Highlights
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will continue where the previous game left off, following the heroes' quest for answers about the Ancients and Sephiroth's return.
- The highly-anticipated sequel will be much longer than its predecessor, featuring nearly 100 hours of content and including classic party members Cait Sith and Vincent Valentine.
- The game will deviate from the original plot, with some locations and story events occurring in a different order. The story will conclude in the Forgotten Capital, a significant location in the Final Fantasy 7 narrative.
Fans now know where Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will end. 2020’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake retold the story of the classic 1997 JRPG up to the point where Cloud Strife and his friends escape the city of Midgar, which is really just the beginning of their journey. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will pick up where the first game left off, with this band of heroes searching for answers about the mysterious Ancients and the return of the renegade SOLDIER Sephiroth.
Square Enix showed off more of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth during this week’s PlayStation State of Play livestream, revealing the highly-anticipated sequel’s release date and confirming that classic party members Cait Sith and Vincent Valentine will appear. Just like the original Final Fantasy 7’s departure from Midgar opened the game to a larger world, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be much longer than its predecessor with nearly 100 hours of content. However, Rebirth is only the second chapter in Tetsuya Nomura’s planned Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, and now players have an idea of where the expected cliffhanger ending will take place.
Not too long after the game was shown in the latest PlayStation State of Play, various Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth crew members sat down for an interview with the official PlayStation website. Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura was asked what point in the original story Rebirth will leave off at, and he answered that it will end in the Forgotten Capital - meaning that the story will cover everything up to the end of the original Final Fantasy 7’s second disk.
Nomura also stressed that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth won’t be an exact match of the original game’s plot, and that some locations and narrative beats will occur in a different order. For example, players won’t explore Wutai, the home of Final Fantasy 7 party member and Episode INTERmission protagonist Yuffie Kisaragi until the third, still-untitled Final Fantasy 7 Remake game. This is similar to Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which shifted some of the events in Midgar and ended with a massive twist that left fans curious to see where the plot will go in Rebirth.
This plot will take players to the Forgotten Capital, a place of serious significance in the story of Final Fantasy 7. One of the original game’s most well-remembered moments took place there, and many fans have suspected that this exact narrative beat would serve as a gripping cliffhanger for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Of course, things might not play out exactly the same in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s altered timeline, meaning that fans will have to stay tuned to see how the second chapter of this series wraps up this February.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launches on February 29, 2024 for PS5.
Source: PlayStation.blog