We’re nonetheless about six months out from the discharge of Closing Fantasy 7 Revelation, the ultimate a part of the FF7 Remake trilogy. However, already, there may be quite a lot of dialogue concerning the dimension of the sport; whether or not it is all of the divisive facet actions on supply within the title, or the actual fact it will not be transport completely on-disc at launch because of the quantity of stuff it’s going to characteristic, director Naoki Hamaguchi is already fielding quite a lot of questions on ‘dimension versus high quality’ within the final recreation within the Remake collection.
In a brand new interview with VGC, the outspoken director notes that he is “not nervous concerning the scale”. He goes on to elucidate that the rationale the sport cannot ship on disc (and even two discs, like Rebirth did) is as a result of he is anticipating the file dimension to be completely large.
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“Issues are nonetheless getting labored out, nevertheless it’s in all probability going to be round 200GB of recreation,” he says to VGC. “I perceive there are quite a lot of opinions about this matter, however on the finish of the day, the actual fact is we have to overcome the {hardware} to a sure extent.”
Rebirth weighs in at 91GB on Swap 2, 145GB on PS5, 169GB on Xbox Collection, and 155GB on PC, so relying on format, Revelation seems set to be as much as twice as massive because the final recreation within the collection. Woof. The sport will even obtain two bonus DLC packages post-launch, and these can be comparable in dimension to Remake’s Intermission DLC, per Hamaguchi. “It is best to think about the DLC like what we did with Intermission: digging deeper into the characters of Vincent and Sephiroth. In regard as to if these tales happen up to now or the current, I’m not going to let you know that now, however we’re excited to disclose that.”
Because the form of sicko that routinely goes over 100 hours for my RPG evaluations, I need to say this each excites and terrifies me. For customers, I’ve seen quite a lot of dialogue this week about recreation size, because of the previously-linked Hearth Emblem: Fortune’s Weave assessment – it appears, understandably, that video games with a runtime of over 100 hours are just too demanding for a lot of adults with lives, jobs, and obligations to think about.
Closing Fantasy 7 Revelation launches eighth April, 2027 for Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and Nintendo Swap 2, and I am curious to see if the trilogy will be capable to stick the touchdown, or whether or not the entire thing will crumble beneath the burden of all this open world ambition. I’ve spoken to Hamaguchi about this earlier than, and his solutions to my issues about open world recreation design put my thoughts relaxed, at the very least.