Square Enix Will 'Share More Updates Than Ever Before' on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Project This Year, Says Director

Square Enix is readying to "share much updates than ever before" connected its Final Fantasy 7 Remake task this year, according to crippled manager Naoki Hamaguchi.

This comes from a tweet posted by Hamaguchi pursuing today's Nintendo Switch Partner Direct, during which Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth received a June merchandise day for Switch 2 and Xbox consoles. The post, which Hamaguchi wrote successful some Japanese and English, reads arsenic follows:

"We’ve announced that FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH volition motorboat connected June 3.

"With the summation of Switch 2 and Xbox, the crippled volition beryllium released arsenic a afloat multi‑platform title.

"This year, we program to stock much updates connected the FINAL FANTASY VII Remake Project than ever before.

"We look guardant to celebrating unneurotic with adjacent much players astir the world."

We’ve announced that FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH volition motorboat connected June 3.
With the summation of Switch 2 and Xbox, the crippled volition beryllium released arsenic a afloat multi‑platform title.
This year, we program to stock much updates connected the FINAL FANTASY VII Remake Project than ever before.
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This is breathtaking quality for Remake fans, who person been connected the borderline of their seats for the past fewer years, waiting for quality of the 3rd crippled successful the trilogy, which we person yet to spot astatine all. Though Hamaguchi didn't outright accidental it, this feels similar a tease for a uncover this year. Rebirth near the communicative connected 1 heck of a cliffhanger, with players near doubting whether the game's astir celebrated twist truly took spot oregon not. The 3rd crippled has a batch of enactment to bash to onshore the crippled level acceptable up by Remake and Rebirth, and it volition beryllium absorbing to spot however Square Enix does it. Fans person already been speculating arsenic to what Part 3 volition beryllium called, pursuing the "Remake" and "Rebirth" titles arsenic good arsenic "Reunion" connected the caller Crisis Core remake. Popular suggestions see Reincarnation, Revival, Reawakening, Redemption, and Return.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake archetypal launched successful 2020. At the clip we gave it an 8/10, saying that it "breathes breathtaking caller beingness into a classical portion lasting arsenic a large RPG each its own." The crippled was primitively a PS4 exclusive, but came to PS5 successful its fancy DLC-filled signifier with Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Intergrade, aboriginal to PC and Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2 arsenic good conscionable past month.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was besides excellent, with america giving it a 9/10 and saying it "impressively builds disconnected of what Remake acceptable successful motion, some arsenic a best-in-class action-RPG afloat of breathtaking challenges and an awe-inspiring recreation of a satellite that has meant truthful overmuch to truthful galore for truthful long."

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].