Although Final Fantasy 15 was more action-based, even that game didn’t allow actual character swapping. Noctis could call on the rest of his party for help with a quick combo attack, but the player couldn’t take over control of another charater at will (though this may happen in future FF15 DLC). New descriptions of Final Fantasy 7 Remake combat encounters seem to suggest that there will be some ability to switch between characters at will.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Kingdom Hearts 3 director Tetsuya Nomura discussed some of the combat changes in a recent interview…
Although players do have the ability to control each party member’s moves in the turn-based encounters of the original FF7, swapping at-will in the middle of action-based combat would be a massive change. This will be exciting news for players who enjoyed the updates made to combat in FF15, but traditionalists will likely be very unhappy. Hopefully, there will be an option to toggle between turn-based and action-based combat, so that both types of players can enjoy the long-awaited remake.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake is currently in development exclusively for PS4.
Source: Famitsu
