Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says his cat won't cameo again because he'd "like to think" it died in Remake
Nov. 16, 2023Sorry Musashi, you’re done
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthwon’t feature one cat from Remake - because it probably died.
GamesRadar+ recently spoke to co-director Naoki Hamaguchi as part of our extensiveFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth interview. Hamaguchi was pretty tight-lipped on what to expect from Rebirth and its eventual sequel, but he did confirm that his cat wouldn’t be returning for the middle part of the remake trilogy.
That’s right: Hamaguchi’s cat actually made it into Final Fantasy 7 Remake, as one of the three cats that Wedge takes care of. The co-director’s cat is called Musashi, but unfortunately poor Musashi won’t be making a grand return for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth next year.
“This is only in my head canon here,” Hamaguchi said of Musashi, “but personally I’d like to think that he was caught up in the Sector 7 plate fall with Jessie and that lot – he’s probably not gonna turn up!” Rebirth’s co-director thinks his own cat is probably dead, then, crushed under the weight of the Sector 7 plate.
Elsewhere in our big interview, Hamaguchi and producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed thatRebirth’s story won’t “go wildly out” from the original, and will still link back to Advent Children at the end of the remake trilogy. Good news for those who loved the whacky events of the sequel movie.
You can also read our hugeFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth previewfor our hands-on impressions of the anticipated sequel.
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