Game news “I make the game I want to make”, JRPG or not, the director of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth doesn’t give a damn about how his creations are qualified
While the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is imminent, its director is increasing the number of interviews to promote the game. It is on this occasion that the latter returned to the name JRPG which has been making a lot of talk in recent months.
After a busy start to the year with releases, 2024 is not about to stop with the highly anticipated launch of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Second part of the FF VII remake project, this new adventure promises to be even more ambitious than Final Fantasy VII Remake with its semi-open areas and especially its scenario full of mysteries. While the hype is already at its peak, the game’s co-director, Naoki Hamaguchi, has been multiplying interviews lately as part of promoting the title. During an interview with TheGamer, the developer returned to a term that has been debated for a year: JRPG.
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Is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth a JRPG? The director gives his answer!
During the interview, TheGamer journalists asked Naoki Hamaguchi what he thought about the JRPG name. This is what he answers:
I don’t think I have a strong opinion one way or the other. In any case, from my point of view as a creator and what I do. Certainly I look at the world as a whole to know who I’m making my games for and who I’m creating them for. In that sense, I’m not really trying to hold back and stay within the confines of “it’s a JRPG, I’m making a JRPG” and all that entails.
That’s not the way I approach games, but if the game comes out and the world calls what I’ve made a JRPG, that’s clearly what the world thinks, and I’ll live with it. But I definitely don’t try to limit myself to that or anything else, I make the game that I want to make.
In short, it is clear that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth co-director doesn’t care if you call the game a JRPG or not. This question may seem surprising if we don’t have the context to understand why it was asked. About a year ago, a statement from Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, caused a lot of talk. As part of the promotion of Final Fantasy XVII of which he was producer, he explained that for him, the term JRPG was derogatory and that he felt that it was a way of putting Japanese games in a box. Faced with this statement, the internet was a little divided because many players did not have this perception of this term, or quite the opposite. So, it is interesting to note that the question is asked again to the co-director of the next major FF and that his answer is radically different.
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