10 BIG Questions Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth Still DOESN'T ANSWER 

I'm also curious if/when Cloud will "follow the yellow flowers" Aerith mentioned this in remake during the Shinra escape but didn't know exactly what it meant because of the Whispers taking her memories. In the void we see Zack following Yellow flower petals in order to arrive to help Cloud in his multiversal battle with Sephiroth. Yellow flowers (those symbolizing lovers being reunited) are a constant theme in the game, so I'm curious if the implication by Cloud hearing these words in Remake, means that eventually he too will need to traverse the multiverse and the yellow flowers will be his 'guide' like they were for Zack.

I don't think Cloud is seeing a spirit form of Aerith. I think he created a new timeline when he deflected Sephiroth's sword, and so he's actually split off into a different timeline where she's still alive. That would explain why he barely seems sad after she dies, and also explain why only he can see her and see the tear in the sky. So we're seeing basically two timelines being superimposed on top of each others, a split that will probably end up re-converging at the point where cloud has his famous identity crisis in part 3. Feels like something they could nicely fit into that.

In part 3 we will probably get Aerith adventures in the life stream to coincide with the main story. There’s a reason why they showed us the war in the life stream with Tifa.

My biggest “Didn’t Answer” was the point of Zack and Biggs’s timeline hops. Both of them express that they know their fates are now not the same, and both (rightfully so) question their “purpose”. Zack seems right about being “plucked” from the timeline where he died, and also being needed, which would imply the same is true for Biggs. Biggs’s fate in Rebirth currently feels completely unfinished and “plucking” him from a timeline in which he died, just for us to see him die again in a completely NEW one is an absolute waste that doesn’t hold to the theme they were implying that even “minor roles” are important. Rebirth also never addresses Jessie’s glove that we see with Biggs at the end of Remake, and it would be sloppy writing to add all these red herrings in a game about destiny/fate.

For Zack. It's shown three timelines. 1. At Shinra HQ 2. At Mako Reactor 3. Sitting outside the church. Can't decide which one whose to choose before Sephiroth walks by and send him to the void. Zack was never shown to have been killed in the two timelines because he didn't need to take a last stand and plus he had no reason stick around. He had somewhere else to be. It'll take more than just a squad of shinra troopers to take Zack out.

part 3 is gonna be amazing with noctis and sora joining clou in the fight

I always thought that when Red felt Aerith's presence, it was more of animals that could see things that we couldn't just like kids.

It's an incredible game overall but they really messed up the impact of Aerith's death with all the confusion of multiple timelines. I was even satisfied with the impact of cloud saving Aerith and thought this was the case until eventually realizing like "oh, I guess she did still die then" after all the fighting

Why worry so much about Gi Nattak? Just tell him "here, we've got you the black materia" and instead hand him a phoenix down.

Part 1 - Remake Part 2 - Rebirth Part 3 - Reunion Reunion is where all timeline merges where Aerith and Zac lives and have one epic battle with Sepiroth.

Cloud DID save Aerith though. Sephiroth explained in detail that a new timeline is created anytime someone defies fate. Cloud created a new timeline where she lives when he saves her, but he’s stuck between both timelines. That’s why he sees Aerith when nobody else does. I hope they can bring her back or merge the two timelines or something

I think a cool twist to the story with the Gi would be that Red figures out a way to end their torment without giving them the Black Materia, as he vows to do in that one side quest, and in exchange, we recruit them to fight Sephiroth at the end of the 3rd game. Sort of reminiscent of the Oathbreakers from Lord of the Rings.

What I don’t get is the overlap. Zack being a separate timeline is understandable, but why does he make it to Midgar after Avalanche has bombed reactors and tried to escape with Aerith? Without Cloud why is Aerith even in contact with Barret and Tifa?

I don’t think Aerith in the end is a spirit at all. And it’s CERTAINLY not a hallucination, red senses her presence and the camera sticks on her AFTER cloud has left when he shouldn’t be able to hallucinate her. He’s saying a real living Aerith, just not the one exactly from his timeline. Cloud is experiencing two timelines at once. We see the rainbow flare when cloud saves Aerith, which is shown throughout the game to mean a new timeline is created. The camera than rapidly flips between cloud holding an alive aerith and a dead aerith, which is very disorienting. That’s not just to mess with us or for goofs, that’s what cloud is experiencing. TWO TIMELINES at once. Because the aerith lives timeline is created at the same time as sephiroth is trying to make timelines merge (as we see with Zack) it has the weird effect of half merging the timelines to where only cloud can see both. Its the same reason only cloud sees the rift. Because he sees both Aerith’s alive timeline; where there is a rift, and the normal one. To his friends who are only in their timeline, they don’t see the rift because it doesn’t exist for them.

I loved Rebirth and the gameplay overall but I hate that they are succumbing to the multiverse drug. I hope by the end everything gets tied up properly because if they leave it with more unanswered questions, they won't have another game to wrap it up unless they extend it to a fourth game which I don't see happening.

Please check your timestamp titles because some of them have horrible spelling mistakes on names. Sethro is Sephiroth, Zach is Zack & Aith is Aerith

My question is in zachs timeline it says an ex soldier with a buster sword is fighting with avalanche but how is that possible if that cloud is still mako poisoned and comatose

It's a really good video and it gives a lot of sense to the theory that this game is a sequel to Advent Children or an alternative story line of the OG FF7. As explained in the video Sephiroth is aware of the timelines, whispers are a big part of the story, Marlene has memories of the original timeline and many more other information that lead to understand how this game probably will NOT be just a better graphic version of the Original Final Fantasy 7 but a whole new direction and story. Aerith coming back also is a huge probability as implied in the video and i would love that a lot, and Zack's involvement cannot be overlooked as he came into direct contact with Cloud, talked to him and even asked him to "save her".

With the appearance of the white whispers, the whole concept of whispers to me are starting to represent the battle between good and evil that happens within the lifestream between Aerith and Sephiroth during the book “On The Way To A Smile” based on the AC movie (there are “black” and “white” lifestream sections within the book, 3 per color, that speak to this), where the whispers could essentially be the lives of those that have yet to move on to the next life, kind of analogous to ghosts in our world. Seems like they begin dark and cold, lacking forgiveness and are full of regret, as those who don’t accept their death and thus, do not assimilate to the lifestream, falling into some sort of purgatory limbo existence. I believe some whispers have now become white due to Aerith’s influence on them, essentially bringing them to her side. But I can be completely wrong, those are just my personal thoughts on it

Typical Nomura-Style, Nojima writing. Things just start happening at a breakneck pace and aren't explained (at the moment) or sometimes arent explained at all and left for interpretation. Sometimes you'll even have to go outside the game to get answers. All for the sake of subverting expectation or eagerly attempting to be "deep" or dramtic and horribly failing at it. 😒 It's a shame too because outside of the last part of the game, this game is pretty damn good.

I think the new Whispers are somehow related to the white and Black materia. Just a guess, since the orb in the middle of their faces looks quite abit like materia

There’s 3 clouds btw. Main cloud the one we play as, coma cloud with Zack and shinra has one when they carted off the dead party in the beginning of the game

They should do like a multiple ending kinda thing where your choices determine the final outcome and timeline you end up in. I think that would make everyone happy and bring a lot of replayability to the next game.

Theory here but the game that we're playing is the main branch of the timeline, like if you watched Loki and how there's a main line and everything else is the branch offs. When Sephiroth mentioned world colliding, I think it's a mention that the separate branches of the main time line is merging. We can kinda tell from the last battle and a lot of cut scenes referencing that and how Cloud can see the open rift in the sky. This is also similar to No Way Home as well when Spider-Man opens up a rift to the Multiverse and can see multiple villains from different time lines like how he met the other Spider-Mans. Regardless, characters that MUST die for the main timeline to continue on like Aerith for example.

Can’t Wait for part 3, give us more extra story and make it breath taking.

03:49 Brother. I heard him say "Aeris" here. I used to say it that way to up until remake released w/ voice acting

I have a feeling the remake trilogy will end exactly the same as the original but instead of going in a straight line to get there, they’ve sent us through a maze to get there

The question about Zack is 1:what will he do to the main timeline we playing so a new ending will form? 2: since he was saved by whispers does it imply sephiroth saved him?

Two different timelines are happening, one is the original and I believe the other timeline is somehow being manipulated to where it wants Aerith to live so Sephiroth can destroy the planet without the lifestream. Sephiroth quoted “I underestimated you” towards the end after Aerith passing and her siding with cloud to fight him off. Plus, I think Zack will reunite with Aerith again eventually but both having to pass away together in a different scenario not like the original. Imo.

I haven't heard anyone else talk about this, but did anyone get the vibe that Zack was in the main timeline the whole time? That the timelines had already somewhat merged but only in Midgar? I feel like there were a few things that indicated this. 1. The timing of Zack returning to Midgar was wrong. The reactor bombings and the fall of the plate had already happened. If Zack had simply survived and continued to Midgar, he should have arrived before the bombing of reactor 1. 2. Aerith was with the party. If cloud wasn't in Midgar, how would Aerith have met Barret & Tifa. The shinra trooper saying "the fugitive is an ex-soldier with a buster sword" was an interesting choice of words, as it could refer to Cloud or Zack. Maybe he was actually referring to our Cloud? 3. The news report about the tornado in midgar is word for word identical when you hear it on the radio in Kalm. 4. Ifalna and Marlene know Cloud? The Marlene that Zack talks to seems to be the exact some one from our main timeline. My impression on my first playthrough was that Midgar was the epicentre of the world's merging and that the characters can't be conscious twice in the same world (or something🤷‍♂️). On my 2nd playthrough, I'm not ruling this out, but there's a couple inconsistencies. 1 is that Red actually does wake up for a moment in the opening scene in Midgar, and 2 is that when Zack drops Cloud with Kyrie and says "can you look after my friend?" She doesn't give any indication that she knows Cloud, but it could be that Zack just runs off before she has a chance to say anything.

I'm pretty sure that the main reason for Cloud being able to see the rift in the sky and Aerith is because Sephiroth gave Cloud his "gift" When he mentions that he cannot see the truth with such clouded eyes, it reaffirmed that Sephiroth gave Cloud his gift to manipulate him further as well Making it seem like his mental state is deteriorating further Essentially fragmenting Cloud's mind more and more...

I think we will get to see and fight the original Weapons. They do seem to be staying true to the original boss designs quite nicely. Seeing Bizzaro-Sephiroth and how true they stayed with his design shocked me. I was afraid they were just going to stick with his humanoid version throughout the whole thing, like in every other spin-off he's been in. That battle alone sparked much hope in seeing the true Weapons, Safer-Sephiroth, and (fingers crossed) Knights of the Round. The multiple timeline thing is a bit weird but over all I think they are doing a great job and I have high hopes for part 3.

Who was cloud talking to as he fell into the church in remake??? That weird scene with all black/white background after the airbuster

I wonder if they are going to interweave any of Vincent's backstory into it or any of the dirge of cerberus storylines

I had hoped they would answer a couple more questions before adding a bunch more but i guess we're not getting much until part 3

How did they miss that Cloud is able to see and interact with multiple timelines now? He did save Aerith in one and that created a branching timeline where she never summoned holy, and another where he was a split second too late and she still died.

Can someone confirm that this will 100% lead to advent children? Anyone online is saying a different thing

The Biggs being shot was a different timeline branch created when Zack had to choose between the cure for Cloud or finding Biggs. Zack, the way I'm seeing it right now is kinda like Loki in season 2. I'm also getting the feeling he's breaking the 4th wall. Zack is being sent on a Journey to find Aerith and Cloud. Aerith being saved when Cloud blocked Sephiroth created a new branch which is where I think Zack is going. Aerith hints to finding the real Cloud like in the original so I think shes speaking to herself in multiple timelines. The real question is, if Aerith is searching for Cloud and dealing with Sephiroth from creating an apocolypse/incursion/secret wars like event, who is moving Zack? Gilgamesh talks about this worlds Legendary sword user and hinting it maybe Cloud but I think its Zack. Only thing throwing me off is the Whispers. Black represents Sephiorth and white represents Aerith? Or could it be Angeal representing white. I think the Finale in part 3 will give us a little bit of hope where worlds collide and dimensions start to merge just for a little while but as fate will have it somethings just have to be the way it is.

i remember cloud always see aerith's spirit in advent children so they really incorporate advent children in final fantasy 7 rebirth.

I truly hope we will see and fight all of the weapons from the og . It part of the heart of ff7

Give whoever wrote the script for this segment a raise!

We’re actually shown atleast 3 different versions of Zack’s timeline not 2. One where he goes to the Midgar Building, one where he goes to the reactor and one where he does neither and goes to the church. Also gunned down implies he dies however we don’t see that on screen, I actually think the reactor scene shows Zack becoming aware of his fate so he tries to avoid it by doing something he would normally never do, running away.

Who was aerith talking to in her room at both under junon inn and costa del sol inn ?

The first time that Cloud saw the sky rift is when he was in different world from the one he came from. So my theory is that he's in another world at the end of the game. And in his original world, Cloud and Aerith are dead when Sephiroth cut the rock he's hanging from. He got tranfered to another world when he's close to dead just like how Big and Zack were.

Q.1. Is Sephiroh from the future? Answer: No. What happens is that on ff7remake one of his entities was able to fuse with the whispers arbitures of fate. Which means it gives him the knowledge to see future timelines, now that does not mean he have access to all of them as the characters are able to change their own fates even against the whispers, do they are not all knowledgeable. Also there are whispers that also work against his own will, sometimes expressed as white whispers.

The way I understood cloud seeing Areith still is cause he’s simultaneously living in 2 timelines. And that they’re playing out the same with the only difference is that Areith is still alive in one. Kinda similar to how Areith might have been at the end of remake, cause of the scene where she feels Zack’s presence, and her comments about the sky in integrade. Which for the English version was patched somewhat recently to “I don’t like this sky” or something like that. Which means she was probably seeing the rift that Cloud is seeing at the end. Areith seems in tune with her other self’s and can see events from other timelines. So to me it seems Cloud is sort of doing that unknowingly between the two timelines of where she lived and didn’t cause those outcomes were based solely on his actions.

Not sure why, but I never found any grey area, which then leads me to question anything. I mean the answers basically lie in the original game, and that's it. Any change made would only bring chaos to the story itself, which I hate it. Fortunately, so far, based on the remake and rebirth, they still follow the essentials. I love the way they added small differences, like how cloud met yuffie, but do not really affect the essentials of the story.

I think you're missing out on the bigger picture, also zack wasn't gun down, in the stamps is a pug universe he jumps over the edge refusing the fate. And it the stamp is a corgi universe when we see Johnny walk by. Thats the Zack what breaks through at the courterpoint after sephiroth pushing him through. From what we've seen both aerith and sephiroth have an omnipresent that not only see in to the Multiverse but can travel between them and can portal people through them. Having an omnipresent means that there is essentially one sephiroth and one aerith fraction over space and time. In one of these universe, Cloud saves Aerith. If sephiroth has this omnipresent across tbe multiverse thanks to Jenova. Cloud having some of sephiroth cells could mean he's seeing things unfold in different universe at the same time. That its not mako poisoning. But just extremely hard to confusing for him, allowing Jenova to manipulate him. This is why he thinks Tifa has No scar. That hes confusing her with another version he's seen. This is why he sees aerith alive at the end. Its just not this universe aerith. As for the og game that all happened, it ran parallel to what we are playing now. What happened in the og is only a small part of a much bigger story

Cloud like zack can't suffer from degregation, because both of them got jenova cells from s type, not g like all other members of soldier.

I think Cloud seeing Aerith and the tear comes down to him now carrying the White Materia and having gone to the other timeline with Aerith when they fell and then woke up in the other world. The tears appear in timelines that are about to expire, and Cloud being exposed to one while with Aerith might be why. As far as the white materia, it has a connection to the planet and the Lifestream. There are 2 scenes in game where we hear Aerith talking to someone who no one else sees, even though the game tries to have people think Nanaki is who she was talking with. Now that Cloud has the materia, and his connection with Aerith, he is now able to converse with her.

Just finished the game and loved it. Story wise i don't the multiverse stuff but as fan service it's great.

8:40 clouds possession of the black materia?

4:25 well, you need to gather 7 specific orange materia and give it a try.

Theory 1: Zack changed his fate when he jumped and ran. Theory 2: The Gi will be ferried by the team to another realm/afterlife in order to pass on. Can't forget that we saw the Essentric Sword Master pass through a portal. And he did say that he would return. Theory 3: the white whispers are either the will of the planet, or the will of the Cetra.

I remember seeing an interview with Nomura saying the character death at the end of Rebirth is permanent. My guess is that Aerith is likely not coming back.

Playing rebirth made me really wish that Square would make a remake of FF7 instead of just spinoffs set in the same universe. Can you imagine FF7 origional but with rebirths graphics? That would be so GOOD. Its just unfortunate we did not get that.

Sephiroth is dead, he died 5 years ago. Cloud killed him in Nibelheim after Zack failed to kill him, cloud was impaled and he used Sephiroth's sword to fling him into the lifestream. Cloud & Zack are then captured by Hojo who infects them with Jenova. Jenova is a parasite, that is what causes Clouds Hallucinations when he see's Sephiroth, all the men in black robes are infected with Jenova, Sephiroth had Jenova cells injected into his embroyo prior to his birth, so did Angeal and Genesis. Jenova is what drove Sephiroth crazy when he burned Nibelheim to the ground. Because Jenova makes Soldiers stronger, Hojo intentially infects himself with Jenova (per Dirge of Cerberus game) so Hojo is being mentally controlled by Jenova as well. Cloud finds Sephiroth's corpse (his upper half anyway) in the lifestream in the Northern Crater in the 1997 Original Game. Sephiroth is DEAD, he's been dead this whole time.

assesing the white whispers answer parts of the question. their object is to correct destiny across all timelines.

Why does cloud have black materia at end of game?

Cloud did and also didn't save Aerith, it split into two timelines, the events of the original game and Rebirth. Aerith has already shown the ability to live in the space between timelines, so I have a feeling in part 3 "Journey's End" I'm assuming all the timelines will reconnect and Aerith will pop in again where others than just Cloud can see her.

As a i have understood the events, only zack remained separated because sephiroth slashed him off during the merging (maybe that's how sephiroth breaks fate and created another world for zack). The comatosed aerith and cloud were gone or merged with main timeline. Only cloud can see alive aerith and rift because he was the only one who entered the destiny barrier at the last chapter. When cloud entered that barrier another world was created: the world where he saved aerith. So when the timelines merged only cloud can see alive aerith, plus the sky rift. Remember that created worlds will eventually end. So that world where aerith lived will also end soon and cloud still stop seeing the sky rift. I think this will burden cloud until advent children (why he was emo in ac) The black whispers in remake control fate. The black whispers in rebirth are sephiroth's will. The white whispers are the lifestream's will. Based on what the gi tribe said, the world is preventing anyone who's not from earth to return to the planet when they die. The planet could have not consider sephiroth part of the planet as he was born from jenova. So when he was thrown into the lifestream, the lifestream has been rejecting him for years. The white whispers are acting like white blood cells, fighting sephiroth like a virus. But since sephiroth is stubborn, even sending his own whispers to influence events, he is considered as threat by the white whispers/lifestream so they started creating weapons. Zack and aerith will end up as they were in advent children. Rebirth explains why cloud seems to see aerith in ac. We all thought cloyd just couldn't move on, but rebirth now explains that this is a time merging syndrome. When aerith and zack bid farewell to him in the end of ac, it looks like that world that was created has finally end. Cloud may have finally accepted that aerith is really dead in the main timeline. Is sephiroth from the future? Im not sure. But i think not. I just think sephiroth had access powers similar to aerith's when he was thrown to the lifestream. When aerith touched red and marlene they also saw a glimpse of the future. Cloud (soaked in mako) also had visions of the future. So i think the ability to see the future is more of an ability. I still think ff7remake trilogy is just an expansion of the story of ff7og, and not a sequel about sephiroth going back to the past to alter events. As per the gi tribe. I think nomura expanded on their lore to explain that the world does not allow non-earth beings from returning to the planet, in order to justify why sephiroth is still longering whole in the lifestream as tifa saw him around his own whispers.

There's a big differences between interpretation of cloud's prespective of aerith "returning to the forgotten capitial" and what's really happening, aerith ghost returning to the life stream to help stop meteor

I think Cloud did save Aerith in rebirth's timeline, or a different timeline. Everyone else is sad and mourning in timelines where she did die. And in the final cutscene I think it shows that cloud is somehow experiencing every timeline in one, thus why he can see the apocalyptic sky while nobody else can. Who knows, just how I interpreted it all.

My theory is that “The destroyer of worlds” that Cetra mention in their explanation about the black materia is Cloud, that’s why Sephiroth needs him so badly. Cloud has the potential of destroying the planet and all of its versions. And I guess Aerith from the alternative timeline knows that, that’s why she says: “It’s about saving the world and you” - she knows that Cloud can be saved from the destiny that Sephiroth calls upon him. But it’s just a theory, I think the Ultimania will clear things up.

What happens to the unconscious cloud and the rest of avalanche in zacks timeline and what is with the ex soldier with the buster sword who is with avalanche in zacks timeline does that mean there is three clouds

Im still wondering about what appeared to be a tease of Jessie being alive in remake

I thought it was obvious they sepiroth was from the og time line and that when aeriths dies cloud creates a split in the timeline where in one he saves her and the main time line where she dies and the aerith we see at the end talking to cloud is the one that’s alive as the time lines are connected by the rift in the sky and by traveling in different time lines they can see and feel each other

My question is why is Marlene and Elmyra in the Lifestream realm where Zack takes Cloud to Midgar?

The Roth played the OG on the PSone he knew exactly what was going to happen

i still don't understand how this whole remake saga started or what was the triggering event for the nature of these events

Easy white blood cells, white whispers. The planet, which overlaps with Aerith and her assisting the lifestream and Planet.

The whispers where controlled by the arbiter of faith, after it's defeated Sephiroth absorbs the power (is clearly in the final cut scene) that why he controls them and why he has purple aura The white whisper are Holy whispers, summon by the white materia, that's why is all clear materia now, Sephiroth wanted this, so holy Won't be cast to stop Meteor

cant wait to see how zack plays a role again in part 3

Anyone else catch Cait Siths 1st prophecy? In the original game the first few prophecies are obviously trash. Until the last big prophecy. In the remake it’s made to look like that but there’s a good chance his throwaway wrong prophecies is actually true too.

1. No, he's not from the future. If you know about the OG game, then you know Sephiroth is embedded in the lifestream. The game establishes through Tifa and Aerith that the lifestream is connected to all worlds, so as soon as the gang open up the multi-verse at the end of Remake, Sephiroth becomes aware of it. You have to remember that through being in the lifestream and injecting Jenova's cells into it, he is basically a God. This lifestream connection is how Aerith knows the same things come the end of the game, after her commune in the Temple of the Ancients. 2. Which Zach? We are shown several timelines and several Zach's that survived. 5. See point 1 above. Once the Harbinger was destroyed they were tossed to the lifestream. This is covered in Chapter 10. 6. The planet controls the white ones, again shown in Chapter 10. They also only come under Aerith's control at the end of the game when many things change; again see point 1.

We also have to think it this way, if Aerith, Zac and co. have to die eventually even Sephiroth has to die or brought down one way or another which gives me hope at whatever dark shit ia gonna happen in part 3, Sephi will not succeed

If sep can control the whispers, i can only imagine an ancient can control a faction as well.

I believe that Cloud is interacting with the Aerith that was asleep when Zack visited Elmyra & Marlene in another timeline. HOW precisely I'm uncertain, but it's pretty on the nose in Zack & Marlenes conversation at Elmyra's house. Zack is told by Marlene that "If SHE (sleeping Aerith) wakes up SHE is going to die (our Aerith). Notably, Marlene also tells Zack that he HAS to help Cloud get better or else he can't save Aerith. HOW exactly Marlene is so aware of the going ons I'm unsure, but I would almost expect timeline hopping Zack to turn up at a crucial moment to help OUR Cloud 'get better'. Could we get unplayable Cloud left in Mideel & Zack joins the gang to fill in for our sword muscle? Could 'Marlene' be Jenova/Sephiroth trying to manipulate Aeriths survival to ensure Meteors success? Or as some have theorized, could the Aerith only cloud see simply just BE Jenova? Jenova is known to take the forms or friends & loved ones to lower the guard of its victims. Could this truly just be sleeping Aerith whisked into another timeline, but ONLY Cloud who was dragged through the multiverse & visibly SAW the timelines gained the ability to see overlapping realities as stated in the video? I know some don't like the confusing nature of the ending, but I personally think it wouldve been a tad too predictable & wouldn't have caught our attention if they stuck strictly to the ps1 game without acknowledging the compilation of ff7 which INCLUDES Advent Children. I'm leaning towards agreeing we will see some iteration of Advent Children in pt. 3. It was confirmed in the Ultimania that there is some connection between the fighting style of the 3 whispers we fought at the end of remake & Sephiroths remnants. I personally love that they've given us fresh life into a 27 year old game. Haven't heard anyone local to me or online mention the sleeping Aerith yet so just thought I'd get it out there. Happy theorizing all! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ACxK1asCHMA.htmlsi=pvRSlI6Y-C86yeHT twitter.com/aitaikimochi/status/1255037127286378497?s=19

I wanna know how the Biggs who knew Cloud to he a mercenary ended up in the Zack timeliness.

I really hope the devs know what they’re doing for part 3

I wonder how cool would have been the OG final fantasy vii just with updated graphic, music and dubbed. I guess we'll never know

If you had let the cutscene play longer, you would’ve seen Zack run away and survive, he doesn’t get gunned down.

The real big question is will part 3 finally explain the secret ending of FF7 Dirge of Cerberus or is that going to forever be a cliffhanger.

maybe the black wispers where created by the dead SOLSIERS and the jenova shells in them cause as the story aplies when some dies hes body return to the life stream, so they poison it slowly, i believe hojo knows that thats why he laughs at the last chapter and is waiting whats gonna happen.

6:46 probably pointed out by someone already but he absorbed them in remake…

I would like to have an answer to whether ff7 world is connected to ffX

So when the game starts in the Terrier-timline, Zach is hauling around mako-poisoned Cloud and sees on Midgar TV that Shinra is searching for one last person with a buster sword as they load the remaining injured party members into helicopters. This has always bothered me. The timing is all messed up... Zach and Cloud's trek to Midgar clearly happens before the events of FF7, but when Zach watches the TV broadcast, it implies that the current moment in time is after the main parties raid on Shinra HQ. All this makes me believe that pre FF7 Zach and Cloud were brought into the Terrier timeline. It's not their original. Which would mean that Terrier-timelines' original Cloud is still running around.

I need more playable Zack in part 3. My favorite character outside of the main party

This game has the power to have you impersonate completely ine od the character, more precisely Zack: both he and the player are confused as hell with all that mess happening. Well played.

Cloud has the reading steiner 😎

Cloud is now living in between worlds. One where he saved Areth, and one where he didn't, and you tell by this with him looking up and seeing the rift in the sky, and his othet party memebers cant. The worlds with thr rift in the sky are doomed to he destroyed aka the homecoming because there is no life stream on those worlds to stop Meteor. What probably going to happen in part 3 is Cloud will have to choose does he doom the world that doesn’t Aerth or does he pick the world with Aerth, and still be doomed snice the world he saved her will be doomed also. Which is the end goal for sephiroth to take over the main world.

Everyone realizes that this ending has done its job right? Everyone has no clue what is going to happen If they had kept it exactly like the OG you would know and there would be no hype/wonder/speculation. It has given you the sensation of not knowing and wanting to find out what happens. I call that a win and I love it.

Question to everybody: Who's going to be the waifu-material main healer in part 3 if not Aerith? Cloud's explosion HP absorb build aint going to cut it.

I think there’s a lot of misunderstandings by the average player about what’s actually happening through the conclusion of part 2. First off, Cloud DID succeed in thwarting Aerith’s death so Sephiroth had to switch the timelines to cover for that, leaving Aerith dead in our timeline. After the convergence of these timelines, they are now separate again. A lot of players have said they think Cloud is “hallucinating” seeing Aerith but it’s more likely Aerith is communicating with Cloud from the other timeline while also not letting the others see her. Obviously Cloud wouldn’t be aware that this is the case. In the final scene in the grasslands, it is CLEAR Cloud is NOT hallucinating as Aerith is watching over everyone. Her Appearance is not being produced by Sephiroth. Important note: Cloud can see the dimensional rift in the sky which suggests he could very well be occupying both timelines. Cloud is also left with the transparent clear Materia which suggests that version of it does not have the ability to summon holy. Convergence of the timelines will have to occur again to ensure victory over Sephiroth and ensure the plants survival.

That would be absolutely outrageous if we can’t fight against weapons in part3

They also didn't answer which timeline the Zack in the Intermission ending is.

I think the black Whispers or Setorth and the white or Aiorth or versions of them

1. Duh. Yes. The Sephiroth from Advent Children (after his defeat) went back in time or dimension hopped and is trying to change the outcome of what happened. Have we SEEN Sephiroth in Remake or Rebirth? No. As with the original game (OG), his body is still crystallized in the Northern Crater. We are seeing echoes of him via Jenova in the Robed Men/Hooded Men. We are also seeing Cloud internally fighting Sephiroth (in his head) struggling to maintain control of himself. 2. Yes, Zack will definitely survive and he will come in clutch at the very end of the game. Whether he dies there is uncertain but I think he and Aerith will make a triumphant return and will turn the tide of the final battle. Otherwise, bringing him back to life is completely pointless narratively. 3. Sephiroth will absorb every and all timelines except for 1 and that will be the one where he rules. This will make him even more powerful than Safer Sephiroth. He'll become something we've never seen before and it'll take the whole team, including, Aerith, the Cetra and Zack to stop him. Unless they go for a redemption thing with Sephiroth where he finally snaps out of it and takes Jenova down. Who knows for sure. But one thing is clear all the other timelines will be absorbed. 4. OG Aerith is still alive. Whether she'll get her body back in the end is another question. All other versions of Aerith are dead. The one that lives is from the OG timeline. She will be pivotal in stopping Sephiroth's plan of becoming a multi-dimensional god or at the very least will help reverse it. 5. The Echoes of Sephiroth gained control of the Whispers the moment the fake Black Materia was taken by Cloud (because Cloud is connected to Jenova and Jenova Prime is still inside of Sephiroth at the Northern Crater). That, in combination with the team destroying fate, likely weakened the Whispers, allowing him to take control of them even from there. Also, he's growing more powerful because of his ability to jump dimensions. He's likely taking Whispers from every timeline he can. 6. OG Aerith controls the white whispers. The Echoes/Will of Sephiroth controls the dark whispers. The planet controls the gray whispers. 7. Cloud can't see Aerith. He THINKS he can but it's all in his head because he's losing his mind and it's escalating. He thinks he saved her or at the very least believes he didn't just stand there and let her die. Hell, for all we know, he's the one that actually killed Aerith this time around under the influence of Jenova. However, it's also likely possible that Aerith from the OG timeline is keeping him "together" as best she can and this might be part of it. But it's clear his mind is splitting or now linked across dimensions. 8. No idea about Gatha. 9. Ditto. 10. Ruby and Emerald will still likely be optional super bosses on Hard Mode. Sapphire dies by Shrina. Diamond is delayed by the team and killed by Shrina in the OG so the same scenario will likely play out. We will definitely fight Ultima Weapon. Hope that helped!

I think AC Sephiroth said something like "I will not be a memory", he literally meant that so He used whatever power he has left during AC before he "died" to go back in time and started changing timelines. Hopefully part 3 we get to fight 1 big Sephiroth head until he became good and realizes that all these started with Hojo and the party decides to kill Hojo and slap the mako out of Dr Lucrecia before she sleeps with Hojo LOL.

They all Through Cloud Was Crazy when he and Aerith Saw the Whispers. Then it happened and the whole party saw it with Clean Eyes