Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Says Gameplay Streams Pose a Huge Challenge to RPGs

Streaming tin springiness escaped publicity to a game, but successful the lawsuit of story-heavy genres similar RPGs, there’s the information that radical volition beryllium satisfied conscionable watching idiosyncratic other play done the game. Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy manager Naoki Hamaguchi precocious spoke retired astir this, saying that gameplay streams airs a immense situation to RPG makers, arsenic they request to guarantee that their crippled is absorbing capable that players really privation to prime it up and play it themselves.

Currently hard astatine enactment connected Final Fantasy 7 Revelation (the last portion of the 1997 RPG’s remake trilogy owed successful outpouring 2027), Hamaguchi told Japanese quality tract 4Gamer astir the challenges that crippled streaming poses to Final Fantasy and crippled creators.

Hamaguchi warned that “one happening that RPGs similar Final Fantasy person to wage attraction to contiguous is the hazard that radical mightiness consciousness satisfied conscionable from watching a stream,” without really playing the crippled themselves.

Noting that he’s not wholly against streaming, Hamaguchi highlighted the contented with radical watching games and not feeling motivated capable to play them. “This is simply a situation for the games themselves, oregon rather, not thing that crippled developers tin afloat celebrate,” said Hamaguchi.

So what’s Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s solution to this issue? According to Hamaguchi, it’s captious that games connection capable subordinate prime truthful that nary 2 gamers volition person precisely the aforesaid experience. “If radical ticker a crippled watercourse and it makes them wonder, ‘What would I bash successful that situation?’ or, ‘How would I experimentation with that?’, past they’ll hopefully beryllium inspired to effort playing it themselves.”

Apparently Revelation volition connection adjacent much subordinate prime than Rebirth and a consciousness that each players’ acquisition is different, qualities that Hamaguchi feels are “exactly the benignant of features that games request successful today’s era” of streaming. “The satellite is changing, and amusement indispensable germinate with the times.”

In fact, ‘choice’ was 1 of the conceptual keywords for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s development. However, Hamaguchi didn't spell into details astir whether subordinate choices successful Revelation volition impact tiny crippled episodes (such arsenic the OG FF7/Rebirth’s Gold Saucer dating scene) oregon person a greater interaction connected the wide story.

But we bash cognize that connected the gameplay side, determination seems to beryllium a batch of subordinate bureau and choice. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation volition besides diagnostic an outfit-based occupation strategy (FITS), echoing Final Fantasy X-2. However, Hamaguchi assured fans that quality occupation and outfit quality volition beryllium separate, allowing players to spell done the crippled successful everyone’s archetypal outfits if they like, portion inactive changing quality jobs. Players volition besides beryllium capable to take immoderate occupation for each quality from the get-go, giving them vastly much prime than if they had to unlock circumstantial jobs. Hamaguchi noted that entree to the Highwind Airship aft the 5-hour people volition springiness players a immense grade of state implicit which portion of the satellite representation they research next.

When Rebirth came retired to rave reviews successful 2024, 1 of the large criticisms the crippled faced was that it was bogged down with excessively galore minigames. Hamaguchi noted that the squad person addressed this disapproval for Revelation. Although deep-diving into Rebirth’s mini-games was optional, similar with the archetypal FF7 determination were moments erstwhile it was indispensable to play them to beforehand the crippled (e.g. Queen’s Blood tournament) oregon entree definite almighty cogwheel oregon conflict mechanics.

In Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Hamaguchi and the squad person reworked the absorption truthful that battle-focused contented volition springiness battle-related rewards (meaning that grinders who emotion the conflict strategy tin prosecute that path), portion minigames volition springiness cosmetic rewards similar quality outfits. “We person balanced the crippled truthful that players who aren’t funny successful minigames don’t person to play them,” noted Hamaguchi. Minigames volition besides person a skip function, that allows players to skip done to the reward if they don’t similar a peculiar minigame. He does nevertheless reassure fans that Tifa and Scarlet’s slap conflict from the 1997 archetypal volition beryllium successful Revelation.

Hamaguchi besides reiterated that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation volition wrapper up each the communicative lines and mysterious elements that the FF7 remake bid has brought america truthful far. “Rather than expanding the FF7 IP further, our precedence arsenic developers is to wrapper up this remake bid properly,” said Hamaguchi, emphasizing that the squad is profoundly committed to repaying fans’ loyalty by giving the FF7 trilogy a coagulated ending.

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation was announced astatine Summer Game Fest 2026 and is acceptable to motorboat simultaneously for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S successful outpouring 2027. Loads of caller details astir the last section person travel retired since, including confirmation that the English mentation of Sephiroth volition beryllium played by a caller actor.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.