Nooooo NOOOOO NOooo NOooooo NOOOOOO nOoooo nooooo noooo!!!
Don't do this Square, don't do it. Make it 1 game. Manage your scope. Make it one game. Don't do it! You filler making bastards do not ruin FFIX with the multipart treatment. It's reasons like this that your management is famously inept!
You have plenty of old games to remaster you do not need to stretch this one out, stop this. Stop it.
And before anyone says it, FFVII Remake and Rebirth BOTH are filled with endless hours of filler and could have easily fit into one single game with no filler in less than 60 hours. The game time is artificially extended, everything is artificially extended. Sales are starting to suffer. Just stop!
Why did they make Rebirth with tons filler but leave out some very important parts of the main story? Because it is easy to make filler content and hard to remake the actual good stuff. There is no "the game is too big" reason imho, it's all just about being able to crank out easier work over multiple titles to create 3 things to sell instead of 1. Rebirth was good but you could tell, and I'm not talking about he open world, that was pretty good, but the STORY MISSIONS WERE SO ARTIFICALLY DRAGGED OUT AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY JUST LIKE REMAKE, WTF!