Rumors of a Remaining Fantasy IX remake have been echoing round RPG circles for not less than 12 months now, with sequence followers hopeful that they could quickly get to revisit one of the crucial beloved entries within the sequence. But when a Remaining Fantasy IX remake does materialize, it could face some large challenges.
Talking with the web site Video Video games, Remaining Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida talked a bit about what a remake may appear like. He warns that it could not all slot in one recreation.
“After all, I do know there are requests for Remaining Fantasy IX to be made, however when you concentrate on Remaining Fantasy IX, it’s a recreation with enormous quantity,” Yoshida says. “When you concentrate on all of that quantity, I ponder if it’s potential to remake that as a single title. It’s a tough one. It’s a robust query.”
Yoshida appears to be suggesting {that a} potential remake may go the path of Remaining Fantasy VII Remake, which is in the course of a deliberate trilogy. Followers have lengthy had combined emotions about splitting it into a number of elements, which gives the chance so as to add loads of new parts, but in addition slows the pacing. Because it stands, the third a part of the trilogy would not determine to be out till 2026 on the earliest.
Yoshida is correct about Remaining Fantasy IX being an enormous recreation. It is completely loaded with sidequests, minigames, and different content material, and it is set in a really giant world. Reproducing all of that materials will not be simple for any growth staff that takes on a remake.
As for Yoshida himself, he is thinking about remaking a special recreation within the sequence. “The one which I wish to make myself can be Remaining Fantasy III, I feel.”
For longtime followers of the sequence, Yoshida is referring to the model launched on the Famicom, not the Americanized Remaining Fantasy VI. It is a deep lower as Remaining Fantasy releases go, however very a lot consistent with Yoshida’s perspective as Remaining Fantasy XIV’s producer.
Yoshida touches on a handful of different particulars within the interview, together with his favourite Remaining Fantasy VII minigame (snowboarding), an Xbox launch of Remaining Fantasy XVI (“we do wish to launch it on Xbox”), and extra. Within the meantime, the look forward to a Remaining Fantasy IX remake continues.
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