One of the big launches at the start of 2024 will be Final Fantasy VII Rebirthwhich will arrive in stores on February 29, promising to surpass all quality levels seen so far in any redo. So if you’re waiting to finally get your hands on him, get ready to know what you should call him. Like a JRPG or like something else?
The debate probably seems absurd to you, but in recent hours it has gone viral after some statements from the project director, Naoki Hamaguchi, who doesn’t seem to care too much about where he wants to classify his creature. After thinking about it, does anyone have any doubts that this Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Isn’t Final Fantasy VII Rebirth a JRPG?
As they say, if you ask your friends around you, almost all of them will tell you that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth it’s a JRPG to use, which is why what Hamaguchi said is so shocking. Speaking to TheGamer, he revealed that “I don’t think I have a firm opinion in any sense.” […] from the perspective of a creator and what I do. I definitely look at the world as a whole in terms of who I direct my games to and who I make them for. In that sense, I don’t really try to hold back and stay within the boundaries of ‘it’s a JRPGI’m making a JRPG and it doesn’t matter what that means.
A large part of this response is surely linked to a strange episode that occurred in 2023 on the occasion of the launch of Final Fantasy XVIwhen the game’s producer, Naoki Yoshida, came to talk about the concept JRPG it seemed “discriminatory” (because of its reference to the origin), which quickly became a debate with a multitude of actors seeking the sources of the genre all the way back to the almost origins of the video game industry.
“That’s not how I approach games, but if the game comes out and the world considers what I did as a JRPGthat’s clearly what the world thinks, and I agree with that […] But I’m definitely not trying to limit myself to that or what that means, I’m making the game that I want to make. » And period.
You can now play with it for free
Even though there are still twenty days left Final Fantasy VII Rebirth officially arrives, now you can try the demo which were published in PS5 and this brings us a small part of what we can find in what is, for many, the launch of the decade because, although it is a redois practically a new game that has similarities with the original but fully adapts to what we can expect from a novelty that appears in 2024.
Don’t forget you have it in PlayStation Store and this will help you know if Naoki Hamaguchi is right and when he got to work he decided that the term JRPG It was too short for him. Or too long…
