Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s Main Story is About 40 Hours Long

Final Fantasy 14’s next expansion, Dawntrail, is still several months away. Those who want new content sooner can look forward to an update next week. Patch 6.55, Growing Light Part 2, will be available on January 16th for PS4, PS5 and PC.

The Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival is still ongoing in Tokyo, and while its next expansion, Dawntrail, has received tons of new details, a release date isn’t one of them. Producer/director Naoki Yoshida explained why on the first day, confirming that there’s an internal date but that the team wants to ensure it’s as “fine-tuned” as possible before sharing.

Despite the lack of a paid expansion since the launch of Endwalker, Square Enix’s critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14 is going strong with over 30 million players. Its last major milestone was 2022, with over 27 million registered players announced.

As the team that handles Final Fantasy 14, Square Enix’s Creative Business Unit 3 (or CBU 3) has a special place in the hearts of Final Fantasy fans, and in 2023, the studio also released its first mainline single player Final Fantasy game with Final Fantasy 16. Looking ahead though, what does the future have in store for the team? Apparently, it could be something entirely new.

Along with releasing the full trailer for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, Square Enix’s Creative Business Unit 3 also has some trailers for the new Pictomancer Job and Female Hrothgar race. The Beastmaster is another new Job but arrives later in patch 7.0X.

Square Enix’s Creative Business Unit 3 is delivering lots of new content to Final Fantasy 14 with Dawntrail this Summer. Of course, fans can partake in plenty before that, like an upcoming crossover quest with Final Fantasy 16. It’s planned to go live in early April with patch 6.5X.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, has opened up about Zack Fair's involvement in the game, noting that he is an "immensely important" character who plays a "crucial" role in the story.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is looking like its going to be a much more expansive game than its predecessor. Its main story alone is said to be around 40 hours long, while Square Enix says that with side content included, that can go up to over 100 hours. A lot of that is obviously going to be thanks to its vast, seamless open world setting, and speaking recently with Game Informer, the action RPG’s developers spoke a bit more about what that will bring to the table.

Unsurprisingly, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is going to continue to expand and recontextualize the original PS1 classic in more ways than one, from its seamless open world map to the content it will house to just how long the game will be. That, unsurprisingly, will mean added screentime and narrative content for a number of characters, among which fan-favourite villain Sephiroth will seemingly be one of the most prominent.

Since Final Fantasy 7 Remake launched in 2021 and given how events played out, everyone has had the same question regarding a particular character’s fate Speaking to Game Informer, director Naoki Hamaguchi and creative director Tetsuya Nomura talk about how the team approached. Spoilers follow for Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the original game, so be warned.

Spoilers ahead for the original Final Fantasy 7 and potentially Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth!

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will introduce entirely new cities that weren't in the original 1997 JRPG in order to, in Square Enix's words, "go deeper and create this whole worldview of Rebirth."