‘Final Fantasy VII: Remake’ Release Date, Features: Director Says They're Making Progress, Admits to Announcing Game 'Too Early'

“Final Fantasy VII: Remake” is one of the most anticipated video games to be released in the near future. Unfortunately, however, Square Enix might still be needing more time than even they expected.

It is not new for a video game production to take years before developers are confident the title is perfect enough to release it to the market. However, things are expected to take relatively less time than usual if the project is based on a title that was launched about a decade ago, such as the case of “Final Fantasy VII: Remake.”

However, the “Final Fantasy VII: Remake” was first announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015. But Square Enix is still unable to mark its calendar for the game’s release and admitted in previous interviews that the game is still in development.

Recently, “Final Fantasy VII: Remake” director Tetsuya Nomura also admitted that they might have announced the game a bit too early. In an interview with the Italy-based magazine Multiplayer published late last month (translated by Kingdom Hearts Insider), he discussed the game’s much-awaited release date announcement.

“I am well aware of the fact that we announced it too early,” Nomura said. “But even in the industry, word was beginning to spread that we were working on the game, so we just decided not to keep it more secret and officially reveal it.”

Tetsuya Nomura also assured fans in another recent interview (via Siliconera) that the scarcity in new information about “Final Fantasy VII: Remake” does not mean the project is hitting a slump. However, the director reportedly admitted that they also needed to prioritize “Kingdom Hearts 3” first.

“Kingdom Hearts 3” is now slated for a Jan. 29, 2019 release date. But, just like “Final Fantasy VII: Remake,” the other title was also announced several years before it actually got a specific launch schedule.

Meanwhile, there are several confirmed gameplay features and details that can prove the progress that Square Enix has already made with the development of “Final Fantasy VII: Remake.” Developers have already confirmed that they practically started from scratch in terms of rebuilding the game’s graphics from the original release.

In a way, “Final Fantasy VII: Remake” is more than just a “remake” and it is also evident in the adjustments that developers will apply even in its storyline. “I don’t want the remake to end as something solely nostalgic. I want to get the fans of the original version excited. We’ll be making adjustments to the story with this thought in mind,” producer Yoshinori Kitase told Dengeki Online (via Gematsu) in 2015.