Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Director Already Teasing What Comes Next | Push Square

05.03.2024 - 21:28 / pushsquare.com / Fantasy Vii / Naoki Hamaguchi

Despite only just getting the eagerly-anticipated Final Fantasy VII Rebirth out the door, Square Enix is already hard at work on the conclusion of the Remake trilogy. And while we wouldn't expect to hear anything substantial for a few years yet, we're already anticipating what comes next, and it seems we aren't alone in these.

In an interview with IGN (thanks PSU), Final Fantasy VII Rebirth game director Naoki Hamaguchi alluded to Rocket Town, a location not featured in Rebirth, and the hometown of FF7's best companion, Cid, who, along with Vincent, will round out the party in the next game:

«So as for Rocket Town, this was also not a part of Nojima-san's original structure…And considering that how we introduce the character, Cid, for the Remake series this time is arranged a bit differently, Nojima-san, Nomura-san and I were all aligned with this decision to consider this for the next title.»

It seems like Rocket Town was also cut, at least in part, so that Gongaga could be more fully explored in Rebirth, but rest assured that Rocket Town will get its just desserts in due time: «Considering that in the original, the Gongaga area was optional for the players, we wanted to delve into this and express this more in-depth for Rebirth. And so that was also an additional consideration for this as well.»

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How's your Final Fantasy VII Rebirth playthrough coming along? Did you make it to Gongaga? Are you excited to visit Rocket Town in the next game and see how this thrilling trilogy ends? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Makes you wonder… will Part 3 be a 150 hour game or something? Narrative wise, Disc 2 and 3 together have more going on than Disc 1. They could have Wutai, Northern Region, and Mideel all be regions like the ones in Rebirth and still not have covered the Huge Materia stuff (which includes backtracking to Rebirth areas too), Midgar raid, crater finale.

Rebirth took about 6 hours of the game into 60, Remake 3-4 hours into 40. All of Disc 2-3 plus Rocket Town from Disc 1 is closer to 20 hours of the game.

@Konks thiiiiiiiiis. This is what's been going through my head ever since the first details about the game (meaning FF7 as a whole) being broken up into segments emerged. I can't wrap my head around how the pacing they're using fits into three parts. I agree with making Midgar a whole game; I think how huge and rich a setting Midgar is deserved that kind of expanded