
New trailer revealed at Square Enix Live Event, with pre-orders starting on PlayStation Store
Hey folks – tonight, Square Enix’s E3 2019 Live Event gave the world an up-close and personal look at Final Fantasy VII Remake. The game will also be playable starting tomorrow at Square Enix’s E3 booth.
Tonight’s presentation kicks off with gorgeous recreated scenes from the original game’s iconic opening, featuring fan favorite Aerith Gainsborough and stoic mercenary Cloud Strife.
During the show, producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed that the first game in this project is expected to ship on two Blu-ray discs, and will greatly expand on the story of Midgar. Kitase also pointed out that the game would serve as a perfect starting point for newcomers to the world of Final Fantasy VII.
Then, the presentation shifted to a detailed walkthrough of the game’s combat mechanics, including a revamped ATB system and an all-new Tactical Mode, which slows time during battle and lets players perform actions by selecting options from a command menu.
These are noteworthy details; from what we saw, it seems Remake will empower players to choose between a strategic, methodical play style (Tactical Mode) or fast-paced combat with spells and abilities executed through hot keys.
The gameplay demo transitioned to an action-packed battle, where the player switched between controlling Cloud and Barret in order to take down the massive Scorpion Sentinel — an impressive re-imagining of an iconic boss battle from the original game.
Scorpion Sentinel battle completed, Remake Director Tetsuya Nomura walked onto the stage and thanked fans for their patience. He then ended the Final Fantasy VII Remake presentation with a trailer showing a first glimpse of fan-favourite martial artist, Tifa Lockhart, and an announcement that the game is available to pre-order now.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming to PS4 worldwide on 3rd March, 2020. Pre-order from the PS Store to receive the Cloud & Sephiroth Dynamic theme along with the Chocobo Chick Summon Materia DLC when the game launches.
Beautiful. Definitely can see their labor paying off as it looked a lot more polished than before.
And it’s so big it has to release on two Blu Ray discs? And that’s just the first part?
Somehow that takes away some of the disappointment of it being episodic for me :)
Also, FF8 remaster!!! <3
Yes! Give FF VIII some love too!! We haven’t even gotten FF VIII HD….
I’m really looking forward to see what they’ll do with one of my favorite games ever
Knowing Square Enix, what they’ll do with FFVIII is probably the following.
Make it have mindless Kingdom Hearts 2 button combat.
Change “Quistis” to “Quistith”.
Add draw magic as lootboxes.
Make it like 90 for the first episode that’s only joining SeeD.
Add a whole bunch of fluffy haired teenage boys.
Add comedy English voiceovers done by people who can’t do emotion.
Probably find a way to make it a sequel to XIII and add “Fal’cie”.
@paveman They actually announced FFVIII HD at their E3 press conference, so you’re getting that at least. Honestly, the whole thing with linking your magic stock to your stats completely killed FFVIII for me. It incentivizes not using your magic and drawing for ages as soon as you find an enemy with new magic, which regularly grinds the game to an absolute halt. And the difficulty spikes mean you have to actually go through that stupid process regularly.
Hopefully they’ll include the cheats they did with FF7. I can imagine those would improve the game immensely