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In an interview with the French videogame website Jeuxvideo, Nobuo Uematsu said that he would not be working on the remake of Final Fantasy 7 "at all."

It's hard to know exactly how to feel about this. FF7 boasts, after all, one of the best-liked of Uematsu's soundtracks; it seems odd to not have the legendary composer involved, even in a supervising or purely symbolic/honorary role. On the other hand, the remake may well not actually require any new composition, in which case Square Enix have already proved themselves perfectly capable of remastering and re-recording soundtracks without the oversight of original composers.

Uematsu's last major composition project for Square Enix was the soundtrack for Final Fantasy XIV back in 2010 (though he has also been involved in music for its expansions); since then he has headed up several soundtracks for Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studio, and he is currently listed as lead composer for the Kickstarter-funded Project Phoenix.

Source: Siliconera

He's been freelance since the time of FFX, hasn't he?

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I'd like to think that this is only because they aren't going to change any of the music, arrangement-wise. I'd hope that they'd simply take the arrangements that are already written for the game and re record them with modern audio quality.

But it's equally possible that this may have resulted from SE's desire to keep the budget manageable, which would be a shame, because if someone besides Uematsu is doing the re-recording, then...

Well, I dunno. I dunno how this makes me feel.

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