Speaking with Weekly Famistu, Final Fantasy VII‘s original Character Designer, Tetsuya Nomura, said he was just as surprised as anyone else that he’d been named Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s Game Director.
Nomura said he assumed that the game’s original Director, Yoshinori Kitase, would helm the remade title.
“As pre-production went along and I offered my opinions on what I thought should be done,” Nomura said. “Mr. Kitase would asked me how the individual elements should be adjusted in fine detail.
“It was very perplexing. Then one day, as I was checking the internal company presentation video it said ‘Director Tetsuya Nomura’ at the end. I called up Mr. Kitase and said, ‘It says that I’m the director for some reason.’ To which he replied, ‘Of course it does.’”
Nomura is also the Game Director of Kingdom Hearts III.
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