Surprise Final Fantasy 7 Remake Patch Changes the Ending

I thought the patch was just going to give the game some store page link to Rebirth or something.

Bad decision. I preferred the original. It felt a lot more poetic and melancholic, the new one just sounds ominous.

@breakneck Yeah I gotta agree, the original line just sounded more interesting and less literal imo

I thought that was the original line? It's been some time since I played it and I've been far too busy to do a replay. If Rebirth requires an unlocked hard mode replay for Platinum I might do both games in Hard mode back-to-back to finally get the Remake Platinum.

Or I'll remember that Dragon's Dogma 2 and Ronin are waiting for me down the pub and get a shifty on.

Spoiler?

@Shepherd_Tallon The original Aerith would never have said that for sure.

Oh this says remake lol I was bout to say

Now the people on the internet can stop being mad about teenage Tifa being more covered up in Rebirth than she was in Remake. Sounds to me like her dad told her to not walk around dressed like that. I’m a dad and I know how those conversations go.

@danzoEX I panicked as well, I was like MAJOR SPOILER ALERT surely?? Glad it was just me being daft

Square are getting as bad as George Lucas 😂

You better finish Rebirth before they change the ending of that too

Weird change, but okay. Personally, there was nothing wrong with the original. If people understand English, you would know that she's essentially saying the same thing. Except, it's now more in your face lol

"I miss it. The steel sky." It's clear that she doesn't like the sky, but without actually saying it.

"This sky. I don't like it." Now she's literally just saying it straight up. Where's in the original, it was poetic.

But of course, Sqaure Enix won't explain this change at all.

They should of patched the stupid kingdom hearts multi universe garbage

@8bit4Life more dads need to have those conversations. Mid 30s without kids but I live right across from a high school. Mind boggling how parents are genuinely ok with their kids dressing like that, it’s worse than when I was in high school and that made me uncomfortable.

@carlos82 calling it now, the third game will have the line “Somehow, Genesis returned.” Joking aside, got my copy locked down. Excited!

How about don’t talk about stuff like this in subject lines? Wtf

"This sky are sick."

Finally, the true ending that remake deserves

I like, its what she says in the original, it's also what she says in the Japanese version

She says something like that when you first meet her at the slums church

@Andee Haha that for sure should have been the line.

Yeah, I like the OG line much better. I could be wrong but I thought it was a reference to a convo earlier in the game. Doesn't she say something about the steel sky being oppressive or somehow a negatively affecting people? Then once she leaves it she realizes it brought her comfort and alluded to the unknown ahead being something she's never experienced before.

I dunno. I thought the OG line was way deeper.

Would have been better to synch up the rebirth tifa with the undershirt-less remake tifa honestly but that's just my testosterone talking I guess xD

I'm surprised the changed dialogue wasn't there by default.

Well she has a good point. In that world, bad stuff comes from above: Sector 7, Meteor, Sephiroth.

@breakneck that's so true, I just happened to finish it again last night as I was getting the platinum before Rebirth and thought that scene felt weirder than last time. I didn't realize they changed the line and it definitely feel ominous now.

Probably the intended line from original script , they may have felt the localization wasn't what they wanted.

@invictus4000
I agree. Saying she missed the steel sky has far greater meaning. It's almost like people suffering from Stockholm Syndrome where you grow to love the thing that's imprisoned you. The people of the slums have been living under oppression for so long, freedom and the unknown (represented by the open sky) is frightening.

"This sky... I don't like it", just makes it sound like Aerith thinks it might rain or something!

The original is far darker and much more ominous.

Edit: But then, maybe that's the reason they changed it...

Sigh.... bit of a clickbaity headline: "Changes the ending" is hyperbole for "one line of dialogue in the English loc script got tweaked to be a more direct translation." It being changed this close to the release of rebirth suggests there's a callback to it that would be missed or make less sense with the original localised version.

@ishaajo840 Dude chill out, this is for part 1 of the series and doesn't spoil anything other than it being Aerith's final line.

That is really weird, I had literally just finished another playthrough on PC in prep for tomorrow night 2 hours ago, heard her say it and thought I was going mad because she didn't say that on PS4 & PS5 playthroughs lol

@Nepp67 Thx for letting me know, gosh I will take my comments back

Almost on par with Anakin's "I hate sand" speech.

The new line sounds stupid.

The new line is fine, in fact - I actually like it. It's more deliberate. If the intent is to create tension, then they delivered.

The original line seemed to have a lot more room for interpretation. Which is fine considering we had a lot of time to talk about the meaning of the ending until Rebirth came out.

But now that Rebirth is around the corner, creating tension by changing the line may makes more sense from a storytelling standpoint, especially considering where we're heading.

Also - I'm stupid. So this change helps.

Aerith's patched /changed line in Remake was made to allude to the fact that Aerith sees the 'rift' in the sky. Thus the line was changed to "This sky... I don’t like it."