Parts of this scene feature, almost frame for frame, in 7 Remake. That game ends with you as Zack taking on waves of Infantrymen only to be eventually taken down, and Cloud slowly coming to as he crawls to Zack's corpse.
If you played Crisis Core, this scene is etched into your mind. But he's also seen gunned down by Shinra infantrymen.
He's seen saving Cloud from Hojo's research lab (Hojo was experimenting on Cloud Mako and Sephiroth cells) and, carrying a comatose Cloud, making a run for Midgar. As Cloud's mentor, he gets the spotlight for a few moments in the original. He was the main character in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, an excellent prequel released on the PSP. Perhaps that means he'll spare Aerith - perhaps that means he'll take Tifa or Barrett instead? Presumably, that means he'll be doing things differently. In 7 Remake's end section, Sephiroth suggests that, if events follow the previous timeline (Final Fantasy 7), he ultimately loses. Perhaps he'll spare Aerith - or perhaps he'll take Tifa or Barret instead. That means he'll be doing things differently. For Sephiroth's part, that would mean he knows that, if events go as fate dictates, he'll ultimately be defeated, as he was in Final Fantasy 7. But it looks as though both Sephiroth and Aerith are aware of the whole "multiple timelines" thing. She tells Cloud, Tifa, Barret and Red XIII that, stepping into Destiny's Crossroads, they'll be changing more than fate itself. Sephiroth slices open what looks like an interdimensional warphole, but then Aerith seems to augment it with her own magic before they enter. Perhaps, most importantly, we've yet to see Sephiroth impale Aerith with his Masamune.īut now that 7 Remake's story isn't bound to the original, will we ever?Ĭloud and company defeat the Whisper Harbinger (imagine the king of all whispers, as the rest are destroyed after it's destroyed) at Destiny's Crossroads. So we've yet to hear about Sephiroth's plan to cast Meteor or Aerith's attempt at countering with Holy. Towards the end of the game, visions of Aerith's death are shown to the player.Īs mentioned, 7 Remake progresses up until the point at which the gang leaves Midgar. Hopefully 7 Remake's sequel plays with multidimensionality very carefully. After loving Kingdom Hearts intensely until Dream Drop Distance, and absolutely hating Kingdom Hearts III for its nonsensical story, I, like many others, am uneasy with the new direction. The franchise's story has been more or less incomprehensible ever since.īoth 7 Remake and Kingdom Hearts are directed by Tetsuya Nomura. Then Dream Drop Distance came around in 2012 and introduced time travel and different dimensions and similar risky business. But it was one that made perfect sense if you took a moderate amount of effort to understand it.
The Kingdom Hearts franchise, like the original Final Fantasy 7, had a complicated story. Fans of Kingdom Hearts know this all too well. Like time travel, multiple-dimension stories are very tricky to pull off and often lead to ruin. Are there only two timelines? Do these timelines interact and cross over with each other now that the Whispers were punked out? And most importantly to you, the gamer: Does this mean the story in 7 Remake's sequel will suck?
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