One FF7 Rebirth Line Adjustments All the pieces We Know About Sephiroth

Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth appears poised to dive Buster Sword-first proper into tales concerning the multiverse. And reasonably than chasing drained traits just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sq. Enix’s three-game retelling of FF7 could come nearer to some of the influential comedian storylines of the final century: Disaster on Infinite Earths.

This DC Comics storyline from the mid-’80s takes place after a multiversal disaster led to infinite realities fusing collectively right into a single universe. Numerous superheroes died, and when the mud settled, there was just one Earth left. There have been loads of hints since Ultimate Fantasy VII Remake that this retelling of FF7 appears to exists in a parallel or rebooted universe. Will these universes merge by the top of the third sport?

There’s a suspicious line from September’s FF7 Rebirth launch date reveal trailer that also sticks in my craw: “It’s upon us: the Reunion — when worlds merge,” Sephiroth says. This means he needs to do greater than reunite Jenova—he needs to unite and dominate a number of worlds. So let’s dive a bit of deeper into how that would play out.

The Reunion idea

The Reunion is a haunting motif in FF7’s story, nevertheless it has nothing to do with worlds merging. Eearly within the Midgar part, foreboding figures in darkish hoods murmur a few “Reunion.” We finally study that Professor Hojo experimented on these individuals with Jenova cells to make supersoldiers.

“You see, even when Jenova’s physique is dismembered, it should finally turn into one once more,” Hojo explains. “That’s what is supposed by Jenova’s Reunion.”

Sometimes called a “calamity from the skies,” Jenova is a horrific shapeshifting alien with some type of psychic connection that features on the mobile degree. Sephiroth was injected with Jenova cells in utero and obtained all types of superpowers, nevertheless it was a visit into the Lifestream that gave him practical immortality.

Sephiroth was rumored to have died within the Nibelheim incident 5 years previous to the sport. In actuality, he was flung down a Mako Reactor shaft. Reasonably than get absorbed by the Lifestream like a traditional individual would, he seized management of Jenova’s bizarre organic community and coalesced a bodily type in a cocoon on the Northern Crater. (Should you have been foggy on that order of occasions, don’t fear. It wasn’t notably apparent within the days earlier than wiki websites.)

In the meantime, most of Hojo’s different check topics have been rendered catatonic and labeled “failed Sephiroth clones” or “shadows of the person.” But they nonetheless have Jenova inside them. This is the true supply of Sephiroth’s energy, as a result of he can exert his will throughout every bit of Jenova and protect his consciousness within the Lifestream. Most of the time, the Sephiroth we see all through the unique FF7 is only a chunk of alien flesh he transforms into his form.

Even when Sephiroth’s manifestation on the Northern Crater is finally defeated, he does not stop to exist. His consciousness persists, creating the Geostigma illness within the animated sequel Creation Kids that infects individuals with little bits of Jenova. He additionally conjures Remnants of himself, and considered one of them fuses with Jenova’s head to resurrect his bodily type for one more combat in opposition to Cloud.

“I’ll…by no means be a reminiscence,” Sephiroth taunts when Cloud kills him but once more.

The Lifestream incorporates all of the recollections, feelings, and data of each one that ever lived, and the foundations round its relationship with time are murky at greatest. In any case, Sephiroth can understand all of this and nonetheless management traces of Jenova within the failed clones, which embrace Cloud — and presumably Zack Honest.

When worlds collide

In a July 2021 interview with The Gamer, Remake and Rebirth co-director Motomu Toriyama stated, “Remake relies on the unique, however is being made in any case of these additions to the universe, so we wish to make the most of that and are planning it out as a type of ‘coming collectively’ of all of the works set within the Ultimate Fantasy VII universe so far.”

All through Remake, Sephiroth coaxes the occasion alongside a path to defy the Whispers and create “a world of boundless freedom…past the place Destiny might comply with.” Then proper on the climax, we see the flashback to Zack’s last stand on the outskirts of Midgar. One way or the other destroying the forces of Destiny allowed Zack to stay, however for what? Jeopardizing this mounted time limit creates one other world totally, the place issues are totally different. Contemplating the outlandish issues Jenova has been able to up to now, Sephiroth exerting his will throughout a number of timelines appears believable. It’s way more probably that the scope of the Lifestream expands throughout paralall worlds reasonably than all through all of time.

All the pieces within the Compilation of Ultimate Fantasy VII — specifically Earlier than Disaster, Ever Disaster, Creation Kids, and Dirge of Cerberus — is technically a part of the unique FF7 continuity, however there are a great deal of characters and ideas that aren’t even hinted at within the authentic that exist in Remake and Compilation spinoff supplies. Then Zack’s world splits off from the core Remake timeline. We see in December 2023’s theme music announcement trailer that Biggs bemoans the lack of Barret, Wedge, Jessie, and Tifa to Zack. One other scene exhibits Jessie dancing on-stage, presumably on the Gold Saucer, which must be both a flashback or one more world totally if she’s lifeless in each core timelines.

There’s additionally the Summer time Recreation Fest 2023 trailer that depicts a information report the place Barret, Tifa, Pink XIII, and Aerith are seemingly killed by a twister in Midgar. Later, we see Cloud gasping concerning the Reunion in these signature robes, presumably on the Northern Crater with different clones. This could possibly be what occurs to Cloud within the timeline the place Zack lives. With out the trauma of shedding Zack, Cloud could have by no means snapped out of his catatonic state, and he could have helped Sephiroth reasonably than cease him from following by with Meteor. In the perfect case state of affairs, we’re a timeline the place Sephiroth can management not one however two superpowered troopers.

After Cloud strikes Sephiroth within the FF7 Remake finale, he’s sucked by a wormhole and delivered to the “fringe of creation.” Not solely does the wormhole evoke time journey and alternate realities, however each it and the void each additionally featured within the authentic sport’s last combat. Besides fashionable graphics put us within the outer reaches of house.

“Our world will turn into part of it…sooner or later,” Sephiroth says, gazing out at a close-by galaxy. The celestial vibes really feel much like one thing he says in Creation Kids: “What I need, Cloud, is to sail the darkness of the cosmos with this planet as my vessel, simply as my mom did way back,” he says. “Then sooner or later we’ll discover a new planet and on its soil we’ll create a shining future.”

Sephiroth has the DNA of an alien that traveled the cosmos destroying planets with meteors, creating new life out of destruction by fairly actually smashing celestial objects collectively. His purpose in Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth could also be to actually beginning a brand new world—in a manner that’s way more harmful and cosmic in its scope.

Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth involves PS5 on February 29.