On the finish of Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud and firm dispatch the Whisper Harbinger, creating various timelines. The sport reveals Zack, who died within the unique sport’s model of occasions, alive, suggesting the builders at Sq. Enix have been planning to not simply create a wonderful trendy remake of the beloved 1997 PlayStation JRPG however fully reinvent the likelihood house for its characters within the course of.
The most recent trailer for the sequel, Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth, doubles down on that, largely exhibiting beautiful PlayStation 5-worthy recreations of acquainted scenes and environments from after the get together leaves Midgar. We see Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, and Pink XIII touring to Juno, visiting Cosmo Canyon, and even driving Chocobos. Highwind, the Shinra airship, even seems to loom massive in a single cut up second of the footage.
Nevertheless the start and the tip of the trailer has followers questioning if a lot larger 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.
Based on one translation of the Japanese version of the trailer, Sephiroth tells Cloud, “I used to be the one who killed Tifa. If that’s the case, who’s she?” With the dialogue showing when Sephiroth slices Tifa along with his big Masamune blade, it may be taken as merely a modernized rendition of the unique occasions or an alternate model that means Tifa might need really died again throughout the Nibelheim incident and the one we all know from the beginning of Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake is definitely a clone or another form of imposter.
However, unreliable recollections and psychological cleavages have at all times been a cornerstone of Ultimate Fantasy VII’s story, and Sephiroth’s feedback within the trailer might merely be Cloud’s false recollection of what occurred that day, or perhaps even Sephiroth making an attempt to confuse Cloud by mendacity about it. The issues that made Ultimate Fantasy VII such a memorable basic within the first place are additionally what have laid the inspiration for such a wealthy and various 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 keep in mind an important occasions in his life. Sephiroth, in the meantime, is on an apocalyptic campaign to convey concerning the planet’s destruction after studying concerning 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 could be Rebirth’s climax, is the inflection level for these previous occasions and their future repercussions.
It is smart that it might show essentially the most fertile soil for Sq. Enix to doubtlessly discover various timelines for Ultimate 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 shocking methods the writer might upend its personal hit franchise.