Final Fantasy VII Remake ["leak" interviews] [Spoilers?]

[deskpro2k3]

Hiku said:

deskpro2k3 said:

 

I think he means they was going to call it FF7R Part 1 at first, but then changed it into FF7R Episode 1 because it's still one game.

When you put it that way, that would at least makes sense. So that's probably it.

But then he is again suggesting that they strategically chose the term "episodes" in order to emphasize that it is a long story. Except there are two  problems with this statement.
"Multi-part series" more properly paints the picture of a longer story than "episodic", which caused a lot of confusion and made people think the games will be shorter because they were looking at how games like Telltale Games series, Resident Evil Revelations 2, or Square Enix's own (publisher) Life Is Strange is segmented up in smaller episodes.

Secondly, as I mentioned, Square Enix did not refer to it in such a way in their original Japanese press release. It was only in English translations that "episodic" was to be found.
So it seems to me is that this comes from someone who doesn't realize this, or that episodic would a worse way of conveying the message that the game is longer. It actually convinced people of the opposite. Several of whom are members here.

 

A series is made up of multiple episodes. Ex: Matrix trilogy, and the FFXIII Trilogy, so I think the term episodic is safe.

I understand the interview is kind of weird, it looks like someone use google translate in my opinion, that's my take on that.