PlayStation Magazine - 05.2020

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TOUR

GUIDES

The devs’ favourite

places in Remake’s

Midgar – make sure

you visit them!

Naoki Hamaguchi

CO-DIRECTOR

I’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

PRODUCER

I’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.