By the time that Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth involves an finish, though it solutions a whole lot of questions raised in Remake, it raises simply as many (if no more) for issues but to return within the remake trilogy’s conclusion. As this new story continues to broaden and alter increasingly more, questions on the place it’s heading and the way it will finish turn out to be far more distinguished, in Rebirth does a superb job of tantalizingly teasing you with these questions. Right here, we’re going to speak about a few of the greatest mysteries which can be left lingering after Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s story attracts to a conclusion.
NOTE: There are main spoilers forward for Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
IS SEPHIROTH FROM THE FUTURE?
That is one thing that followers have been asking since Closing Fantasy 7 Remake first got here out, and although we nonetheless don’t have a definitive reply, it is actually changing into more and more apparent. Over the course of two video games (and particularly in Rebirth particularly), Sephiroth is proven to be very a lot conscious of the occasions of the unique Closing Fantasy 7, whereas in Rebirth, he clearly additionally is aware of in regards to the multiverse’s existence (even having manipulated Cloud and co into defeating the Whispers and the Arbiter of Destiny in remake).
So what does that inform us about Sephiroth and the character of his very existence? Primarily based on every thing that we’ve seen of him within the remake trilogy up to now, it does appear to be that is maybe a post-Introduction Youngsters model of the character who managed to search out his manner again to the start of the unique recreation’s occasions and began messing with time to try to change his destiny. In any case, he’s made it abundantly clear on no few events by now that he needs to defy future, so it stands to motive that he is aware of what future it’s precisely that he’s defying.
WILL ZACK SURVIVE?
Seeing Zack Truthful on the finish of Closing Fantasy 7 Remake was an enormous shock, and seeing him survive the fateful encounter that ends in his loss of life was a fair larger one. In Rebirth, it’s revealed that by defeating the Arbiter of Destiny, the social gathering inadvertently precipitated the create of a number of completely different timelines, together with the one the place we see Zack nonetheless alive and heading to Midgar with a Mako-poisoned Cloud. All through the sport, he continues to have an essential function to play, even briefly overlapping with the principle timeline to combat towards Sephiroth side-by-side with Cloud. And within the aftermath, it’s clear that his aim is to discover a technique to be a part of his world with the principle timeline.
However is Zack going to return out of this complete factor alive? A giant theme within the Closing Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy up to now appears to be that a technique or one other, irrespective of how onerous you attempt, future can’t be defied. Characters have, a technique or one other, ended up assembly the fates they had been all the time imagined to. In Zack’s timeline, Biggs survived the autumn of Sector 7, however ultimately ended up dying anyway. In Remake, Wedge survived longer than he did within the unique FF7, however was nonetheless ultimately pushed to his loss of life by the Whispers. And naturally, on the finish of Rebirth, Cloud tries his damndest to avoid wasting Aerith, and for a quick second it even appears to be like like he succeeded- however she, too, finally ends up dying at Sephiroth’s hand, simply as she was all the time imagined to.
So are Zack’s makes an attempt at discovering a technique to keep away from his loss of life going to be futile? In its remaining act, Rebirth reveals us two offshoots of Zack’s most important timeline, one the place he tries to get a treatment for Cloud from Professor Hojo in Shinra HQ, and one the place he makes an attempt to cease Biggs from blowing up Reactor 6- and in each timelines, he’s gunned down by a squad of Shinra troops, precisely as he was on the finish of Disaster Core. Is that the sport’s manner of telling us that, it doesn’t matter what occurs, a technique or one other, that’s how Zack’s story will all the time finish?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE VERSIONS OF AERITH AND CLOUD IN ZACK’S TIMELINE?
Zack is in his personal world (actually) for a lot of Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth, however he does have some acquainted faces round him, after all. Along with the likes of Biggs, Marlene, and Elmyra, Zack’s story additionally ropes in variations of Aerith and Cloud who belong to that timeline. Neither is in nice form, to say the lead, with Aerith being in a coma after Avalanche’s failed escape try from Midgar, and Cloud being closely Mako-poisoned and zonked out of his thoughts.
So what precisely will turn out to be of these two particularly? Are each of them going to die? Or, if Zack is certainly going to attempt to be a part of each timelines the best way Rebirth’s ending appears to indicate, are there simply going to be two Clouds? Will Zack’s model of Aerith find yourself dying due to her loss of life in the principle timeline, or will, conversely, that find yourself being how Aerith returns to the unique timeline?
Talking of which…
CAN AERITH BE BROUGHT BACK?
Whether or not or not Aerith would nonetheless die in Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth was one in all our greatest questions heading into the sport, and although we do now know that she died in comparable trend to how she died within the unique recreation, there additionally appear to be hints that maybe she’s not completely gone. For starters, we do see her spirit not solely lingering on, however even having total conversations with Cloud, promising him that she’s going to keep behind within the forgotten capital to try to cease Meteor. Positive, you would possibly dismiss that as extra mako-addled hallucinations drummed up by Cloud’s more and more deteriorating psychological state, since nobody else within the social gathering can see her- however Crimson XIII does very faintly sense her presence, so perhaps Cloud isn’t going loopy on this specific case (extra on this in a bit).
So does that imply there’s nonetheless a technique to convey Aerith again? On the very least, even when she does stay lifeless, it looks like she’ll have extra of a job to play (albeit in spirit type) within the trilogy’s third half than she did in that a part of the unique recreation’s story. However might the social gathering try to convey her again as nicely? Will Zack have a say in that? Will the multiverse and its completely different timelines and their many various variations of Aerith who’re nonetheless alive find yourself being the best way out from loss of life for the character? Or will the lesson as soon as once more be that future can’t be defied, and even when Aerith does handle to have a bigger presence following her loss of life than she did within the unique recreation, she remains to be going to stay conclusively lifeless?
HOW DID SEPHIROTH GAIN CONTROL OF THE WHISPERS?
The Whispers had been Closing Fantasy 7 Remake’s large, most important twist to a well-recognized story, and although they return in Rebirth, they achieve this in a unique capability. Initially described because the Arbiters of Destiny and mysterious beings who need to be certain that every thing occurs within the method that it’s prescribed, in Rebirth, Sephiroth has gained management over them- or a faction of them, at any fee. From attacking the Weapons to being outright summoned by Sephiroth on occasion, the black Whispers appear to be answering to him now, whereas a number of instances, we additionally see them going up towards new, white variations of the Whispers.
In fact, the query (or one in all them, at the least) is- how precisely did Sephiroth handle to achieve management of the black Whispers? Within the first recreation, he very clearly didn’t align with what their final aim was. He always prodded Cloud into “defying future”, and pulled the strings in order that they’d be defeated by the social gathering. Are we to imagine that, after their defeat, the Whispers, of their weakened state, fell underneath Sephiroth’s affect and now do his bidding?
Additionally, what the hell is happening with these white Whispers?
WHO CONTROLS THE WHITE WHISPERS?
A bit of greater than midway into Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth, we’re launched to a white Whispers. After Tifa falls into the Lifestream, she witnesses the Weapons coming underneath assault from Sephiroth’s Whispers, just for white, lustrous variants of the so-called Arbiters of Destiny to return streaming in and begin battling towards their black counterparts to guard the Weapons. From that time ahead, the white Whispers present up a number of extra instances, and at essential factors within the story, every time exhibiting as much as combat towards the common, black Whispers.
For begins, the place did they arrive from? Second, who controls them? Are they in service solely to the planet and the Lifestream, as their want to guard the Weapons would counsel? Or are they maybe managed by Aerith, as the sport strongly implies (and a number of instances) all through the course of the social gathering’s multi-stage remaining boss combat towards Jenova and Sephiroth, the place we see the white Whispers seemingly doing Aerith’s bidding? Maybe they’re Whispers from a unique timeline?
WHY CAN ONLY CLOUD SEE AERITH AND THE SKY RIFTS?
Cloud’s psychological state has deteriorated considerably by the point Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth involves a detailed, thanks a double whammy of Sephiroth’s corrupting affect and Cloud’s personal mobile degradation, so when he’s the one one in the complete social gathering who can see Aerith’s spirit after her loss of life and in addition see the nice rift within the sky, clearly, the sport needs us to wonder if he’s simply persevering with to lose his group on actuality. Because of Zack’s aspect of the story, nonetheless, we all know no doubt that the rift within the sky may be very actual, whereas Crimson XIII with the ability to kind of sense Aerith’s presence on the finish suggests she isn’t a hallucation both.
However why is it that Cloud is the one one who can see these items? Is it due to his connection to Sephiroth, and the truth that he, too, has Jenova cells in him? Is it as a result of now that he’s travelled via timelines as soon as, he’s now able to with the ability to see issues that weren’t seen to him earlier than? Type of how no person in Remake might see the Whispers till they got here into contact with Aerith. Or maybe there’s another reply to this query that we will’t start to guess at but.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BETWEEN THE GI AND THE CETRA?
Simply as within the unique recreation, in FF7 Rebirth, upon getting into Cosmo Canyon, Cloud and co accompany Crimson XIII and Bugenhagen into the place the place the spirits of the traditional extraterrestrial tribe often called the Gi are locked away, and identical to the unique recreation, that is the place we find out about Crimson XIII’s father Seto, and the sacrifice he made to guard the individuals of Cosmo Canyon. However versus the unique, in Rebirth, that’s only a fraction of what we discover out, due to the brand new revelations that the Black Materia was constructed by the Gi as a part of their battle with the Cetra.
Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth does a superb job of fleshing out this battle, which had subsequent to no function to play within the unique recreation’s story, and it provides us either side of the attitude. In Cosmo Canyon, we hear the Gi’s aspect of the story about how they had been betrayed by the Cetra, whereas within the forgotten metropolis, we hear from the Ancients about how the Gi created the Black Materia with probably the most damaging of intentions. However which aspect of that story is the extra correct model of the reality? And on high of that, precisely how is the deal that Cloud strikes with the Gi going to return again to chunk him sooner or later? As a result of there’s no manner the Gi are going to be joyful after they discover out that Cloud by no means had any intention of giving them the Black Materia.
WHAT ROLE WILL THE GI PLAY IN PART 3?
The Gi tribe had a a lot bigger to play in Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s story than it did within the unique recreation, and it’s wanting like one thing of a assure that that can proceed to be the case in Half 3 as nicely. In any case, they’re the creators of the Black Materia, which suggests they’re inherently far more essential to the lore, whereas within the remake trilogy, Cloud and co additionally lied to Gi Nattak’s face after they instructed him they’d convey the Black Materia again for him and the tribe, one thing they clearly haven’t any intention of doing, given the truth that the Gi need to destroy the planet.
So what precisely is that going to result in within the third recreation? That the Gi will return is wanting like a positive wager, and it additionally appears protected to imagine that they’re gonna be pissed on the social gathering, to say the very least. They’re going to proceed their hunt for the Black Materia, so on condition that their targets kind of align with what Sephiroth needs to do, are we headed to a lethal alliance between them?
WILL WE FIGHT THE WEAPONS?
Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth introduces Weapons, huge creatures created by the Planet itself to guard it and the Lifestream towards world-ending threats. Sensing that such a hazard is looming on the horizon, at this level within the remake trilogy, a few of the Weapons have woke up, and at a number of factors within the story, they’ve an essential function to play. That they’ll return within the third recreation is clear, however will they find yourself taking part in the identical function they did within the unique recreation?
Within the unique, due to a magical barrier erected by Sephiroth, the Weapons are unable to sense his presence and as an alternative go on a rampage everywhere in the world, focusing on places with the very best mako concentrations, which, after all, occur to be densely populated city hubs like Midgar and Junon. To cease them, Cloud and co find yourself having to take them on in battle and defeat them. Given how epic boss fights towards the Weapons can be if correctly realized within the remake trilogy, Sq. Enix won’t need to change their function too much- however maybe, in the direction of the top of the story, as an alternative of being destroyed, they may working towards Sephiroth? Simply for instance, if the Gi do certainly find yourself allying with Sephiroth, perhaps the Weapons might assist even the percentages for the great guys?
