Sephiroth.
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Were you confused about the end of Final Fantasy 7 remake? You’re not alone.
The game caused dismay among fans In front it was even officially launched. Physical complications caused by the COVID-19 spread Copies of the game are expected to be sold early in Australia and parts of EuropeSome fans managed to beat the game before remake started on April 10th.
For those of you who haven’t played the game yet and are only here for a wild ride, Final Fantasy 7 Remake is the first part of the remake project. It takes the first act of the original – Cloud Strife and the company’s exploits in Midgar, the first of many cities visited – and turns it into a whole game. Before the start Square Enix had revealed 7 remake ends when the gang left Midgar.
Both director Tetsuya Nomura and producer Yoshinori Kitase said there would be some changes to the game’s history. The big questions with 7 Remake were whether Midgar’s section would work as a complete arc and whether changes to the story would really matter.
The answer to the first question is spoiler-free: yes, it works totally. Read our game review here. The second question can only be answered in spoilerville. Again please: Don’t read below unless you’ve quit the game or agree to spoil its end.
The last boss of 7 remake is Sephiroth. It is a bit surprising. In the original, Sephiroth, who is believed to be dead, announces his return by killing President Shinra and taking Jenova’s remains from the laboratories at Shinra headquarters. This causes Cloud and the gang to go out into the world to prevent Sephiroth from killing everyone / everything.
This still happens more or less in remake. But then, after escaping from Shinra headquarters, Sephiroth finds you instead of going out into the world to find Sephiroth.
The following conflict shows that there are alternative timelines. The events of the original Final Fantasy 7, in which Sephiroth was ultimately defeated, occurred in an earlier timeline.
To explain that, we have to go back to the beginning of the game.
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Demento: I mean, whisper.
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After the first chapter, in which Cloud and Barret destroy a Mako reactor, you have a chance at Aerith (or, as it is fondly called, “Flower Peddler”). Cloud sees a vision of Sephiroth and after a quick conversation with Aerith, the two are surrounded by ghostly creatures that look like Harry Potter Dementors.
These creatures appear at random times during the game and often cause problems, but save you at certain points. At the end of Remake, Red XIII escapes from Hojo’s laboratory and joins your group (as an uncontrollable player). He explains that these creatures are called whispers.
“Perhaps best described as an arbitrator of fate,” explains XIII. “You are attracted to those who are trying to change course of fate and make sure that it is not.”
In other words, the shadow coats rock up every time Remake looks like it differs from the original.
When you’ve played remake, you can remember those moments. Towards the end of the game, Barret is impaled by Sephiroth. It looks like he’s done – until it turns out that a whisper has shielded the blow and saved it. Professor Hojo, faced with Cloud and the like, previously stated that cloud was never actually a soldier – something that Cloud should learn much later – before being dragged away by Whispers.
The first time we see the whisper when Cloud meets Aerith, they seem to deter Aerith. You should go In front The Shinra infantry arrived, but they and Cloud just kept moaning. So the whisper intervened.
Not polite.
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Again, there is a cool reference to the alternative timelines. Cloud looks at Aerith just before the whisper appears, but before he can speak to her, he sees a vision of Sephiroth. “You’re too weak to save someone,” Sephiroth tells Cloud after placing his hand conspicuously on Aerith’s shoulder. (Sephiroth kills Aerith in the original.)
Another side, another story
OK, so the Whispers are here to keep everything on track. Cool, but not a big deal, is it? To get to Sephiroth in Remake, you first have to defeat Whisper Harbinger, who is like the king of all Whispers. This is orchestrated by a combination of Sephiroth and Aerith, as Sephiroth slashes a portal with his sword and Aerith expands it with magic before you go through. It’s not really clear, but it seems that both Sephiroth and (in particular) Aerith are aware of the existence of multiple timelines. In any case, you will destroy Whisper Harbinger.
The game ends with the gang deciding to leave Midgar to stop Sephiroth, just like in the original. But now that the whisper is gone, important elements of the story will change, since the whisper will not be there to keep fate at bay. From now on, subsequent games in the 7 remake project will no longer follow the story of the original as closely as this game.
A typical example: Zack Fair.
Zack Fair is originally known as the Clouds Mentor. He is also the protagonist of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, a forerunner of the original (which totally rocked). Both games show that Zack is killed by Shinra infantry when he travels to Midgar with a comatose cloud. (Both Zack and Cloud were experimented by Hojo, and Cloud was knocked down, still feeling the effects of mako poisoning.) Crisis Core shows this with a tremendous drama, when Zack defeats dozens of Shinra thugs before being shot down becomes.
After eliminating the whisper in Remake, you’ll be shown a montage of what’s going on in Midgar when your crew leaves. Rufus becomes the new president of Shinra; There is nothing strange about that. Biggs is recovering in his old orphanage. funny, he died in the original. Above all, Zack survives the Shinra attack and carries Cloud to Midgar.
Stamp in Zack’s timeline.
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Stamp as we saw it during 7 remakes.
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It is strongly recommended that this be done in a separate timeline. We see a shot of a chip pack with Shinra’s stamp mascot, but unlike the helmet-wearing beagle stamp we saw in 7 Remake, it’s a border terrier wearing a green hat. Other than that, it’s not 100% clear what Zack’s survival means. Aerith, in the same spot facing Midgar, but in 7 remakes timeline, seems to sense Zack.
Fans will likely share theories about schedules, dimensions, and fate until the next game in the series comes out. But it means that Zack is still alive and will likely play a big part in 7 remakes sequel.
In other words, Final Fantasy 7 remake part two won’t Really be a remake at all.