With Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth having just come to PC (check out our review), series producer Yoshinori Kitase and game director Naoki Hamaguchi have started talking about the much-anticipated third part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy. In an interview with Famitsu, Kitase confirmed that the story for the third part is complete, and that development on the title is moving ahead without any delays.
“I’m very satisfied with it, so I’m sure the fans will be satisfied with the final chapter,” said Kitase when asked about progress on the story for Final Fantasy 7 Remake part 3. The duo haven’t revealed any more details about the third title, however, and with development still underway, we likely won’t get to see the game for quite some time.
Hamaguchi, on the other hand, spoke to Automaton in another interview about the new features in the PC release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and how PS5 players have also been asking for some of these features. He specifically points to the ability to speed up through cutscenes.
“Nowadays, many people watch videos and movies at double speed. I myself have little time, so I often use the speed-up function,” Hamaguchi said. “I think we are in an age where we should let the user decide what kind of experience they have. Rather than letting (long cutscenes) become an obstacle that prevents people playing the game, I think we should incorporate such (time-saving) functions more and more.”
Ultimately, however, Hamaguchi did not elaborate on when we would see these features in the game’s PS5 release.
For those not in the know, the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth comes with quite a few features, including more technical ones like support for Nvidia’s DLSS, as well as support for mouse and keyboard. The PC version also supports features of the DualSense controller. These features were revealed with a trailer released earlier this month.
If you are interested in picking up the title on PC, Square Enix had revealed the specs that would be required to run the game back in December. On the low-end side of things, players will need at least an AMD Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core 14-8100 CPU, a Radeon RX 6600, Intel Arc 580 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 2060 GPU, and 16GB of RAM.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a sequel to 7 Remake, and picks up right where the first game left off. The party, consisting of Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barrett and Red-XIII must now set out to stop Sephiroth from completing his plan that might potentially pose a threat to the entire world.
In a change from the original, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has much larger wide-open spaces where players can explore, hunt fiends, and even complete sidequests. The title also has plenty of minigames, each of which even has its own story-based sidequest to complete for special rewards.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was originally released on PS5 back in February 2024. For more details, check out our review of the original PS5 release.
