While we nonetheless do not know a ton about precisely what Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is, its director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed it can characteristic a “multifaceted world with a excessive diploma of freedom.”
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, for these unfamiliar, is the second entry within the Final Fantasy 7 Remake mission and can choose up after the ending of the primary recreation that noticed our heroes leaving the partitions of Midgar. In the unique recreation, that is when the world opened up and the extra contained opening hours turned one thing a lot grander.
Hamaguchi’s feedback do not fairly verify that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth can be full open world, however the “excessive diploma of freedom” remark ought to entice followers and can hopefully imply gamers will nonetheless have that marvel when exploring the broader world and the prospect to decide on how they deal with a few of its missions and facet content material.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Developer remark quantity 2#FF7R pic.twitter.com/WKQkBPWWsJ— FINAL FANTASY VII (@finalfantasyvii) June 3, 2023
“Players will be capable to journey throughout the broad and multifaceted world with a excessive diploma of freedom, experiencing a myriad of various tales,” Hamaguchi mentioned.
IGN spoke to Hamaguchi in 2021 about this second a part of Final Fantasy Remake, and he mentioned the crew was coping with the problem of how they might permit gamers to expertise this subsequent journey.
“As for enchancment, or ought to I say ‘change,’ transferring ahead — as a result of the subsequent installment will contain Cloud and firm to depart Midgar and discover the world map, our subsequent problem will likely be to create gameplay that leverages the vastness of the world, not like what we did on this present title.”
Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Tetsuya Nomura additionally chimed in and mentioned Clould can be “working round a whole lot of nature.” All indicators seem to level to a way more open second chapter, and hopefully we can’t have to attend too lengthy to seek out out extra.
Hamaguchi’s reply on Twitter got here simply at some point after the primary “developer remark” from the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth crew that confirmed the sport’s growth is “progressing easily and in accordance with plan.” If this holds, this could imply followers will get an opportunity to leap again into the world of Final Fantasy VII this winter.
For extra, try how Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth would be the second a part of a trilogy and the information that work has already begun on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3.
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Adam Bankhurst is a information author for IGN. You can observe him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
