Todd Howard says Bethesda is working on getting games into players' hands more quickly.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director is struggling to decide how to kick off the JRPG's final installment
16.04.2024 - 20:45 / gamesradar.com / Naoki Hamaguchi / Jordan Gerblick
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi is struggling to decide how to kick off the third and final installment in the series.
Of course, Rebirth just launched in February, and considering the deluge of excellent JRPGs that also released near the start of 2024, it's completely understandable if you've yet to finish the Remake sequel. That said, games of this scope take a long time to develop, and Hamaguchi said in February that the threequel was "in the same situation today" as Rebirth was when development on the first game ended, which is to say that it's likely somewhere at the beginning of its development cycle.
However, Hamaguchi said in the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Ultimania explainer book that he still isn't quite sure how the next game should start. According to a translation from Shinra Archaeology Department, Hamaguchi said that if the third game will follow the plotline from the original Final Fantasy 7, then it'll start with Cloud and co. heading to Icicle Inn and the Great Cavity, after which the Weapons will show up and the protagonists will get the airship. Even with this vague framework in mind, Hamaguchi said he remains undecided on the best way to start the game.
I'm curious to know exactly what Hamaguchi meant when he suggested Remake Part 3 might not follow the original game, or rather to what degree he was implying it could diverge from the plot. I know there have been some pretty significant creative changes in Remake and Rebirth, but with the third game tying a knot on the whole Remake series, it'll be interesting to see if long-time fans are in for a surprise at the finish line.
Even the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth explainer book can't explain what's up with the JRPG's divisive ending.
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
The website gametalkz.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
Top Authors
Popular Topics
gamesradar.com
26.04.2024 / 13:45
Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3"
Larian publishing director Michael Douse reckons video game marketing is a thing of the past."
digitaltrends.com
25.04.2024 / 16:49
Tribeca Games 2024 will feature 7 games and a Final Fantasy 7 panel
The Tribeca Festival returns this June, and it will once again feature official games selections and even a game-focused panel. This year, the selections are all promising indie games, including a successor to 2021’s excellent Before Your Eyes. The show will also feature a talk on the making of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
gamesradar.com
24.04.2024 / 11:41
5 million people played Fallout games in a single day, with Fallout 76 alone accounting for 1 million, amid the TV show's massive success
The massive success of the Fallout TV show is inspiring millions of people to play the games on which the Amazon Prime series is based.
gamesradar.com
24.04.2024 / 11:41
Stellar Blade director "grew up too poor to afford" a PS1, but when he finally got one in college, Ridge Racer and Final Fantasy inspired him to make games
Stellar Blade director Kim Hyung-tae was inspired to start making games by PS1 classics like Ridge Racer and Final Fantasy after being "too poor" to afford a gaming console as a child.
gamingbolt.com
23.04.2024 / 07:15
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Will be a “Curtain Call” for Characters Introduced in the Remake Trilogy
By splitting up Final Fantasy 7’s story across a trilogy of full-fledged games with its ongoing remake trilogy, Square Enix has been able to flesh out its world and characters much more than it would have been able to do with a more conventional remake. Where the latter are concerned, that has also included entirely new characters who weren’t part of the story in the original game itself, coming in the form of secondary members of the cast who still end up having fairly important roles to play.
gamesradar.com
19.04.2024 / 00:07
Now that's rare: A single fan petition with just 70 signatures prompted Sea of Thieves' director to bring back a fan-favorite feature that was removed this year
Rare is bringing back a Sea of Thieves fan-favorite feature because the game's leads came across an online petition with just 70 signatures at the time of writing.
gamesradar.com
17.04.2024 / 00:57
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's most painfully boring minigame was originally twice as tedious, but at the last minute Square decided "it might be stressful"
Square Enix tried really hard to make Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's mako vacuuming minigame more enjoyable than the painfully tedious practice in masochism that it is by all measures. In fact, it was originally a lot worse.
videogameschronicle.com
15.04.2024 / 22:11
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is ‘underperforming’ sales wise, analyst claims
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is reportedly underperforming commercially.
gamesradar.com
15.04.2024 / 19:21
Helldivers 2's ammo booster was inspired by the director's time in the military where "it was always possible to stuff an extra magazine in another pocket"
Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt says the game's ammo boosters were inspired by his time serving in the military.
gamingbolt.com
12.04.2024 / 23:31
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Voice Recordings Will Start Soon, Hoping to Wrap up Development in 3 Years
It’s still difficult to wrap your head around how Square Enix managed to make a game as massive and diverse as Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in the short amount of time that it did, and it looks like the company is hoping to do the same with the remake trilogy’s final instalment.
videogameschronicle.com
12.04.2024 / 18:33
Square Enix hopes to develop Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 in about three years
Square Enix has given fans an update on the status of the third and final part of its Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy.