/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8462068
If Angel Studios got the project, absolutely. Most of the FMVs in FF7 are completely superfluous and can be made into simple in-game animations, especially when most of them already used the overworld models. The only three you'd really want to keep intact are the intro, Aerith's death and the ending, but even then if you wanted to cut corners, Aerith's death could have been shifted to in-game considering you already have to see pic related for maximum visual clashing anyway.
The backgrounds would need to have reduced animation but that's far from impossible. Overall, I feel like you could have easily fit the game onto a RE2-sized cart. Sure, it'd be missing a lot of the whole WOAH SO CINEMATIC pull they were advertising the PS1 version with, but this is under the assumption the port would be in 1999/2000 when people already flocked to FF8/9/10 for that aspect. Honestly I feel like FF7 being marketed the way it did was bullshit considering hardly anyone went to it for anything other than the RPG pedigree the series carried.