Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Card Game Queen's Blood Will be 'Enhanced' for FF7 Remake Part 3

Queen’s Blood fans, it's clip to celebrate. The addictive Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth paper crippled is making a “powered-up” comeback for the last section successful Square Enix’s remake trilogy.

Polygon spoke with manager Naoki Hamaguchi astir the advancement of improvement connected Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 and touched connected the taxable of 1 of the much fashionable virtual pastimes of 2024. He says helium plans to treble down connected the paper crippled erstwhile its adjacent installment yet launches, promising to “expand” what was seen with its Rebirth launch.

“Queen’s Blood is simply a precise fashionable and beloved minigame, and I judge a batch of radical are inactive wanting thing similar that,” Hamaguchi said. “I privation to grow connected Queen’s Blood truthful that we are enhancing it, and giving you a much powered-up mentation of it erstwhile you spot that 3rd installment… Queen’s Blood is inactive going to beryllium disposable successful the 3rd installment. We conscionable privation to grow connected it.”

The manager declines to stock precisely what a spruced-up mentation of Queen’s Blood volition look like, but it’s casual to ideate an enlargement of caller cards and caller side-quests shaking up the gameplay. However, Hamaguchi’s comments suggest players whitethorn beryllium successful for a somewhat important upgrade.

Hamaguchi adds that the archetypal Final Fantasy 7 mini-game featuring snowboarding is besides coming backmost for Remake Part 3. He teases that “it’s not going to beryllium conscionable a elemental snowboarding minigame,” adding that it volition beryllium incorporated into the communicative and its themes, but stops abbreviated of providing much details.

The Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is jam-packed with a assortment of mini-games to support Cloud and company’s combat against Sephiroth from getting excessively serious, but astir fans are conscionable looking guardant to seeing however the retelling volition yet decorativeness its story. Hamaguchi and the remainder of the Square Enix squad is acold from acceptable to stock a merchandise date, but helium says improvement is astatine slightest “coming on precise smoothly.”

“We person acceptable a docket for ourselves, and I judge we are tracking connected clip for the milestones we person set,” Hamaguchi adds. “So I’m truly thankful for the improvement squad and I person truthful overmuch respect for them moving connected this project. I judge that astatine this constituent the crippled is playable, technically, but we are inactive trying to polish it truthful it is astatine a prime wherever we tin present it to our players.”

It’s a circular of affirmative updates for Final Fantasy Remake Part 3, which arrives conscionable shy of the two-year day of the motorboat of Rebirth. Released February 29, 2024, for PlayStation 5, we placed the RPG sequel astatine fig 2 connected our database of the 15 champion video crippled remakes of each time. Although its income whitethorn not person met expectations, Hamaguchi told fans successful the past that the trilogy volition get a due finale.

Square Enix has had a batch of luck erstwhile it comes to Final Fantasy cards successful caller history. Despite the overwhelming fig of mini-games contiguous successful Rebirth, Final Fantasy 7 fans mostly took to Queen’s Blood, each 145 of its collectible cards, and the strategy is added to the wide experience. In the existent world, Magic: The Gathering fans spent 2025 obsessing astir its Final Fantasy-themed set, which included dozens of references to not lone Final Fantasy 7 but each 16 mainline entries, too.

For much connected Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3, you tin work astir however Square Enix astir resized Cloud’s iconic Buster Sword for the remake. You tin besides spot wherefore fans shouldn’t interest astir immoderate communicative contented being chopped for the aboriginal introduction portion fans walk the clip with the precocious released Nintendo Switch 2 mentation of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade.

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