Final Fantasy 6 Remake Series Would Take Twice as Long to Develop as Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy – Kitase
The second instalment of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is set to launch soon, but there are, of course, plenty of other fan-favourite instalments in the long-running series that many have been hoping to see remade in similar fashion. Final Fantasy 6 in particular has been heavily demanded by series fans- though according to Yoshinori Kitase – producer on the FF7 Remake trilogy and co-director of the original Final Fantasy 6 – developing a remake series for the SNES classic would be an even more herculean task than developing the FF7 Remake trilogy.
Speaking in a recent interview with French YouTuber Julien Chièze, when asked about the possibility of a Final Fantasy 6 Remake, Kitase said that a hypothetical remake series split across multiple instalments would take twice as long to develop as the entirety of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, something that he says Square Enix doesn’t have the resources for “at the moment”.
“If we were to remake Final Fantasy 6 in the same vein as FF7 Remake, it might take twice the amount of time it has taken to make theFF7 Remake series,” Kitase said (via @aitaikimochi on Twitter). “The volume we will need to work with is much more than FF7 and has more party characters too. We would probably need to prepare a lot of things, so I can’t imagine that to be a task we have the resources to take on at the moment.”
However, Kitase remarked that even within Square Enix, there are many that have asked about the possibility of developing a Final Fantasy 6 remake, which, if nothing else, he says he’s quite happy about.
“Many people even within the company have often asked whether we would consider an FF6 remake, and although I don’t have the answer, I am very happy to hear that,” he said.
Back in June, Kitase raised similar concerns over an FF6 remake, saying that such a project “would be difficult” to get greenlit.
As per leaks, however, there are plenty of other Final Fantasy remakes in the works. Allegedly, Square Enix is
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