168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconi♏c video games of all time, but it's one of those games that everyone knew through osmosis even if they missed out on playing it. A lot of us who grew up with consoles were beholden to whatever games our parents bought us, and even by the time we wereღ old enough to search out the games we actually wanted, consoles were still hit and miss with backwards compatibility. Besides, people are always hungry for new experiences. That's why it's no surprise it was earmarked for a remake.
Remakes and remasters make the old new. They take out the janky mechanics that modern players won't tolerate as easily, polish the blocky graphics, and make it look and feel like a modern video game. Though they're still primarily aimed at fans of the original who want to experience it all over again without the barriers around access and outdated gameplay, remakes also give new players a chance to play a game for the first time. For a title like Final Fantasy 7, a contender for the Mount Rushmore of Must Plays, a remake is a no brainer. But 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Square Enix did something far bolder.
Final Fantasy 7 Is The Only Game That Could Have Been Remade This Way
As you're no doubt aware by now, Final Fantasy 7 did not get a standard remake, but a trilogy of remakes that added more depth to the story, changed parts of the narrative around, and dropped the turn-based combat for faster action gameplay. It's more like a reinterpretation than a remake. In fact, it's closer to the remakes you typically see in cinema, when a new director puts a fresh spin on th♛e bones of a story that's already beenꦅ told,📖 than it is to the ground-up polishing of gameplay mechanics as we uღsually see in the world of pixels and polygons.
Even more intriguing is that this is not a new team, as several key figures from Final Fantasy 7's original development team have climbed the ranks at Square Enix, and are now leading this project. Tetsuya Nomura and Motomu Toriyama, two of the game's directors, worked on the original game, while the third director, Naoki Hamaguchi, has been working on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy since 12. Thi🦹s all means it's a 💙project that, rightly or wrongly, we will probably not see the likes of again.
For one thing, there aren't many games that are both worthy of this kind of adaptation and available for it. Plenty of modern games are inspired b𒅌y past classics, but the inspiration is kept at an arm's length because the studio in question don't own the rights to the game they really want to make. And while there are plenty of other games like Final Fantasy 7 that have narrative substance still relative to games released today, across all of gaming history, those games still form t꧃he minority of the roster.
Final Fantasy 7 Has Not Been Entirely Successful, But I'm Glad It Exists
But even parking all of that, it feels like a major risk. The positive spin is that Final Fantasy 7 is offering a more engaging remake for old fans, and a more accessible, modern story that new players can experience that offers them just as much discovery as it does veterans. 🦂The more cynical version is that this is not a remake at all, not as they're usually marketed in gaming, and is just using Final Fantasy 7's iconography to sell more games. That's an extremely harsh interpretation of Final Fantasy 7, but perhaps might be more fitting for a game that would copy its strategy to try to sell three remakes from just one game.
Then there's the question of just how much they sell at all. The first game, Remake, was highly rated by fans and critics, selling five million copies in its initial run on PS4, rising to seven million when adding PC to the mix. The second game, Rebirth, has been just as well-received by players, and reviewed even better than you'd expect the middle chapter 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:without the classic opening sequence or a clear ending to help it, scoring 92 on Metacritic to Remake's already-impressive 87. It's currently second favourite for Game of the Year behind 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Astro Bot, and I suspect it might sneak Player's Voice off the backs of 'Real Ga🔴mers' not wanting a more chi𒉰ld-friendly game to take the crown.
But its sales have slumped, with an estimated two million in th🔯e time 🌸Remake moved five. PC will boost it, but those numbers won't move it past or even to the seven million mark. Not enough to put the third instalment in jeopardy, but enough to highlight the flaws of a three-part remake: your audience for Part 2 can only draw from the audienc♒e for Part 1. Between the ambition of the devs, the creativity and experience (and rights to the game) to pull it off, the draw of Final Fantasy 7 as an entity, and the fact it hasn't resulted in the kinds of sales that cause executives to greenlight bad ideas hoping to win the lottery, the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is an entirely unique project, and🏅 we should enjoy it while it's here.
Update 10:20am BST 22/09/24: The original version of this article switched the careers of Toriyama and Hamaguchi
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Top Critic Avg: 92/100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- February 29, 2024
- ESRB
- T for Teen
- Developer(s)
- ൲ Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- ꦦ Square Enix ꧋
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 5
