Another game was announced at that time, going even further back, which would focus on Shinra’s Turks unit and showcase what happened to the first AVALANCHE team. This was Before Crisis: FFVII, but after an announcement, it never made it’s way outside of Japan.

Siliconera spoke to Keiji Fujita, who was in charge of SE’s mobile operations in the US at the time. He explained that, “After saying the game will be launched in the United States, there wasn’t any progress made. That’s a true story.

“The feature phones at that time were too low spec to bring Before Crisis to the US market. Because Before Crisis is an online game, it was only available for high end phones in Japan. There was no way to port the game to phones here.”

And since the original producer left and joined Capcom, there wasn’t much enthusiasm for porting the game over to the latest devices or handhelds since.

Interestingly, he also talked about the about the Kingdom Hearts mobile game developed by Supersape and how “it was developed by Disney, not Square Enix. That’s why Tetsuya Nomura was very unhappy about the quality of the graphics because Disney just did it without his supervision.”

Perhaps that tussle is the reason that Disney and Square Enix haven’t been able to put out Kingdom Hearts 3? Time will tell.

Square Enix producer, Hajime Tabata, the man who is currently working on 3rd Birthday for the PSP, expressed his desire to release a Final Fantasy VII series title for the 3DS, via Twitter.

“If I were to do something on 3DS, it’d be a Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII remake i guess,” Tabata Tweeted.

“Completely changing the scenario composition and game design for the 3DS, if it were an action RPG BCFF7 that lots of Turk players could simultaneously play at a dizzying pace, wait a second this work is not an official announcement of course.”

Come on, just get it over with and give us a Final Fantasy VII remake already.