Sephiroth Changes The Past!? | My Big Insane Final Fantasy 7 Remake Theory (Part 2 / Rebirth) 

The 30 second teaser clip at the end of the credits will show Cloud sleeping in a car and waking us as Noctis in a dream

I would like to see a return of not-insane, good-guy Sephiroth.

Cloud's memory IS us, our memory of the original story. Square are using the forth wall to manipulate the story and change the outcome.

I love how everyone thinks that Sephiroth wants the story to pan out the same way that it did in the past. You know with him getting killed over and over again because of a blonde chocobo that is struggling just as much as he is. I find it interesting that when me and a few people on Facebook discussed theories everyone was surprised when I brought this up: Sephiroth opens the Crossroads of Destiny for us, he even cuts down a few whispers...so I asked them if he wants the game to play out the same way why does he keep interfering with the Whispers when all he has to do is sit back and let the Whispers keep interfering. At the Edge of Creation when Cloud was having a Jenova attack why did Sephiroth take his arm and stop the attack instead of letting Jenova have her way with Cloud's mind mold him for Reunion. It seems to me that Sephiroth is trying to make a change to the flow of destiny...he knows Cloud has a better chance of changing things then anyone else because he cherishes everything (he said so in Advent Children). Cloud also told Sephiroth that he looked up to him once and Sephiroth kind of threw it off with a humph like you fool but he was still listening. Cloud looked up to him before he fell, wanted to be like him...and the more I played the Dissidia the more I felt Sephiroth's words were always to guide Cloud to, help him because no offense to Cloud but he is not a people person at all...honestly someone needs to count over all the canon material where Cloud has a regular conversation with someone that is more than a few words and I bet you will find that he talks with Sephiroth even more than he talks with all his friends and allies.

Hey Pez, just finished a Japanese playthrough of the game. Probably the biggest shift for me was when Aerith says, "And you, you're wrong." The word is more like mistaken. Not like he shouldn't exist. As for where the next game could end I'm hoping Nibelhiem flashback to Nibelhiem proper. I'd also be okay with Junon or the boat ride to Costa Del Sol if they add like Modeohiem or something to the map. Ultimately, I hope they take their time and give us a good, segmented world and then spoil us when we get the Highwind by giving us access to all those segments, connected in an open world.

These theories are the only things keeping me tied over until our next dose of FF - big thanks Pez

This idea might suck, but I was inspired by your theory on expanded player choice, and just had to throw this out there: You know how Remake has an invisible relationship counter that changes certain scenes and team compositions based on the players' interactions with other characters? What if, rather than reward the player, a future installment punishes the player by hurting (or perhaps even killing off) party members that have the highest karmic standing/highest point value with Cloud? I realize this would probably be a nightmare to implement, but it would be a fresh way to surprise the player and bring out similar emotions to Aerith dying in the OG. Again, I realize this probably would be too ambitious, but I just had to get it out there.

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You know, having a 4 hours shoot could mean different things: 1. it could be a batch of different scenes with Sephiroth, but not continual. 2. it could only be a 10 min scripts, but shooting it with differents actor's play and redoing the shot could amount ot a 4h shoots. 3. Everything technical, if the actors needs to play with the environements, do several takes could also amount to a 4h shoot.

I love the idea of Sephiroth being the one subtlety acting different during the flashbacks. Maybe not altering the characters past but fucking with OUR view of the past/OG. I worry that you couldn't tell those alternate what if scenarios and still show/tell us the OG story.

Whatever they end up doing I am sooo excited. I really really loved the FF7:Remake despite some of it's faults. Everything in the game was so good that the faults were so minor to me I could care less. I'm sure the gameplay elements that people had issues with will be resolved in the next game and if the world opens up anymore than what we got with Midgar then man oh man, this is going to be sooo good! :)

Actual translation of Sephiroth's words at edge of creation. "Careful now, from this moment the future does not yet exist." Description of arbiter... basically tells us this isn't a remake but a sequel. The world preview tells us that the entire compilation happened, zack died, etc. Then.. things changed. You changed things. Zack is alive, people survived the plate fall despite 2015's "the kids are alright" definitively tells us nobody survived it, it was completely crushed (but we know it isn't completely crushed it didn't land flat), etc. We also have sephiroth jumping months into the future to absorb meteor...which he hasn't summoned yet... to regain memories and essence that he hasn't yet sacrificed....etc.

Pez's idea about playing the past for the characters and changing the past is interesting but I don't see how Sephy can do that. I mean it would make sense him making Cloud relive it and making Cloud think he changed at least the part of his mother dying, but the others I don't see how Sephy could do it to them because the difference between Cloud and the others is Sephy's cells. Cloud has them but the others don't. The part where it looks like Zack's fate being changed could more be that of the Whispers being affected by Sephy. But that's not him sending anyone back into the past. Now I know someone might pointed out that Sephy might've sent himself into the past which is why we have remake, but Sephy has Genova cells and he's spend a lot of time in the lifestream. Two things that no one else has. Next you might point out that Aerith seems to be acting like she's from the future too. But my counter to that is that one. She's and ancient and two. there's a chance that future Aerith is more working through her past self by sending memories back, not her actual self. Sephy and Aerith are two very different people from the rest of the cast. They both have a thing that could make sending themselves back in some form possible while the rest don't have such things. Now Seph could still use this trick on Cloud by making him relive the past and think that he's changed things only for Cloud to later find out it's all a lie, thus pushing him into despair and making him more moldable for Sephy. But like I said, outside of this working on Cloud I don't see how Sephy could send the others back in time to those moments in their lives to get them to try to change things. Also in the case of Cid, given the fact that we know he loves her, I would more believe that Cid would get Shera into that area of the rocket to fix the thing that she realized needed fixing rather than just going "Fuck that woman! Space here I come!" because present day Cid, although upset about not getting to space has grown to love her and that would keep him from actually doing anything that would make her die in the past.

i don 't know about you but for me the space dust shape thingy at the edge of creation always kinda reminded me of safer Sephiroth for some reason it's kinda in the same shape and color pallet as Safer Sephiroth.

The Sephiroth tune in the intro was a big give away that something was different. One of the biggest tells was actually in the final trailer, where they showed meteor with the breaking in the back of it, that showed that Sephiroth knew the future. But, of course, like you Pez, I just put it aside and played the game like I was replaying the original.

"The Price of Freedom" OST From Crisis Core is to me the most powerful song emotionally. Let's see how Nomura takes the literal Freedom that we/our characters created. Amazing video Pez as usual, i can watch you talk about FF7 all day.

[@Keith Campbell pointed out that I'm wrong here so never mind. Leaving original post in place for context] Hey Pes, ever notice when Cloud asks Aerith if she knows who Sephiroth is (after encountering the clone in sector 5) that she says the news said he died 5 years ago? Isn't that odd? The burning of Neibelheim was 7 years ago...

Pez dude I haven’t seen one of your vids in forever like wth glad to see your still going

I love your theories and ideas Pez! They make everything so clear

You’re my favorite FF theory guy! You’re so entertaining haha. Also I like a lot of your theories! So curious to see where they go with the story...

I was thinking about the term “7 seconds”, I wonder if sephiroth is referring to 7 second chances to change fate ? Barrett / Dyne arc. Tifa / Nibelheim arc. Red XIII / Seto arc. Cid / Shera Yuffie / Wutai war Vincent / Lucrecia Aerith / not dying. I didn’t include cait with as he’s a puppet controlled remotely and replaced instantly lol

hang on.. did you say that the whisperers "jammed the guns" of the soldiers who were against Zack? nah, the whisperers were there to make sure that Zack died and that went tits up when we defeated the harbinger of destiny

hmm, maybe supports "Ever Crisis" being the last part's title - the crisis that has to happen no matter what you've tried to do.

You never fail to blow my mind in the best way possible!

37:29 Lol the light at that moment when you said don't subscribe 😂😂😂

Great video! I'm holding out hope that Sephiroth realizes that meteor is the only way to stop the complete destruction of the world at the hands of Jenova. He wants to pass on to the life stream completely, but cannot do to Jenova. He needs Clouds help to preform his final sacrifice to save the world.

I feel after the last part of ff7 remake the person to die is not aerith but cloud that what his 7 second decision will be to defeat sephiroth

7 parts??? 😮 lol Edit: dammit I was doin good till I heard that Crisis Core song. That game was so damned impactful to me that even thinking about it breaks me, especially hearing that song.

For someone like myself who couldn't really wash the disappointment away of the trajectory of the remake revealed in its final chapter of part 1, this theory actually gets me a little excited again for part 2. fun theory and good video pez

You’ve done it again Pez, if this all plays out, the next few games should be epic (story wise at least)

I get so emotional watching this theory with the music in the background and I get so many ideas of my own! I like your theories, great job :) The way you gone about it doesn't invalidate the original storyline, since that happened and now it is changing, because Sephiroth somehow... can, I like it a lot. So I wonder if the story takes us through Crisis Core, FF7, AC and Dirge of Cerberus and after that final scene that forever will bug me, when Genesis gets Weiss' body, could it be that this actually leads to what is happening in the FF7 Remake? Just an idea I would really love somehow... though I wouldn't know how that happens or what they are doing... I also can imagine that the story will explore all those hardships and the need to change it, the need to make it best for everyone with the final result that Cloud, or maybe Aerith as a new protagonist ends up alone, because everyone has their happy lifes and no reason to fight Sephiroth or to restore the original timeline that is tragic but necessary. Maybe it's not that they try to change it and it just goes worse (classic butterfly effect - though I really like both ideas), but it is fine and they just stay in their happy new timeline and it's about them breaking free, breaking out of that perfect happy ending for them, to achieve a greater goal, namely saving the planet. And it's really us that questioned the past, why does Aerith have to die, why Zack? We don't want that but... it is what we have to make happen in the end and it's going to be emotional, maybe we have to kill Aerith with our own hands in the end, or at least watch her die, because it has to be, instead of not letting her go all alone, instead of rushing after her to be in time to save her. Accepting loss will probably be a major theme and maybe even Vincent, after two games and one film and I don't know how many years can finally let go of Lucrecia. (And maybe she can stop apologizing too ;) ) And as a final note to invalidate my seriousness: I just realized... Vincent being with Lucrecia would kiiinda be bad for Sephiroth, because that would mean he eventually never got born? He's like, oh yeah, change it to your happy endi--- wait, no, nonono *fades out*

How excited you're getting I feel like this is all stuff you just want to see in part 2 lol But I love those ideas! and playing as Seto will be incredible! Also those ideas dont seem too far. Remember how dark 10 was. Although I absolutely do not think Zacks or Aeriths deaths should be changed.

Real quick before I watch the full video thank you Pez for acknowledging that Aerith’s Death at the end of Part 2 is unfortunately A LOT to ask for

PLEASE DONT MAKE THE SETO SCENE EVEN MORE GROWN MAN CRY MODE...PLEASE

Final Fantasy VII is really a love of mine that is helping me get through life right now ❤️

I agree with you Pez, i dont believe its gonna play out like the OG, same locations sure but storywise things are gonna be different i cannot say what or how because i dont know at this point, but SE even says it at the end of the game "The unexpected journey will continue" and i made a video on this a while back about how i do believe it's one timeline and still do there is more evidence leading to it being one than multi. I should do a follow up video really. The only thing i can say will remain the same is meteor falling but i dont think meteor will be the end game this time around as that would be too predictable. It could even happen sooner than expected. Great video as always.

How they handle the flashback in the Part 2 starting bit will DEFINE how the rest of the story is going to go. If it goes the OG way, that has alot of connotations, what is Tifa thinking? is this reality true now? did somthing change? if it doesnt play out the same, is this the new way it went? is this how cloud and tifa remember it going but it didnt? going to be a mind cluster F :)

Did you see SE trademarked "Ever Crisis" and "The first Soldier"?

I love your passionate ramblings. You've got me all excited again... which is a double-edged sword, cos really, how long we gonna have to wait for the answers to our questions, right?

I think With the destruction of the world by sephiroth, the lifestream sent clouds memory back in time, to reset events. No matter how events play out, cloud is always the one to face sephiroth at the end. I think Zack being alive will create a more unpredictable eventuality than we can imagine tho.

My guess is part 2 comes in few years and it final boos is Jenova at the ship after Junon. Mayby ship will sink after battle and team might split up in chaos. Or what if "Real" Jenova will awaken...

Love this theory I think Remake Sephiroth tricked us into defeating 'The Harbinger of Faith' so that OG Sephiroth could suceed If Cloud had saved Aerith, she wouldn't have been in the Lifestream to activate Holy to counteract Meteor. If Zack had never died, Cloud would've turned out completely different It makes so much sense

But Sephiroth's plan fails because he killed Aerith, thereby returning her to the planet so she can give an assist to Holy. If Sephy wants destruction, he would have no reason to kill Aerith, OR he would kill her earlier before she can pray.

I love how almost 1 year later after the games release youre still making videos 🙏 Other ff channels moved on after the 2nd week 🤣

I love the multiple endings theory. I kind of remember square doing this for Star Ocean. The big question is what can we do in 7 seconds to determine the ultimate ending? I could almost picture a controller cheat code like they had in OG for the chocobo race, hold R1, R2, L1, L2 and never run out of energy.

haven't even watched the video yet but you always get an instant like for me when you do a theory video!

I liked the way you laid out your theory Pez. I am all on board the idea some people have proposed that each subsequent game will have a “Re...” name. This fits with what you said about the second game focusing on the character’s regrets. How about this... Game 1. Ff7 Remake Game 2. Ff7 Regret Game 3. Ff7 Reunion Game 4. Ff7 Rebirth

If there is no chocobo raising then pt. 2 will be a failure.😁

i enjoyed it. its fun to see different sides of how this could go

I'll arrange my theories in descending order of certainty, using some speculation from Pez and more from my impression of the story. Certain= 1) Anything that looks like it has been changed for the better, Sephiroth will revert or make worse. He's bringing Cloud despair in hopes of making him an ally. "See how hopeless it is and how much of a failure you are?" 2) Aerith still dies, but this happens after the player is given false hope she can be saved. 3) Most everything is done in the Remake canon to make the same things happening a second time seem surprising to old fans. What happened to Zack? What happened in Nibelheim? What's Sephiroth after? What does the ending mean? Etc. But some new changes will be made- minor changes- to cause doubt and uncertainty in the player. Mostly Certain= 1) The party will encounter old characters who don't remember them. 2) Dyne is alive and looking for his daughter in Remake Part 2. Barret will have mixed feelings about this. 3) The Nibelheim incident will be made into something controversial in the world of the game. Some will swear that Sephiroth is a hero who went missing in action. Many will believe (falsely) that Wutai instigated a conspiracy or was somehow behind the disaster. Suspicious= 1) Players will be made uncertain about whether Sephiroth is a good or bad guy. 2) Cloud's mom is alive, because: 3) Instead of a memory, the Nibelheim incident will unfold in the present day, with Cloud under the impression things can be changed. The same result will occur, therefore the intention of the scene is to foreshadow the false hope the player feels for improving the game's ending. Ultimately, everything you can expect in the next games is, as Kitase said, going to be the same as it was. The only differences now are going to be in how we arrive at that conclusion. The goal of the changes is to make the game more exciting (as I believe they have) for old and new player alike. So every time you read on a bit of speculation about a change, I think you can reasonably expect said change to somehow always have the same result as before. The first game was like this, only the suspicion of things having changed is the fuel for all these new emotions and theories. I personally really like the approach.

Hmm so perhaps THE REAL Sephiroth joins the party at some point and we get to know the REAL personality of Jenova and she might pick a different champion. Imagine Cloud becoming the final boss battle 👀👀👀👀👀

When I try to make sense of it all in my head I sort of picture the tesseract from Interstellar. A little different because the events in that movie all happened due to the ending of the movie itself, but the concept of that 4th incomprehensible dimension is what I imagine when I think of Sephiroth bouncing up and down the timeline. It's as easy as walking down the street for him.

Ahahah Pez! This was an amazing video with so many great ideas... But if they are gonna make everything you just said I will turn 120 years old before seeing the end of it!!! The idea I love the most is to have multiple endings depending on the choices we will make during the game. I feel that if they do that it will still follow the OG kinda structure and it will give tons of possibilities to new gameplays. The only big problem I see in that is if the Remake is going to have more than 2 parts, how can they link all your choices together? Maybe it will be something that we will have only in the last part?

since we defeated fate at the end of part 1 and now have "boundless freedom", it would be cool if we get to make choices at pivotal moments that ultimately lead to different endings. kind of like mass effect.

Even if this game tanks...the process and fandom leading to the next part is worth the wait. Another fun video thanks!

Hold up, Even Townshend is Rufus's half brother, not Cloud's! Kadaj on the other hand, if we are to believe how he addresses Cloud in Opera Omnia...

I like the idea of there being multiple endings, honestly. I just wanna know about why Sephy would let Zack live since couldn't he potentially join the team if he's alive and then become Cloud's anchor to keep him on the right path? Or could that even be part of his plans to make Cloud become dependent on him? Damn it... I hate trying to outsmart a time traveler.

FF7 Remake is Sephiroths NG+

Hey Pez, happy to have your opinion. My idea is BotW style open world for whole continent 1, with instanced towns like the sectors in Part 1. With lots of Turks and Zack new stories in this Part 2. Then corridor style section up to Gold Saucer, and story skip straight to Temple of the Ancients. Leaving Vincent and Cid to Part 3 with even more open world travel including vehicles.

This takes me back to one of your xv vids, Regis opening the tears to get the ultimate ending that the price is too steep in each of the other timelines/universes. We know that the og timeline is a line where all humanity dies off eventually and the planet is saved but at the cost of all, what if this is another take and while being steep will ensure that humanity itself survives not just the planet? Also not completely finished watching yet but what I’ve heard so far made me make the connection but in reverse.

Like I said before, it will be four parts that follow the vehicles they use. I will post it later, but the idea is walking, rover, little-bronco/ship, highwind.

Your amazing Pez. Hey do you know any more details about exactly when Seph enters into a new memory complex? At desinys core right changing clouds stabbing and untying him from merging with his mother, wouldn't this mean his body is not at the northern crater in remake? I love your God cloud theory, embodying the gift knowing good and evil and choosing the middle balanced way, i also have a hope that Seph gets completely annihilated andi wonder about jenovas end whether she will be purged. How does the OG Planet end ater DC? Does the soul energy from omega restore the planet and humans live on or do the humans die off leaving a canvas for a new birth. If so what about jenova. I wonder how remake will tie up jenova and the cetra, love your vids bro

Even your plant is a fan, it's rocking Cloud's hair shape xD

BTW, I've often wondered... what if Cloud is forced to choose between saving Aerith or Tifa? You think her death messed him up before? Imagine if he was responsible for it...

Also fun. 2 years later: In the ultimania for remake, at creation's edge, it literally says Sephiroth has frozen time 7 seconds before the planet dies, and is using Jenova's power to manipulate memories to manipulate those of the planet itself. In other words, Sephiroth is specifically manipulating the planet's memories which effectively rewrites history itself. Given that Jenova is an allegory for false gods and capitalism, Midgar is an allegory for western influences on Japan, and Sephiroth represents the Japanese government slowly corrupting under the influence of capitalism, it's interesting that between the original game and the start of remake, the Japanese government was caught lying about and rewriting history to hide a lot of atrocities in World War II; something the West also spent a lot of time covering up and sheltering the imperial family from while selecting scapegoats to take the fall. One such scapegoat was a lover of poetry, and another was a general obsessed with honor and who was bestowed with the dream one day all the asian continents would become a single country; a task he was specifically given by the emperor, but that dream was quickly eroded due to the way the soldiers were raised (in Bushido, those who surrender forfeit their honor; in imperial Japan, the emperor was a God, and the Chinese had no God Emperor, so they were inferior; this culminated in theJapanese Holocaust) and no matter how he tried, the soldiers and their commanders completely ignored him and held no respect because he had little to no combat experience. Any attempts to persuade them to reign their soldiers in so that they don't bring further dishonor was fruitless and eventually he and the other took the sole blame for all that was done. Also from the same period of real life history, there was a research division kept underground that performed all kinds of inhumane experiments on volunteers, prisoners, and even each other when they somehow became infected. These seem awfully familiar, don't they? Sephiroth is rewriting history. There were two soldiers in Sephiroth's shadow, one obsessed with poetry and the other refusing to use his sword while obsessing about dreams and honor. The man Angeal represents, however, was treated much better in Crisis Core as something to aspire to for a new generation; someone who tried to do right. He tried to reign Genesis in. Though he still failed. (If they went more literal, the general was laughed at as he tried to plead and even cried to get them to see reason when anger and commands weren't enough.).

Whatever happens, I can't wait to experience it

I've been saying since they released the remake and I beat it that I feel like they are going to make the game have more SERIOUS choices in the game instead of who you get to date. This ending for the remake made it a reality that it could either go forward as a huge red herring and fate can never be changed blah blah or they could give us the reigns to make fate ours and make our reality the truth but in turn make multiple endings to the series.

Pez, you give me much tingles.

My theory is that Aerith will try to undo what Sephiroth is doing and at the end of it all the OG FF7 will be the true Timeline which means the past is in matter of fact the future to these new ff7 Timelines.

1:40 I agree. *Spoilers for original ff7 just in case* I think the best course of action would be to play through to Vincent have him be the final boss and then him join us in the ending credits. Have red 13 playable throughout and we stop by costa del sol and corel and have a Barrett arc and make yuffie playable in the 2nd half of the game, then we should go to wutai. I think meeting bugenhagen and cosmo canyon should wait for the 3rd game but going there will be on reds mind in the 2nd game.That way everybody will have a significant story arc in the game, while introducing new playable and non playable characters.

I can’t wait to see the weapons!!!!!

I know theyve talked about "bitesized" chunks. But unless we are getting a game every 2-3 years, I think they really need to expand the length of the games. I think its poor for the video game industry to put out 5 different 35 hour games. I enjoyed FF7R for the most part, but it felt too short to me. Id like to see them push the main story, no guides, blind playthrough time to 55-60 hours. This doesnt feel unreasonable when many other JRPGs (DQ11, Trails, Persona, etc) are all putting out games that take 120 hours for the same price. Obviously I know the graphics affect this, but I dont think being HALF as long is too much to ask.

I finished ff7r for the first time yesterday so this is the first of your videos on the remake i've been able to see. What it seems like though is Sephiroth is aware that he's in a remake, like he's changing things cause he won't let it turn out the same way twice right? I have so many questions, but I guess everyones in the same boat. Maybe seph became the new head of the literature club lol

And the other thing is like this could be longer then a trilogy, because assuming they don’t just murder Zach in the beginning of the second game, we still have stuff that they may make us do with him, since he’s not cloud he wouldn’t do the things exactly like him, so there’s plenty of things that could flesh out about 1 game worth of content of just Zack stuff sprinkled throughout the next 2-3 parts, just a thought and obviously it’s dependent on what they do with that but still I think it’s worth mentioning.

After playing the FFVII Remake, I got the feeling that Sephiroth somehow after the events of Advent Children managed to somehow send his consciousness into the past manipulating events to change history. We all saw those shadows trying to keep the flow of time from changing but I believe Sephiroth managed to trick Cloud and team into destroying the keepers of the timeline now allowing Sephiroth to move forward with his plans with nothing to stand in his way. He is going to change his fate and we are going to see entirely new events. Thoughts?

Jenova can shape-shift not Sephiroth and it was Jenova that shape shifted into Tifa.

As unlikely as it is, I'm still holding up hope that, after the ending twist, they'll give us a DLC for part one that involves the opening mission playing as Zack with certain details warped due to the alternate timeline. Since they're almost definitely going to touch on Zack's survival in part 2 I think it would help plant seeds for when it comes out without having to play full-price for an entire game especially since they could reuse most of their assets from Part 1.

QUESTION: do you think there will be multiple endings? If so, which ones?

Holy shit. Someone has to stop this mad man! If Nomura see this video, imagin the cluster f**k he would come up with. (+ I believe Nomura doesn't even speak english, so he would need a translator, which would inevetably lead to translation errors!) But seriously, there are some very interesting thoughts in this. Dunno if I want some of them come true, though. Need to reflect more on this. However, I somewhat am getting the feeling of a greater "evil" approaching. The way how sephiroth talked to cloud at the end of part 1 was... confusing at the very least. How he grabed his hand in order to make his pain stop and how he looked at him afterwards. There was no despise, superiority or joy in his eyes. (Btw. the sound effect of Clouds "pain", in this scene, is the same that the geostigma inflicts on him in Advent Children, if I'm not mistaken. But this time, Seph isn't the one causing it, but stopping it) What does he mean with "Our world will become a part of "it"... one day."? Is he reffering to a cycle that will come to an end? Everyone becoming a part of the life stream? (Why using "world" here? And remember, in OG he actually tries to destory/absorb the world...) Look how he turns away from Cloud to look into space/edge of creation and his facial expression. Like he somewhat cares for Cloud, beyond that of a puppet or tool he still needs. Almost like he views him diffrently now. Like a friendly rival or something? (Could still be some twisted care/love relation) Also, the way how he asks Cloud to join him... Seph doesn't even seriously fights against Cloud once he refuses. It seems more like that Seph realizes that the point of asking him for help isn't there yet. Does he need Cloud to see "it" first? In japanese, Sephiroths last words are quite diffrent from the english translation. Here is a video with a more direct translation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KbM0Gi5SKTc.html But then again, Aerith says "There's no greater threat to the planet than him". Maybe it's just Nojima/Toriyama/Sephiroth getting in my head. But Sephiroths behaviour felt really weird.

IDGAF, they could make it 200 gigs for $250, I'm still buying it

Even if I can't play it for now (the second part) I just can't help from crying cuz I'm happy about the near release. I played the first version (1997) of the game like month ago and it made me so emotional (plus being depressed about the Sephiroth boss fight on the end) . Thinking about how will they change the game starting (time lapse) from Zack to many other things makes me excited so much. I'm happy to see a game with a deep, than the ocean, story that makes my heart trembling thinking about any character (except Hojo and some others) dying. I actually don't know for what to be prepared showing us only like... 1% of the game plus first part, seeing it was just start of the 1997 version- made me laugh and nervous at the same time 🤣😅

If we save Aerith, can we finally have magical babies?! x)

There is a strong Throry that and this is from also analyzing remake that Vincent not Hojo (even though it's cannon he is) is actually Sephiroth's father

I believe FF7:R is gonna be a World of Light scenario, where this time we stop the real threat and maybe things go well. We experienced the World of Ruin in the original FF7 and its aftermath in AC. Sephiroth this time might be playin an Ardyn role.

HEY PEZ!- Luv watching your videos. Fun stuff...OK, so here is my question: DID ANYONE NOTICE everytime someone got stabbed (Barrett, Prez Shinra, etc), there wasn't any blood, but looks like "ashes" or "dust"? So, what does that mean? Is everyone already dead? And no one's aware accept Seph and Aerith? That we're not just experiencing an alternate timeline, but a continious loop? What would be your interpretation of this?

Lmao yup if there’s one thing Pez is right on the money with; the remake has already changed so much. It’s a new adventure going forward. We’ll just have to see if we are left Hollow... getting the results we wanted but at a major cost. I said to myself when I first saw the ending “be careful what you wish for” and I think it can be applied to what Pez is talking about here

I was suspecting part 2 would end somewhere between cosmo canyon and nibelheim... but ending in the Temple of the Ancients? That has some umph to it

Throwing a crazy random one. What if somehow Zack is in the same time line and he's tricked by Jenova into thinking Cloud kills Aerith. Then they fight.

Final Fantasy 7 : The Flashpoint Paradox

In the og there are 4 levels of limit breaks (each level consisting of 2 limit breaks except the 4th level with only 1). Remake only gave us 1 level of limit breaks. I’m thinking it will be 4 games total.

Hahaha! I just thought of something: what if Sephiroth wanted to revive Zack just to piss off everyone? "Hey, guys, remember Crisis Core? What if it didn't happen? Oops, there goes all your feels." Jokes aside, if they really are going this route of Sephiroth changing everyone's fates, I feel like the biggest plot twist the devs could possibly pull at this point is if he becomes the one who "saves" Aerith. The last thing he'd want is to lead down the same path where Aerith takes over the Lifestream against him. I think that's the widest curve that the writers could pull without drifting too far from the inital story beats.

As much as like the idea of Cisney saving Zack, I doubt that. Because, first thing Zack would do is meeting with Aerith. Then I doubt he would leave Cloud alone somewhere, even in a reasonably save place. But I'm very curious about what they're going to do with Zack. )

So its basically Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Part 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone.

what do you think will be the extent of zack's power increase after the experimentation hojo did on him and cloud? he died right before the experiment started to show results on cloud in OG and cloud went from zero to hero. also are you as scared as I am that square is gonna make the corel/dane scenes unbearably heart wrenching

There are some interesting ideas. The parts I disagree with is that we have not seen Sephiroth with the ability to change memories. He can do illusions of the past which he did to show Cloud bits of what happened but that presentation was in the present. Every memory or premonition we have seen from Cloud is 100% accurate to the OG events (what they saw of Zack was cannon, they didn't see what came after). Sephiroth has ACCESS to Clouds memories because future Sephiroth appears before Cloud every time Cloud has a past memory of him. I predict Cloud will remember Nibelheim similar to the original. The twist could be when they visit Nibelheim in the present, it might be changed due to the past being changed. I don't think Roche is the extra soldier from Nibelheim. I think it is the cloaked man with the 2 on his arm. After their encounter with him, one of the kids says that his dad told him that man used to be a member of Soldier. This fits with the survivors of the Nibelheim incident being turned into cloaked men aka failed Sephiroth clones. I heard somewhere, not sure from one of your videos or somewhere else that the Chapter Select screen could be meta in and of itself. Choosing which Chapter to visit and redo could be the same way Sephiroth and Aerith access the past. Like a nonlinear book. I would love if we got more scenes from Aerith or Sephiroth's POV because we only experience them through Clouds interactions with them. My husband blew my mind when I was telling him your video where you pointed out the visual differences of Nibelheim when Cloud is hovering over it. I didn't consider that remake itself is the alt reality. I wonder if the crew went through a portal to the OG reality where tech is worse and the population is smaller? As for endings. The OG ending IS humanity being wiped out. It might be good to fight against that but there needs to be consequences. Wanting a sugary sweet ending for ff7 is like wanting Game of Thrones to never kill Ned and the Starks live happily ever after. Boo! FF7 was like the Game of Thrones in video games where the deaths were HARSH and unexpected. The remake needs to keep that theme even if it's handled differently. If Aerith dies I want Cloud to be the one to do it (Sephiroth mind control actually worked this time). If she survives I want it to because the future Sephiroth stops the present Sephiroth because the outcome does not work out well for him.

Knowing Nomura... Everyone will live and have a happy ending.

I hope we get a many parts as they need but nothing crazy 4-5 is pushing it but if they can do it 1.5 years apart maybe. 3 parts could work but I want it to feel fleshed out. If they want to add an extra part 4 then so be it. 4 could work. 3 ending with crater escape and 4 the rest of game and side quests would just need to be a bigger/longer game

I agree with this theory. Seph test the characters with their past to break them but it does the opposite. I suppose the changes in the past that seph made will be undone when he dies.

Hi there can you please tell me what the song at the end is?

Plot-twist Sephy is the secret goodguy preparing everyone for a greater evil being