Call me an empath, but something tells me that remaking Final Fantasy 7 as a trilogy of slick, high-budget modern games is taking its toll on poor Naoki Hamaguchi, the remake's director. In a recent chat with IGN, Hamaguchi and Final Fantasy 8 director Yoshinori Kitase were presented with the idea of a similar remake for FF8. Hamaguchi took to the idea like a cat to a swimming pool.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake director would give an emphatic 'No!' if someone asked him for an FF8 remake, and FF8's original director isn't keen either
By Joshua Wolenspublished about 7 hours ago
The fate of FF8 seems faint.
(Image credit: Square Enix)
Call me an empath, but something tells me that remaking Final Fantasy 7 as a trilogy of slick, high-budget modern games is taking its toll on poor Naoki Hamaguchi, the remake's director. In a recent chat with IGN, Hamaguchi and Final Fantasy 8 director Yoshinori Kitase were presented with the idea of a similar remake for FF8. Hamaguchi took to the idea like a cat to a swimming pool.
"If after we've finished the three games in the [FF7] trilogy," said Hamaguchi, "Mr Kitase then comes to me and says, 'Right, we're going to be remaking another numbered Final Fantasy game and you are on the project,' I'll just turn around and go, 'No!'"
Kitase seemed to agree, even though FF8 was originally his own baby all the way back in 1999. "Trying to recreate that kind of volume of content you had in the RPGs back then in the modern day really is not something you can take up lightly," he said, "It's such a massive investment of time and effort that we really have to think very hard about taking on any kind of project like that."
