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Final Fantasy VII Director Yoshinori Kitase Talks With Pro-Wrestler Kenny Omega About Memories & More

With the Final Fantasy VII Remake finally coming close to its release, Square Enix released a special trip down the memory lane today.

Final Fantasy VII Remake

With the Final Fantasy VII Remake finally coming close to its release, Square Enix released a special trip down the memory lane today.

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Producer Yoshinori Kitase was the original director of Final Fantasy VII, and the publisher released an extensive video interview in which Kitase-san is quizzed by popular pro-wrestler Kenny Omega. 

We get to hear about the inspiration behind quite a few interesting elements of the game, including the way Sephiroth works as a villain, inspired by the filk Jaws.

Interestingly, Kitase-san — who loves first-person shooters —  likes to play PUBG and also plays APEX Legends with his sons, but he isn’t into Fortnite.

If you don’t know Kenny Omega, he’s a well-known pro-wrestler operating in Japan. He’s also a big gamer and Final Fantasy fan, so much that his stage name is inspired by the Omega Weapon and one of his iconic movies is named “One-Winged Angel.”

If you’d like to see and learn more about the game itself, you can play the demo released recently. The full game has gone gold, and we have an extensive hands-on-preview for your perusal.

You can also enjoy the opening cutscene, the latest screenshotsthe previous, spectacular trailer that revealed Red XIIIanother large batch of screenshots, and the trailer from The Game Awards.

The first game of the Final Fantasy VII Remake will launch on PS4 on April 10, 2020.

We recently learned that the game will be a PS4 exclusive only since April 10, 2021. After that, it could come to other platforms, even if nothing has been officially confirmed by Square Enix yet besides the date.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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