re: FFVII Rebirth Trailer 2 & release 2/29/2024 (Remake pt 2)

Bump for new trailer and release date

Shows a bit more than the first did.

New trailer is much me better than the last.

Square did a pretty clever thing with Rebirth’s Twin Package. It’s FFVII Rebirth and FFVII: Remake with the Integrade DLC. It’s $69.99, just like the standalone Rebirth game, so anyone who missed out on part 1 can buy it and play them both for the price of one game.

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Sephiroth's VA is dog shite though. So bad

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I wish JRPGs still had no voice acting. But at least you can switch to the Japanese soundtrack with subtitles.

The wording from the developer letter leads me to believe that Vincent and possibly Cid if he is introduced will just be guest characters like Red was in part 1.

I forgot about the fat Shinra guy getting hit by a truck in OG FF7. It's been too long since I replayed it.

LINK

IGN video discussing the 2 section demo. The sections are the flashback at mt nibel reactor and the open-world area before junon.

Playable Sephi during the Nibelheim flashback sequence. Super cool.

Yup. I think it’s pretty safe to say there are three timelines. Much eludes to this but the box art for rebirth alone is so telling if you haven’t seen it go look at it with Sephiroth positioned in the middle under a red sky and cloud to his left looking away under a dark blue almost black sky and Zach to his right under a more clear blue sky. There are three timelines

1) The original 1997 games events
2) The timeline we played out in FF7 remake
3) Whatever timeline spawns with Zach living and that third cloud (really second cloud for our purposes because I don’t think the OG will given to much explicit elaboration it’ll be taken as a known given)

I’m very confident Sephiroth is attempting to merge these timelines and I don’t think it’s an entirely evil reason either. That’s not to say it’s good or for really anyone’s benefit but himself just that he isn’t out to kill the entire planet. I think this sets up to have the Cloud we played in Remake and that timeline become a villain who either needs to be killed or brought back, eluded by his being under a dark almost black sky looking disheveled and uncertain.

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Vincent and possibly Cid if he is introduced will just be guest characters like Red was in part 1.

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I disagree. I think this game is going to be absolutely fricking massive. They have been building it for how long? Let’s say 5 years. Much of the groundwork was already laid for them or was being laid simultaneously while they were in early development concept phases all by remake part 1. It’s the first ps5 game I’m aware of requiring 2 discs worth. Now I haven’t seen anywhere, and maybe someone can chime in and correct this if im wrong, but if that will be old school ps1 insert 2nd disc or like Red Dead 2 where one is just a simple install disc and one runs the game. Even if it’s the latter it still allows a massive game. I think the game is going all of the way to the northern crater with all that entails including all the playable characters.

Cid is the one most likely to get that treatment. Vincent is absolutely way too pivotal to the entire plot of FF7s main game and entire compilation which we know is all part of this to not be introduced into this game in a big way. We’ve seen genesis and deep ground introduced, who is the omega to his chaos in dirge and really the culmination of this whole thing. Vincent knows way too much, he’s way too tied into almost all of the big bad guys, he can’t just be left to rot. It was a mistake in the OG to even allow that to be a possibility I seriously doubt they make it twice.