Did the team ever think about making a silly Final Fantasy VII game?
Kitase: The team definitely didn’t consider any silly concepts. But actually, it might have made for a funny story if we had used Cait Sith as a main character. Before X-2, Final Fantasy was already established as a franchise that fans expected to be very serious. Because of that pressure, the team always had to protect themselves; they couldn’t be as creative as they might like, and they didn’t have the freedom to come up with something different. If you look back, the original Final Fantasy games were very funny and silly, but eventually the Final Fantasy franchise became nothing but seriousness. X-2 made the team remember that there’s lots of possibility contained within “Final Fantasy.” Because of X-2, we had the freedom to choose what we wanted to do for the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. If there were no X-2, we could only ever think of making a pure, perfect RPG. OPM: Before, you said that making Final Fantasy X was very difficult, but making X-2 was very fun. What sort of fe
