As previously revealed, Final Fantasy VII Remake has many new elements to it and Scenarist Kazushige Nojima even explains how he rewrote Cloud for the remake. We also translated comments from Nojima about how Final Fantasy VII influenced Final Fantasy VIII. The director of Remake Tetsuya Nomura was the one to propose the original Final Fantasy VII’s most shocking moment.
The game is also now the highest selling digital game Square Enix ever developed on a PlayStation platform. Square Enix announced Final Fantasy VII Remake now shipped over five million copies worldwide, digitally and physically. The book is coming on October 29th, and will include artwork, CG artwork, planning documents, storyboards, liner notes for the music, interviews with the voice actors, and more. And for more goodies, a new guidebook will be launching in Japan, titled the Final Fantasy VII Remake Material Ultimania. First print copies will have a mini booklet as well: The cover art is by Tetsuya Nomura and other brand new illustrations are included in the set.
The OST set, which is four CDs total, will include cutscenes, BGM, and other features that wasn’t in the first one. As revealed by the official Square Enix music account Final Fantasy VII Remake OST Plus will launch December 23rd in Japan.