Final Fantasy VII julkaistiin 23 vuotta sitten, ja siinä ajassa moni asia on muuttunut. Uusittu Final Fantasy VII: Remake julkaistaan 10. huhtikuuta 2020 PS4:lle. Mitä on muuttunut? Paljonkin ohjaaja Naoki Hamaguchin mukaan, jota Gamereactor haastatteli viime viikolla Madridissa.
"When the original FF7 came out I was just a player, one of these people who play the game, I wasn't in game development then. There's a lot of people on the development staff with the same kind of background as me. There are also people like Mr. [Yoshinori] Kitase here who were on the original development team and it's not just Japanese people either, there are developers from all over the world who have this great respect for FF7 who have come to work on the game with us".
Uusintaversion tekeminen on aiheuttanut kehittäjille paineita, mutta niiden kanssa on opittu elämään.
"No, of course there's a lot of expectation. So, there is pressure involved there. But, really, it's that challenge of how we can respond to this expectation, give the players what they want, that's stronger for us. So, it's really that feeling of, 'how can we...?' So that's why, because we all love the game so we understand why people are so expectant about it, and we really want to think of how can we respond to that, what can we give the fans of Final Fantasy 7. That feeling is a lot stronger than trying to give in to the pressure."