Final Fantasy 7 Remake

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How was Tifa's introduction scene decided on? Was it important to make a strong first impression on the player?

We felt it was important to show that the Sector Seven Slums are Avalanche's home ground and to relieve the tension after the reactor bombing mission by having Tifa and Marlene waiting for everyone to arrive back in Seventh Heaven.

The thinking was that this situation would highlight Tifa's kindness as a character. She is the only childhood friend that Cloud can open up about his true feelings to, so we made it that you only see a certain unguarded aspect of his personality when he is interacting with her.

Motomu Toriyama (Co-Director (Scenario Design))

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In the original FFVII you can visit the area under Seventh Heaven, but this was removed for FFVII Remake. Is there a reason for it?

In Chapter 3 Cloud is more distant from the Avalanche members than he was in the original game, so we made it that he was not allowed into their underground hideout. Having group meetings that only full Avalanche members are invited to and Cloud being left out in the celebration of the successful bombing mission etc. depicted the loneliness of his situation.

However, there is more to the story, as during development we had actually planned for a section between Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 where the player controlled Tifa and could experience the events leading up to her infiltrating Don Corneo's wife auditions. That section would have featured the inside of the Avalanche base.

It was developed to a point where the section was joined up and playable, but we were concerned that having a separate story as an interlude after Cloud falls from Reactor 5 and is reunited with Aerith in the church would damage the tempo of the storytelling, so we ultimately decided to remove that part. I think it would be great to show Tifa's side of the story if we get a chance at some point.

In the scene where Tifa mixes a cocktail, were the motions of her using the shaker captured by a motion actor? What were the challenges here?

We started out with various different motions as possible candidates to use in this scene but discussed it with the actors during the MC recordings and decided to have the animator tweak the performance to bring out Tifa's personality more and also to have a feeling of realism.

We did many re-takes, and it would have been tricky to capture flashy motions like throwing the shaker in the air and spinning around before catching it, so we kept it down to just throwing it in the air.

Yoshiyuki Soma (Animation Director)

Tifa making a cocktail
 
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