As Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth moves towards a grander adventure for the follow-up to Remake, players will have more ways to build their party of heroes as they take on greater challenges. But with the sequel, the creative team behind the game has also revealed that players will have more ways to customize the look of their squad as well. Reported by French website Final Fantasy Dream, Rebirth game director Naoki Hamaguchi and producer Yoshinori Kitase stated during a recent appearance at Paris Game Week 2023 that Rebirth will have more costumes for your favorite FFVII characters to try out as they explore the world beyond Midgar.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake's Infamous Whispers Are Returning In Rebirth
22.10.2023 - 14:57 / thegamer.com / Red Xiii XIII (Xiii) / Naoki Hamaguchi
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director, Naoki Hamaguchi, has confirmed that Remake's story-shifting Whispers will be making a return and that we'll see what's happened to them since Cloud and the gang changed their fate.
Although Final Fantasy 7 Remake originally presented itself as a retelling of the original game, fans were surprised to learn that it was much more of a reimagining than a straight adaptation. One of the biggest in-game reasons for the story changes was the Whispers, ghostly entities that were protecting the canon of Final Fantasy 7, going as far as bringing certain important characters back to life so they could fulfil their destinies as they had in the original game.
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At the tail-end of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, and Red XIII took their futures into their own hands and took on the Whispers, effectively shattering the canon, seemingly opening up multiple timelines at once, and getting rid of their ghostly storytelling influence once and for all. Not only did this change the destinies of the Midgar gang, but it also probably made a lot of fans happy, since they weren't too popular of an addition.
With the Whispers effectively dead and their one job of making sure the plot of Final Fantasy 7 happens failed, fans might not have expected to see them return in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. That's apparently not the case, however, as director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed in a recent interview with Geek Culture that we'll see what happened to the Whispers after they were defeated at the end of Remake.
Hamaguchi said, “In the previous game, we brought in the Whispers, so for the player, they can expect to see if there are any further developments for the Whispers. Not only will they appear, Zack is showing up as well, so it’s like, ‘What will happen to Zack?’ This is the exciting point.”
Although Geek Culture notes that Hamaguchi didn't explicitly say that the Whispers are going to be returning in Rebirth, the use of "Not only will they appear" does seem to confirm that they're featured in the game in some manner. How that's going to happen isn't yet clear, but if we do see them it seems likely they'll be very different from before.
Following the initial tease of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Motomu Toriyama, the scenario design co-director on Final Fantasy 7 Remake, revealed in an interview that the Whispers will no longer be able to change the fate of any characters, noting, "From here on in the Whispers cannot act to maintain the destined timeline". It seems that however the Whispers are set to make a return, they won't be interfering with the story any longer.
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