Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Director Interview (SPOILER FREE) - Kinda Funny Gamescast

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Tim and Imran got the opportunity to sit down with FInal Fantasy VII Rebirth Director Naoki Hamaguchi.
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[@914ina5]

As a Japanese speaking English as well, seriously, this interpreter is insanely good. I can tell how much she familiarized herself with FF terms and all the compilation titles in advance. I even suspect she may be a fan of FF7. It would be so hard to translate all the questions and answers like she did otherwise. She is that good. Big appreciation

[@Elexii]

Love reading this. Can you give a specific example where she really nailed it and what that example would have looked like otherwise if a non-fan would have translated?

[@maillardsbearcat]

Her voice is sexy

[@SayaTheShoopuf]

That's an LA accent. She grew up in or around Los Angeles. Great interpreter though.

[@914ina5]

​@@ElexiiOne easy example is 28:58, where she translated about Whispers. Hamaguchi mentioned them in their Japanese name, 'Fiiraa' or 'Feeler' but she rephrased it as Whispers 😮

[@914ina5]

​@@de1337meit makes so much sense!

[@themightyant.]

Interpreter doing an incredible job here, very much appreciated. Thanks to her, Hamaguchi-san and Square-Enix for doing this. Great content KF.

[@InstaBayne]

This translator is the best I've ever seen, and I've watched many interviews like this.

[@Christianjpeg]

Bro KF is stepping it up this year with interviews

[@johnshepard8556]

These translaters are super human

[@KamixSam]

As a KF fan who speaks Japanese this was so cool! And shoutout to the interpreter for doing a great job!

[@nicholasgough]

This was soooo cool!

[@JimmyDoyel-by2cp]

I wonder if she grew up in the States, her English is impeccable.

[@Karlach_]

@@JimmyDoyel-by2cpShe does have a strong American accent so I assume that is the case. But of course Canadians tend to have strong US accents as well so she could also be from Canada.

[@espensteen8406]

@@Karlach_Canadians have strong US accents? No, they have Canadian accents.. Unless you’re willing to concede that US Americans have strong Canadian accents.

[@epicwolf]

To be able to get a director of a tripla A game that is as popular as Final Fantasy and has not even been release yet shows how far Kinda Funny had become. From an idea of Gameovergreggy many years ago to a prominant video game news and content rivaling the big companies like ign and gamespot shows that all you need is a good idea and fan support and you can do wonders.

[@SuperBrentendo89]

Seriously. I got so excited when I saw this video was posted and then was like, “and he’s actually there in the studio with them!!” Haha

[@clay180]

It shows that they are now an effective advertising arm. The KindaFunny crew arent journalists, they only read press releases and act as a hype machine. Thats why and how they get access.

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

Tim having the time of his life

[@BlarGames]

Honestly..never wanted to be in his shoes as much as right in this moment. So can't blame him!

[@lutherdespain7908]

LET TIM INTERVIEW, great job guys

[@XxStanTheManxX1]

In a week, I am going to be 59 years old. I am looking forward to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth!!! Played the original back in 1997 and took all of my time up!!! FF7 Remake I platinum it!!! Going to do the same with Rebirth!!! Thank you Square Enix, Director, and all the developers etc.!!!!!!

[@XxStanTheManxX1]

I've also attended E3's from 1996-2013!!!So I got a chance to play all games before release. So playing the demo of FF7 was mind blowing!!!!!!

[@NiGHTS1980]

The legend himself!

[@MelodicQuest]

Having been a fan since the spare bedroom days, it's incredible to see you guys being able to do these high-profile interviews

[@Cloudsheep93]

You boys came PREPARED, these are such good questions!

[@WhatsBiggin]

This is a video with one of the top game directors of the moment, and people are talking about the interpreter. She must just be that damn good. Kudos.

[@chibill467]

it's always very fun to see intrepenors switch between Japanese and American accent on the same english word

[@kerposo]

Shout out for this awesome translator!

[@davadh]

Tim: "...who is in your heart?" Hamaguchi: nods vigorously

[@maddoggnick96]

This is KFG Vol. 2 Episode 223 (Episode 475 overall)

[@SomeGameCritic]

Doing gods work 🫡

[@Nathd1367]

It's so awesome to see you guys getting to do interviews like this 🙂

[@guyfromnewark]

As someone who only speaks and understands English, this translator is amazing! I understood every English word she said!

[@Allex1342]

Well I wasn’t expecting this!❤🎉

[@geoafe66]

So happy they did this interview. Keep doing interviews like this please.

[@lupeylycan]

love seeing the creators of these games getting to participate in the discussion around them, can't imagine how proud the team must be of their work right now

[@kaishinlab8045]

This was so fun to watch. It's hard to miss how excited Hamaguchi is about this game and franchise when he speaks.

[@teamramrod27]

Amazing job all around! Fantastic job by the translator!

[@mattboje6747]

Awesome interview guys! Can't wait until Thursday!

[@TheHan464646]

Wow! KF got Hamaguchi for an interview! That's so sick, will definitely mark this for a watch when i have time

[@feastwithfrank]

Oh y’all went crazy with this one

[@karlmoore1837]

Wow, what a nice turn up for the books. Hope more of creative teams will do things like this (with KF crew).

[@winstonxarilo_]

Literally every person involved with this interview nailed it. So dope.

[@PenguinLegace64]

Amazing Interview! Would love to see more stuff like this in the future!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

A really cool interview, thanks guys!

[@CapCharisma]

I was not expecting an interview like this from you guys but now i'm so excited and happy for ya'll. I actually prefer watching foriegn language interviews in their native language so you can get their expressions and tone. I know some folks might not care and want to skip parts they can't understand as it feels like wasted time. But it's simple, just skip the interview. I hope you guys get more chances to do this kind of stuff!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Thank you for this great interview!!

[@hunterburress]

This is incredible to behold. Much deserved for KF.

[@rikkuricky]

The director and team seem so passionate! I can't wait to play the game. I hope they stick around for part 3 like the 70-80% that stuck around for Rebirrth

[@mikemadden6629]

Could any hoodie sleuth locate where to purchase that hoodie at!?

[@fuzzylogic752]

Great questions , great answers. Translator did a perfect job .. what a great interview. Thank you 🙏

[@LionheartMindExplosion]

19:07 hope we can save her this time

[@dps0610]

His voice is so soothing to me. Translator is on another level 🙌

[@KamixSam]

Yooooo this is dope!! ❤ thank you guys!

[@schultz4966]

Had the honor of having him on the show and can’t even put in the effort to say his first name right. Bro said “Nayokee”. 😂

[@Journeybyjon]

Great interview

[@kokomiyax]

really lovely interview! x

[@raulioo1]

Really Tim was fantastic in this interview, and the translator is the definition of proffesional

[@captgeech]

it's so awesome seeing the image under the desk of the ENTIRE ff7 party for this game. I really hope that Cid and Vincent are playable in the last one.

[@pseudocide.]

They definitely will be in the last part. With how much love and care and understanding this team has for the og no waaaay would they not let them be playable. Making Yuffie already not a skippable character like in og is already a big sign

[@JuanAvi13]

Great job fellas!!!

[@SkyHiltribe]

Wow!! The translator is in another level of translation. BRAVO!!

[@Chitown-zf4gs]

The man, the myth, thee Gotdamn legend!

[@MelodicQuest]

Hamaguchi seems like a cool guy. Just from this interview I can tell he's a big gamer and and loves animation. He'd probably get along really well with the KF crew.

[@JTBesta]

Love this!

[@c1nnabun]

Naoki-san doesn’t break eye contact even during his interpreter’s responses.

[@irrgamer]

Never been more proud to be a KF best friend looking at this ! Great job :)

[@bhoqeem1975]

Super awesome interpreter there!

[@Mike_L.]

Awesome!

[@Mlunny81]

If the reviews and demo are any indication… Thank you, thank you, thank you. Best characters ever, best battle system ever.

[@skthechef8075]

This is amazing 💙

[@sutekidane94]

I think we need a quick little “Advent Children Complete” in review.

[@geoafe66]

This was awesome

[@maillardsbearcat]

Translating looks so hard, she was such a pro

[@shockblast20]

Amazing interview and interpreter killed it.

[@ToasterBurner35]

This is awesome!

[@bean-charlieartz3138]

Kinda funny is reaching new heights love to see the growth of this company!

[@christopherhan5118]

Mr. Hamaguchi's responses are incredibly satisfying to hear. It is clear he really understands players and also respects the original IP. What a contrast to devs who are out of touch and focus on things no one asked for or wanted!

[@jhales313]

Thanks for the ffx remake mention! Wish you would of Followed up a bit more on it. Like asking does he believe ffx could be remade in a single game, I think it could. Much smaller compared to 7 and the 25th anniversary is right around the corner I wonder if they have any plans

[@theprada2126]

Damn great Content

[@baundiesel]

It's been out for 3 minutes and you haven't watched it. Might be the worst video they've ever made. lol

[@ElHombreDeSombrero]

What a great game this man just made. A clear GOTY candidate and one of the best and most complete I have played.

[@switchxb]

I was wondering why the Don was in the house the other day, super sick stuff

[@Fernandordiogo]

I think is the same interpreter from the Remake E3 reveal.

[@RyanOstrowski-eh6ft]

do you think they censored tifa swimsuit in ff7 rebirth?

[@randyali]

Future GOAT if he aint one already!

[@furrybproductions]

With all the far shots, I legit thought that was Roger for 90 percent of the interview 🤣

[@hoaaaaaaaaable]

Very cool, I'll be back in a couple of weeks for this

[@BusteloMaster]

As a spanish speaker I was wondering where andy cortez was

[@jonathantalley6110]

This is it bois, we’re fucking big time

[@akdsjhijwbvowkp]

Timestamps? Do they talk about the difficulties?

[@luisaviles567]

HOLYYYYYYY SHITTTTTTTTTTT HOW DID YALL GET HIM

[@AxlQc]

I love how Tim sometimes Nod when Hamaguchi talks even if he doesn’t understand a word. Or maybe….

[@MelodicQuest]

It's mostly about his tone. You can tell he's excited to talk about Rebirth just by the way he speaks.

[@Mauro019]

Can anybody please tell me if this has spoilers or am I good to listen?

[@tlamy1992]

No spoilers for Rebirth at all

[@roquevitantonio8555]

GOTY 2024 and an instant classic. Finally FF returned to the top.

[@YetiCoolBrother]

As should be expected, he makes an excellent point about Sephiroth being overall more prominent in the story (which is a thing I've seen many people take issue with). In the world of FF7 Sephiroth should be famous, he was basically Emo-Captain America prior to Nibelheim and nobody eleven knows about that except Cloud & Tifa. Not only would it not make sense for him to not be talked about, he could totally just walk around wherever he wants because 99% of people don't even know he's a villain.

[@Imsohighrightnow2]

Emo captain America loool 😅 harsh.....but true! 😂😂

[@TheBlueGoldenHawk]

SPOILER for OG FF7 . . . But isn’t just about every appearance of sephiroth outside of the Nibelheim incident flashback just a projection of Sephiroth by sephiroth/jenova? Because his actual body is encased in materia crystal in the North Cave during the present day

[@burtwonk]

This man is the future of CBU1 at Square enix. I hope he gets to make a new original mainline title after this trilogy is over.

[@fat-gotenks]

Nice

[@HXXXXWXXN]

Hamaguchi's hoodie is stylish af

[@mikemadden6629]

I came here to see if anyone had located this hoodie. I need it

[@Jediwolf36]

The excitement I have for this game is insane...dare I say it but I am more excited for rebirth more than FF16 tbh

[@matten_zero]

One day it will be good enough to just put the directors name in the title as opposed to the ambiguous title of "FF7 director". I get its a language barrier thing but it always surprises me that people dont even know who the Japanese staff behind their favorite works.

[@geoafe66]

👏👏

[@eddy5097]

Its looking more and more like FF6 will be remade after the 7 trilogy they're talking about it thinking about it internally devs want to do it... I'm so happy 😊

[@pahoaproductions9991]

🥳🎉🥳🎉🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@Karlach_]

I don't envy all the writing the interpreter has to do. She's moving fast af.

[@cheese5194]

Yooooooooo

[@killua882]

Probably one of the best Interviews I've seen. No Spoilers, No hidden agenda to try and get them to slip up. Just a pure FAN interview. The interpreter was amazing, whatever she's being paid needs to be doubled. Well done Kinda Funny Crew and well done for Tim and Imran for holding back on a lot of their fanboy questions.

[@evanvongustav8814]

Tbf, there's not much point in trying to coax leaks out of them when the game's out in 2 days 🤷

[@jzilla1234]

Top guest. Is hey is gary whitta still licking his wounds?

[@labordaze5952]

The devs said they needed to replay crisis core to ensure they are familiar with the story. Seems a waste since they could have just hired Tim Gettys

[@GTS-Olivier]

Great episode! Getting Lost in Translation vibes. What does Final Fantasy 7 mean to you? Interpreter goes on forever. Love it.

[@champbrady633]

Please for the luv of next generation gaming, tweak and update the damn combat system and move sets. Cloud should not be doing the same moves from pre hd era. Give him brand new moves and limit breaks. And it's not against the law to create brand new powers and fighting moves exclusive to Cloud, to make him more distinct like Noct. Flesh out your combat system. Going from offense to defense needs to be seemless like when boxers slip punches and counter-- intuitive as breathing

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

Are we sure Jared Petty and Imran Khan arent the same person? 😅 its a conspiracy 😆

[@YA-vs5wu]

what a way to ruin an iconic game, just add multiverse and different timelines !!!, have we not seen what happened with marvel ? FF7 Rebirth has made me appreciate FF16 story much more, just listen to Clive line : "life has a beginning and an end"

[@360Fov]

It's so awesome to hear that Crisis Core had a big influence on Rebirth! It's such an awesome game, that offers these hugely entertaining chunks of gameplay, with an overarching system of progressing your materia and gear and abilities...so having that kind of influence on an open world game, filled with activities and combat... I couldn't have asked for more!

[@djdivero]

290k subscribers and not even taking the time to edit this video is wild. Or maybe its on purpose for ad Revenue. Disgusting 🤬