Square Enix's "Final Fantasy VII" will now have a remake 20 years after its release. Fans, however, were not so pleased. They were angered over the episodic nature of the Final Fantasy VII Remake.
According to an article on Forbes, because of the fans' reaction, Yoshinori Kitase, the game producer, has to step in to calm them. He mentioned his side through a blog post on their official website. "One thing that we wanted to be clear about during this weekend to accompany the new trailer was the scale of this project."
"We wanted to tell you this now and not in the future so that you'd share our vision for what we want to deliver. The biggest reason why we haven't done a remake until now is because it's a massive undertaking to reconstruct 'Final Fantasy VII' from the group up with the current technology."
Kitase said producing a proper HD remake of 'Final Fantasy VII' that would maintain the same feeling of density of the original would result in a volume of content that would not possibly fit into one installment. He said the company is aware of the comments of the fans and their reactions to the remake that it will be a multi-part series "and many have speculated correctly as to the reason why we have made this decision."
"If we were to try to fit everything from the original into one remake installment, we would have to cut various parts and create a condensed version of Final Fantasy VII. We knew none of you would have wanted that."
Kitase already stated earlier that the work needed for this project is massive so they have to release the whole game in one shot. So, that makes the "Final Fantasy VII" Remake episodic. This is also the same reason why the fans are at rage. Another reason to be angry about the remake is the use of an Unreal Engine 4 for its gameplay.
If a game like "Final Fantasy VII" which has the '90s look on the screen, will be running with an Unreal Engine 4 that means it doesn't have the kind of fluidity needed for a game like those produced in the standard JRPG.
If Square Enix will pursue with these plans in mind, what the "Final Fantasy" fans could do in the meantiime is just to wait for its official release and compare its gameplay upgrades.