Final Fantasy VII Remake
Square Enix made quite a splash back in 2015 when they announced the Final Fantasy VII Remake at Sony’s E3 conference. The game’s announcement trailer gave us a brief glimpse at the city of Midgar in glorious HD, along with a shot of Cloud’s back and his iconic Buster Sword. Later that year, at PlayStation Experience, we got a proper gameplay trailer that showed off the full character models and voices for Cloud, Barret, Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge.
If Square Enix and director Tetsuya Nomura hadn’t already stated that the game would be broken up into multiple parts, we would’ve said there’s no way we’re seeing this game till 2018 or even 2019 at the very earliest. However, since the game will indeed be broken up, coupled with the fact that 2017 is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII, it’s entirely possible that we could see the release of the first part on PS4 this year.
VG Leaks also posted an alleged roadmap that Square Enix had in mind for their Final Fantasy lineup in 2017, and it listed the first part of Final Fantasy VII Remake as a title that was set to be launched this year. This should all be taken with a grain of salt, of course. However, Square Enix has shown off proper gameplay footage, and we already know that the game will be running on the Luminous engine, meaning it’s probably not going to be another case of Final Fantasy XV where the project gets stuck in development hell because a new engine had to be built for the game as a result of changing platforms. With all of this in mind, a 2017 release of Final Fantasy VII Remake isn’t really out of the question.
