Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

"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

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director defends the JRPG's overlong filler, but says he’s "striking a balance" with Part 3: "Players just have too much to do and too much to play"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake series devs knew JRPG fans wanted to know "what's gonna happen to Aerith," so they tried to make sure players "won't be able to tell… until the very end"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake series lead doubts that "the exact same battle system" from the revamped JRPG trilogy will make it into his future games: "We want to keep it surprising"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director says fan feedback can only go so far, the upcoming JRPG "should be a better experience" but the "creative vision" at Square Enix won't change

After Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's controversial ending, director insists Part 3 is "in safe hands" and the JRPG's finale will "really reward everyone for sticking with us to the end"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "shaping up nicely" with much of the JRPG "already playable," says director Naoki Hamaguchi: "Development is going extremely well"

"I love that sense of freedom and choice": Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says his favorite Xbox series is Fable, and the action RPGs have "had a positive influence on my own creative work"

Switch 2's controversial game-key cards "let us do things that maybe we wouldn't otherwise," says Final Fantasy 7 remake co-director, but "I really get where people are coming from in terms of their negativity"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake director takes a hammer to difficulty discourse as the JRPG reveals ultimate god mode, says he's played games where he "gave up because of the time it takes to level up characters or traverse the game"

Final Fantasy 7 Remake gets 2026 release date on Switch 2 and Xbox with Rebirth and Part 3 to follow

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "going very smoothly" and the "announcement timing has been decided," Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura says, and Kingdom Hearts 4 is also "progressing well"