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Final Fantasy 7 Remake was announced all the way back in 2015, making the entire project well over a decade old at this point. If we’re being generous, we’ll say that the final part of the trilogy will probably drop in 2027, which means director Naoki Hamaguchi will have dedicated a whopping 12 years of his life to the entire project. That’s quite a lot of time.
With the finale of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series getting close and closer, conversation has naturally begun to turn to what games Square Enix could possibly give the same treatment. Final Fantasy 6 has always been a game that has had fans clamoring for a remake (almost as much as 9), and while the idea of a Final Fantasy 6 Remake is appealing to Hamaguchi, he doesn’t want to take charge of the project.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Director Wants Someone Else To Do FF6 Remake
In a new interview with GamerBraves (thanks GamesRadar), Hamaguchi says that while he’s received a lot of calls from fans to remake Final Fantasy 6, he doesn’t think he should be the one to take on the responsibility, having already spent over a decade of his life remaking Final Fantasy 7.
Naoki Hamaguchi BGS Interview: The Present And Future Of Final Fantasy 7
For the upcoming port of FF7 Remake Intergrade, we sit down with its director to learn more.
“I have been involved in the Final Fantasy 7 remake project for now about 10 years from start to finish – and [I’m] now finally seeing basically the end of the tunnel – so in that respect, because I have used up all this time into producing this remake of Final Fantasy 7, should I be the one to undertake remaking another series?”
Instead, Hamaguchi says that he’d rather some fresh blood come in and a new creator take on the responsibility of that role, and that he’d rather “put myself in the support section to sort of cheer them on.” To be fair, after spending so long on a completely different remake project, I guess we can let Hamaguchi kick his feet up and be a cheerleader this time around.
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October 11, 1994
- ESRB
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T For Teen Due To Fantasy Violence, Partial Nudity
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Square Enix, Square
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Square Enix, Square
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Unity
