Final Fantasy VII Remake Was Almost Two Games Instead Of Three
Final Fantasy VII Remake shall be a trilogy, however Square Enix briefly thought of releasing its retelling of the 1997 JRPG basic in simply two elements.
Square Enix has confirmed that the continuing Final Fantasy VII Remake saga will encompass three video games, however the developer briefly thought of telling the story in two. After many years of rumor, hypothesis, and hopes from followers, the primary installment of the long-awaited remake of Final Fantasy VII was lastly launched onto the PlayStation 4 in 2020 below the title of Final Fantasy VII Remake. This first chapter of a bigger collection retold the opening chapters of the unique Final Fantasy VII and reintroduced gamers to Cloud Strife and Team AVALANCHE as they battled to reveal the corruption of the ShinRa Electric Power Company within the metropolis of Midgar. The ending of Final Fantasy VII Remake noticed these heroes depart Midgar after a battle towards the rogue SOLIDER Sephiroth, leaving followers ready for the information of the subsequent installment.
This information lastly got here throughout final month’s Final Fantasy 7 Anniversary Celebration livestream, which noticed the announcement of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth amongst a plethora of different Final Fantasy VII-related titles. Picking up the place Final Fantasy VII Remake and the later Intermission DLC left off, Rebirth will probably characteristic a couple of attention-grabbing twists because it retells the notorious Nibelheim Incident that marked the genesis of Cloud Strife’s epic rivalry with Sephiroth and the latter’s bid to destroy the planet as revenge towards ShinRa. Square Enix has already revealed that this rivalry gained’t attain its conclusion with Rebirth, as a 3rd, currently-untitled Final Fantasy VII Remake sport is already in improvement forward of Rebirth’s deliberate launch on the PlayStation 5 in 2023.
In a latest interview with Famitsu (as translated by VGC), Final Fantasy VII Rebirth inventive director Tetsuya Nomura and producer Yoshinori Kitase defined that the event crew wasn’t initially certain what number of video games could be required to inform the total Final Fantasy VII Remake story – and this was the explanation Square Enix took so lengthy to announce what number of elements it might have. Nomura acknowledged that for some time, his crew was contemplating whether or not Final Fantasy VII Remake “would be a trilogy or a two-part series,” with Kitase initially leaning towards the latter. Kitase added that at the start of Final Fantasy VII Remake’s improvement, it wasn’t clear what number of man-hours could be required to inform the total story in two elements. The crew at Square Enix finally selected making Final Fantasy VII Remake a trilogy after determining how a lot work it might take, and Nomura stays sure that there’ll solely be three installments.
The ending to Final Fantasy VII Remake featured an enormous twist to the occasions of the unique Final Fantasy VII, and this has left followers questioning concerning the ramifications of this going into Final Fantasy VII Rebirth – in addition to drawing theories about how and when Rebirth will divert from its supply materials on social media. However Rebirth alters the Final Fantasy VII timeline, Tetsuya Nomura has assured gamers that they may be capable of leap straight into Final Fantasy VII Rebirth with none prior information about Final Fantasy VII and even the primary chapter of Final Fantasy VII Remake.
It’s protected to guess that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will characteristic a number of surprising twists and turns when it lastly releases subsequent 12 months – and it may have included the top of Cloud and his buddies’ story had Square Enix gone via with its transient plan to inform the story in two elements. As it stands now, Final Fantasy VII Remake shall be a trilogy, and it’ll probably be a couple of years nonetheless earlier than followers see the grand conclusion of a storyline many years within the making.