In Final Fantasy VII Remake, players had the chance to thoroughly explore the movesets of Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aerith through an extended stay in Midgar. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth adds several new playable party members. While we already covered how one of those new playable characters, Red XIII, controls (read more here), this time, we're talking about another playable party member: Cait Sith.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will Make Players "Truly Feel Bad" For Sephiroth
28.12.2023 - 18:03 / thegamer.com / Naoki Hamaguchi / Will Make / Will
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, says that players will get a deeper understanding of Sephiroth than they ever have before and that they might "truly feel bad" for him after getting to know him.
Despite his legendary status as one of gaming's most iconic villains, Sephiroth doesn't actually appear all that much in the original version of Final Fantasy 7. That was changed in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, where he shows up much earlier in the story and has more of a presence overall in Midgar.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, that focus on Sephiroth seems to be even bigger in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, something that's been made clear ever since the game's reveal trailer showed him and Cloud walking side-by-side together. We've already seen some examples of Sephiroth having more of a presence in Rebirth (including the scene where he calls Cloud a "puppy"), but it looks like we've barely scratched the surface.
Game Informer recently had the chance to go hands-on with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and find out a ton of new information about the game, including how Cait Sith plays, and the tease of a particularly mind-blowing scene. Game Informer also talked to the developers about how Sephiroth is being handled in this game, which revealed that Rebirth is going to go into more detail on his backstory than before.
While chatting to the game's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, about Sephiroth's role in the story, Hamaguchi revealed that one of the team's main goals with the character was to show how he fell from grace and became the villain we all know him as. Not only that, but they wanted the player to "truly feel bad" for him when they uncover what happened in his life to make him the way he was.
"Throughout the course of Rebirth, I believe players will not only grow to relate to and understand Cloud, but also Sephiroth through this game much more."
Of course, this isn't the first time that we've seen Sephiroth's background explored (just take a look at Crisis Core), but it does sound like Rebirth is going to go a bit deeper into his personality and show him as the hero of Solider that was never really shown off that much in the original game.
In fact, we can actually catch a few glimpses of that version of Sephiroth in gameplay footage showing him interacting with Cloud on Mt. Nibel. Of course, anyone who knows Final Fantasy 7's big twist will likely realise what they're looking at isn't entirely correct, but it does give us our best look yet at Sephiroth before he turned evil.
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