Final Fantasy 6, 8, and 9 remakes could span five games, Yoshi-P says
Naoki Yoshida warned that remaking the older RPGs with the scale of the Final Fantasy 7 project could take four or five releases.
Future remakes of Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 8, and Final Fantasy 9 could require even more releases than the current Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy. Naoki Yoshida, better known as Yoshi-P, said that recreating those games with a similar level of production would be a very long project.
Yoshida made the comments during a Fan Fest Berlin panel attended by Final Fantasy 7 Remake lead Naoki Hamaguchi. Speaking about fan requests for more remakes, Yoshida pointed to Final Fantasy 6 as an especially large game and said its scope would be difficult to reproduce in a single modern release.
“Final Fantasy 6, it’s such an incredibly huge game. The scale is just immense,” Yoshida said, according to GamesRadar’s report from the panel. He added that remakes of Final Fantasy 6, 8, or 9 could require “four or maybe even five installments” if they followed the same approach as Final Fantasy 7.
The comparison makes sense when looking at what Final Fantasy 6 contains. The original RPG features 14 playable characters, a large world map that changes during the story, and a broad series of major battles. Rebuilding that adventure with the detailed environments and production demands associated with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth would be a much larger task than simply updating its visuals.
Hamaguchi also offered a more personal reason for caution. He said the team was fortunate that many developers remained together across all three Final Fantasy 7 remake games, released one after another. That experience made it difficult for him to casually commit to remaking Final Fantasy 6 next.
The Final Fantasy 7 project also illustrates the time involved in that approach. It was first announced in 2015, and completing the full reimagining has been framed as a 12-year process. For now, the discussion does not represent an announcement for any of those remakes. It does show why Square Enix may consider a different format for future projects, including the announced Final Fantasy Resonance, which uses pixel art and turn-based combat rather than the large-scale presentation of the Final Fantasy 7 remake series.
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