really like the artwork for it.

Also here's another Bra★Bra tweet from an attendant. Couple of nice photos attached to that one.

That’s... Uematsu playing an alto saxophone. I PLAY AN ALTO SAXOPHONE. Notice me senpai!!

 

[JBedford]

I have a question for those who know about these things. According to yesterday's article by KHInsider there will be an interview with Nomura in the July 12th edition of Dengeki Playstation.

My question is that they have stated that this interview will be included in Vol. 266, but the one I can find releasing on that date is Vol. 665, am I missing something? I ask because I have seen KH interview scans of Vol. 665 July 12th 2018 and since I can't read it I was wondering if it is the one KHInsider refers to.

khinsider's source says its the 665th issue in its title. And the Dengeki site mentions there'll be a Nomura interview.

 

[Teioh]

Thanks JBedford! I'll post the scans if anyone wants to take a look. But it looks like nothing much tbh. Siliconera: Nomura Says Lack Of Final Fantasy VII Remake News Is Due To Priority Of KH3 And Other Releases.

Tetsuya Nomura said he acknowledges that there’s been some fake news [Likely about the rumored 2023 release window] and fans may feel uneasy about it

I really hope he's not referring to the 2023 thing

Here's the scans anyway:
Page 32
Page 33

End paragraph on Page 33 is where I can see FFVII mentioned.

 

[Shademp]

Kitase's quotes from the June 23 performance of “BRA★BRA FINAL FANTASY VII BRASS de BRAVO with Siena Wind Orchestra”, about him working on Shinra HQ floors 69 & 70, are now included in a Dengeki Online article about the concert.

力強い“常に闘う者達”演奏後、北瀬氏による『FFVII REMAKE』開発に言及したトークが披露された。若手スタッフ中心に開発が進んでいる『FFVII REMAKE』だが、“神羅推し”の北瀬氏としてはどうしても譲れない部分があるということで「神羅ビル69階70階の企画書を書いている」とのこと。『FFVII REMAKE』への期待感がさらに高まった。

Powerful "always Those Who Fight" after the performance, "FFVII REMAKE" mentioned talk to development by Mr. Kitase has been unveiled. Young staff the center to have been developed "FFVII REMAKE" But, "Shinra pushing" as Mr. Kitase of "wrote the Shinra building 69 floor 70 floor of the proposal" in the fact that there is absolutely Yuzure not part And that. The expectation for "FFVII REMAKE" further increased.

 

[Shademp]

Here's the scans anyway:
Page 32
Page 33

End paragraph on Page 33 is where I can see FFVII mentioned.

Transcription of the final paragraph (may contain errors because I don't know Japanese) :

一最後に 『ＦＦⅦリメイク』はどうでしょうか?
野村：誤報もあって不安に思われたかもしれません
が開発は順調に進み、 厚みも増しています。 今、 情
報を伏せているのは 『ＦＦⅦリメイク』 の状況によ
るものではなく、 『ＫＨⅢ 』を含む自社の他夕イト
ルのリリースを優先してのことです。 次の情報公開
タイミングは見据えているので、 もう少々お侍ちく
ださい。

- Finally, how about "FFVII Remake"?
Nomura: Although some may have been worried because of misinformation, development has progressed steadily and the thickness is also increasing.
It is not based on the situation of "FFVII Remake" now, but it is about giving priority to the lease of other company projects including "KHIII".
As we are looking at the next information disclosure timing, please sneak a little more.

So, yeah... The thickness is also increasing.

 

[Strangelove]

the lease of other company projects including "KHIII".

'release of other titles'

As we are looking at the next information disclosure timing, please sneak a little more.

 

[Lestat]

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[T@ctic]

the RM is gonna be thicc????? way to be vauge nomura

 

[Ite]

I think he means “padded.”

 

[pxp]

I have a completely random question to break the 4-week duck.

Will we see a load of bathrooms and, more significantly, toilets in 7R?!! They’re absolutely everywhere in the OG, and to my mind it’s the only instalment in the series where this is the case. There may have been one or two ‘restrooms’ here and there in some of the others, but in 7 they’re a permanent fixture.

So what say you? Are toilets an absolute necessity to the fabled aesthetic of 7 and thereby 7R?
________

 

[ForceStealer]

I think so. For as slapdash as FF7's world-building could be, I always admired their dedication to bathrooms, lol.

 

[TooManyFandoms]

I am down for bathrooms, adds realism -idk anymore-

 

[leadmyskeptic]

I dunno if the sheer quantity would be the same/not be weird without pre-rendered backgrounds. I used to love running into people's houses etc to see the little details, and how you could tell people's class/the region you were in by things like the toilets (the house Johnny moves into with the woman in Costa Del Sol, the bathroom in general sticking out for some reason as something I could easily envision the real-world counterpart for). It was all in step with the sort of 'lovingly rendered but not purposeful' aspects of the pre-rendered art, things cluttered on kitchen counters, posters on the wall, and so forth. Not that I'm saying there won't be detail in this "3D" FF7, of course, but just that...I dunno, it's harder to imagine the frequent presence of non-interactive/'purposeful' objects like that in it.

 

[Kain424]

I did always enjoy the odd guns and random weaponry spotted in several areas.

 

[ForceStealer]

^Yeah I remember Rocket Town is packed with AKs for some reason, haha.

And yeah you would need at least two bathrooms, the one on the 66th floor of the Shinra building, and in Costa Del Sol for Barret to be looking at himself in the mirror in his sailor suit Maybe also the person sick in the Wall Market.
I also like the perennially occupied one in Rocket Town. "I don't know what will happen first, Meteor falling or that guy getting out of the bathroom."

 

[pxp]

Don't forget the woman in the toilet in Wall Market who needs medicine via the Pharmacy Coupon.

Yep, it's a fact then! Bathrooms, restrooms, toilets and weapons/guns on walls and in booths all need to be retained!

As an aside, I really hope they keep the ridiculously crowded and cramped conditions in the economically-deprived areas. It gives it that favela/shanty town feel which completely suits. I hope some of living arrangements really are like hovels, where you and your party can literally barely move left or right with the analogue stick.

Also I hope they keep the South Asian 'bazaar'/artificial-lighting arcade/mall aesthetic in, for instance, Wall Market again, and of course the cramped shops and bars in Junon. Reminds me of parts of Tokyo, Hong Kong and Thailand so much, where pirated goods and such like are sold.

 

[ForceStealer]

The 'slum' area of Insomnia in Kingsglaive had a Wall Market-y feel: