![]() ![]() The development team opted not to use a "photo-realistic approach", but instead something more stylized to honor the artistic designs and choices of the original game. Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase noted that the developmental team wanted to show a different design aesthetic which presents Midgar with strong elements of colour and variety, and the lighting and colouring used in Remake is intended to accentuate the uniqueness of the game world. For example, the city's bus signs heavily resemble their real world counterparts in New York City. In Remake, Midgar's sights and locales references architectural inspiration from all over the world, and channel these influences through the developers' use of materials, light, and space. The developers set out to make Midgar's environments realistic by adjusting its scale regarding the size between the buildings and the density. The development team's goal is to not only make Midgar's environments larger and denser, but also takes into consideration their functionality as they wanted to expand the city in a way that made sense. ![]() The planning process began with Midgar's original design, and from there, the team created architectural documents outlining how the city's various aspects should work. The iteration of Midgar for Remake had to be redesigned from scratch, as the process of converting the original's 2D backgrounds into a 3D space reveal many "structural contradictions". The 2020 video game Final Fantasy VII Remake focuses on the city of Midgar as it is a highly recognizable symbol of the world of Final Fantasy VII. ![]() Like many other story elements in Final Fantasy VII, the name of the city is inspired by Norse mythology. ![]() Other in-game elements themed after pizza include Domino, the name of Midgar's mayor, and the musical theme "Underneath the Rotting Pizza" which plays in various Midgar levels. Contrary to popular belief that Midgar's " steampunk" aesthetic is influenced by works like the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, Naora said that he had the image of a pizza in mind when he originally designed Midgar and its distinctive plate-like structure. Yusuke Naora, the art director for Final Fantasy VII, designed many of the locations for the game. Midgar is featured prominently in discussions about Final Fantasy VII 's themes of class conflict and environmentalism.įinal Fantasy VII was originally envisioned to be set in an alternate version of New York City, before the development team made the decision to switch to the fictional city of Midgar. Considered to be one of the most memorable aspects of the original Final Fantasy VII, Midgar has been well received by critics and the video game community for its cyberpunk aesthetic and dystopian setting. Midgar is a major aspect of the metaseries' industrial or post-industrial science fiction milieu with recurring appearances in related media, and is the centerpiece of the 2020 video game Final Fantasy VII Remake. In spin-offs of the game, the city spanned a town named Edge ( エッジ, Ejji ). Shinra's activities drain the world of its life force, the "Lifestream", threatening the existence of all life as the planet weakens. The city is powered by electricity drawn from reactors which run on "Mako" (魔晄, magic light), the processed form of spiritual energy forcibly extracted by Shinra from beneath the surface of the planetary world in which the Final Fantasy VII metaseries takes place. First appearing in the 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII, Midgar is depicted as a bustling metropolis built, occupied and controlled by the fictional megacorporation Shinra Electric Power Company (神羅電気動力株式会社). Midgar ( Japanese: ミッドガル, Hepburn: Middogaru) is a fictional city from the Final Fantasy media franchise. A panoramic view of Midgar as seen in 1997's Final Fantasy VII. ![]()
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