Digital Spy asked the director of both games, Hajime Tabata if there were any plans to remaster the PlayStation Portable games, Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- or The 3rd Birthday. Sadly this is what he said.
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"This kind of project [Final Fantasy Type-0 HD] requires a lot of thought to get right and we can't just go about remastering PSP games for the sake of it," he told Digital Spy.
"You need to put a lot of thought and effort into this kind of thing to make it something worthwhile.
"Type-0 was remastered because of audience demand, so there was a very strong reason for us to work on it and deliver it to players.
"It's not enough for us to simply want to do a remastered edition because we like a game, there has to be a stronger reason for it happening."
Tabata continued: "Crisis Core and 3rd Birthday have been released around the world already, so there's much less reason for the audience to want to see it released again.
"We always consider where the value is in doing a project like this and Type-0 had significant value where other games didn't have so much."
Tabata added that if there were ever any plans to revisit the two games, they would be "full remakes" rather than HD remasters.
"[We'd] go back and change everything from the graphics, to how loading works and everything else to make it fully native to the latest generation of hardware," he said.
"That might be worth doing, but a remaster probably wouldn't."
The 3rd Birthday is available on the PlayStation Store and as a result can be played on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV easily. Sadly, Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- is not available on the PlayStation Store due to licensing issues. As a result, Crisis Core can not be played on modern hardware and its platform was discontinued worldwide last year. Maybe if someone brought this up Tabata would re-consider.
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"This kind of project [Final Fantasy Type-0 HD] requires a lot of thought to get right and we can't just go about remastering PSP games for the sake of it," he told Digital Spy.
"You need to put a lot of thought and effort into this kind of thing to make it something worthwhile.
"Type-0 was remastered because of audience demand, so there was a very strong reason for us to work on it and deliver it to players.
"It's not enough for us to simply want to do a remastered edition because we like a game, there has to be a stronger reason for it happening."
Tabata continued: "Crisis Core and 3rd Birthday have been released around the world already, so there's much less reason for the audience to want to see it released again.
"We always consider where the value is in doing a project like this and Type-0 had significant value where other games didn't have so much."
Tabata added that if there were ever any plans to revisit the two games, they would be "full remakes" rather than HD remasters.
"[We'd] go back and change everything from the graphics, to how loading works and everything else to make it fully native to the latest generation of hardware," he said.
"That might be worth doing, but a remaster probably wouldn't."
The 3rd Birthday is available on the PlayStation Store and as a result can be played on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV easily. Sadly, Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- is not available on the PlayStation Store due to licensing issues. As a result, Crisis Core can not be played on modern hardware and its platform was discontinued worldwide last year. Maybe if someone brought this up Tabata would re-consider.
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