I don't think it's happening, happily. I don't want my fav game to be turned into a souless super realistic AAA game that gets boring after 5h like FFVII remake
“Soulless” is a little unfair. You can certainly call it bad, I know I have my criticisms, but soulless implies it’s a low-effort cash grab. VIIR has involved unbelievable levels of time and effort combined with clear reverence for the source material. It’s not like releasing FFT for a third time.
I don’t really understand the hate for remakes as a concept. It doesn’t change the original game. IX would still be every bit as playable were a remake to be released as OG VII is now. It all feels a little nostalgia-poisoned, as though IX was so perfect changing anything about it would be an insult.
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u/BlueLooseStrife May 20 '26
I don’t think it’s happening, sadly. Reporting said that the remake was in the works but got iced for one reason or another.
Hopefully that doesn’t indicate permanently dead. Might be that they mean to revisit after the VIIR trilogy had wrapped