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GUIDES
The devs’ favourite
places in Remake’s
Midgar – make sure
you visit them!
Naoki Hamaguchi
CO-DIRECTORI’d say from a direct
development perspective,
it’s the whole of Wall Market.
Again, that was one of the
locations we really had to
think very hard about how to reimagine
and depict. Again, it’s this very adult-
focused entertainment district really,
isn’t it? If we depicted it exactly as we
did in the original game that would look
a bit over the top for a modern audience.
So we really had to come up with lots
of different ideas and different ways
we could possibly show it, and how to
keep the really great things that people
loved about the area but show them in
a more modern way and I think because
we had to think so hard about that
we came up with some really, really
great ideas and the result is it’s an
amazing location to visit, so I’d have to
say Wall Market personally.Yoshinori Kitase
PRODUCERI’d say it’s in the escape from
Mako reactor #5. There’s
actually a door where you
have to pull two switches
down at the same time to
escape from. It was exactly there in the
original, and it’s come back with exactly
the same mechanics now because in the
original game I was directly in charge of
making that and programming that, and
in actual fact I did exactly the same for
the remake as well. So I’m very attached
to those two switches.