Final Fantasy 7 Remake director says that the new Remake is the fifth installment of the VII Compilation

Final Fantasy 7 Remake feels like it took forever to come out, but actually, it's been on Square Enix's mind "for a very long time," according to new information found in an Ultimania book interview (translated by Twitter user aitaikimochi).

Clarifying when the idea for the "Remake Project" started, director Tetsuya Nomura and producer Yoshinori Kitase noted that it would have came out a while ago, but the team was "short on resources" and "busy with other things." According to Nomura, this is actually the fifth installment of the "Compilation of FFVII," a term widely used by Square. The others? Advent Children, Before Crisis, Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus.