Final Fantasy 7 Remake is still an episodic game

By Tom Marks

The first Trailer of Final Fantasy 7 Remake in four years debuted yesterday and IGN learned today that it would probably remain an episodic game, as announced for the first time in 2015.

Fans pointed to a vague line in a Japanese press release roughly translated by Google to confirm, and IGN contacted Square Enix to see how accurate that was. In response, a representative of Square Enix simply pointed out to us the 2015 press release that initially revealed that the remake would be "a multi-part series" and that he had no additional information at his disposal. share, besides what had already been announced.

Although this does not strictly confirm that the remake is still composed of several parts, it essentially means that this press release issued four years ago still contains the most recent information … which means that, yes, Is probably still an episodic game.

If that worries you, the producer Yoshinori Kitase had already declared in 2016 that each "episode" of this remake "would be essentially a game on a large scale". So you probably should not think of episodes in the same way that we know them. games like The Walking Dead or Life is Strange by Telltale.

This is the most important information about the remake of Final Fantasy 7 that we have heard since Square Enix announced that it will take charge of the in-house development in 2017. Make sure to also see everything that has been announced during the second installment of Sony's State of Play.

Tom Marks is the deputy editor of critics at IGN and the resident pie maker, and he is delighted that this is happening again. You can follow him on Twitter.