That's some interesting news in the interview - it looks like the regular version of AC is getting a 'recap' story, too - "Reminiscence", he called it.

Kinda hard to imagine Tetsuya Nomura saying "w00t" like he does in that article... certainly an interesting bit of translation

The fact that they still hadn't cast and recorded three major characters by the 8th of August is a bad sign that the delay could still be significant.