Smaller breasts for Tifa in Final Fantasy VII Remake confirmed, explained

Ethics department and intense action scenes among reasons for change.

The Final Fantasy VII remake is promising a slew of gameplay changes and other evolutions to better fit with modern gamers’ tastes and expectations, but more than anything else, it’s the graphical enhancements that have people excited.

▼ The remake’s in-game graphics look even better than the 1997 original’s pre-rendered CD case cover art (top left).

However, Final Fantasy VII Remake also has at least one visual diminishment, at least in terms of size. Playable character Tifa has long been famous not just for her powerful martial arts techniques and cheerful personality, but also her prodigious bust. However, in the first Remake preview video in which Tifa is shown, she appears to be much more pectorally petite than she was in the original Final Fantasy VII.

▼ Original Tifa

In the most recent issue of Japanese video game magazine Famitsu, Final Fantasy VII Remake director/character designer Tetsuya Nomura, who also served as character designer for the original Final Fantasy VII, confirmed that Tifa’s breasts have indeed gotten smaller, and explained why.

“I wanted Tifa [in Remake] to have well-defined abdominal muscles, so she has an athletic build. There were also instructions from our in-company ethics department, and we don’t want her to look unnatural during intense action scenes. That’s also why she has a black undershirt and a more form-fitting tank top [in Remake].”

Tifa isn’t the only character whose appearance has changed for Remake. As video game visuals become more photo-realistic, the more stylistic proportions of earlier-era titles can look unnatural when rendered in a current-gen environment. The spikes of Final Fantasy VII protagonist Cloud’s hair, for example, aren’t as towering (as a percentage of his body height) as they were in the original, nor is macho Barret’s physique quite the square block of muscular meat it once was.

And hey, if you’re really missing original Tifa’s bigger breasts, you can take heart in the fact that Final Fantasy VII Remake is confirmed as a multi-game release, and so there’s always the chance developer Square Enix will do what they did for the Final Fantasy XIII franchise and pump up Tifa’s cup size for one of the sequels…or perhaps that they’ll compensate by giving her curvier hips.

Source: Game Yorodorisabukaramidori Park via Otakomu
Images: YouTube/PlayStation
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