Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s developers say that the game’s ending is going to shock you no matter how many times you’ve played through that scene in the original game.
As a sequel to one of the most popular games of 2020, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth already has a lot of excitement behind it, especially since it’s introducing new playable characters, an explorable open-world, and tons of other highly-requested features that weren’t in Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
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As great as that all is, though, there’s one big thing that has gotten every Final Fantasy fan excited (or scared) about Rebirth – Aerith’s death scene. That sounds morbid, but it’s been confirmed that the game ends in the same place where Aerith originally met her end in Final Fantasy 7, and since this is a remixed timeline that doesn’t follow the same story as the original game, everyone’s wondering what’s going to be different this time or if Aerith simply can’t escape her fate.
We’ve had plenty of teases about how this scene is going to go, with the developers even saying that they can’t wait for players to see “Aerith’s fate”, but the latest is one of the most exciting. While speaking to Game Informer about how that scene is going to go down in Rebirth, the game’s developers shared some interesting thoughts about how it was approached.
According to Game Informer, when asked about the game’s ending, the team’s “jovial conversation turned somber”. They were careful not to say anything about what actually happens in the moment, but they insisted that they had “achieved something that will shock even the players who have played through the original scene in question multiple times”.
“I do believe that the way we have depicted it brings about a new emotion and a new feeling for both players who have played the original Final Fantasy VII and newcomers. I was able to do what I truly wanted to show in this title”.
That wasn’t the only tease to come from Game Informer’s interview, however. Creative director Tetsuya Nomura, who has himself mentioned Aerith’s fate several times during interviews, also had some interesting thoughts to share on it, noting that Square Enix wanted to depict “life and death” within Rebirth.
Nomura then repeated his statement about whoever dies not coming back, before revealing that he was finally able to do what he’s always wanted to do with the scene in Rebirth. It’s not clear what’s changed about it to suddenly allow him to fulfil his vision, but it certainly sounds like we’re all in for a big shock when Rebirth launches.
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