so part 2 ends with Forgotten Capital and part 3 will go to Wutai
I really liked FF7R a lot, thought the story, characters, settings, everything was great. Wasn't a fan of intergrade, felt like an obvious money grab with very little new under the hood. Hopefully part 2 is big and interesting.
Wutai was an optional area in the original game if I remember right. I'd say optional areas are probably not going to be included in this one at all. While it wasn't an optional area, I wouldn't be surprised if Cid/Rocket Town aren't even in this and are saved for part 3, with Vincent being the Red-like CPU character for the endgame. Or maybe Cid will be the subject of the next Intergrade, like Yuffie. Who knows at this point.
Edit: Read an interview with Nomura:
"Although there are some changes in the order of the locations, the locations depicted in [Rebirth] extend up to ‘The Forgotten Capital,’ where the greatest fate of Final Fantasy VII awaits you"
It's all of Disc 1, great.
"There are characters who are accompanying members in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth that will become official party members in the next title."
I would guess that's Cid and Vincent. Cid doesn't do much until you get the airship anyways.
Interesting. I didn't see anything in the trailer with Cid/Rocket Town or beyond that. I think Nibelheim (Vincent) is the furthest thing the trailer shows?
Too bad no airship until 3, but at least we get chocobo flight here.
What I'm wondering is how airship flight will even work in 3, since you'll need to also fly over the game world of 2. Unless all of 2's game world is going to be included in 3, even areas that aren't being used. Maybe 2 will have the entire world in it so 3 will just reuse that with new scenario data.
I used to know how all this stuff worked. In the original game every disc had the entire world on it, IIRC, with different scenario data and FMVs.
The first game being all Midgar meant it could be totally separate from a sequel, since that area isn't accessible once you leave. They might have to do some gymnastics with programming 2 and 3 though. Unless they remove flight entirely from 3 and it's something new.
Worst case scenario, the third game will be some sort of "merged timeline" and go off in a completely different direction and FF7 will never actually be remade beyond the end of disc 1.
Looking forward to Zack and Sephiroth teaming up to fight the REAL threat to the planet, Genesis, in part 3 after Cloud sacrifices himself to save Aerith or something. I mean I fully expect this trilogy to fly completely off the rails. Either way I'll play part 2 day one because the memberberries are real.
