Square Enix Reveals Where Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will End

100 hrs of gameplay as well according to Square..Awesome..

It’s been about 25 years since I played it so The Forgotten Castle means nothing to me, unless it is the place THAT SCENE takes place at, and Wutai sounds like it could be Red’s village w/ my wife’s favorite song in the game. I’ll look it up later, gotta go.

Edit: ok that was all wrong I don’t know why I even bother. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"Sacred" is the right word for VII. I have finished 100s of games over the years and I could only tell you the ending to a small handful of them - FFVII probably foremost.

The final cutscene of VII - with Red (or Red's cubs) crossing the land, devoid of humans, is to this day possibly the greatest cutscene in video game history. i really don't like the idea of them toying with that ending in any way. It's a big reason i avoid these - i don't want them untying that bow and re-tying it to satisfy a much dumber public.

Hmmmm. I’ve only ever done Wutai in Disc 1 so this is a little change, Aerith is with me normally. Honestly though, just Disc 1 sounds alright to me. 100 hours is an awful lot but you forget how much is packed into that one disc. I just really don’t want the changes to be too bad, Zack needs to be removed and they need to stick to the Aerith character arc, part of what makes that game so incredible is Cloud’s mental state fracturing as the game goes on, which is obviously exacerbated by THAT scene. Icicle Inn and the Great Glacier being my favourite part of the game has me worried though, they’ll probably streamline it or completely change it if it’s the opening to the next one!

@rjejr ay, that was long ago.

Rock ‘em sock ‘em Cloud bots.

@Cashews

Yeah that ending was fantastic. You can infer so many things and come up with so many theories about what exactly happened. And none of them are exactly wrong.

It’s a vague ending in the best possible way. It really made you think.

I also love Final Fantasy Tactics’ ending. Probably the only other FF ending that is up there with VII’s in my opinion. Too bad the director put his two cents in 20 years later for no reason. I much prefer my own head canon explanation for what happened to Ramza, Alma, Delita, and Ovelia.

@OrtadragoonX I never read his two cents on tactics - which was also one of my favorite games from that era. Now I know to avoid it. Thank you for that. I absolutely hate when people try to explain things to me that are mine.

One of the most frustrating things i find in modern entertainment - are those "explanations" they post after a popular show. An example was game of thrones - they'd go into great detail about the most mundane simple things. Do they have such contempt for their audience that they feel the need to explain why this guy hates that guy or why a dragon breathes fire?

Maybe they do. I feel i was born in the wrong time.

I dont think 100 hrs is a plus point how much of that is padding and filler the first remake benefited greatly from being linear and alot shorter

bigger isnt always better quality over quantity every time

Oh boy... this one will be an emotional roller coaster.

@trev666 Normally I would agree with you. I would even agree that most of the side content in Remake was so so. But I enjoyed every second of it because you could tell how much love was put into the game and the nostalgia from being back in that world made it all worth doing to me. Granted this is unique to this game.

Day 1 buy.

No need to watch any trailer

Best way to describe FF7R? I've never been so excited to play a game I'll hate so badly. Lol

If they finish rebirth where we all think they're going to end it (those who played the original), I hope part 3 won't take long to release. That would be one h*ll of a cliffhanger.

This second part looks phenomenal! So much I remember from FF7, which was my favourite game ever for many years.

Now I’m going to have to go back and finish the first part. I stopped after the first playthrough because I knew I’d forget everything and planned to do my hard playthrough just before the sequel dropped.

I need to defeat Pride and Joy Prototype, so I can get the accessory to make the hard playthrough a bit easier I think, then will finish up a couple of spare tasks to get the plat.

Then I’ll start on the DLCs. If they are still on Extra and I still have it (so need to do all of that before November ends).

I am not sure how the whole twist is going to play out with Zack around. Because if he is around the group alot surely he would just say that didn't happen.

Was Cid shown in the trailer? I couldn't see him.
Wonder how the open world aspect will work, they say you can go back to places you have already explored, would this also include going back to Midgar? Imagine going back to Midgar and bumping into Zack.

Wow Square Enix spoiled the game casually on Twitter and in the PS Blog. I would prefer if they didn't say this.

As much as I love it takes so long the game will be finished after a decade or so im waiting for a complete edition or when it's done I just don't want to play and wait several years to move on. After that long i probably lose interest for playing the game.

This one is a day-one purchase for me. Got very hyped, the most in a long time.

Ahh man the weapons, the assault on junon, gold saucer, Cosmo canyon, even the isnt snake outside Calm, (where my chocobo at)is too much 🫨 and gotta wait almost half a year .
If they decide to end it there, there's a bucket load of game left,.which means part 3 will be insane huge, if they plan to end it at part 3 at some.point in 2028😱😱

So it ends at the Forgotten Capitol? If my memory serves, that’s the end of disc 1? I thought I saw some of the weapons in the trailer and those don’t show up in the original until the second half of the game. If that’s true they must be shuffling story events.

Looks excellent! I'm still guessing the 3rd game might be called REGenesis.

@SonOfPSXDave I'm so old.

Well that's the end of Disc 1 and they've said that the whole thing will be a trilogy, so the next game has to cover Disc 2 and 3. My personal guess before was that they'd get to Meteor being summoned in this game, which is about 30% through Disc 2. Then again, Disc 3 is incredibly short so it's not as much to cover in the third part as it might sound.

@thefourfoldroot1 "I need to defeat Pride and Joy Prototype, so I can get the accessory to make the hard playthrough a bit easier I think, then will finish up a couple of spare tasks to get the plat."

You can only fight it in Chapter 17 of Hard Mode which is right at the end. Can you pick any chapter in Hard Mode from the beginning of the playthrough? If not, you can't really get that item to make your playthrough easier - making it another case of the best rewards being at the end of games seeming a bit pointless.

@Matroska
Really? Maybe I forgot where I am, it’s been a very long time since I played it.

Just checked and have 4 trophy challenges left - one being to complete hard mode, one being to defeat P&J, then the one for getting all dresses and completing all quests.

I’m pretty sure I was following a guide for most optimum route and it told me to do that before my hard playthrough.

Can’t remember now. Serves me right for waiting so long between playthroughs.

`100 hours would make it significantly longer than the first one.

@Hamurai Correct, and exactly what I was just pondering. Why is the trailer showing Junon firing the cannon, if the game ends in Forgotten Capitol?

Thinking back to the first game, and the unbelievable attention to detail SE gave to the game, I don't believe for 1 second that they're messing about with timelines and events. That's nonsense if you ask me.

So what is going on with the trailer then... and how can it be explained? No idea right now... haha

@Shadcai well that won’t happen as Cloud is with Zack so you would be bumping into yourself. Zack is defo an alternate timeline.