It’s been a few months since the remake ofFinal Fantasy VIIcame out and there is one question on the minds of fans right now. When will the next game be coming out? Square Enix has kept a pretty tight lid on any news other than their upcomingDestinylike take onMarvel’s Avengers.
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Will news of a sequel drop after that? It’s hard to say but in the meantime there is a lot ofFinal Fantasy VIIcontent to eat up. However, it’s not as easy to play some titles like Zack’s prequel adventure on PSP which remains trapped on the system. So if one is dying to know the important details of his past which may affect the future remakes, here is a breakdown.
10The Timeline
Crisis Coretakes place seven years before the events ofFinal Fantasy VII. The first part of the game plays around with Zack’s three years in the SOLDIER program. This includes a major series of incidents which will be further explained later on. After that, there is a time jump of four years between Zack & Cloud getting captured and put in a lab.
9The War With Wutai
The game itself begins similarly toFinal Fantasy VIIwherein Zack rides a train into Midgar. Instead of bombing a reactor, Zack is actually trying to stop invading Wutai soldiers from doing so. The Wutai War opens up the game, but it is barely fleshed out. Wutai, as a more prominent city, is shown off along with a younger Yuffie.
8Angeal And Genesis
The major plot of the game revolves around two new characters, Genesis and Angeal, who are also legendary SOLDIERS. Genesis seemingly goes crazy and Zack & Angeal are forced to stop him which then leads to Angeal turning and Sephiroth taking up command.
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Oh, and there are clones involved too. It’s very complicated, but the one thing that should be taken away is that the Buster Sword was once Angeal’s before being passed down to Zack.
7Zack And Aerith
This is touched on inFinal Fantasy VII, but Zack and Aerith dated. Not only that, but Zack actually influenced her character quite a bit. He bought Aerith her iconic pink ribbon along with giving her the idea that she should sell flowers. She wears white in the game but Zack tells her the next time they meet that she should wear pink. Unfortunately he disappears for fours years, so the next time they meet is through Cloud.
6The Turks
Besides Reno, Rude, and Tseng, there is a new member of the Turks introduced, Cissnei. She was actually one of the leads inBefore Crisis, which focused primarily on the Turks and takes place before, during, and afterCrisis Core. It is never explained what happened to her & some of the other Turks other than they went into hiding. It is possible then that Cissnei may appear in one of the remake sequels toFinal Fantasy VII.
5The Nibelheim Incident
The section inFinal Fantasy VIIwhere Sephiroth goes crazy at Nibelheim, burns it, and tries to get Jenova out of the reactor is played mostly the same, albeit tweaked. For example, Genesis is seen almost as a guiding evil light for Sephiroth. On top of that ,when Cloud overpowers Sephiroth, he throws him down the shaft in Jenova’s room rather than the hallway a few rooms down. There is also new dialogue, but for the most part it stays true to the original.
4Summons Are More Than Summons
Just like in the film,Advent Children, Summons are more than just spells. Somehow, Genesis has the ability to turn them into bosses.
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Since the Sephiroth triplets can do this in the movie, it can be assumed that Jenova’s Cells activate some latent ability. Zack ends up fighting multiple Summons in this manner over the course ofCrisis Core.
3Aerith’s Fears
At the end of the remake forFinal Fantasy VII, Aerith talks about how she doesn’t like the open sky, which led some fans to speculate as to why. Well, either they didn’t play this game or they forgot certain parts of the plot. Aerith actually talks about being afraid of the sky outside Midgar to Zack. This is because she was raised in a world without an artificial sky. This is a small piece of the story to note on but since it appears inCrisis Coreand in the remake, it’ll be relevant moving forward.
2The Fate Of Genesis
After Zack defeats Genesis for the final time and leaves him under his favorite tree to presumably die, he gets picked up by two mysterious SOLDIERS only seen from the neck down. Based on their voices, one can deduce that they belong to Nero and Weiss who are the leaders of Deepground. That is the organization at play in Vincent’s solo game,Dirge of Cerberus. It was seemingly put in to set up the sequel, which actually came out before this.
1How It Ends
The game ends with Zack dying, albeit in a more dramatic fashion. InFinal Fantasy VII,Zack is silently gunned down with no fanfare. InCrisis Core, Zack cuts through hundreds of Shinra infantrymen until he finally falls. Cloud also notices that Zack is dying, thanks him, says he will never forget, and then walks away. Unfortunately, Cloud literally forgets this encounter right away as he’s overwhelmed with his crazy case of mistaken identity. Maybe one of the remakes will explain this plot hole.
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