Those who play the originalFinal Fantasy VIIknow that game like the back of their handwriting , but its2020 remakechanged thing up in pregnant means over the course of its runtime . Since the oddment of that biz , there ’s been plenty discussions online about what would be change in future remaking and how those change would take place .
To fete today ’s announcements we ’re share message from the maturation team behind Final Fantasy VII Rebirth , set about with producer Yoshinori Kitase . [ 1/3]#FF7Rpic.twitter.com / tDm5w1Grl7
— FINAL FANTASY VII ( @finalfantasyvii)September 14 , 2023
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Aerith ’s demise is one of those events that it ’s hard to not know about in some context : either you experience it yourself when playing the original Final Fantasy VII , or you ’ve heard about it via cultural osmosis . ( Brit Baron , who voices Aerith in the remaking , admitted to io9 in 2020 she did n’t hump much about her until she googled the eccentric after down an tryout . ) It ’s an important here and now across the entire franchise and picture games in general , which do it implausibly risky to tamper with in any signifier … and if you ’re Square Enix , it ’s too tempting to not try and fiddle with . While it ’s potential the biz will cohere to how the original events act out , it would n’t be wrong to carry a shakeup in some manikin .
The aforesaid Rebirth trailer give a small glimpse of what ’s potentially another timeline , one where Zack Fair ( ace of Crisis Core and whose death hangs over Cloud and Aerith in the original game ) and an injured Cloud make their room to Midgard . Since we ’re pursue at least two timelines , and we ’ve got two Clouds , it could be that one of them ends up getting kill in Aerith ’s shoes . Or maybe it ’s Zack or someone else — that initialRebirth traileropened with several appendage of the Avalanche work party looking heavily injured , if not entirely beat .
We ’ll know for sure whenFinal Fantasy VII Rebirthreleases on February 29 , 2024 for the PlayStation 5 on two disk .
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