As we anticipate the third a part of the Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy to return out, director Naoki Hamaguchi has mentioned that, when it lastly releases, it’ll supply a brand new gameplay expertise. Talking on the current Brasil Sport Present, Hamaguchi mentioned that, together with providing a brand new story expertise with every of the three titles within the collection, he additionally wished to supply new gameplay experiences.
We’ve already considerably scene the 2 video games within the trilogy supply up totally different gameplay experiences from one another. The place the primary sport is a extra linear, chapter-based story the place you don’t actually get to return to earlier areas fairly often, Remaining Fantasy 7 Rebirth as an alternative supplied up an open world to discover. The fight additionally noticed some adjustments alongside the way in which, with Rebirth providing extra choices for combos and synergy assaults, together with a number of recent mini-games.
“The primary instalment featured story-driven development, the second half expanded upon that with an open-world design that supplied better participant freedom,” mentioned Hamaguchi on the occasion (by way of Genki_JPN). “Constructing upon the second half, the third half can be being created to ship gamers a brand new gaming expertise, so please stay up for it.”
As for what this implies for the eventual third sport within the trilogy, we gained’t actually know a lot for positive till it’s formally unveiled. Within the meantime, we will speculate, nevertheless, that it’d find yourself providing an excellent better degree of participant freedom. Even the open world of Rebirth, as an illustration, nonetheless gated away a few of its zones with story progress. The third sport would possibly as an alternative give gamers whole freedom proper from the start.
On the similar present, Hamaguchi had additionally spoken in regards to the determination behind turning a remake of Remaining Fantasy 7 into three distinct tasks, noting that the event staff didn’t need to reduce something out. This, he famous, got here from the truth that the unique 1997 launch of Remaining Fantasy 7 has a passionate fan base that wouldn’t need to see something lacking from the core sport.
“Remaining Fantasy 7 is a sport with a very big fanbase,” mentioned Hamaguchi on stage. “We might have reduce some components and turned it into one sport, however the followers of the unique would by no means have forgiven us. If we need to inform this story utilizing new know-how, it’s not attainable to take action in a single title. That’s why we made the tough determination to separate it into three components.”
He additionally spoke about how the studio plans on wrapping up the epic story that was began with Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake and expanded upon by the Intermission DLC and Remaining Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Whereas he didn’t reveal exact particulars, he did observe that the ending will enchantment to followers of the unique in addition to newer followers who obtained into the story because of the Remake trilogy.
“In fact, I have already got a transparent thought of the ending for Remaining Fantasy 7 Remake Half 3,” he mentioned. “I believe this conclusion will enchantment to each those that liked the unique and those that grew to become followers of Remaining Fantasy 7 because of the Remake collection. I’m assured this new sport will probably be liked by everybody.”