>Yoshinori Kitase, the director of the original Final Fantasy 7 and producer of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, thinks "it would be a waste" to not use the game's characters again in some form.
>Kitase said this during an interview with Japanese wrestler Kenny Omega for the official Square Enix YouTube channel. Omega brought up the fact that Kitase was the producer for The 3rd Birthday, which was the third and so far final game in the Parasite Eve series, released for PSP in Japan in 2010.
>Omega then asked Kitase if he would like to see more Parasite Eve in the future. "The characters are very deep and rich, especially Aya Brea," Kitase said. "I don't know of any plans right now, but it would be a waste to not use those characters."
>Clearly angling for a remake or another original game in the Parasite Eve series, Omega responded saying that, "horror games are very popular right now, and Parasite Eve had some RPG elements to it. It was very original and unique, so I think now is a good time… Parasite Eve has a very unique game style. There are no games like it right now."
oh nono no, they've butchered 7, leave the PE alone !1
Evan Murphy
PE would be a gold mine. Considering current technology, the fans they already have and the fact that people buy almost anything that's triple A it would be very profitable.
A whole different story would be how not to fuck that up too.
>Didn't they lose the rights Yes, and bought them back. Not sure if for a limited time to distribute the game online. Regardless, Parasite Eve's rights are just about very easy to bypass details. Mostly, the mention of the Japan incident (referencing the book), the title itself and maybe Eve (although that's just a name, it's not copyrighted). They could just reimagine the game, change the title a little bit and maybe the plot just a tad bit and they'd be all good. It happens all the times with movies and games.
Robert Thompson
can u play parasite eve on ps4?
Benjamin Clark
I think a PS4 can play PS1 discs, or else you can buy it on the PSN
Grayson Peterson
PS4 can't play PSX discs but you can get it in the online store or just emulate it on a comfy vita (for like 80 bucks)
Jonathan Russell
It'd be cool, but I fear it would be a weird indeterminate mess like 3rd birthday, with tons of conflicting mechanics that never really come together.
Samuel Ramirez
Remake 1, add a dodge, rename ATB to ATP for the mitchondria theme, make combat real-time with lock-on like FF7R with Barret, have shooting/dodging expend ATP like a stamina bar, and allow weapon switching in combat with more differences in weapon function/customization instead of smg and pistol being the best simply because they fire faster.
Aiden Russell
3rd BIRTHDAY WAS SO BAD IT'S UNBELIEVABLE
William Cox
>but I fear it would be a weird indeterminate mess like 3rd birthday, with tons of conflicting mechanics that never really come together.
the guy who directed Third Birthday (Tabata) is no longer with Square Enix so there is hope that a 4th PE can be good
Connor Campbell
>so there is hope that a 4th PE can be good Yes, just think about all the other amazing Square Enix games.
Blake Parker
I was watching the interview and its interesting to see that Kitase knew what he was doing with sephiroth: keep it a secret and try to create fear out of actions rather than sephiorht appearances
I wish i could ask him what happened to remake then, why arent they doing the same with the remake Or maybe whatwe have seen about sephiroth so far its actually all you see about him and in reality, compared to the rest of the game, hes not the focus of the story
Julian Carter
The majority of the plot in FFVII is tracking him down without ever actually coming in contact with him physically. If they really made Sephiroth appear in a significant manner in the remake then its obvious that they prioritize marketing power over loyal remake.
Adrian Green
THANKS TO FUCKING TABATA ONCE AGAIN, RUINING EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES
Sebastian Brown
>after PE2 >after T3B >squeenix >in 2020+ You'd have to be retarded to actually want this.
After seeing how they handled FF7, I would love for them to do Parasite Evev.
The good thing is that the game is small enough that they wouldn't have to break it into parts.
Levi Price
I think parasite eve would fit better in the style of combat the ff7 remake has than ff7. It's funny, it's basically perfect for this weird semi-atb.
Xavier Hughes
I don't think so. PE was more of a "tactical" shooter where the use of skills was very situational (tallking about PE1). Plus you only control one character, it wouldn't make sense making it anything other than a TPS or a top down shooter like Ruined. Or, you know, leave the old system intact with better skills and graphics.
Brandon Garcia
I mean the old system is what ff7 remade, have a dinky knife for non-atb required attacks, free range movement, atb to use skills and real weapons. Nobody actually used melee in parasite eve.
Dylan Davis
Just for the love of god keep Tabata away.
Kayden Myers
Can they legally do it? Would it have to be under a different name again?
David Carter
Why? Third Birthday was Nomura's fault.
Tabata left S-E anyway
Jacob Torres
Nomura had absolutely nothing to do with Third Birthday beyond character design
Aaron Watson
If I didn't understand it wrong, you need to attack in FFVIIR to fill the bar to use moves and skills. Attacks barely deal any damage while the actual damage comes from those abilities.
What's the point of that for PE? In PE your attacks with your main weapon is basically your bread and butter, you don't need abilities of any sort. The system already works the way it is. If you want to add something to charge your PE powers then you'd need better powers that are used more often. It's either easier to leave it as it is (tactical decissions of how to use your turn) or turn it into a more dynamic system altogether.
Nomura's Creative Producer on a lot of shit, but I doubt he's entirely to blame for all these Final Fantasy spin-offs and other titles of that era despite the role superseding even director depending on the situation. Something about 3rd Birthday has the same problems as Type-0 and Crisis Core, which doesn't bleed into some of the other projects Nomura's had a hand in or directed personally. Meanwhile Kitase and Tabata have been both producer and director respectively on all three of those games. Hell, I believe Kitase was originally the one that wanted everyone in FF7 that you didn't choose for the Midgar air raid to stop the Sister Ray to die shortly thereafter, and everyone had to talk him out of it.
Jordan Hughes
3rd Birthday was 100% Toriyama's bullshit
Dylan Wilson
Well the first PE had a battle system kinda like FF7R already. You dodge stuff and wait for your sort of ATB to fill, it also had a somewhat limit break too. Could translate well to a more contemporary aproach if done with no fuck ups.
Kevin Davis
>it also had a somewhat limit break too Which one?
Angel Nguyen
Third Birthday was a combination of Toriyama and Tabata's finest tinkering. Had a nice soundtrack tho.
Caleb Rodriguez
>Hell, I believe Kitase was originally the one that wanted everyone in FF7 that you didn't choose for the Midgar air raid to stop the Sister Ray to die shortly thereafter, and everyone had to talk him out of it. They should have went with that. Fuck it. That's a concept that has a ton of potential.
Please let it be a continuation NOT from the 3rd Birthday. A real continuation after PE2.
Isaiah Brooks
PE2 sucks It has to be a remake of the first game
Julian Cox
Hmm, you made a good point asking. I've Played the game 9 years ago but I remember that you can Liberate Aya and unleash some powerfull shot or something. I remember using something like that at the Museum. The second one also had something similar and the Third Birthday had that mode were you could shot nonstop with some burst shots happening at random. But I don't really recall if it was an actually Limit Break kinda a system or if it was a Parasite Energy with just a very long cooldown.
PE2 is shit, it turned the simple premise of a cop put against a biological threat into a capeshit premise with special anti-mitohodria task forces and literal modified superhumans and secret governmental agencies.
Considering how badly T3B fucked shit over I'd rather it say done.
Joshua Sanchez
And it's just not that good of a Resident Evil
Mason Ortiz
A remake of the first would be tits but I'd bet on them getting Aya's scene in the intro where she shoves her date out of the way like a putz and tells him to leave
I'd rather a new game thats over the shoulder because lets not kid ourselves, thats what it would be, rather than an over the shoulder remake Just please don't handle this as poorly as you've handled the Front Mission series as of late Square
