On the finish of Last Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud and firm dispatch the Whisper Harbinger, creating various timelines. The sport exhibits 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 good looking trendy remake of the beloved 1997 PlayStation JRPG however utterly reinvent the likelihood house for its characters within the course of.
The most recent trailer for the sequel, Last Fantasy VII Rebirth, doubles down on that, largely displaying gorgeous PlayStation 5-worthy recreations of acquainted scenes and environments from after the social gathering leaves Midgar. We see Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, and Purple XIII touring to Juno, visiting Cosmo Canyon, and even using Chocobos. Highwind, the Shinra airship, even seems to loom giant in a single break up second of the footage.
Nevertheless the start and the tip of the trailer has followers questioning if a lot greater 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 response to one translation of the Japanese version of the trailer, Sephiroth tells Cloud, “I used to be the one who killed Tifa. In that 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 throughout the Nibelheim incident and the one we all know from the beginning of Last Fantasy VII Remake is definitely a clone or another type of imposter.
Alternatively, unreliable recollections and psychological cleavages have all the time been a cornerstone of Last Fantasy VII’s story, and Sephiroth’s feedback within the trailer might merely be Cloud’s false recollection of what occurred that day, or possibly even Sephiroth making an attempt to confuse Cloud by mendacity about it. The issues that made Last 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 power infused into his physique who additionally doesn’t bear in mind an important occasions in his life. Sephiroth, in the meantime, is on an apocalyptic campaign to convey in regards to the planet’s destruction after studying in regards to the private violence, company megalomania, and historic 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 might show essentially the most fertile soil for Sq. Enix to probably discover various timelines for Last Fantasy VII’s characters and tales. On the very least it’s confirmed to be a bountiful promised land for followers who need to spherical wild with their favourite pet theories about essentially the most stunning methods the writer might upend its personal hit franchise.
