

Next month’s release of Remake will deliver the first part in what’s expected as a multi-installment release for Final Fantasy VII’s modern reimagining, and as Nomura alludes, it’ll take players up to the point at which Cloud and the gang finally leave Midgar. Of course, you do go back to Midgar later and see some different scenes there, but I felt it would be nice if we could see more of the upper layer in the earlier part of the story.” “You travel through the slums quite a lot, but it didn’t really feel like we used the upper city all that much,” said Nomura. That includes the upper layer of Midgar, where the more privileged classes look down on the slums below - where most of the action took place in the PlayStation 1 version.

Check it out:Īs Nomura says, the remake will feature entirely new areas of the city places that had to be left only to players’ imaginations in the original. The clip is in Japanese, but a click on the closed captioning icon serves up English subtitles through the whole thing. 27, and runs until the full game’s April 3 release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.Įven players who’ve by now worked their way through the available demo for the Final Fantasy VII Remake haven’t glimpsed the all-new areas of Midgar that’re tucked away inside Square Enix’s brand-new, 21-minute behind-the-scenes mini-documentary on the making of the game.ĭebuted this week as only the first part in a series, the cool new feature brings together many of the returning creative talents involved in the classic 1997 original, including director Tetsuya Nomura, co-director Motomu Toriyama, and producer Yoshinori Kitase - all of whom have taken a turn (or two) directing other games in the larger numbered Final Fantasy franchise. Also coming early is a brief open beta preview for Resident Evil Resistance, a co-bundled multiplayer game that’s essentially a free add-on to the base RE3 package. The RE3: Raccoon City Demo follows protagonist Jill Valentine as the playable character, along with co-protagonist Carlos Oliveira, and they’ll again be stalked by the menacingly freakish lab experiment the Nemesis T-Type - who looks more twisted and fearsome than ever in his current-gen form.
