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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"
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"
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
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
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"
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"
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"
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"
News Naoki Hamaguchi says that using AI for the creative side of development is "not something that I could really go ahead with"
