final fantasy 7 rebirth

April 12, 2024

Square Thinks They Can Get The FF7 Trilogy Done By 2027

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As I’ve been progressing through FF7 Rebirth these past few weeks, one thing has become clear: a ton of work went into it. The game contains way more content than I’ll probably ever see or complete. It took four years to get this to us, so does that mean we can expect the third and final part of the FF7 trilogy in another four? Series director Tetsuya Nomura thinks it can actually be done in three. This bit of information comes from the new behind-the-scenes book Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Ultimania. The book isn’t out yet but Twitter user aitaikimochi has obtained an advance copy. Nomura said that, at the time of the interview, the story outline for Part 3 had been locked down and they were about to start recording voices. He revealed the development time for FF7 Rebirth was actually three years, not four, but that extra year was spent creating DLC content (which we guess will be revealed soon). So he figures the third and final chapter

February 6, 2024

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Final Trailer And Demo

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As promised one week ago, Sony’s follow-up State of Play went live this afternoon and was all about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth — the hotly anticipated middle chapter of the FF7 saga that arrives at the end of this month. We didn’t learn much that was new, but we saw a lot of new visuals. All the major areas of the game were revealed as well as what you can do in them. For all the speculation about how Square might change FF7’s storyline, most of the clips we saw here imply it will largely follow the same plot beats. There may be a few new characters, but your goal is still to stop Sephiroth from acquiring the Black Materia and all the major places you visit will have the events happen that occurred in the original. However, Square is promising this time, the world will be more open and you can go pretty much anywhere from the start (and there will be a lot more distractions from the main

January 15, 2024

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: New Trailer And Info

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We’re getting closer to the release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which means a new trailer — and while said trailer doesn’t provide much in the way of new information, Square also released a full article on its own website that reveals who’s new, what they can do and what else to expect. Yuffie and Cait Sith will both be joining the team…presumably we’ll get Yuffie first as in the original game, you could meet her as early as pre-Junon. Nothing much has changed here: she has a gigantic throwing star and she tosses it a lot, and she also has a “Doppelganger” move where she brings out a weird-looking doll of herself that she can control, attacking enemies for double the amount of damage. Cait Sith was the “gambling” party member (that used to be standard for RPGs in the 90s) where his moves were controlled by rolling slots. The trailer doesn’t indicate that’s still the case, but Square does say his moves “can hurt enemies or buff allies,

December 8, 2023

Square’s Game Awards Trailers: FF7 Rebirth And Visions Of Mana

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Just about everyone had to get their time in during last night’s Game Awards — the schedule was so packed that even big outfits like Square only had time to show two trailers. They were big ones, however — one is a new look at their most anticipated title of 2024 and the other is the revival of a beloved series that hasn’t had a new entry in at least 15 years. First, the revival. Visions of Mana is the first original game in Square’s Mana series in a long time; though it’s been active this last decade, all the released games have been remakes of 16 and 32-bit classics in the series. The first peek we got last night doesn’t suggest many radical changes, though we wouldn’t expect any. The story is also very familiar: Square says Visions of Mana will “take players on a new adventure with protagonist Val, a soul guard assigned to protect his childhood friend, who has been chosen by the Faerie as the Alm

October 24, 2023

FF7 Rebirth Director Hints Of “Big Surprise” Awaiting

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FF7 Rebirth, the middle chapter of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy, is set to be released on Leap Year Day of next year. Ordinarily they tend to avoid spoilers, but since this game’s storyline has been out there for 25 years, there’s not much to worry about. EXCEPT in the case of any “revisions” they might have done. The first chapter, which was simply called Remake, more or less followed the plot for the Midgar portion of the original game, but there was a meta subtext about being shackled to that storyline and by the end, the heroes had found an in-universe way to “break free” from what fate had dictated for them. It implies Square intends to go in a different direction for parts of this story, though none of the trailers have shown anything too radical, aside from Zack Fair being alive this time. But what if the big moment….you know, THAT ONE….has been changed? Since we’re about to talk about one of the most famous

September 14, 2023

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Given Release Date, Trailer

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As of today, we know when we’re getting the middle chapter of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy! Square Enix says it should hit Playstation 5 consoles everywhere February 29, 2024. It will be a very joyous Leap Year Day — watch Cloud bounce. The announcement was accompanied by this massive three-minute trailer that shows off, for the first time, many of the locations from the middle areas of the game: Nibelheim, Junon, Costa Del Sol, Cosmo Canyon, and the Gold Saucer. Looks like a lot of the minigames from the latter area will be intact, including the snowboarding, motorbike and robot battle games. The ending of the first game in the trilogy, FF7 Remake, suggested the other two games would be going their own direction storywise, but if that’s the case, there’s no hint of it here. It’s highly suggested this story follows the same path as the original, if you don’t count a couple characters that weren’t there before. Also, Cloud will ride a Segway at one

June 8, 2023

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Gameplay Trailer And Release Date

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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