PixelKnight
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Does FF really need quite so many ’new and varied’ games though? A goal of ‘grow the audience through new and varied spin-offs in between the big games’ needs to balance against the risk of brand fatigue, and there’s a shedload of FF stuff about.I'm not sure I'd call this a good place. Theirs a distinct lack of new and varied games that grow the audience. All the new games are far in-between and what fills the gaps are remakes.
I also don’t think the remakes are necessarily a bad thing when, for example, the FFVII remake series is so different from the original in almost every way outside of main story beats. It’s hard to say that isn’t a ‘new’ game. It’s more a ‘completely new reimagining of the same story (that was a bit of a confusing mess for much of the western audience first time around anyway)’ than a ‘remake’. When you’ve got the MMOs, FFXVI and the FFVII remake series, that’s still a hell of a lot of FF about.
Personally I hope the FFIX remake is a very different style to the FFVII one. 25 years of game design and advancing technology later, these are very different games (for better or worse!) to the originals that a huge chunk of new console owners won’t have played.
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