SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.” When it comes to Final Fantasy and Square Enix, Naoki Hamaguchi has seen it all. Having started as a real ...

FF7 Rebirth’s ending left fans divided over whether it was a bold retelling, a convoluted mess, or just a disappointment, and that’s exactly the reaction director Naoki Hamaguchi wanted.

Remake co-director Naoki Hamaguchi did not stop there, though, and many fans read between the lines of his interview, claiming he was hinting at the entire trilogy coming to Switch 2, and not just ...

Rather than simply update the game with a glorified face lift, the developers led by directors Tetsuya Nomura, Naoki Hamaguchi, and Motomu Toriyama, wanted to tell their own story. Sort of.

Naoki Hamaguchi is clearly very passionate about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. You can tell in his answers that he’s a fan of the series and wants the fans to have a truly memorable experience with ...

Naoki Hamaguchi is one such employee who already held a rather important title on the Final Fantasy VII remake team as the project lead.

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.” When it comes to Final Fantasy and Square Enix, Naoki Hamaguchi has seen it all. Having started as a real ...

Naoki Hamaguchi: So initially, I started out in a sort of engineer role, and I had joined the development of the titles from “Final Fantasy XII” and had gone on to be involved in development ...

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains light spoilers for “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.” When it comes to Final Fantasy and Square Enix, Naoki Hamaguchi has seen it all. Having started as a real-time ...