Naoki Yoshida, known as Yoshi-P and the director of Final Fantasy 14, has expressed skepticism about the feasibility of remaking Final Fantasy 9 as a single title.
Oh not this shit again
Every one is mad because they’re greedily milking reruns and I’m just laughing because they clean skipped over FF8.
Funny enough, it could benefit from a rewrite the most
Which is why they won’t do it. This is about easy money, not revisiting games that aged poorly and / or failed to live up to their potential when they originally came out to make a better and more modern experience while retaining the spirit of originals.
I think it made sense for 7. Midgar was the most interesting set piece and a ton of stuff happens there. But it’s only like 10% of the game.
Then you collect side characters like infinity stones and to through a bunch of their individual stories.
Then the actual story happens.
Also, 7 is popular enough to support the split up.
This doesn’t make sense for 9. Also, isn’t it supposed to be a 1 for 1 remake?
But they want more moneyyyyy 🥺
Because it’s just not possible to make fully featured games anymore? Everything’s gotta be bite sized chunks for full price.
The FF7 Remake games have a lot more content than the respective parts of the original
And it honestly breaks the flow of the story sometimes compared to the original. Rebirth’s added content felt like busywork at times to make it seem like a bigger game than it actually is.
The Honeybee sequence in Remake is peak tho, and I’ll fight anyone that says otherwise.