It’s no secret that I was hugely excited about Queen’s Blood in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – card-based minigames in Final Fantasy titles have been my jam since Triple Triad, after all – so a recent reveal from director, Naoki Hamaguchi, that the game will return and in revamped form for the final game in the FF7 Remake trilogy is fanfare to my ears.
The news comes via an appearance from the director at an Otakon anime convention in the US, accompanied by Yoshinori Kitase and some of the game’s other staff and voice actors. An audience member asked Hamaguchi whether Queen’s Blood could ever be made into a real-life game.
“Actually, I’ve been receiving so many requests,” the director responds. “Right now we are preparing a revamped or even better version of Queen’s Blood for the next title of this series. So I hope to be able to share more in the near future.”
You can see the moment in the video below from X user @neo_aoshi:
The game producers reveal there is a future for Queens Blood in the next installment! pic.twitter.com/TQ1xTPItCX
— neo ? Otakon (@neo_aoshi) August 3, 2024
We gave the most recent entry in the trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, a huge 9/10 in our review, with Harry saying, “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is an immense and expansive middle chapter of this ambitious remake trilogy. A reimagined and redefined behemoth of a game that simultaneously plays on nostalgia and forces you to question your memories of the original. While it suffers from some rote open world elements and a few technical issues, Rebirth is another magnificent entry into the gilded halls of Final Fantasy.”
