I have mixed feelings about this. I liked rebirth more than remake since it felt less like it was always on rails, but the amount of repetitive bloat in each map area was not fun. I ended up fully doing the first few areas and then felt so burned out by it I just did a speedrun of the main quest the rest of the way to see where the story would go. Part 3 looks like it will be good, but if it’s going to be an open world fatigue speedrun sort of game for me again I’m not sure I’ll be getting it. I’m also still biased because I felt the ff7 remake should have been 1 self contained, turn based game following the same storyline.
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Sounds like the game is pretty much ready and the Switch 2 version's performance issues are holding it up.
The first two were in Spring 2020 and Spring 2024, so this one being Spring 2027 puts it about a year earlier than I expected. COVID kinda added a year to all of the normal timing cycles, though. Devs that usually put out a game every two years roundly put out something on the third year instead, etc. Getting this a year early is cool, and means I'll have to move up my Rebirth replay. Only played it the one time, been wanting to go back and get the plat for a while now. Thinking maybe I'll do that in the month before this new one drops, so I can go right from one to the other, but either way I've gotta put that on my list for this year now.
I really hope they get the whole northern continent part right. While Disc 2 of OG FF7 was my least-favorite part of the game overall, I liked the first few hours of it a lot. All the snow areas, while sometimes tedious and annoying, really felt desolate and striking after the shock of losing Aerith. Wandering in a cold wasteland was like a physical manifestation of how the characters were feeling at that moment. So yeah, really looking forward to the snowy northern continent being the first few hours of this game (at least) and being fleshed out more. After that I expect the game to branch out into almost an open world mission-based game like FFX-2, where you have Highwind and an array of "hotspots" to go to and resolve various problems that are going on, like WEAPON appearances and story sections that didn't make it into Rebirth like Wutai.
Expecting Wutai to be a huge part of this game, not just the one section we got in the original. It's a kingdom powerful enough to fight off Shinra's military, and portrayed as being fairly huge in this version. There'll probably be a lot of new content added for that part in particular.
A Dirge of Cerberus Remake would have made sense for Fall '26, or Christmas, but it looks like they aren't bothering. Maybe that game just wasn't save-able, or they didn't think it would be worth doing like Crisis Core was. Also bummed that we're not getting any DLC for Rebirth. One telling the Rocket Town story with Cid's backstory would have made sense and I've seen a few people saying as much. That part of the story was just left out, and important for understanding Cid. The third one can still do that part, with Cid going into space, but it would have made more sense to do it in Part 2 as the introduction to the character. Now it'll need to be considerably different since he's already been with the team for a while. Cid got like no development in Part 2. So yeah. In my dream world they would have done an "out now" Rebirth DLC along with the Part 3 announcement and given us that Cid backstory.
I think I saw a Jade WEAPON in the trailer. Jade WEAPON was in one of the Japan-only spinoff games no one played, like Before Crisis maybe. There's room for adding that, Citrine WEAPON (a yellow counterpart to it), and Sapphire WEAPON. Really hoping we get Sapphire WEAPON because the original game had it, but it was never fightable. It's the one that gets shot by the Junon Cannon near the end of the game and presumably sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
Also the snowboarding minigame needs to be excellent. The original could have practically been its own game release. If this new one nails the snowboarding minigame, people are going to spend hours just playing that.
The first two were in Spring 2020 and Spring 2024, so this one being Spring 2027 puts it about a year earlier than I expected. COVID kinda added a year to all of the normal timing cycles, though. Devs that usually put out a game every two years roundly put out something on the third year instead, etc. Getting this a year early is cool, and means I'll have to move up my Rebirth replay. Only played it the one time, been wanting to go back and get the plat for a while now. Thinking maybe I'll do that in the month before this new one drops, so I can go right from one to the other, but either way I've gotta put that on my list for this year now.
I really hope they get the whole northern continent part right. While Disc 2 of OG FF7 was my least-favorite part of the game overall, I liked the first few hours of it a lot. All the snow areas, while sometimes tedious and annoying, really felt desolate and striking after the shock of losing Aerith. Wandering in a cold wasteland was like a physical manifestation of how the characters were feeling at that moment. So yeah, really looking forward to the snowy northern continent being the first few hours of this game (at least) and being fleshed out more. After that I expect the game to branch out into almost an open world mission-based game like FFX-2, where you have Highwind and an array of "hotspots" to go to and resolve various problems that are going on, like WEAPON appearances and story sections that didn't make it into Rebirth like Wutai.
Expecting Wutai to be a huge part of this game, not just the one section we got in the original. It's a kingdom powerful enough to fight off Shinra's military, and portrayed as being fairly huge in this version. There'll probably be a lot of new content added for that part in particular.
A Dirge of Cerberus Remake would have made sense for Fall '26, or Christmas, but it looks like they aren't bothering. Maybe that game just wasn't save-able, or they didn't think it would be worth doing like Crisis Core was. Also bummed that we're not getting any DLC for Rebirth. One telling the Rocket Town story with Cid's backstory would have made sense and I've seen a few people saying as much. That part of the story was just left out, and important for understanding Cid. The third one can still do that part, with Cid going into space, but it would have made more sense to do it in Part 2 as the introduction to the character. Now it'll need to be considerably different since he's already been with the team for a while. Cid got like no development in Part 2. So yeah. In my dream world they would have done an "out now" Rebirth DLC along with the Part 3 announcement and given us that Cid backstory.
I think I saw a Jade WEAPON in the trailer. Jade WEAPON was in one of the Japan-only spinoff games no one played, like Before Crisis maybe. There's room for adding that, Citrine WEAPON (a yellow counterpart to it), and Sapphire WEAPON. Really hoping we get Sapphire WEAPON because the original game had it, but it was never fightable. It's the one that gets shot by the Junon Cannon near the end of the game and presumably sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
Also the snowboarding minigame needs to be excellent. The original could have practically been its own game release. If this new one nails the snowboarding minigame, people are going to spend hours just playing that.
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Rocket Town should be early (hell it should have been in Part 2). Having it "late" is kind of bizarre. That whole section was used to introduce Cid.
Well, since he's completely different now and all sanitized and nice, guessing Rocket Town will just be the later version of it from Disc 2.
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They did say some sections would be visited out of order. Obviously Wutai was a likely component of that, since it was completely optional in the OG and people visited it either somewhat early or not until fairly late in the game. Changing when we go to Rocket Town could be part of that.
Curious if the whole "chase for the Huge Materia" from OG will be different now given the massive materia each Weapon seems to have in it. Maybe our fights taking them down one by one those become the new "huge" materia. Either way could lead to the space scene in Rocket Town again.
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You mean it wont be a town of redneck drunks with access to a nuclear reactor and a bunch of left over space tech left to their own devices?
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Been a long time…
But I never got the white matera thing… she dies, it falls in the water… no one cares… then “she” summons it as she and it has been absorbed into the life stream.
Now they could “know” that info- given to Cloud during his life stream drug out time (or did that happen already…in my memory that was early after Midgar) then if “he knows” that happened- it gives credence to killing the weapons to release their accumulated matera or whatever back into the life stream to further enhance it to counteract the black matera / meteor
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There's a bit of a further conundrum with the white materia, in that the events in Remake (Part 1) "drained" Aerith's white materia of whatever was inside (most likely memories, as the whole bit of her and Red XIII seeming to know the future during/up to the end of Part 1 they seem to have forgotten all that by Rebirth). Aerith seemed to use her late "date scene" with Cloud in Rebirth while in another world/another version of Midgar to smuggle another full white materia to herself. Many speculate this led to Sephiroth's quote in the final battle towards Aerith when he says he "underestimated you". This all allows her to carry on like in the OG, dying but having it fall into the water...but also leaves Cloud with the clear/empty white materia.
While some theories have been put forward, kind of impossible to know what the whole point of all that was, other than to speculate draining the initial one was a big part of Sephiroth's plan. It seems like the clear one Cloud has at the end of Rebirth has some role to play, and would note that in the first trailer they showed at SGF, Sephiroth was holding what looked like a full white materia before the logo/title drop.
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I love how in these multiverse things we give 0 F's about the other worlds, although they are meant to be "just as real" as "ours" - Aerith could be from the other world she took the white materia from or whatnot. Multiverse while "cool" and whatever, to me - overall lessens any impact for even "our real" world etc. it just waters down everything.
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Sounds like it will be the same amount of time investment as Rebirth but they make more use of the world rather than having Chadley towers and a checklist per region.
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Which is funny with the whole alternate thing they teased with Zack and other Midgar.
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I think if they kind of "limit" the things or universes- like at the end of Advent Children when Sepheroth is "finally" killed his one last thought/idea was to "time travel" via somehow duplicating the entire world - but could only do so from the time he existed and infected the lifestream onward - hence why he could not go back and just stop shinra or whatever he wanted - this limits the world or // universe etc.
Also, so OVERALL did Jhnova just give up "her" identity and take Sepheroth, or was it that "He" was so strong of a "presence" or whatever that he took over "her"
Eh I guess I should not try
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If Advent Children cured Cloud of his S-cells (literally Sephiroth's cells injected by Hojo) then his connection would be severed and the planet wins. If you are going by TVA / Loki multiverse ideas Sephy would have to backtrack and find a lifestream branch where a) Cloud wasn't killed during the Nibelheim flashback era but b) was captured and experimented on by Hojo. Then manipulate that branch the way he wants, control the lifestream so it becomes the new prime, and finally merge or kill off every other variation.
So that's his plan, the problem is Ever Crisis shows Sephiroth's past and he started getting the Jenova headaches once he came into proxmity with her in the Nibel reactor and began investigating Hojo's experiments in the manor basement to learn his origin. As much as Cloud is getting mindfucked Sephy is also not recognizing the fact that Jenova is trying to control him. Trying to rule over everything is not mommy's plan but it does help her reunite to become fully active like 2000 years ago vs the Cetra.
Meanwhile the Gi are over there like "we don't care who wins, someone meteor us please."
So that's his plan, the problem is Ever Crisis shows Sephiroth's past and he started getting the Jenova headaches once he came into proxmity with her in the Nibel reactor and began investigating Hojo's experiments in the manor basement to learn his origin. As much as Cloud is getting mindfucked Sephy is also not recognizing the fact that Jenova is trying to control him. Trying to rule over everything is not mommy's plan but it does help her reunite to become fully active like 2000 years ago vs the Cetra.
Meanwhile the Gi are over there like "we don't care who wins, someone meteor us please."
I don't think the game will be as "open world" as people might think from reading around. Personally I think the statement "Simply pick a location" in mention of how to travel with the Highwind in the trailer means that you can jump of at predetermined locations with some indicator as you fly around showing that you can get off there.
You can fly around everywhere as they said, but like the first segment of Rebirth, the plains, is what, 20% playable compared to the map? And when they show the jump from the Highwind in the trailer, it is over the chocobo racetrack. They might have expanded some areas from Rebirth and around Midgar, but highly doubt the entire world is crafted to play on like in the OG where you can go on small islands, etc.
You can fly around everywhere as they said, but like the first segment of Rebirth, the plains, is what, 20% playable compared to the map? And when they show the jump from the Highwind in the trailer, it is over the chocobo racetrack. They might have expanded some areas from Rebirth and around Midgar, but highly doubt the entire world is crafted to play on like in the OG where you can go on small islands, etc.
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Most are compared to simple "possibilities" in the lifestream, and don't exist for very long. They do need to kind of elaborate on the whole thing, and they have hinted the title refers partially to Sephiroth and what exactly is going on. Zach supposed to represent a lot of that, but whether anything can really be changed is the most important question they still need to answer.