Final Fantasy VII to hit PS3?

Ever since the famous Playstation 3 technical demo, fans have been asking can a Final fantasy VII remake actually become reality?
That question arises again all due to a certain Tetsuya Nomura droping a vague hint that something big is going down at head office, with this being announced soon at DKΣ3713. You can read what else Nomura said during an interview with Dengeki by clicking here.

Unsurprisingly Final Fantasy VII loyalists have jumped to the conclusion that the surprise is to be a Final Fantasy VII remake. But why?

The Technical Demo was originally made to display the Playstation 3 power

If you were to browse gaming forum to forum you would always come across a thread asking for a Final Fantasy VII remake or reasons why or not this would happen. Even after digestion you would still have no idea whether or not a remake is the right way to go. Some arguements for and against a remake can be found here.

Kitase has previously given his views first hand on a remake. His comments can be read in full here. But Kitase didn’t rule out a remake wasn’t possible because Crisis Core was just thought up in two days. Final Fantasy VII could therefore theorectically be thought up in the same time. The question is when will it be released with Square Enix up to their eye balls in work with Final Fantasy XIII and co.

FinalFantasySeries.net believes the answer to whether a Final Fantasy VII remake is possible can only be decided via the money and time avaliable to such a big task.

A Final Fantasy VII remake will be the biggest thing since sliced bread, fans will flock in far and wide to get their hands on this title. However funds will need to be accumulated for such a big task, which is a reason why a remake cant happen intill Final Fantasy XIII and their other titles are released. Time again is sparse with money so a remake will have to wait unless Square Enix don’t want to disappoint. Then again they could have these major resources no one knows of to create the remake - which is highly unlikely.

Some fans therefore instead believe the “surprise” could infact be another sequel to VII entitled Final Fantasy VII-2.

VII’s sequels have made Final Fantasy VII the largest compilation Square Enix has to offer. Spearheads Tetsuya Nomura and Yoshinori Kitase’s main aim was to make the project Square Enix’s first steps toward … ‘polymorphic content’. As a result they have created well-known properties on several platforms, allowing exposure of the products to as wide an audience as possible.

The current compilation includes games; Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and films; Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and Last Order: Final Fantasy VII.

Why a VII-2? - The Final Fantasy VII story is far from closed off due to unclosed plot threads (such as Genesis still running around) clearly being placed down - deliberately. The fans therefore speculate that Final Fantasy VII-2 is the “surprise” and last chapter of the compilation sending off Final Fantasy VII once and for all, that of course ignoring remakes of various sequel titles and the eventual remake of Final Fantasy VII.

Advent Children & FFX, 2 New AMVs

James has recently created two brand new AMVs. The first one is focused towards the release of Advent Children Complete. It was made using footage from Advent Children and Nicklebacks; How you remind me track.

The second AMV is on the other end of the music scale. Using clips from Final Fantasy X James added the mellow song Hallelujah by Jeff Buckly.

Final Fantasy Advent Children with How you remind me (Nickleback):

Final Fantasy X with Hallelujah (Jeff Buckly):

Famitsu update & trailer and demo list at DKΣ3713

Famitsu have posted an updated list of titles that will appear at Square Enix’s private event, DKΣ3713. Sadly for Final Fantasy fans the only demo confirmed for DKΣ3713 is Dissidia: Final Fantasy for the PSP. However if its any constellation Final Fantasy XIII/Versus/Agito trailers will still be making an appearance.

Trailers ONLY:
Final Fantasy XIII (PlayStation 3)
Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PlayStation 3)
Final Fantasy Agito XIII (Mobile)
Kingdom Hearts Coded (Mobile)
The 3rd Birthday (Mobile)
Final Fantasy VII AC: Complete (DVD/Blu-Ray)

Trailers & Playable Demo(s):
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS)
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (PSP)
Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP)
Sigma Harmonics (DS)

Fingures crossed for the XIII trailers to show us a bit more into the characters and story.

Famitsu also conducted an interview with Nomura about the upcoming DKΣ3713 private event. (see below)

The details acquired from the interview include:

DKΣ3713 is a private show so for the general public that wants to see and play the games, TGS in October will feature more new information.

The event will be at the same format as previous S-E events, with closed theatre as well as playable booths outside.

Birth by Sleep will be playable for the first time at the event.

Despite the news that Square Enix was going to scale back from Mobile development, it appears that Kingdom Hearts: Coded, 3rd Birthday and Agito XIII will still be going ahead.

Agito XIII seems to be facing serious development issues at the moment. There is a huge worldview and historical timeline.

The director of Agito XIII is doing the outline of the entire story synopsis himself now, development is still in early stages.

Versus XIII is on hold until Final Fantasy XIII is done, because the entire Versus team is helping to finish Final Fantasy XIII at the moment. It is number one priority.

While the planners and programmers are all working on Final Fantasy XIII, the Versus project is getting the designers to work on a lot of image illustrations and conceptual visuals. The story for Versus is also pretty much complete.

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days is being tuned and balanced, but it is not quite as polished as Dissidia yet. They’ll be taking feedback from the playable demo.

Birth by Sleep is not anywhere close to a final build, but Nomura wants to let people get a chance to try it out first.

And finally Advent Children Complete might finally be close to getting a release date.

Source: Famitsu