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What's this about a Final Fantasy IX remake? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apparently some people are convinced this is a real thing that will be announced any minute now to celebrate the game's 25th anniversary. I looked into it and there seem to have been some accidental leaks in the past from Nvidia and the Epic Game Store that have suggested some kind of FF9 project is in the works. Some Industry Insiders™ have also "confirmed" that it exists. There's also some sort of cartoon set in FF9's world supposedly being made.

A lot of the things people have touted as evidence of Square Enix working on a remake recently seem to be just tweets or merchandise announcements simply related to the 25th anniversary though.

I haven't really cared about whatever they've been doing with FF7 but I'd be curious to see how they'd handle a FF9 remake. I'm kinda dubious about SE being willing to invest the time and money for a full modern remake though. FF7's popularity dwarfs 9's and it still wasn't enough to make Rebirth sell to SE's stupidly high expectations. Didn't FFXVI underperform too?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

IIRC FF7 Remake sold gangbusters but Rebirth didn't. I've seen people saying that was due to old fans getting their nostalgia fix/being disappointed by Remake (why is it three games?) and not bothering to show up for the sequel as well as it being a PS5 exclusive.

No fucking way is it going to be a 1:1 remake though unless it's some kind of smaller release

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They bloated the remake beyond reason and the plot ghost meta thing, actively ruined the narrative tension.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

i really wish it was a smaller release cause holy hell they do not have nearly enough content to fit all they stretched it out to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'm one of those. I bought the first installment (already resentfully because, yeah, why three games after 30 years?) but didn't want to continue supporting this when I found out it wasn't even the game I wanted and required me to buy another $500 console. Just ridiculous.

And you're right but FFIX 1:1 would be awesome though. I would buy it.