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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 Remake lead looked to "story-driven" PlayStation hits like God of War and The Last of Us to help shape the JRPG remake's first entry
By Scott McCrae published
News With The Witcher 3 inspiring the sequel's open-world

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says the team could do a "completely new IP" or maybe "something new within the Final Fantasy series" after finishing Part 3 of the JRPG remake
By Dustin Bailey last updated
News "I'm really looking forward to it"

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"

Nintendo Switch 2's game-key cards are "part of a larger trend that we can't avoid," Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says, as physical media is becoming "less and less part of the industry"
By Scott McCrae published
News "The user, the fans, the customers on Switch 2 very much value what's good about physical media. So, for that platform in particular, it's going to be an even slower change."

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"

Final Fantasy Tactics director suggested new routes for The Ivalice Chronicles remake that let you save characters who die – but thinks if they could do that, they should just make a new game
By Scott McCrae published
News Including one who died in the game's first chapter

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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