Final Fantasy VII Remake's latest staff interviews (contains some info on multi-release plan and changes in the game)

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BasilZero said:

Halazar said:
So I'm not quite getting it. They are breaking the game up into multiple episodes, but are these individual episodes going to feel like a full-fledged game? It doesn't make sense to say they had to do this or else they were going to have to cut stuff out of the game and then have each episode come out and be just a few hours long. Will the total length of all episodes still come out to about the same length as the original? Or are we talking about splitting the story of FF VII up into multiple 40+ hour RPGs? I can see there being issues either way.

Sounds like they are trying to split up into 40+ hour RPGs but I dont think its gonna be exactly 40 hours.

The fact that they said there are places in Midgar you couldnt travel/explore into before but now can also proves that point. Seems like there's gonna be a lot of exploration and free roaming which may take time to complete.

I have a strong feeling that they will use the expanded town areas and the like as an excuse to cut out the world map. Like I said in one of the other threads, nowhere has it been indicated what the intended length of each episode will be, and I've also explained that file size does not correspond with length of content. It is far more likely that each episode will net about 10 - 15 hours of content.