'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 ,' co-director Naoki Hamaguchi told US Gamer in an interview now hosted on VG24/7. Instead, you'd polish things off with the game disc and then use it to actually play in the future. You'd install the bulk of the stuff with the data disc then never need to touch it again. Basically, you got a data disc and a game disc. I'm assuming that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will work just like the Remake did, which itself worked just like Red Dead Redemption 2 did - another rare modern two-disc game, albeit a last-gen one.

The obvious precedent here is Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which also came with two discs and a whopper of a drive footprint at 100GB. One way or another, your hard drive's getting both barrels.

Instead, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will seemingly put more emphasis on installing content rather than downloading it to supplement what's on the disc, but that does not mean the game will be small altogether. Hell, a few physical games have actually come with a worthless decorative disc paired with a digital voucher. Why might a game need two discs? Well, we could be looking at the opposite approach that some games take nowadays by essentially including a cosmetic disc leashed to a mammoth mandatory download.

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