LogFAQs > #950582549

The reason he says that is because the original director was basically forced to leave the project and move to Kingdom Hearts 3, because he was taking forever to actually finish the story. The director who replaced him, Tabata never worked on a main series Final Fantasy game prior, and it showed.

He kept the characters but scrapped most of the story surrounding them and the side characters. Your going to meet a bunch of characters who seem like 1 time side characters but have a lot more backstory in Kingsglaive and the short anime which was written by the original director.

Since you played FF7, let me put it this way. You remember how the character Jessie suddenly has a big role in the remake, despite being an extremely minor character in the original? Reverse it a few times for different characters.