Final Fantasy VII Remake is a game fans are waiting for but little information to go on. With that in mind since it reminds us of Versus XII before it became XV someone asked Hajime Tabata the director of XV would you direct Remake. He directly said no. The whole conversation goes something like this
“GAMEREVOLUTION: Would you take over the Final Fantasy VII Remake if [Square Enix] offered that one to you?
TABATA: No.
GR: No, you wouldn’t!?
TABATA: No I wouldn’t.
GR: Can I ask why?
TABATA: It’s something I couldn’t make, myself. That’s about it.
GR: Would that be a lot of pressure?
TABATA: Final Fantasy VII is a special game.
GR: It’s the big one.
TABATA: It’s such a special numbered game that I don’t think I can remake that one. There’s so many fans out there, if I were asked to satisfy all those fans, I don’t think that’s something I could do, 100%. If [Square Enix] asked me to make a new Final Fantasy and take it in a new direction, I’d be happy to accept that one, but if they asked me to remake Final Fantasy VII — to release as if it were a modern game, just released today — no, I don’t think that’s something I can do. I think the only people who could do that are Mr. (Yoshinori) Kitase and Mr. (Tetsuya) Nomura.
GR: And you say that even though you did such a good job with Crisis Core?
TABATA: Well that wasn’t VII itself.
GR: A spinoff… a prequel.
TABATA: Yeah, it wasn’t the main game. Now, if they asked me to do Final Fantasy VII-2, that might be different.
GR: Which brings us back to your new project!
*Laughter in the room*
TABATA: We haven’t got that planned!”
Tabata went through a lot getting XV up and running with VIIR bring a bigger game it is understandable why he would turn it down. And with the hype behind it already it would be repeating itself. Still he is up for VII-2 Let me know you thoughts.
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