If the DLC means having to slow down the development for part 3, id say NO. Just keep part 3 in full production so we can have it sooner

The blank spot in the credits is where Cloud would have given Aerith her water burial.

Nobuo Uematsu only composed the main theme for Rebirth and remake he does not do full soundtracks anymore, in the interview they are talking about him returning to make the main theme for part 3

While its fun to speculate, you know some of these developers sitting back a lot of the time like, "wtf are ya'll talkin about?" But it could be intentional, thats the fun of it I guess. I've gotta check out that interview. 😆

I kinda wish they give some spinoff dlc instead, like Vincent during his Turks days. This would allow us to experience his basic movesets without spoiling the rest of his post experiment moveset.And keep it spoiler free so it'll be before he reached Shinra mansion for his bodyguard job. Then some flying minigame as young Cid as he becomes a profesional pilot.

Zack DLC!!! They already have him playable

The soundtrack race to the reactor Chef's kiss I've been thinking that everything is building up to cloud and Tifa in the life stream and how Tifa helps him rebuild his memories. That's a lot of work

Backstory for both Cid and Vincent would be nice and it could be interesting to get a taste of what they are capable of and then by the time part 3 releases they could really flesh out their moves even more by determining what worked and what didn't or what fans liked, didn't like, and what they want. If they do DLC one for Cid and one for Vincent would be a must but they are not the only characters that deserve a DLC; also how do we know that they are the only characters we will be getting in part 3 that are new? We got Zack at the end which means we could potentially get him as playable character and let's not forget other potential characters such as Shelke the Transparent who ends up becoming an ally to Vincent. Other DLCs that expand the universe would also be interesting such as for characters like Evan Townsend which Kyrie, her grandmother, and Leslie are already in the trilogy. This would be a chance for the player to get to know him and learn his story and potentially use it to tie him in with the broader narrative and also see how this new fate may affect him as well as Kyrie and Leslie who ultimately become his best friends. We also have the Turks and Before Crisis where new characters could potentially be introduced. Lots of possibilites and not to mention and expansion for Zack's story DLC. I'm also thinking with FF VII being SE's biggest cash cow, I can't really see them ending the remake series... without giving a final epiologue future arc sequel to the trilogy. Despite the fatigue they have, after a rest from finishing part 3... a potential sequel to the trilogy to tie all loose ends may be purposely left open just for the option.

DLC on a 3 part remake is, on it’s face, absurd. I agree with director. Put the resources towards making the finale amazing

You can't really do a dlc about Vincent's Turk days because that goes into spoilers about Sephiroth and Hojo. Yes I know that they are plot twists that have existed since the original but you notice how Vincent only alluded to Lucrecia by referring to her as a female scientist in Rebirth (and then gets noticeably defensive when Barrett implies that she's just as bad as Hojo). They won't want to reveal the truth about Sephiroth's true parentage until Part 3

Thanks for the heads up on that interview, heading there now! *SPOILER* I was initially very upset with the way they handled that last scene but the more i think about... it kind of makes sense, i think they are clearly setting up the stage for the next game where Cloud will have to face all his inner demons, they want the players to experience what truly happened through Clouds own recollection in real time, that's when we will see the classic water burial scene as a flashback, is my guess...

If we get intermission DLC with one featuring cid and another with Vincent, that would be sick!

If they do a dlc, I hope it's Vincent and lucrecia's story. Play as Vincent through that hell, the creation of sephiroth, and the birth of what Vincent becomes. Ending with the knocking on his coffin by cloud and waking up. Then we'd still have Cid to explore and play all new in part 3

The one thing I don’t hear people talking about when it comes to the dlc is it doesn’t have to be Vincent or cid. I wouldn’t mind a Zack dlc a short two chapters tying into the 3rd game whatever his role may be the dlc could be used to tie up loose ends on zacks side and give us a better understanding and relieving some of the pressure part 3 is gonna have to tie up so much.

(Spoiler warning for Rebirth and Chrono Trigger) Part of me is hoping this sets up a Chrono Trigger-esque means to bring back Aerith in part 3. In Chrono Trigger, the main character ACTUALLY dies and through a series of subquests the party is able to obtain a life-like doll of Chrono and happens upon a time gate that goes to the exact moment Chrono dies. The party is then able to swap the real Chrono with the doll and bring him back to the present. While Chrono Trigger's plot is very different, the way Remake is retelling the story opens some narrative routes through which Aerith can be brought back without magically resurrecting her or otherwise retconning/cheapening her death.

I just wish Vincent would have fought in the background. Red 13 did this in remake...he wasn't playable but at least he helped in combat even if you couldn't control him. Vincent just randomly showing up after hard battles like nothing happened was a little weird for me... but excited for part 3

Another reason why the Yuffie DLC was a good idea was that it helped give her actual character development. In the OG, she never really had any purpose apart from getting her hands on as much materia as possible by any means necessary. Even if you went with her to Wutai, that still doesn't really change. Remake and in tern Rebirth rectified that by giving Yuffie actual character development. Vincent on the other hand, while also an optional character in the OG, still had that. It might not have been as in depth as DOC, but their was still enough backstory and development for him. More than that, though, even if they wanted to do a DLC, what would it be about? Sure, you could do one for Vincent and/or Cid, but that would little for the imagination for their move sets. Can't tie in Deepground with the way they ended the game, at least not well. If anything, saving it all for the next game just makes sense at the moment.

You know the ending and the credits sequence being meta as they are may have rankled some fans; it actually makes me just as excited for the third part as ever! We don’t really know what we’re gonna experience in spite of the realm of familiarity that will also be present in part 3. I really think the dev team wanted fans to discuss wildly about the most famous scene in the game and video games in general to keep them guessing how the third game will go thus generating more hype for it. At least for me; it’s working! I continue waiting every day excitedly for Part 3 and I’m loving it!! To the FF 7 dev team and FF7 fans: Keep up the great work!!

I think the Aerith Cloud see's at the end is Jenova messing with Clouds head. Just like Sephiroth, and Jenova messed with his head in the Sleeping forest dream.

Why is there no day and night cycle or even a weather system in this world and yet the community not complain to Square enix can you imagine if we did, they would implement the patch like in final fantasy 15 it has so much atmosphere

Damn you got lots of information of part 3 keep going ❤

Lol taking that statement as a possibility for a Vincent and/or Cid dlc is a pretty huge reach.

I think it's too simple of an explanation to just look at the credits and say "that's a reflection of Cloud's mental state". It can be interpreted as a sequence of events that the party and associates witnessed as well. After-all Cloud wasn't at Shinra Inc. witnessing Col. Lodbrock talk to Rufus. We know Cloud has memory issues, and isn't a trustworthy narrator, but Tifa claims she has memory problems too, OH and lets not forget Aerith and Red talking about their loss of memory from Remake to Rebirth in Casa De Jonny if Cloud listens in on them. Then there is the fact that Aerith has this clear Materia that lost it's cloudy glow and is clear, and Materia is the memory of the planet from the lifestream in solid form. Come to think of it Memories play an important role for just about everyone in Rebirth and Remake including the gamer themselves as they are to remember the events of the OG and reconcile it with the new game. Not everything is the same and the Whispers during remake were playing a role of trying to keep that on track, but in Rebirth the whispers are Sephiroth's to control as far as we know. (Via assessing the last boss).A loit of people say they want Cloud to come to this devastating realization during the Mideel scene that Aerith is dead, but what purpose does that serve rather than him processing it on the spot as he did in the OG? It's been stated by the developers in the past that the OG is the bad ending to the game, and to follow that bad ending up with got Advent Children and a Cloud that is emotionally disconnected from TIfa and the party because he's mourning Aerith. So much so, that Cloud isn't even sharing a space with Tifa, and he's basically camping out in Aerith's church. He's eternally pissed at Sephiroth for killing her, and that is the catalyst that allows Advent Children to even narratively take place. At the end of AC Cloud is shot, and then were brought back into church for the ending scene. What if we're more or less witnessing a memory / dream of the events of the OG played out slightly differently POST Advent Children? That when Sephiroth took Cloud to see the "True Nature of Reality" he wasn't bluffing? They're both in the lifestream at this point, and all of these "worlds" are different memories of events that have occured or desires that were intended to be fulfilled but weren't? Something like that neatly explains all the various different "worlds" were seeing, and the presence of Zack. It also explains how both Sephiroth and Aerith were seemingly aware of the events of the OG including Aerith's own death, and how cloud became aware of the scene of the Holy Materia falling in the water WELL Before it happened. Then we're not in a MCU multiple timeline hysteria, we're all in the FFVII lifestream which is the only constant across all the various worlds. Sephiroth in order to absorb this lifestream needs negative emotions and feelings to persist, and that's what stengthens him. I think Rebirtth was showing us this much.

Aerith, Sephiroth, Zack will be playable in part 3. And give me Aerith with her hair down, the flower pin, her ultimate weapon Princess Guard and Level 4 Limit Break, Great Gospel. Anyone knows how Aerith fights with Princess Guard, has me super excited. 🎉

Great info, thank you.

The scenes with Aerith and cloud never HAPPENED. In fact, I'd be willing to bet the whole GAME is just Cloud's subconscious trying to deny Aerith's death, while he floats in the lifestream after it destroys Mideel.

Does anyone else think that the different worlds merged and that when Aerith died the livestream will awaken her in the lifeless body Zack and Elmyra are caring for. That way Zack ,Aerith, and Biggs can rejoin the group to fight Sephiroth this time around.

People confused just don't have media literacy. That's it. There are tons of hints that choices matter. Zack, loveless, Cait Sith's readings (LIKE COME ON), Queen's blood (actually spoils what will happen), the rainbow motif... Cloud is taken to a different universe. Brings back a white materia that should not exist in his world anymore. He's the only one that goes through the wall of fate. The rest of the party only move after the fate breaking decision by Cloud happens. Before they go through it Cloud is inside a rainbow motif circle holding aerith. This means he's inside a world changing event. After the wall of fate disappears, so does the rainbow circle. In remake, going through the wall of fate changed Zack's fate. In rebirth it changed Aerith's. In the next game it'll change Cloud's. Loveless is a story about events that parallel the ones of FF7 story. One hero dies before the start of journey (zack). Another during it (aerith). The other becomes a prisoner (cloud). Cloud is a prisoner of his guilt and lack of self confidence. The only way to change cloud's fate is to prevent what causes him to become a prisoner to his mind. To change the events of Nibelheim. Doing this also defeats Sephiroth as the only way he can manifest is through Cloud's memories of him which are related to his negative feelings. My take is that the hollow materia cloud has at the end of rebirth will contain his memories and experience and find it's way to Cloud before Nibelheim, preventing it's events and saving Sephiroth (forgiveness is a theme in rebirth). Also queen's blood teases what will happen in the next game. Regina is Cloud, Lidehl is Sephiroth, The witch is Aerith and the Queen is Jenova. Jenova will betray Sephiroth

I feel the next DLC should be about Cait Sith and Reeve.

Cloud breached the fate and created another world where he saved Aerith. Aerith who woke up is alive in alternate world and main world Cloud can't handle the fact that main world Aerith died so he is hallucinating.

Just fix the bug for rebirth ultimate party animal already…

I have no doubt that aerith cloud is seeing post death is jenova. The one issue that conflicts with this though is fact that she touches nanaki by plane and he reacts to her presence too. But as was brought to my attention recently, he also was a hojo lab rat and no doubt has some jenova influence, just not degraded as far as cloud. That said, I also think that aerith is behind the white whispers, and not our aerith but OG aerith. My theory is that from beginning of remake all the way through rebirth. The aerith that's been dead longest in lifestream, is manipulating some events as best she can. She's controlling the white whispers and weapons. She's reason they both intervened to help tifa when she "fell" into lifestream. She's one that was sending flashes in remake warning about pillar following or meteor and sephiroth in shinra headquarters. I actually think we're gonna discover that OG sephiroth and og aerith are the catalysts to this entire reboot. BOTH are in lifestream and both trying to change fate. Both had minor influence in remake as fates chains hadn't been removed yet. Both aerith and sephiroth at end of remake also pushed to break that hackle though (although with a small hestitation from aerith at first since it's likely she still had her doubts). One those shackles were broken though, both OGs began their effort to enact their own hope for fate and both hijacking the fate wisps to their own ends (the birth of black and white ones). sephiroth had a head start though cause he seems unified entirety of rebirth. IE every version of himself have merged into one. As we see in final fight, there is one sephiroth across all timelines. Aerith for much of rebirth was fragmented and unable to access knowledge she should have. They emphasize this a lot btw. It's not until each version of her dies and enters life stream that they join with the OG aerith and gain access to the collective knowledge of all timeline aeriths and see what needs doing. I believe aerith has accepted he fate that she needs to die, all of her selves, to achieve this. In part 3 will come to understand that her roll is a unified (very dead) aerith dealing with sephiroth in life stream while the beagle universe party handles him in the living one. After all, we all know that sephiroth too is very much dead and only able to influence living universe through his jenova cell infused hojo clones while his physical form is awaiting rebirth in the northern crater.

I cant wait until Cloud gets his therapy from Tifa. In the OG, it felt like a huge weight was lifted knowing it was just Cloud from then on and not any of the Sephiroth/Jenova psychological baggage.

I bet them chilling by the water is after they laid Aerith to rest in the water and Cloud is blocking it out. That’s why Aerith seemed so weird in those moments. Also we will see this laying Aerith to rest scene when cloud and Tifa fall into the lifestream.

Just focus on the third game and then do dlc later. After the trilogy is finished they can make miles morales type games for different characters like a Vincent game.

As someone who played the original I would have liked the Sleeping Forest to be similar to how they did it in the original. It was dissapointing that the Forgotten Captial was not an explorable. I hope they fix that with the next one or even DLC.

Aerith - "Cloud, no matter what happens.....please don't let them use my graphical skin for vids on xvideo". Cloud - "Uh........"

They ommited some of the scenes because they took place in a different timeline. There's the og timeline where Aerith casts holy and dies and the parallel timeline where Cloud saves her and she doesn't cast holy. That's why at the end he can see the rip in the sky but Barrett and the others can't. Cloud isn't losing his mind, he's living in two seperate timelines simultaneously. Your theory is totally off

Where's the link to the video interview?

I just want pt 3 on ps5 before next gen starts. Preferably where physical media is still a thing. People need to stop asking for dlc and let the team work on pt3!!

This game does not need a dlc lol it’s a masterpiece on its own …. Save it all for part 3 ?

To me the scene with Aerith is actually like everything else in the ending ambiguous in presentation. Its not showing or emphasizing either her being alive or dead, no blood, no wounds, or anything. Its just Cloud holding Aerith from a zoomed out perspective that can even be used as promo material in the future, because of the ambiguous-ness of it. So its really not showing anything in that regard. But on the Cloud side of things, there's no ground to argue that he isn't mentally screwed just by nature of him across all the games. To me the omissions are continuing the "did she die/did she survive", which at this point I'm expecting them to continue all the way till part 3.

I don't know that we can slice that ending any other way than Aerith died. Cloud's exposure to the White Lifestream is what gives him the ability to see Aerith in the city post-mortem (as this place is rife with white lifestream energy.) It's quite clear she died, even though they played it much closer this time around. The only real loose end is how they plan to converge the damned world we're in now and the world of the white lifestream (where all of Zack and Biggs' story takes place.)

Devs talked about unreliable world emphasized over unreliable narrator for the remake trilogy. So while Cloud may be degrading, Tifa, Barret see things they shouldn't and Red feeling Aerith... something? For a reason. Its going to be a long 3 years. Looking forward to the notes in the Rebirth Ultimania later this month. 🎉 Multiple parts or aspects of theories could be true. It may be also true that Cloud is in between worlds. Everything depends on the actual nature of the Lifestream. Boltsman Brain or Matriaska Brain or some living organic ethereal spiritual hybrid?...... 0. Jenova Aerith. A. Ethereal rebirth Aerith. B. Alive Aerith. C. OgAerith D. Dead Rebirth Aerith. E. Advent Children Aerith. F. Edge of Creation Aerith. G. Degrading Cloud H. Reunion Cloud I. Zack Cloud. J. Cloud Zack Cloud. K. Toung Cloyd L. The real Cloud. M. Advent Children Sephiroth. N. Edge of Creation Aephiroth. O. OG...Sephiroth. P. OG... Cloud... Q. OG Zack. Ethereal. R. Alive Zack. S. Dead Zack. T. Advent Children Zack. U. Young Zack. V. Young Tifa. W. Young but older Tifa. X. Young Aerith. Y. Young Sephiroth. Z. The Aerith who survives FF7 trilogy after dying so many countless times through endless worlds in her 5d chess vs. Sephiroth. Omni Aerith vs. Omni Sephiroth. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

If there's to be dlc, I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on Zack's journey through Disc 1. Probably MASSIVELY changing Cait Sith's stuff, due to Zack likely having a good reason to distrust Shinra from the onset, plus Yuffie is likely to shove herself into the party again.

id rather they just start working on the next part full guns blazing

Dude... I haven't seen one person cover what I'm about to say... Aerith is alive. Well, in the other convergence... The ending told it perfectly in my opinion. Cloud told her to wake up and she did. She fought alongside Cloud in the final encounter... this was the ONLY time Sephiroth EVER complimented Aerith saying "I seemed to have underestimated you..." Why would he say that to a dead woman? I think she played the system JUST like Sephiroth did. This wasn't her spirit or whatever... she fought with him. At no other time in the game's lore has the lifestream given FORM to a person... but when the fight concluded, she faded away... or did she just dissipate from his timeline for the time being? Then afterwards, Cloud sees the crack...yet no one else does... just like he's the only one who can see Aerith. So unless the crack in the sky is some stupid representation of Cloud's mind (which wouldn't make sense since Zack/Biggs/Midgar saw the same crack in the other timeline), then Cloud is now connected to BOTH timelines... which completes what the title of this whole game is: Rebirth. Marlene said If Aerith dies, she'll wake up there. But it was never clear that they died when they fell from the tree thing. My theory is this: The convergence is not complete. Sephiroth failed and Aerith used the same system Sephiroth did to come back for herself and the Aerith we saw die, was the one from the original game--NOT the Aerith from the new timeline. It only appears to the world that Aerith died. Call it a swap or whatever you want, but it's the ONLY way the title of "Rebirth" makes sense!

Just had my brother pick up my copy of FF7 rebirth I haven’t played FF7 since the 90s the environments look awesome 😅

hey how we can dmg the hodded ones in a boss fight. sephiroth kill them in north crater. why dont we try taking down in nibelheim b4 they'll get out from the boss area.

Tldr: Aerith is alive and well specifically in Zach's reality and Cloud is able to see between the veil My theory is that the gaps are indicative of the multiple timelines. The final battle encompasses a convergence of realities where Zach joins the fray, in original settings Zach is dead, but in the alternative setting he's alive. I speculate that the moment of Aeriths passing, she awoke in Zach's reality. Please reference the visual from Advent Children where Aerith and Zach are seen together at the end and only Cloud is able to see them.

Will be funny if they remaster Dirge of Cerberus as the DLC

Thx for the video! So many interessting informations!

DLC is just another queens blood tournament

Im perfectly fine with waiting for part 3 for Vincent and Cid, would prefer it over DLC since that could potentially slow things down for the team

This gives me hope that they give cloud a venom suit spider man fighting style like in spider man 2 where they gave peter more violent attacks and stuff, and it also makes me very excited about the scene where cloud and tifa fall into the life stream

With regards to the idea of Cloud being an "unreliable narrator", there was a translated Ultimania posts in which the devs were talking about how, instead of Cloud being an "unreliable narrator", the devs want to make an "unreliable world". This would line up more with the idea of multiple timelines, Cloud seeing things the group can't (like the tear in the sky), and even Tifa's view of the altar as they're running up towards it going back and forth between a bloody Aerith and a non-bloody Aerith. Personally, I'm of the opinion that Aerith dies in the "Rebirth" timeline while she is alive in the timeline Cloud created by deflecting Sephiroth.

Tbh it would be nice if they added more quests or an afterlife expansion that adds Genesis to the story part which was left as a cliffhanger for a long time.

Honestly I'm glad that in this modern era of DLC, battlepasses and seasonal nonsense, Rebirth is just a standalone thing with everything in the box on day 1 and you play what you bought with no additional stuff. But with that said, I think SE would be silly not to release a light DLC pack. What it could include... nothing on the scale of Intermission, but maybe... more Queen's Blood card packs to earn and more challenges added to the various Queen's Blood hubs, more items to earn at the Gold Saucer (maybe 4 star versions of the Summon materia that are stuck at 1 Star), a few new brutally hard side quests, some new boss battle challenges in VR, new crafting recipes for end-game items, and of course... new skins for the party, especially Barret (although from a more financial standpoint, obviously selling more Tifa bikinis is like printing money.) I don't think it would need to be at the level of Intermission, just a little extra content to make the end-game last even longer and make some serious cash by giving us more skins. Oh and it'd be cool IMO if you could craft some bait to summon 4 new bosses in the 4 areas you find the pirate chests, or the world intel final notorious monster arenas (since I'm sick of everything being in VR.) Oh I'd also like a new Key Item, similar to Gold Saucer points, but a currency you get from completing mini-games outside the Gold Saucer. So you can build up a stock pile of coins from stuff like the Frog Game or Run Wild etc. and then buy alternate colour version of skins from that. If you could earn these tokens from re-challenging Queen's Blood NPCs you've already defeated too, that would be fantastic because after you're done with Queen's Blood, there's not really any reason to play more. Oh forgot to add... It'd be cool to get more Zack and Sephiroth stuff too. Oh yeah, don't write "FFVII Rebirth got a big DLC" in your video title if it hasn't receieved one. If you're going to clickbait at least put a question mark, "FFVII to get big DLC?" is at least plausible deniability.

they need to fix the UPA G-Bike bug

Are we going to have to wait another 3 years for the 3rd and final part of FF7? I don't want to wait that long but I'll try to be patient.

They should do a DLC that covers a mini story of Vincent, Cid, and Cait :)

I’m guessing part 3 will be called reunion

But in the end of the game Cloud gets the info dump and experiences it so. So he knows. I don't think he just... Forgot it. No indcation of that really imo. So I don't see how this new wrinkle will break his mind or whatever but we will see.

Everyone pushing this theory neglects to explain how Red was able to perceive her in that final scene, if it was all in Cloud's fractured mind.

I don't want any DLC in FF. DLC can't be preserved well, and it can also never be incorporated into the base game post-release. FF16 saw content that was so blatantly cut out to be DLC, I literally said while playing 16 and seeing certain things: wow Leviathan is gonna be DLC, huh? The FF15 DLC is digital only. Do you know what happened to the Dissidia PSP DLC and the 13-2 and Lightning Returns DLC? Cause I don't.

They will focus on part 3 to release it by ff7 30 year anniversary. It's better even from a profit perspective, the marketing around a 30 year anniversary can be huge and impact sales more than a DLC + release after the 30 year anniv.

I really hope to see a DLC with Vincent and Cid as protagonist, maybe a story arc with Vincent as the main protagonist telling his relationship with Sephiroth and Lucrecia.

fun fact: they changed the 1st 2 cait saiths throwaway prophecy lines. i think theres a good chance all 3 prophecies are true in the remake saga

I hope Aerith is alive but in a different place and comes back and fights still.

Aerith comes back to life in some form to play in the final part 3, do you really think they would take out a character these days for a whole game? lol think again folks, she'll be back count on it.

I DONT WANT DLC I WANT PART 3 My interpretation of the ending is that it was all in clouds head and MIGHT even be jenovah messing with him more since he represses anything that is too painful to remember. I believe they are going to have the laying to rest scene in part 3 when cloud is in the lifestream and its going to be ROUGH for him....

Rather not see DLC and all their efforts making part 3 as epic as the first 2 parts. It's been a long time I've gushed over a game.

They actually secretly gave us an idea on what to expect the new characters to come..... the pirate shooting game in Costa Del Sol was an introduction to how we're going to have to use Vincent's gun during battle via consistently spamming a button to keep having bullets shoot out We already got part of an introduction to Cids battle type because of the inclusion of the jump material which was something that was able to do because he's a Dragoon So they really don't need to give us a DLC on it because they pretty much brought the introduction to those two battle forms into rebirth just people didn't notice

First of all I would like to see a Rebirth DLC but if that's gonna delay progress then Square-Enix better just forget about that and just keep working on part 3. Second about that ending, I think Aerith IS still alive in the other timeline where Zack is and she'll still wake up there and they'll finally be reunited soon enough. Anyway I just pray that since part 3 has already been in the works since 2022, development on part 3 will go more faster & smoothly this time and it gets released sooner like sometime next year or in 2026.

Aerith had to die to go back to the planet and help to stop the meteor leaving Saphiroth to Cloud.

I think Aerith is alive, two timelines were made when Cloud stopped Sephiroth's sword, in the main timeline she is saved and that is why we see in the credits the scene were she wakes up, the ending of the game was just the secondary timeline in which she died and Sephiroth managed to take control via Cloud of the black Materia.

"Ending spoilers at 8:23" I thought spoilers ended at 8:23 so I got spoiled.

Jenova here,Jenova everywhere. I can't believe its not Jenova. Nanomachines. Jenova. I mean its Jenova throughout the entire game until part 3 at the north crater. Tifa. Jenova. Aerith. Jenova. But why not Sephiroth? Darkness? Light. Darkness? Light? But why darkness? Hrm... but why not Light?

From the original game at this point cloud was in the life-stream and he was broken totally broken

Just give me a Queensblood game.

I don't know why but my inner self is saying genesis will return

Would it be cool if they randomly put out some DLC? Sure I guess. However since there's already 100+ hours of content, I'd rather they just save anything for the final game. TBH I'm surprised anyone is asking for DLC considering the platinum is pretty rare and hard to get.

Pretty sure they stated no DLC for rebirth already.

Maybe a Turk DLC Or something based with Rufus Shinra

Alternative theory: Those scenes are missing from the end credits just in case they intended for you to be able to watch the credits before finishing the game (like some other games let you do) and didn't want stuff spoiled early.

Ill be honest. I kinda want a Kyrie dlc to play as her. I suspect she'd get into all kinds of trouble.

Maybe something’s are exciting But I would rather they fix the bugs Cannot get the Cactuar Proto relic trophy for some reason They said no DLC, so I don’t expect any

Final fantasy 7 versus

Theres no way we sont get 1 or two dlcs of vincent and or cid. Cid and vincent were left out to leave something new for part 3 but thay doesnt mean we wont get one or both since it will be a one off where you wont really get to see how the party meshes together and will leave more to talk about. They could do one and leave the other too. People are worried about it slowing down part three but im all for mote ff7 in any form. Especially since id love more rebirth. Part 3 is where we finally get the real cloud. Not clouded eyes cloud.

Idk people haven't played the original game and it shows. Of course Cloud's mental state is bad lol The whole point of the 2nd disk is getting clouds shit together.

No him picking her up and waking her up IS in the credits.

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. My three wishes for the FFVII remake series: 1) I hope they find a way to make both Aerith and Zack playable like all the other characters in your party for part 3. If they're absent for some of part 3's story, that's fine, but I'd love to see them as core party members you can easily switch in and out for all the end-game open-world stuff. That would be awesome! 2) I hope they do the PC ports justice, including going back to Remake (part 1) and fixing some of the weird blips that shouldn't be there. 3) This would likely be further down the road, but I'd like to see them somehow turn all three, separate games into one, cogent game at some point. Yes, it would be massive, and maybe it'd be took much work, but I'd love to see all three games connected together with a leveling system that is continuous throughout and weapons, items, menu UIs, etc. that carry over. Maybe I'm dreaming too big, but I'd like to thing all three parts could be just one (massive) game someday.

I THOUGHT WE WEREN'T GETTING DLC?!

well....when that 3rd one comes out....plz and i mean plz calm down with the mini games lol dont over do it like u did with rebirth square lol .....just felt like 80% was pure mini games just to get more stuff on wut goes on with the characters in the game.....but yet then again they probably might just go with the blades of glory with lots more mini games

SPOILERS I personally didn't like the ending of rebirth at first but the more I thought about it the more I could accept it. I do think it was a mistake to make it so ambiguous and confusing because that caused the event to lose much of the emotional punch that the orginal had. It appears from my understanding that the event did actually play out the same as the original game, except this time we got clouds warped perception of it heavily spliced into the moment, including some moments ommited entirely. For example some people are angry that the famous funeral scene didn't play out - however, think about it, the group wouldn't just leave her body there and we did get a shot of them mourning by the pool, so I assume it did happen, only the devs decided not to show us for some reason - so this will probably be seen in part 3 when clouds mind and memory straightens out. This is not to say I'm satisfied with rebirths ending after giving it some thought, because I'm not, I do think the moment should have been clearer and hit harder, but I'm interested to see if they redeem the moment in the conclusion.

I want rebirth and 16 to Pc pls square do the Port Quick i really want to play that 2 games. Edit: i really want to play with Vicent bro looks cool, and i hate caith sith lol

Thoughts: 1. It's really, REALLY sad to see these headline devs so tired out. Salaries in Japan are pitifully low - you have hundreds or thousands of mid-to-high-level mooks at Facebook, Salesforce and Microsoft doing useless "high-profile" jobs for $200,000-$500,000/yr, and I bet you Nomura, Uematsu, nor Nojima make anywhere NEAR that much, let alone all the rank-and-file devs who made ALL the assets, moves, landscapes, towns, audio, cinematics, or anything. This is a desperate situation that has to be remedied. 2. Why's Nomura tuckered out? I thought Nojima and the others were doing most of the work...... 3. Intergrade was excellent (better than RM, imo), and I was HAPPY to pay full-price for it. I'd LOVE an off-atmosphere DLC dealing with the 'looser ends' -> Cait/Reeve, Vincent, Rufus/Glenn, Cid... even the Turks... etc. It could also serve as an opportunity to set up the final group of "new" remake plot threads that will finally tie together any lingering "multiverse" differences in Part 3, if they actually decided on doing such a thing.

10:43 The last credit scene throws this theory out since it show Aerith watching the Tiny Bronco leave. I would accept that they wanted to emphasize Cloud’s mental decline if the Tiny Bronco scene fully omitted Aerith after the take off but it doesn’t, this theory is honestly just stretching for evidence that is circumstantial at best.

Let's not milk any more of this please...

Idc if it takes longer I NEED VINCENT GAMEPLAY