Final Fantasy 7 Remake Director Doubles Down On Yellow Paint — 'There is Definitely a Need for That Kind of Thing'

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth manager Naoki Hamaguchi is erstwhile again championing the infamous "yellow paint" to usher players, saying "there is decidedly a need" for it.

Using yellowish overgarment connected ledges and walls to indicates a traversable country successful a video crippled has been a blistery taxable among players ever since its emergence successful popularity successful the likes of Uncharted connected PlayStation 3. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth uses this maneuver too, with players sharing their thoughts connected it and leaving Hamaguchi himself amazed astir the statement it stirred astatine the time.

In a caller interrogation with GamesRadar+, Hamaguchi said helium understood determination are immoderate radical who don't privation oregon request the yellowish paint, but insisted that it was necessary.

"I get determination is simply a statement astir that, whether that fits with that satellite oregon not, whether immoderate radical privation it, immoderate radical don't," Hamaguchi said. "I deliberation arsenic a game, determination is decidedly a request for that benignant of happening successful a batch of ways. I deliberation evidently antithetic developers experiment, effort antithetic things astir what works best, what fits best, the close mode of doing that successful their game."

"The request to usher players astir from from a gameplay position and amusement them what tin beryllium done, what they request to do, determination is decidedly times wherever that is needed," helium added. "So I deliberation evidently determination is much of a statement astir however it's done, what level and what works. And there'll inactive beryllium radical who say, 'No, that doesn't acceptable astatine all. We don't similar that.' That's fine, but I deliberation determination is decidedly a request there, and it's thing that is decidedly worthy looking at."

When the yellowish overgarment statement kicked disconnected with Rebirth past year, immoderate said they didn't similar however in-your-face the hand-holding was not conscionable successful Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but modern video games. Others, however, pointed retired that it could beryllium helpful, and was an important accessibility feature. Developers, too, weighed in, with immoderate highlighting however successful playtests and absorption groups, players sometimes conflict to enactment retired wherever to go, get frustrated, and discontinue playing altogether. Because of this, somewhat evident and sometimes unrealistic ocular clues are needed to assistance constituent players successful the close direction. And immoderate person pointed retired that video games person featured ocular clues for exploration and progression for decades now.

With treatment astir the yellowish overgarment successful FF7R, who remembers the options red/green arrows positive elephantine pointer disposable successful the archetypal FF7? pic.twitter.com/qMLnKh3rGw

Based connected Hamaguchi's comments, possibly fans tin expect the yellowish overgarment to instrumentality for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3. Speaking of which, Square Enix said past twelvemonth that its extremity was to spot the finale motorboat by 2027. Excitement for the 3rd and last section successful the trilogy grew adjacent much erstwhile the squad revealed that it had completed its communicative earlier this year.

Most recently, Hamaguchi clarified comments that Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 would "strike a balance" erstwhile it came to pacing and beryllium "more concise," insisting didn't mean helium would chopped immoderate contented from the game.

While we wait, find retired wherefore the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 squad “will not cheat” erstwhile it comes to Final Fantasy 7’s iconic airship. And arsenic for if Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 volition person turn-based combat? Hamaguchi said it had not been "pre-determined yet" contempt the occurrence of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which boasts accepted JRPG-inspired turn-based combat and precocious confirmed income of 5 cardinal copies successful 5 months.

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