Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director rejects design by committee

In an interview in Edge issue 405, Hamaguchi discussed the impact of Yoshinori Kitase, director of the original Final Fantasy 7 and producer of the remakes, stating that while he was more than willing to take Kitase's advice and perspective on board, FF7R would not be a game designed by committee.

[Babadook7]

Whatever their design philosophy is, don't change it. That dream team is firing on all cylinders.

[goken]

Yeah especially not if there’s a certain infant on the committee

[Lionsguard]

More people need to buy Rebirth and support it.

[NovusTerminus]

I will day one on PC, just like I did with XVI I just don't own a Playstation anymore.

[Babadook7]

Agreed. It's spectacular.

[TheColbertinator]

Main reason why FF7 Rebirth was taken away from cyberconnect

[MrNinosan]

Rebirth never had anything to do with CyberConnect2. It was Remake, but moved in house almost 8 years ago.

[TheColbertinator]

Yeah that was it. I confused the two. Thanks.

[gold_drake]

i thknk remake was taken away from CC, was cause square didnt think the quality was high enough for it. my opinion

[Pyrofire95]

I like a lot of the design of Rebirth but I have frustration with the execution.
All the world intel flashes on screen and you have no control for so long and it happens so frequently, in effect all it does is remind you that you haven't checked all the boxes yet, similar to me how battle passes keeps getting shown to you to remind you that you COULD pay for the full pass, but that's not necessary for a game like this. By making all the quests just on a post board and a list in the menu the organic feeling is gone and it all feels vary manufactured.
Also the dungeons often feel too long and some are there just because there's "supposed to" be a dungeon at the end of this area. Animations and interacting with objects also feel slow and stiff, Red picking up something comes to mind as an example.

[MeteorPanda]

l had that disconnect too. Lost immersion over and over - two main parts was the mansion in Nebilheim and then the Ancients explanation. How does a rocky mountain town not konw of this apparently kilometer dungeon into the earth? What happened to it being hidden upstairs?

The ancients pssed me fof...why are you explaining it to us in English? Why are you just saying "Betrayed" as if that means anything? I wanted to hear their side of what Jenova did.

[JimBeans]

Committee design is good when you want a rounded boring product.

[DarXyde]

As a research mercenary (i.e., an international research consultant) I can say unequivocally that anything designed by a committee needs to be snuffed out in the crib.

No good comes from that approach. I can't tell you how many times you get redundancy because no one checks the other people's work and don't think about how their contributions fit together cohesively.

ZERO thought. Unfortunately, the large international development agencies are largely adopting this approach as a standard and it has resulted in a worse product every time, no matter how much argument goes into it.

Apply that to gaming and you'll quickly understand why it's ridiculous.