'It’s About Making Sure the Pacing Feels Right' — Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Director Clarifies He Is Not Cutting Content

Final Fantasy VII Remake bid manager Naoki Hamaguchi has clarified that portion helium precocious assured fans that Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 would "strike a balance" erstwhile it came to pacing and beryllium "more concise," that didn't mean helium would alteration thing astir Rebirth's pacing.

As we reported past week, the manager reflected connected disapproval of the series's pacing and lengthy instalments. Asked if helium agreed with the feedback that "certain sections" successful Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth felt a small long, helium disagreed, saying: "Regarding clip absorption successful definite sections, particularly successful FF7 Rebirth, I honestly don’t judge that they were longer than necessary. I consciousness similar nowadays, players conscionable person excessively overmuch to bash and excessively overmuch to play; truthful they often consciousness the impulse that thing has to beryllium concluded quickly."

In a caller interrogation with VGC, Hamaguchi expanded further connected this, saying: "Just to explain, the archetypal question I was asked determination was, they said that determination are immoderate radical who played Rebirth, the 2nd crippled successful the series, and they felt that due to the fact that we’ve added successful caller communicative content, which wasn’t successful the archetypal Final Fantasy 7, to them it felt similar the communicative was being stretched out," helium explained. "So they asked whether we were considering doing thing related to that successful the 3rd game.

"I consciousness that the pacing, the content, and the equilibrium successful Rebirth is precisely arsenic I wanted it. I personally don’t consciousness it’s been stretched out; it doesn’t consciousness unnecessarily long. To me, I deliberation I got that right, and I deliberation a batch of radical would hold with me."

Hamaguchi explained that portion helium is looking astatine pacing and ensuring "that the communicative developments determination guardant successful a reasonably speedy mode and with the close gait essentially, alternatively than feeling dilatory and drawn out," his remark whitethorn person been "misconstrued."

“I deliberation that whitethorn person been misconstrued by people; they whitethorn person said, ‘Okay, that means they’re going to chopped down connected the measurement and they’re going to region communicative content, it’s going to beryllium a shorter game, they’re going to chopped it down’, and that’s not what I’m saying astatine all," helium added.

"It’s astir making definite the pacing feels right, it’s not astir cutting retired content, it’s making definite that it feels right, the velocity that the communicative progresses astatine feels right, and it is reasonably speedy and feels similar you tin get done it astatine a tenable pace. But it has to consciousness right, truthful that’s what I chiefly intended to accidental there."

RPG fans person been connected the hunt for quality astir the adjacent introduction successful the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy since its past installment, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, launched successful aboriginal 2024. We cognize improvement started arsenic aboriginal arsenic June 2022, with Square Enix saying past twelvemonth that its extremity was to spot it 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.

While we wait, you tin work up 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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