

"Rather than thinking about repurposing standard assets for individual locations, like the Slums or the Shinra Building, we decided to build each location using unique assets to achieve the quality desired for ," Hamaguchi says. Speaking to USgamer, Final Fantasy 7 Remake co-director Naoki Hamaguchi says the file size comes from a goal of depicting Midgar in greater detail than the original.

Coming in at a whopping 100 GB, it's a remarkably large download for a relatively contained game. Midgar is not a small city, but still, the file size for Final Fantasy 7 Remake is pretty substantial. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
