Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Summer Games Fest 2023 Trailer Breakdown: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth analysis

[Music] we finally have more footage and gameplay from Final Fantasy 7 rebirth and as a huge Final Fantasy 7 fan you can bet I've gone over every frame of the new trailer for every crumb of new information I can find so here's everything you might have missed and everything you need to know going forward about Final Fantasy VII rebirth first up rebirth has seemingly experienced a slight delay to its expected release window which has gone from the original proposal of winter 2023 to early 2024. even bigger news though is that rebirth will be spread across two discs making it the first PlayStation 5 game to require this while we're also wondering now is whether our save files from Final Fantasy VII remake will have any value in picking up rebirth they seem to be two separate and distinct games so will there be an event or some timeline shake-up that means canonically the group's weapons items armor and Materia are all reset maybe it's the event that this very trailer begins with but hold up before we can explain the opening to this trailer in full detail which shows most of our party unconscious and loaded into Shinra Choppers we need to bring you up to speak quickly on the ending to Final Fantasy 7 remake and what it means for a full and comprehensive breakdown and Analysis make sure and watch my video on that very subject so Final Fantasy VII remake is a very faithful adaptation to the original 90s game up to a certain point and then everything changes it is to put it bluntly not a remake at all one of the biggest changes in remake is the inclusion of hooded ghost-like beings called Whispers which are eventually explained by Red 13 as Arbiters of Fate as I mentioned in my ending explainer video red 13 tells the party that these whispers are drawn to individuals who would try and alter Destiny's course and ensure they do not fate in this context is described as a fixed State and this fixed state is the will of the planet itself so these Whispers act solely to ensure that events play out the way the planet intends them to they swarm around wedge and the slums keeping him in place when the Plate Falls they also interrupt any time someone gets close to telling Claude his true Origins like Hojo in his lab and when Khloe tries to intercept sephiroth on top of the Shinra building they stop the group's getaway truck getting blasted by a chopper to preserve the flow of Destiny from these particular instances we can draw a pretty strong conclusion that the Fate the planet has in store for everyone is in line with the events of the original game one of the biggest examples of this in the remake is when The Whispers directly intervene and save Bart's life when he is stabbed by sephiroth in Shinra HQ an event that would have had major repercussions to the timeline if it had been allowed to play out so then towards the end of remake as the party are trying to escape the city The Whispers all converge on Shinra HQ huge clothes of them protecting the building from destruction and stopping anyone from getting in or out the story then deviates from the original timeline Again by having sephiroth present disrupting the natural order and the planet's will the planet all the voices that make up the live stream cry out in pain and all of a sudden we cut to a completely different scene of Zach Fair a pivotal character in the original PlayStation 1 game whose death is essentially a catalyst for cloud becoming the hero that he is by the end of the adventure remake shows scenes from The Moments leading up to when Zach canonically dies except no there are Whispers that no one can see floating around and swarming midgar in the distance back with the party sephiroth cuts a path through the Whispers literally and figuratively stepping outside of their influence and therefore the established timeline aerith then follows soot also defying The Whispers and creating a different path and claiming that from now on it's the point of no return this is Destiny's Crossroads watch she and by extension the game's creators are saying is that this is where they turn off the path of the Remake and into something totally different this is in more ways than one a rebirth aerith explains that if they take this course the party will be changing more than fate itself they'll be changing their very cell a pretty bold statement of intent for things to come in the next game wouldn't you say stepping through the party is then confronted by The Whisper Harbinger and lots of smaller Whispers fighting to protect a future timeline that created them this is where the party see glimpses of their possible future scenes we know are in the original timeline and they make an active stand against them coming to pass fighting against the fates the planet has already decided for them the whispers are defeated but then the party fights sephiroth who isolates cloud and brings him to the edge of creation where they basically act out their final showdown from the original game before sephiroth States it isn't time for that yet anyway back with Zach the whispers are dissipated in a cloud of golden light that's reminiscent of aerith's magic implying their disappearance is known to the party's actions Zach then carries on his journey after the point at which we know he canonically dies and later it's shown via a crisp packet bearing an altered version of a cartoon dog that we're in a different but somewhat all your timeline to the one the majority of Final Fantasy 7 remake has just taken place in this plus a montage of other altered events strongly suggests that defeating the Whispers on the highway has now opened up at least one new version of the Final Fantasy VII story that we know one where Zach is alive as the events of the original game play out my big question is will rebirth feature these timelines playing out simultaneously while it's possible the Remake party stepped outside of their timeline and into a different one at the end of remake we see remake cloud and Zach passing by one another on separate but still somewhat linked paths maybe rebirth will allow us to play out one version of the game that is more akin to the story we know from the original before exploring an alternate version of events of what happens in a world where Zach Never Dies who which brings us right back to the beginning of the rebirth trailer now one possible explanation for what we see in the news report from the Shinra News Network baratifah red 13 and aerith all seriously injured or dead being looted onto Shinra choppers with no cloud in sight could simply be that exposure to The Whispers has made them ill just as the life stream did to individuals in the original game it's more likely however that what we're seeing is what would have happened or should we say what has happened in the Zac is alive timeline with no mercenary Claude the team don't succeed in taking down Shinra or the version of sephiro if they potentially meet or this could all just be a false Vision put in Clyde's head by sephiroth Visual and audio glitches either side of this news report along with a Tell-Tale black feather indicates zafaroff's involvement in this scene either way the next bit of text the unknown Journey continues is a direct callback to the end of remake which said the unknown Journey will continue the choice of very specific words here definitely hammers home the fact that this game is going somewhere that fans may not expect from there we see the party step outside into the world whether that's from midgar or Beyond calm you can still see industrial remnants of midgar some discarded pipes amongst the greenery the Chocobo Farm here is pretty interesting because as Cloud approaches it you can see that aerith and red 13 already have fixed positions in the groins ahead of him so maybe after a short stay and a lengthy story flashback and calm the farm will be a peaceful Hub of sorts for the party to fall back to as they explore the surrounding grasslands area before braving the marshlands leading to the mithral mines and of course the midgar's island it's also fun to finally see the party ride chocobos out in the world and interesting to see new commands scent and sky are available alongside Sprint and Dismount maybe you'll be able to hunt for Treasure with your Feathered Friends next in the trailer we skip continents entirely and see red 13's beloved grandfather don't ask boogenhagen explaining the importance of the live stream to the party now chronologically this is really far ahead of everything else we see in this trailer but it's a pivotal scene in the original game for understanding live stream and its key role in the story it's also just really nice to see bergenhagen so closely resembling his look and concept art from the original game although we didn't get to see that iconic green ball he was his around on just yet after another shot of a big pipeline possibly in the area surrounding jinon we see the party gathered in calm where in the original cloud fills the party in on his history with sephiroth but here as they've already met sephiroth it takes on a slightly different tone after that there's a noticeable audio visual glitch again as the scene cuts to sephiroth copies making their pilgrimage to the northern crater an earlier voiceover in this trailer tells us they're not called Shadows of the man which is you know nice Anonymous directly following that we are in what looks like the mithral mines with Bart and red 13. no other party members are visible which suggests that there are times that the party is split as in remake and players will have to adapt to the controllable roster as it changes the other thing that's noticeable about this scene is that The Rock creature they are fighting does not appear in the original game the mythromion is a relatively small location that immediately follows the grasslands area containing the chigaboo farm and the marshlands it's the past the party travel through not only avoiding giant snake limit garzolam in order to reach the judon area its main function is facilitating a run-in with the Turks and introducing their newest recruit Elena which it looks like it's going to do in rebirth too unlike the original though there's blows traded here but it does give us the opportunity to see a very fun team up with cloud and Tifa providing cover for aerith to unleash some magic on Elena we also see some combat taking place on what appears to be the world map and markers showing that there is quite a bit of distance to be covered which really is unsurprising because well two discs and also this is an entire continent we're spanning and in the original game all that was apparently map Worthy on that entire continent was a big city a small town a huge cannon a mine a fort shape like a big bird and a farm so you know there are a lot of potential things that could be added here I also really like the fact that terrain and distance seems to be mixed up slightly for open world combat seeing Bart on a bit of a hill here for example and if you look closely to his left you can see what appears to be midgar in the far distance then we get our first proper glimpse of jinon as seen on its approach and on top we see the iconic Airship the high wind which honestly looks absolutely enormous in the context of how big we know Juno to be oh side note and potential spoilers I cannot wait to see Tifa dive off the end of that cat [Music] foreign [Music] what's really interesting about the next shot of battle aside from seeing a bit more of red 13's combat is that if you look closely you can see both aerith and Tifa in their fighting stances circling the action way way in the background despite the fact that they are not in the combat lineups so does this mean there's going to be a party switching mechanic introduced or is it so that they can jump in to help briefly and be used for Synergy attacks about those combo attacks here's one in action as aerith creates a magical force field for Tifa to jump into and press the attack on the enemy I wonder if the five little horizontal lines that we now see underneath each character's action bar is something to do with those Synergy attacks how many uses they have in any one battle for example in the next shot we see yuffie fresh from her star turn and intermission teaming up with red 13 Forest energy attack before we cut to Claude and Bart performing one of their own I wonder really hope there are Synergy attacks for any and all combinations of party members given that Synergy moves were introduced via an intermission I wonder if it'll fall to your feet to teach the team how to use them in rebirth I'm also super curious as to how yuffie will be introduced here in the original game she was an entirely optional character and you had to follow a few steps in order to add her to your game but here it's almost certain that she'll be integrated into the party as part of the main quest I also wonder if this moment right here could be where she's stealing Clyde's Materia it was a great and quite creative moment in the original game when you went into a fight suddenly noticing all your materials gone and going on a quest to retrieve it all only for yuffie to eventually return it all jumbled up and in the wrong Slots of course so I hope we'll see a fun diversion like it appear somewhere in rebirth this fight seems to be the Genova birth battle that takes place below deck after the party sneaks aboard the cargo hold of a ship and travels from junon to Costa Del Sol now while the tone of this battle is of course quite serious this moment in the original game is preceded by maybe one of its most ridiculous sequences in order to sneak aboard the ship everyone bar yuffie who stays hidden due to her sea sickness leads a disguise so while the girls dress as Shinra soldiers Bart wears a very fetching sailor outfit but then red 13 also dresses as a soldier and awkwardly walks on just his hind legs and apparently this was passable enough to get them onto the ship now that would be an almost impossible scene to do seriously with rebirth's photorealistic Graphics but it's just too funny for them not to include surely anyhow we then briefly see Claude as a sephiroth copy before the audio visual glitch then switches us to a scene familiar to those who've played the original game young Tifa and her iconic cowgirl outfit confronting sephoroth and the nebelheim reactor it's accompanied by new voiceover zephyrol saying presumably to Cloud you know that I killed her so who is she this is interesting for a few reasons firstly in the original game Tifa did not die but she was badly wounded and was fined by Clyde before he went to confront sephiroth himself both Tifa and Cloud's recollection of the nebelheim event five years ago how their memories differ and eventually align is a huge plot point in the original game there is supposed to be confusion around it as Tifa States earlier in the trailer as far as she knows Clyde was not in nibbleheim during that trip that's because again spoiler warning Clyde never made Soldier first class and at that point was just a regular Shinra grunt returning home after having made a big show of his hopes and dreams to Tifa he was embarrassed and seeing that she was to be the group's Guide to the reactor he hid his face the entire time under his mask after all of the events that follow that event Cloud's memories merge with those of Zacks who was there with sephiroth as a soldier first class so during Cloud's original storytelling flashback to Nibelheim where he explains to the group how he witnessed sephiroth turn bad firsthand Tifa knows this isn't quite what actually happened but she doesn't say anything in the original game we have no reason not to believe what cloud says is true at this point and it's only later after safroth masses with Cloud's head to the point that he thinks he is just a clone of sephiroth and not a real person of his own batifa and Claude pieced together the reality of the situation and it unfolds as a big plot twist the cloud really was there all along of course no with this retelling that shock value is gone and so the story is being reframed sephiroth is massing with Cloud's head way earlier and trying to make him believe the Tifa actually died and even in the original he could well have thought that she did her martial arts trainer zangan rescued her from the destruction of Nibelheim and brought her to midgar Chloe didn't see her again until much later anyway all that to say that the line seems to be Sephiroth's way of getting inside Cloud's head and priming him to deliver the black material later on down the road or I don't know maybe Tifa really will be killed in one of the timelines who knows personally I'll write if that's the case but we'll just have to wait and see I'm only partially kidding who is she where exactly will rebirth end as we already know this version of Final Fantasy VII is poised to be a Trilogy so one of the questions that's on my mind right now is where will rebirth end it goes all the way up to Cosmo Canyon seemingly so will it also include the gold saucer for example will we finally get a glimpse of everyone's favorite emovements in Valentine or maybe even get the chance to free him from the Shinra Mansion basement I am so excited to see him for the first time anyway that's pretty much everything that we've gleaned from this trailer so let me know what you think as I stated all the way back I am still unsure about where rebirth is headed in terms of mixing up the original story but I'm intrigued either way to see where this goes let me know what you think in the comments and obviously subscribe as we will have lots of Final Fantasy 7 rebirth content coming up later on down the road until then I'm gonna Mosey but thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon so crazy bye far as I know Cloud was never in meeboheim five years ago a live stream very essence of our star the blood coursing through its planetary veins

Channel: Eurogamer

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Keywords: final fantasy 7 remake part 2, final fantasy 7 rebirth, final fantasy 7 remake

Id: lQIXaiuMzjU

Length: 17min 56sec (1076 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 17 2023