“I’m conscious of varied media and gamers commenting their issues about how the Change 2 model may carry out,” Hamaguchi says. “Once we think about the truth that we’re releasing our Change 2 ports within the keycard format, that enables us to have the sport put in straight into the Change 2, which suggests there are little to no issues in regards to the load velocity as a result of that enables for quicker load occasions akin to different platforms just like the PS5. On that entrance, I’m not likely frightened about it.”
The graphical capabilities of the Change 2 compared to the PS5 and PC variations has additionally confronted scrutiny, however Hamaguchi directs these frightened in regards to the visible constancy to the Remaining Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade port. Certainly, the hands-on demo at TGS 2025 does present a model of the sport visibly akin to the unique model of the 2021 remaster of the sport. Hamaguchi notes that he and the ports’ improvement workforce are paying shut consideration to the Change 2’s graphical presentation and are assured gamers might be pleasantly stunned by their work.
“Whenever you take a look at the graphics for the Remake Intergrade port on the Change 2, I feel you’ll be able to see that it does carry out in addition to different high-end titles,” the director notes. “With the workforce having the expertise to develop the Change 2 port for Remake Intergrade, we obtained plenty of precious perception and data on the way to work with the Change 2 {hardware}. We’re leveraging plenty of that within the improvement of our Rebirth port on the Change 2. Within the close to future, I do suppose we’ll have the ability to launch some footage of Rebirth on the Change 2. Once we do this, I feel that may shock plenty of gamers in a great way.”
Although the Remake Intergrade port doesn’t embody further story materials—the sheer breadth of content material already dangers overwhelming new gamers—it does add a streamlined development system. This was made to accommodate gamers who wish to keep away from the upper problem gameplay, with the optionally available development system giving them vital advantages in battle in the event that they so select. After I half-joke that gamers may probably skip the sport’s notoriously troublesome Hell Home boss battle, Hamaguchi provides an intriguing perception about that individual battle’s improvement.
“Of all of the issues that we reimagined with the FFVII Remake trilogy, the Hell Home boss battle is one thing that I’m actually happy with,” Hamaguchi says. “Through the improvement, we didn’t truly envision having the Hell Home battle be a boss battle. It was truly simply going to be a mob enemy within the discipline, very like the unique. However after I noticed the design of Hell Home, I used to be like, ‘Why is a home simply roaming round within the fields?’ It simply didn’t make sense to me. So I made an govt determination that this may very well be a weapon of Don Corneo’s and may very well be a boss battle.”
The aforementioned resurgence of Remaining Fantasy exhibits no indicators of slowing down, particularly within the U.S. For Hamaguchi, a lifelong fan of the franchise since taking part in Remaining Fantasy VI rising up, attending to contribute to the franchise considerably is a dream come true. On the similar time, Hamaguchi explains that Remaining Fantasy is simply one of many bigger ecosystem of fan-favorite properties by Sq. Enix.
