Final Fantasy VII remake now rumored to become an action game

You know, to me, a remake means nothing more than that. A remaking of something. The graphics and music will change to a point but will be an enhancement of what it was prior, maybe some things will be added to keep the update to a classic game fresh. In the case of Secret of Mana remake for PS4, views on it were mixed because the updated graphics and music didn't seem to go in par with the old gameplay intact for the most part, but nonetheless it was a REMAKE of an SNES classic and not much else. Now we get the lastest on a report about the FF7 which has been in the works for a while now, having it as an "action game" whatever that means. Seems some are OK with it because to their own views, turn-based RPG is just "too old" for anyone who would try said remake, and I already stated Secret of Mana did not changed much in said gameplay mechanics so this reasoning is quite BS in my eyes. To me, Square-Enix wanting to completely change FF7 will feel like some DLC than a game updated to enjoy on contemporary time, one that may well cost the company dearly but eh, what do I know.

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Is Described As “Action Game”

Comments 4

joseph_valencia Aug 4, 2018

Final Fantasy is dead. Time to move on to Octopath Traveler.

CptRetroBlue Blogger Aug 4, 2018

Seeing how bad the current games had gotten (in my opinion anyway) I wold have to agree.

dirtsheep Aug 5, 2018

This "remake" has been in the works for far too long. It was supposed to be a simple remake, but grew to a multi-game franchise somewhere along the development cycle. I personally doubt that it's still going to be a PS4 game, as that console is in its last months, from all reports. It sort of seems like The Hobbit movie to me...it takes a simple, lovely thing, bloats it beyond all recognition, and tries to wring it for all its worth. And destroying all that's good about it in the process.

I surely hope I'm wrong.

CptRetroBlue Blogger Aug 6, 2018

I agree this game won't reach for the PS4 console, probably will be set for a future Sony console overall. Like I said, a remake would had been just that, a simple remake, but seems SquareEnix is just too greedy to do anything but.