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The Final Fantasy VII Remake broke the internet on Saturday, as well as blew through a large number of my monthly allotment of texts on my phone. Because of the highly-predictable hype, Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura did a fast-follow interview with Dengeki Online and Famitsu to discuss all of the things that have been warmly- and not-so-warmly-acknowledged by fans.

Here are some highlights (or lowlights, depending on your point of view):

• The title will in fact contain the word "Remake." Because nobody would know otherwise, right?
• Dev is being managed in-house but with some actual development work being done by third parties.
• All of the character models are new.
• The most recent video is virtually all in-engine.
• You can control multiple party members in battle, or just one, with up to three party members available just as in the original game.
• The battles do have an ATB gauge, but it's not like in the original game. How exactly it differs is not clear, but it appears that it is still tied to Limit Breaks.
• You can still put Cloud in a dress.
• There will be new locations to explore, possibly incorporating some areas fleshed out in Compilation games.
• Yes, the remake will be episodic.

That last point seems to be causing a lot of contention in the community, but for my money, I don't see a reason to not give it a wait and see. Given the expectations around this game, it seems to me that doing it episodically will give the developers at least a chance to maximize the quality of the game, and in theory it will give us as gamers a chance to bail on it with a lower cost if for some reason it's truly awful.

This seems like a good time to remind everyone of the podcast we did on these and other subjects around the remake, right?

Source: Gematsu

On the subject of the remake being episodic, we don't even know for sure yet whether they're literally just going to have the main game split into episodes or if they're going to incorporate the rest of the compilation into it somehow.

I can't see how each episode could have the content of a full size game (as they've been quoted as saying) without adding a lot of extra content to the game.

They are adding extra content. They're going to deepen the story and lore to give all the older players more of a reason to play this than nostalgia. I am worried about the episodes thing as square seems to more about money than quality nowadays but i do agree we'll have to wait and see.

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