FInal Fantasy VII box art.
Final Fantasy fans have been clamoring for years about a remake to Final Fantasy VII after a tech demo for the game was shown for the Playstation 3. Unfortunately, Square Enix doesn’t seem as enthusiastic. In a recent interview with Playstation.Blog Europe, the developer made the following statements regarding possible HD remakes of Final Fantasy games on the Playstation and Playstation 2:
We don’t know the details about the HD remake of God of War. If it’s just a case of attaining high resolution graphics, only, then that wouldn’t be that difficult, but if we were to achieve the same graphical standard as in XIII with a PS1 title, then that would be a huge, huge task. Almost unrealistic. Even with a PS2 title it would be difficult. In the case of God of War, there weren’t really that many characters in the game — the main character and some monsters, maybe ten people or so. That would not be unachievable.
As with Final Fantasy titles in the past, like on PS1, even just the main characters amount to around 10 people. Then you have all the NPCs, you’re probably looking at about 200 characters total. All with individual textures for the skin, plus costumes, facial features and everything. That would be a really tricky job.
The latest entry in the series, Final Fantasy XIII, will be released for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 9th.
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