Let me drag the dead horse back out and get my big 11 foot pole. Because I am totally going to keep beating it. Not that I was the first too, but damn it, I'm going to continue the good work. Yes those rumors of a Final Fantasy VII remake are back in circulation again. This time pulled from an interview based around Crisis Core.
As you will read below and on the actual interviewer's page, there is a lot of talk about the pre-quels and such, but then the question gets popped again. And like before, another allusion to it being possible is made. A little more hope in these words than before, but I will not hold my breath to see it come to fruition. But seeing as the reason they give behind Crisis Core being made was a split decision and took them two days to get the idea, who knows. Even at the end, Yoshinori Kitase says that they work on spontaneity. So they still might get the wild hair and decide to go with it. But like mentioned, most likely not until we have the FFXIII stuff out. Oh, they were rumored to say a while back that the XIII franchise was going to be drug out for a decade. So, yea...take that as you will.
Snippet and link are below for the interview.
YK: My feelings are that if a remake were to work well then all the core members of the original team must be reassembled, all the artists and designers.
The problem is that, although all of us have an idea of what a remake should be and how to do it, organizing such a thing right now is logistically very difficult. All the different members are now involved in very new, very large projects like Final Fantasy XIII and those projects are going to take a while.
Maybe, when all those games are finished then we can look at doing something like that.
Of course, that said we came up with the idea for Crisis Core in just two days. It was a case of 'this is what we want to do, so let's do it'. So, you can definitely expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point, but it's hard to predict.
