On the finish of Closing Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud and firm dispatch the Whisper Harbinger, creating various timelines. The sport reveals Zack, who died within the authentic sport’s model of occasions, alive, suggesting the builders at Sq. Enix had been planning to not simply create a stupendous fashionable remake of the beloved 1997 PlayStation JRPG however fully reinvent the chance area for its characters within the course of.
The latest trailer for the sequel, Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth, doubles down on that, largely exhibiting gorgeous PlayStation 5-worthy recreations of acquainted scenes and environments from after the get together leaves Midgar. We see Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, and Pink XIII touring to Juno, visiting Cosmo Canyon, and even using Chocobos. Highwind, the Shinra airship, even seems to loom massive in a single break up second of the footage.
Nevertheless the start and the tip of the trailer has followers questioning if a lot larger mysteries are afoot. The trailer opens with information footage of Avalanche apparently failing to explode a reactor, and Cloud lacking from the wreckage. Close to the tip issues pivot to an in depth take a look at the sport’s notorious Nibelheim Incident with new dialogue by Sephiroth that has followers taking part in with bonkers theories.
In line with one translation of the Japanese model of the trailer, Sephiroth tells Cloud, “I used to be the one who killed Tifa. If that’s the case, who’s she?” With the dialogue showing when Sephiroth slices Tifa together with his big Masamune blade, it may be taken as merely a modernized rendition of the unique occasions or an alternate model that suggests Tifa might need really died again through the Nibelheim incident and the one we all know from the beginning of Closing Fantasy VII Remake is definitely a clone or another form of imposter.
Then again, unreliable recollections and psychological cleavages have at all times been a cornerstone of Closing Fantasy VII’s story, and Sephiroth’s feedback within the trailer might merely be Cloud’s false recollection of what occurred that day, or perhaps even Sephiroth attempting to confuse Cloud by mendacity about it. The issues that made Closing Fantasy VII such a memorable basic within the first place are additionally what have laid the inspiration for such a wealthy and diverse set of guesses about the place the remake sequel will take issues.
The Cloud from the unique sport is a clone with alien cells and Mako vitality infused into his physique who additionally doesn’t keep in mind crucial occasions in his life. Sephiroth, in the meantime, is on an apocalyptic campaign to deliver in regards to the planet’s destruction after studying in regards to the private violence, company megalomania, and historical prophecies swirling the scientific experiment that created him within the first place. The Nibelheim Incident, which looks like it is perhaps Rebirth’s climax, is the inflection level for these previous occasions and their future repercussions.
It is sensible that it will show probably the most fertile soil for Sq. Enix to doubtlessly discover various timelines for Closing Fantasy VII’s characters and tales. On the very least it’s confirmed to be a bountiful promised land for followers who wish to spherical wild with their favourite pet theories about probably the most shocking methods the writer might upend its personal hit franchise.