Speaking with Dengeki Online, Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura explained why the Final Fantasy VII remake is being split up into multiple releases.
“From the beginning, we thought a Final Fantasy VII remake would be bigger than a single release,” the game’s original Director, Yoshinori Kitase, explained
“If you did get it into a single release, there would be things we’d have to put into a shortened compilation,” Character Designer Tetsuya Nomura added. “Since we thought there would be stuff we would probably have to pare down and supplemental things we probably couldn’t add, we decided to divide it up, concluding that we have to do a remake that’s fully packed with content.”
Kitase further explained that time constraints have also played a part in the decision.
“If we took everything that’s in the original game and remade it at that quality, we couldn’t get it all on a single release,” he added.
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