Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director isn't weighing in on the OG JRPG's infamous Tifa vs Aerith shipping debate, but after 10 years of looking at Cloud, "I just want what makes him happy"
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Hamaguchi has spent more time looking at the spikey protagonist than his own family, or so he feels

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"
By Kaan Serin published
News But only if Naoki Hamaguchi "completely ignored" his role at Square Enix

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "basically nothing" from the original JRPG's development survived: "We're talking about the mid '90s... There's almost no documentation left"
By Ashley Bardhan published
News "Game development back then was a lot more Wild West"

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director knows there's a debate around yellow paint in games, but says "there is definitely a need for that kind of thing" and the only real question is "about how it's done"
By Jordan Gerblick last updated
News Take it from Naoki Hamaguchi: "I get there is a debate about that ... That's fine, but I think there is definitely a need"

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says defying industry norms and keeping the dev team together for the whole RPG trilogy was key to its success: "That's quite a rare thing"
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Our experience really has grown as we work on each new game"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake director promises Part 3 news "in the not too far future" and tells fans he's "running straight to my hotel room and back to checking some of the levels"
By Kaan Serin published
News "Rest assured it's going well and we're working very hard on it"

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "however much AI might try and intrude and take part in the creative side of things," his team would want to be "good enough creators" that "we could do better than AI"
By Iain Harris published
News Naoki Hamaguchi says that using AI for the creative side of development is "not something that I could really go ahead with"

Square Enix is "actively considering" Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 DLC, Naoki Hamaguchi says, or maybe even another installment entirely: "Things are really up in the air"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Don't count on Queen's Blood getting a full release, however

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director thinks "Nintendo will put more effort into popularizing" the Switch 2's controversial game key cards, which he calls "a really amazing new idea"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi is fully on-board with Switch 2 game key cards

"We received a lot of 'JRPGs are back' comments," says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director, but the success of a turn-based game like Clair Obscur: Expeditition 33 isn't going to warp Square Enix's plans
By Anthony McGlynn last updated
News Clair Obscur's popularity isn't impacting Final Fantasy just yet
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