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Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title (www.retronews.com)

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Naoki Yoshida, known as Yoshi-P and the director of Final Fantasy 14, has expressed skepticism about the feasibility of remaking Final Fantasy 9 as a single title.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Personally I've loved how much they have fleshed everything out. Like, Johnny was such a completely missable, non consequential character in the original and now he's a prominent side character. Just one example of many where they've taken a small part of the original and they have added a ton of context or fleshed out content around it.

A lot of the stuff is optional too, which I think strikes a solid balance. If you don't like the content and find it busy work, you don't have to do it. If you do like it, it's there for you to enjoy.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

I'm usually with you on the "skip the quests you don't like", but it really doesn't feel like an option for this series. Each of the remake games are priced at $70USD and it's not even a full story, technically speaking.

It feels really bad to not do side content, because it feels like you're not getting your "money's worth" psychologically. But the side content varies so much in quality depending on the chapter that the game just feels like a drag. It especially sucks because the OG FF7 is such a well paced story IMO, with a good balance of action/plot vs silly downtime.