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

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 5 days ago (2 children)

A lot of things they did in thr OG were due to the limitations of what they could do with tech at the time. Like art direction, gameplay, dialog, even fundemental mechanics.

Sterling did a bit on this (not FF) and why a 1:1 isn't necessarily the best route.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

To be fair, FF7R isn't just the original game reimagined. Isn't it also a sequel with some some sort of multiverse stuff going on?

With how convoluted and overwrought the expanded FF7 universe is there was probably no chance it was ever going to be a simple retelling of the original story.

Thankfully the FFIX doesn't have tons of indulgent Nomura side projects crowding out the original game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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