I want them to introduce a Sephiroth from a timeline where he went to therapy instead, and he's just a really cool dude.

Schrodinger's Flower Girl is gonna drive discourse for MONTHS.

Cloud's breakdown in the last game is gonna be CRAZY

I played the og in 97 when i was 13 and im 39 now. This game was my teen years and what they have done with it is so fucking cool. I cant waitnfor part 3 cloud is seriously fucked in this one man and  the pay off when we get aeriths funeral scene and cloud finding himself will be sensational. Bravo square i simply fucking love this.

The separation anxiety was real man, I feel you. There was a good week where I just could not figure out what to play after finishing Rebirth, even though I had stuff lined up that I wanted to start or go back to. My brain couldn't move on though. Definitely similar to Elden Ring in that way, as you said.

Legitimately depressed after finishing Rebirth. I am in the 8th alternate universe, right now.

The more I think about and rewatch the ending, the more I like it.

Johnny is holding a Stamp plushie variant when Zack sitting outside at the church

I definitely think that Cloud isn't just seeing hallucinations of Sephiroth, Aerith, and the sky tear, I think he can somehow see into other realities (maybe in a similar way to how Sephiroth can seemingly move between them). That's the significance of the scene where Cloud is talking to Aerith at the end, and tells everyone not to look up at the sky. He can see into another world where Aerith lived (a reality that is collapsing like the other branched realities), but no one else can see that. And we know he can interact with things in those other worlds, swapping around the White/Clear materia, doing Synchronization attacks with Zack, etc.

Still recovering from ff7 rebirth post game, post aerith depression

The idea of Zack's choices creating more timelines is super interesting, and I look forward to seeing what role he will play in part 3 as this "anomaly" or "variant." He's basically... at the core of this crisis.




...I'll see myself out.

Square Enix is making those old-school "Aerith Lives" rumors canon. Which one? ALL OF THEM! Even the debug menu... especially the debug menu.

I'm still waiting for that "Max reacts to FF7 Rebirth music" compilation. I expect a solid 10 hours of music reactions. 🤣

One thing about Tifa’s flashes that I thought about after reading the Ultimania tweets was that they were trying to hint at Cloud’s inability to cope with Aerith’s death and the denial of it.

What I think happens with Tifa is that, when she first comes across the scene, her mind ALSO tries to repress or deny what she is seeing, but she ultimately accepts reality.

So I think it’s her mind flashing back and forth between, “No way… is she…? no, she can’t be… oh god, she’s…”

And that’s used to hint at what is happening with Cloud.

The final battle of Remake was basically Advent Children, and the final battle of Rebirth is basically the final battle of the OG, makes me incredibly interested how they are going to one-up them both.

I think Sephiroth forged the ultimate black materia by harvesting the despair of multiple dying timeliness, that's why it showed up in Clouds pocket at the end, and the transparent materia will work as a vessel for a new white materia when Cloud regains his consciousness, that's why Aerith always says "take care of yourself". And the alternate dying scene was a plan by Aerith to cripple the ultimate black materia, now it's flawed, as flawed as my theory. Thanks for attending my TED talk.

Edit: just wanted to note, that's why they included and added the Lore of the Gi, to show the mechanics of the black materia or materia forging.

One of the things I adore about how they decided to depict Sephiroth in this new project is that... OG Sephiroth was this menacing threat, and yes, there was a mystery to him, and he didn't show up often. Lots of people argue this, and even though I understand their point of view, I think that this new take brings a new perspective, as in: if newcomers just get to know Sephiroth by playing Remake for the first time, they see this complete maniac that keeps harassing Cloud all the time, an interdimensional being that can literally stop time like he did in the beginning of Remake when he touches Aerith's shoulder, manipulate visions, and has the capacity of literally interfere with fate, control arbiters, change events, etc, and THEN... we see him as a seemingly regular first class SOLDIER in Rebirth's Nibelheim flashback. So new players could start pondering like... "How did this 'regular' guy, a strong SOLDIER, but still, become that being with such a boundless power?" That's why this new appeal is so interesting to me. Is a new form of mystery done correctly, in my opinion, to a character that is more powerful and intriguing than he ever was.

The more I think about it, the more I agree with Aerith being dead dead.

They seem to be paralleling what happened with Nibelheim.  In the OG when Sephiroth tells cloud he wasn't at Nibelheim in the northern crater and Tifa confirms it completely shatters him because he knows he was there even though it wasn't as he told it.  Him thinking he completely forgot the facts of losing his mom and hometown shattered him since he already knew something was wrong with him..  This could mirror that.  Cloud "saves" her but sephiroth uses his power to merge in the world where she died.  Everyone else sees her dead but cloud believes she is alive.  Sephiroth will tell him he didn't save Aerith, Tifa will confirm it and it will shatter him.  The truth will be that he saved her just not in the way people expected.

I like how Max has the Gongaga Theme in the background, its so good.

The Advent Children scene: "Dilly dally shilly shally!"