Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Gameplay Trailer And Release Date
The first day of Summer Game Fest 2023 wrapped itself with what we were all waiting for: our first serious look at the second chapter of Square Enix’s planned three- game remake of Final Fantasy 7. Called Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, this installment should cover everything from Cloud and Co’s escape from Midgar to [25-YEAR-OLD SPOILER REDACTED THAT YOU PROBABLY KNEW ALREADY].
As much as we enjoyed the recreated Midgar from the first game, there’s a lot more promise in adapting the original’s middle, as it’s where the world opened up and you were allowed a lot more freedom. The trailer released today confirmed a lot of the original locations will be here (the Chocobo Ranch, Nibelheim, Cosmo Canyon). We didn’t see the Gold Saucer, but it must be hiding somewhere. That one’ll be interesting.
Yuffie, who first appeared this time in a DLC chapter from Remake, will properly join the team when she’s supposed to. We didn’t see a trace of Vincent — they’re either hiding him or withholding him for his own DLC. The notoriously foulmouthed Cid Highwind is also absent from the trailer.
Square has been giving out “hints” in the days leading up to this trailer’s release that mostly told us things we already guessed (“This game will be large! It will have controllable characters! It will have the colors blue, red and yellow, and possibly more!”) They’re keeping a lot to the chest for now, except for this: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be the first PS5 game to be two discs in size. Will you have to swap them like you had to with the original? Nah, it’ll more likely just take up a huge amount of space on your SSD.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has been given a release window of Early 2024.
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