Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto talks Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (& other FF titles)
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—Producer Yoshinori Kitase has previously expressed interest in releasing an HD remastered version of Final Fantasy XII for the PS3 and PS Vita, if Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster did well in sales.
From the looks of it, the game is doing very well in sales over in Japan where it was released back in December. And it’s likely to do well too in the rest of the world when it comes out later this year.
Do you think we can expect some good news in the near future for an HD release of Final Fantasy XII?
Hashimoto: At this moment, we do not have any plans [to release a HD remastered version of Final Fantasy XII]. But as Kitase-san has mentioned, if there are a lot of requests from the fans for a HD remastered version of Final Fantasy XII, we might consider it.
But with that said, at this moment there are no plans to do so.
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In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster, there is a 30-minute-long audio episode included in which Auron’s daughter meets Tidus. What was the intention with including this audio episode, and might it possibly lead to a Final Fantasy X-3?
Hashimoto: That’s not really our intentions with including the audio episode.
Since we’re revisiting Final Fantasy X and X-2, which were released about 10 years ago, the series’ scenario writer Kazushige Nojima and character designer Tetsuya Nomura had a discussion and thought that the HD Remaster release would be a good opportunity for them to include this additional story episode [and expand upon the univese a little further].
But the audio episode’s inclusion wasn’t because we have any plans to develop a Final Fantasy X-3.
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