Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Remake 'Orchestra World Tour' is happening this weekend in Japan. The concert is exclusive to those who have managed to snag an online ticket, but just days ahead of the event, Remake co-director Motomu Toriyama has teased some kind of reveal, which will take place during the show.
According to Audrey — who has translated Toriyama's comments to English on Twitter — Toriyama says: "In addition to the performance, we have a special programme planned as well. There will be a few things related to Final Fantasy VII Remake that will be revealed only at this concert." Interesting.
Now then, the question is, what's Toriyama on about? Is this worth getting excited over? Well, the PlayStation exclusivity period for Final Fantasy VII Remake is almost up, but it's unclear whether Square Enix can even announce the game for other platforms before the specified date (the 10th April). What's more, we don't think that the publisher would announce the title for other systems during a Japanese livestream — so let's rule that one out for now.
It could be that Remake will be revealed for PS5 as some kind of definitive edition — which makes all kinds of sense seeing as the game was in development for Sony's current-gen console well before it's PS4 release last year. And let's not forget: Square Enix recently registered a bunch of highly suspicious Final Fantasy VII-related trademarks. This sparked a lot of speculation over potential DLC and other announcements.
In any case, we'll know what this is about soon enough. Again, the online concert takes place this weekend, on the 13th February. In the meantime, let us know if you're getting your hopes up in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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PS5 upgrade would be really nice! I would even buy an extra PS5 version
We need Texture patch...
Somehow I don't think this game is getting DLC. It could be a PS5 version or it could be some kind of reveal about part 2. Or both if that's not too much to ask for. Anyway, I'll take any kind of news because I loved F7R!
The obvious thing is all remaining parts of FFVII Remake to be released on PS5 later that day. Haha
The Original gets a 10/10 from me you get a complete game too......It is going to take 5 years at least for any remake advancement.
FF7R: Big Head Chibi Switch Edition
Given FFVII Remake's PS exclusivity is 1 year, I think it'll be Xbox and PC announcements. Perhaps even a cloud version for Switch seeing as Control and Hitman 3 got cloud versions.
No gap squeezes on PS5?
@jack22 Who doesn't like some 240p-looking background textures?
@Voltan I would really rather hope for a part 2 reveal, than dlc. Because if it's going to take me 10 years to finish the whole saga, I don't know if I can be bothered...
Texture update and 60 fps please
I would appreciate the pre-rendered backgrounds to finally display in full HD/4K...seeing as someone was able to datamine them and discovered they were created in full HD resolution, I would like to finally see them in all their non-muddy glory. Same for the missing textures door, cough cough
Whatever it is, I hope it won't be a strange mixture of absolute beauty and awful backgrounds and texture.
Cloud closes doors update confirmed!
Jokes aside I’d play it again with 4K textures and some extra bells and whistles - I have been too hard with this game, easily the best thing I played this year, so many incredible moments.
@Number09 what? 5 years? they already have a lot of thing ready for them like some of the characters. Making the second chapter is gonna take much less time than the first one
Toriyama already said it's songs that weren't put in the game. Calm your tits down, people!!
It's likely going to be them announcing at the very least the Xbox and PC versions of Remake
They can't release them until after April 10th of this year when the PS4 exclusivity period ends but they'll at least confirm that they're working on them and maybe showing off gameplay of either version
Whilst i would probably end up buying a PS5 version of remake, Square would probably be advised to offer a free upgrade path to PS4 owners given the existing grumbling from people over the fact the game has been split into parts
PC Port
That’s my best guess. Man, I still have the demo on my PS4 and never touched it.
NINJA APPROVED
I don't know why Japanese devs (and Aaron Greenberg at xbox) insist on insinuating they're announcing something big for every minor announcement. I blame the tabloidification of everything by social media.
@rjejr Oh gawd it's happening, isn't it?
I will take FFVII Remake for PS5 for 500 please ^_^ lol I would be happy with a release for PS5 (As long as there are new trophies) I would be even happier with a release date for the second part. Heck, why not both
@NEStalgia “We would like to announce our upcoming announcement.”
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@Athrum Got a link of him saying this mate?
@DonJorginho
Original tweet:
https://twitter.com/sem_sep/status/1358702113077874690?s=20
Translation of what he says:
"Hello, I'm [Motomu] Toriyama, the co-director of Final Fantasy VII Remake. We're finally going to hold the orchestra concert this weekend. Not only will there be songs from the original game, but many new songs were also written for Final Fantasy VII Remake, so I'm looking forward to the orchestra playing those. There'll be the performance of course, but there's also a bonus program in which I participate and talk a little bit about Final Fantasy VII Remake, which you'll only be able to hear [in the program]. So it would be much appreciated if you tune into that as well! It'll be held online, so lets keep the excitement going by sending each other comments! I hope we have a good time together!"
Came here just to write a "I told you so" to everyone
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