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Fans now know whereFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill end. 2020’sFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeretold the story of the classic 1997 JRPG up to the point where Cloud Strife and his friends escape the city of Midgar, which is really just the beginning of their journey.Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill pick up where the first game left off, with this band of heroes searching for answers about the mysterious Ancients and the return of the renegade SOLDIER Sephiroth.
Square Enix showed off more ofFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthduring this week’s PlayStation State of Play livestream, revealing the highly-anticipated sequel’s release date and confirming that classic party members Cait Sith and Vincent Valentine will appear. Just like the originalFinal Fantasy 7’s departure from Midgar opened the game to a larger world,Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill be much longerthan its predecessor with nearly 100 hours of content. However,Rebirthis only the second chapter in Tetsuya Nomura’s plannedFinal Fantasy 7 Remaketrilogy, and now players have an idea of where the expected cliffhanger ending will take place.
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Not too long after the game was shown inthe latest PlayStation State of Play, variousFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthcrew members sat down for an interview with the official PlayStation website. Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura was asked what point in the original storyRebirthwill leave off at, and he answered that it will end in the Forgotten Capital - meaning that the story will cover everything up to the end of the originalFinal Fantasy 7’s second disk.
Nomura also stressed thatFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthwon’t be an exact matchof the original game’s plot, and that some locations and narrative beats will occur in a different order. For example, players won’t explore Wutai, the home ofFinal Fantasy 7party member andEpisode INTERmissionprotagonist Yuffie Kisaragi until the third, still-untitledFinal Fantasy 7 Remakegame. This is similar toFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, which shifted some of the events in Midgar and ended with a massive twist that left fans curious to see where the plot will go inRebirth.
This plot will take players to the Forgotten Capital, a place of serious significancein the story ofFinal Fantasy 7. One of the original game’s most well-remembered moments took place there, and many fans have suspected that this exact narrative beat would serve as a gripping cliffhanger forFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Of course, things might not play out exactly the same inFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s altered timeline, meaning that fans will have to stay tuned to see how the second chapter of this series wraps up this February.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthlaunches on July 14, 2025 for PS5.
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