It came out earlier this month that the epic Final Fantasy 7 Remake is going to be released in multiple installments, and the Internet reacted with typical internetty anger, because that’s what the Internet does. But the truth is, you should have seen it coming. FF7 Remake was always destined to be released in multiple parts. The only alternatives are far worse: The game being totally neutered, or not happening at all. So quit yer’ bellyaching and get used to it!
Of Course Final Fantasy 7 Remake Is In Multiple Parts
Final Fantasy 7 is an incredibly long game. It came over three disks, after all, and that was way back when, with very chunky graphics. The FF7 Remake does not have chunky graphics. It doesn’t have turn-based battles either—yeesh . It’s going to be a very different animal, but in spirit it’s the same—the same game, but with a different, modern approach. And it’s going to cover the full material of Final Fantasy 7… and, according to the Square Enix blog via Polygon , it’ll expand even beyond that. That’s right: The FF7 Remake will go beyond the original, in terms of story. What could that mean? More background? A longer ending? More Wutai stuff? Whatever it is, I won’t complain!
It was inevitable that FF7 Remake would be split into multiple parts. Square Enix is telling us way upfront, after all. It’ll get our expectations in check. This isn’t and shouldn’t be a surprise. The action RPG change is a bit more of a shakeup, but even that we knew from very early on—the old-school turn-based combat still works fine, but it’s very slow-paced for the modern era. If you still want to play that, then, well, have we got the game for you !
FF7 Remake really seems like it will be more of a re-envisioning than a straight remake. It’s what FF7 would be if it were made now, not just the old version of FF7 translated into modern graphics. And that’s okay. You’d bellyache just as much if the game really were an exact remake. No, the People want innovation, and Squeenix is going to provide. It will be different. There will be parts we don’t like, or that we miss. And there will be new parts that make us feel the way we did when we first played FF7, when the world was young. Such is the cost of progress. And the only way it would ever feel like a full game is by being broken into parts. It’ll be grating, but it makes total sense from a technical standpoint. Even if we don’t like it a ton.
