The only thing they own about FF VII is the original PS1 english translation ... 

FFVII wasn't episodic to begin with. . . .

One episode will be only about you climbing all those fucking stairs in the Shinra Building.

I'll wait till more info is out but if it's episodic they can jog right on.

You know those were not episodic in the same sense as current episodic games. Don't bring in bs examples and think you're being clever. Xenosaga may have referred to each game as an episode, but they were each full games in their own right that just happened to act as direct sequels to one another. Not every game with a sequel is episodic, which people seem to be experts at confusing all of a sudden.

The press-release says mult part series, not episodic. Mult part series could be Crisis Core, FF VII, Dirge of Cerberus and Advent Children. The "each part its unique experience" bit makes this even more likely as you cant make FF VII any different from episode to episode cause itll always be the same system. Also the English press release is, most likely, still a translation, Japanese is very hard to translate. Can anyone who speak Japanese check the Japanese press release ?

watch it be like minecraft story mode, episode 1 on the disc and then the remaining episodes are digital with the season pass

Square Enix seems pretty hell-bent on making me not want this...

Exactly. If it were episodic, then they would have said so. I hope they would clarify this soon.

Either the game is going to have huge FMV out the ass or SE is just horrible with their budget.