The Final Fantasy 7 remake series is “perhaps one of the best interpretations” of an RPG remake, but Hironobu Sakaguchi wants to “continue giving birth to something new”

As director of the first five Final Fantasy games and an influential producer at Square in the company’s golden era, there are few names more important in gaming history than Hironobu Sakaguchi. But while the industry focuses on remakes and remasters, the father of Final Fantasy would rather create something new – even as he acknowledges that the experiences old games evoked are valuable.

Sakaguchi tells Eurogamer that, as game preservation becomes an increasingly hot topic, it “makes sense to look back and talk about this so-called history of what this industry has done.” Modern devs can find value by taking “ideas from the past and, in a way, interpret them so that modern audiences can feel closer to what emotions and experiences were evoked.”