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01 FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE

Format PS4 ETA 3 Mar Pub Square Enix Dev Square Enix

With rose-tinted nostalgia glasses on, people tend to misremember Final Fantasy VII. The bombastic moments that challenged players’ expectations of what a PS1 game was capable of stick in the mind. For many, despite only being the opening of the story, the Midgar section felt like the core of FFVII.

This reimagining is the first instalment in a wider project to remake the entirety of Final Fantasy VII, and only covers that Midgar portion. But the developer isn’t merely remaking a small slice of game. “We’re

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