Here’s why the party is dead in the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth trailer

The opening of the FF7 Rebirth trailer at Summer Game Fest has a lot of fans scratching their heads, but this theory seems to have worked it out.

[gold_drake]

ah, its time to stay away again, spoilers of the trailer all around haha

[senorfartcushion]

It was never a remade series, though. The point of the last game is that they prevented the remaking of the same timeline.

Now anything goes. It’s basically the Flashpoint Paradox for FF7

[CrimsonWing69]

See, part of me is bummed out because all I wanted out of this was some next-gen crazy Remake that expands on things or added new stuff here and there while going through all of the original game.

But you’re right, this isn’t a Remake. This is literally a sequel trilogy of sorts that deals with multi-verses parallel to the original. Part of me thinks that’s cool, but I’m not sure how I feel with Zack being alive in one universe and them now questioning Tifa’s existence in this one.

Still, this looks so fantastic. I know everyone kind of gets prickly when you mention one FF game looks better than the other, but man watching this trailer and the combat then going back to FF16’s trailer and watching the combat and world… it literally kind of diminished a lot of my hype for 16.

Not knocking, 16. It’s Day 1 for me, but I have a feeling as I play it I will keep thinking how much more interested I am in Rebirth.

It’s like, if you go back and watch the latest IGN gameplay of FF16 it’s so boring looking, then you go back and check this Rebirth trailer out with the different party abilities and team ups, the look of the world, Sephiroth, seeing Jenova boss battle, etc… it’s just, damn it looks better to me 😅

Anyways, good time to be an FF fan!

[MrNinosan]

Pretty sure it's not Tifa that Sephiroth meant in the end of the trailer.
It's SE's way to play mindgames with us.
I'm certain he's actually talking about Aerith.

[shinoff2183]

Crimson

I'd still like to have a 1 to 1 remake of ff7 ,but I'm happy with what they did in the 1st remake.

[CrimsonWing69]

@MrNinosan

I believe he was talking about Tifa. It’s one thing that never made sense to me in the original, how Tifa survived and with no scar. I think in Rebirth they’re actually going to address how she survived.

But it also seems like this will allow for Aeris to survive, which I hope isn’t the case because her sacrifice was such an important role in the previous narrative.

We’ll see what happens.

[WhiteHawk]

MrNinosan Well you would be pretty wrong, the lines Sephiroth says are over the scene with Tifa. And in the Japanese trailer he literally says Tifa.

[MrNinosan]

@WhiteHawk
No, he doesn't say that he killed Tifa in the Japanese trailer or mentioning her by name in that part.
The scene we see is from the Kalm flashback, the voiceover that happens in the trailer at that same part is Squares way to make you think it's about Tifa.
It's a classic trailer by SE, where they want to us to believe something but it's taken out of context.

[CrimsonWing69]

@MrNinosan

“ the voiceover that happens in the trailer at that same part is Squares way to make you think it's about Tifa.
It's a classic trailer by SE, where they want to us to believe something but it's taken out of context.”

The death of Aerith would not have taken place yet in this timeline.

It makes more sense to refer to Tifa especially with Tifa questioning about Cloud and where he’s been for the past 5 years. She mentions he was never in Nibleheim, but we know he was. Cloud would not have known how Tifa recovered from the attack by Sephiroth.

At least that makes the most sense to me.

I think they’re going to do some mind f*ckery with the timeline or at least Sephiroth is going to get in Cloud’s head and have him question this reality.

[repsahj]

I like the idea that they combine the OG FF7 story and sequel in one game, that is a genius move.

[WhiteHawk]

@MrNinosan Incorrect, stop talking out your backside and go watch the Japanese trailer, go to that scene with Sephiroth talking, he literally starts the sentence with the word Tifa, and even YouTubes auto-translate captions picks up on it. People who speak Japanese and English posted about this within minutes of the trailer being up. Stop being a fool and learn things before posting.

[WhiteHawk]

Anything goes in the alternate timeline with Zack and in any of the sequel elements, not in everything. As the devs has said over and over we are still getting the original story, same locations just with new elements, just like the first part which is pretty much confirmed by this trailer. This is a sequel yes, but it is also remake, it’s both. Don’t hang your theories on killing fate, that just adds to the sequel and Zack timeline elements.

[cerpintaxt44]

i watched this dudes video yesterday and was rather baffled by his confidence. a person being on a stretcher does not mean they are dead

[senorfartcushion]

Without a white blanket over their face, wouldn’t it be implying that they are alive? Or do you think they had their faces uncovered to show the audience?

[cerpintaxt44]

that was exactly my thought dead people arent wheeled around uncovered

[senorfartcushion]

#crappyparamedic

[shinoff2183]

Pretty sure if you played the first one you know what's going on with the stretcher part but hey maybe not. I don't wanna say what I think is going on because not everyone has played

I did tell my buddy who hasn't played the 1st one "do not watch the trailer" it's not to spoilery but it was just appropriate advice imo

[AnotherGamer]

Uhhh.. we don't even know how the game would work based on one trailer.

[GoodGuy09]

It is odd. Square really wants us to think and theorize lol. Could just be part of the other supposed universe that Zack is in or just other universes where the party failed and died etc. Yes....Square is bringing in a lot of headache and confusion that is parallel worlds and timelines which I think is terrible....

[shinoff2183]

I think they die in a universe , maybe even the one they stepped into that may have their other selves. Seen similar a dozen times in movies and TV, still would be enjoyable. Love me some sci fi.

[repsahj]

I myself who have played the original. I like what SE is doing that they insert a new story into the original story. So that OG players have something new to look forward to. FF7 OG story + sequel in one game!