Everything That Happened In Final Fantasy 7 Remake

The first entry within the ongoing Final Fantasy 7 trilogy, Remake covers the complete Midgar portion of the unique sport. However, the place the unique spent about seven or so hours within the neon-lit metropolis, Remake expands the chapter to a full-blown 40-hour journey. So, what occurs throughout these few dozen hours? Let’s dive in.Bombing MissionFinal Fantasy 7 Remake opens the identical approach as its ’97 counterpart: with the bombing of Midgar’s Sector 1 Mako Reactor. The operation is carried out by the eco-terrorist group Avalanche with a bit of assist from our sport’s predominant character, Cloud Strife. Cloud Strife shouldn’t be a member of the ragtag crew, however somewhat a mercenary introduced on for this specific mission as a consequence of his information of the reactor’s format. You see Cloud is a former Soldier, an elite member of Shinra Electric Power Companies standing army.As for why an influence firm wants its personal army, on this planet of Final Fantasy 7, Shinra primarily owns and operates the majority of the world. The firm rose to energy after it found it might faucet into the planet’s life force–or lifestream, as the sport calls it–to withdraw mako, an power supply used to energy folks’s properties and lifestyle. The solely draw back to all that is they kind-of, sort-of may be killing the planet whereas additionally contributing to poverty, class warfare, and gross inequality–hence why Avalanche is intent on shutting down their operations.Alongside Avalanche founder Barret Wallace and members Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge, Cloud efficiently infiltrates the reactor and locations a bomb on its core. After just a few battles, a slender escape, and an explosion a lot bigger (and extra deadly) than anybody at Avalanche anticipated, we see by way of the Shinra safety cameras a pair very attention-grabbing issues: President Shinra was watching the group the complete time, the bomb was a dud, and the explosion set off was really courtesy of the Shinra firm itself.Meeting AerithIn order to keep away from suspicion, Avalanche separates and joins the panicking crowd. As Cloud navigates by means of the chaos, rubble and wreck, he begins to hallucinate an encounter with Sephiroth, a formidable determine unique Final Fantasy 7 followers (and Smash Bros. gamers) might be very conversant in. Cloud chases after the caped man till the fiery phantasm is damaged by a younger girl, Aerith Gainsborough, asking him if he’d wish to buy a flower.The pair’s meet-cute is interrupted, as Aerith is swarmed by ghastly, hooded figures who’re invisible to Cloud till the pair make contact. While Aerith is ready to flee the scene, the ordeal catches the eye of close by Shinra officers, who start to search out Cloud. The ever-cool-headed Cloud narrowly escapes by leaping aboard a transferring prepare and reunites with the remainder of Avalanche. The crew then heads to the Sector 7 slums, the place their hideout and Cloud’s childhood buddy, Tifa Lockhart, await their return.The Sector 7 SlumsTifa greets the crew as they arrive at her bar-turned-Avalanche headquarters, Seventh Heaven, and expresses concern over the operation and the quantity of injury the crew did to Sector 1. While Jessie feels equally, Barret and the remainder of the crew are largely content material on transferring to the following target–albeit with out Cloud’s expensive companies. Tifa takes Cloud’s lapse in employment as a possibility to assist Cloud set up himself within the neighborhood, rents him an house close to hers, and affords to assist him discover shoppers round city. Cloud accepts Tifa’s assist, however alarms her when he virtually assaults his frail, murmuring neighbor who wears a cloak and reminds Cloud of Sephiroth.In the midst of Cloud and Tifa’s quest to search out Cloud work, Tifa’s buddy Johnny is taken by Shinra’s Public Security crew below suspicion of him being a member of Avalanche. Worried he would possibly let her involvement slip, Tifa asks Cloud to hitch her in rescuing the gullible goofball. After the pair take out the troopers holding Johnny below arrest, Cloud prepares to kill him to make sure he will not let the data slip. However, a distraught Tifa shortly stops him, and Johnny leaves, vowing to by no means return to the slums.Though Cloud’s time with Avalanche has seemingly come to an in depth, Jessie approaches the merc with a mission of her personal: to assist her discover a new blasting agent that will not trigger as many civilian casualties, as she nonetheless is below the belief her bomb triggered Sector 1’s devastation. Cloud agrees, and follows her, Biggs, and Wedge to the rich a part of city, which resides atop the plate above the slums. On the best way, Cloud is confronted by a Soldier named Roche, who expresses a peculiar curiosity in Cloud. The group continues to the Shinra worker housing district, the place Jessie’s dad and mom dwell. While Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge distract Jessie’s mom, Cloud sneaks in by means of the again to steal Jessie’s father’s work ID. Cloud discovers that her father is in a comatose state after affected by mako poisoning whereas working for Shinra, a significant factor in Jessie leaving her budding theater profession to hitch Avalanche.Atop the plate, we get a bit extra of Cloud and Tifa’s backstory, as the celebs remind Cloud of the promise he made to Tifa again after they had been teenagers. On a starry evening in Nibelheim–the pair’s hometown–Cloud instructed Tifa he was leaving with among the different village boys to develop into a Soldier. Tifa then asks him to vow that if she is ever in hassle, he would be the one to come back save her; Cloud agrees.Back within the current, Jessie breaks right into a Shinra constructing utilizing her father’s ID, however the crew is shortly overrun by Shinra troops till one other Avalanche cell reveals as much as assist them escape. As a thanks for serving to her, Jessie guarantees Cloud the pair will quickly go on a date. The subsequent day within the slums, nevertheless, Jessie is attacked by the identical hooded figures Cloud and Aerith encountered. Her accidents drive her to take a seat out Avalanche’s subsequent mission, and Barrett begrudgingly rehires Cloud. Barrett, Cloud, and Tifa head to the following reactor by way of prepare, however their IDs are flagged as suspicious, inflicting them to desert the prepare and head to the reactor by way of a collection of tunnels.After reaching the reactor and arming the bomb, a hologram of President Shinra reveals to the trio that he has been watching their work and broadcasting it to the general public, as presenting Avalanche as a menace will increase public help for the Shinra firm. He then deploys a high-end weapon to get rid of the group. While Barrett, Tifa, and Cloud survive the scrap, the ensuing harm causes a part of the walkway they had been standing on to break down, sending Cloud plummeting right down to the Sector 5 slums.Flowers Blooming In The ChurchCloud collapses by means of a church roof and wakes up in a mattress of flowers, after which he’s reunited with Aerith. Aerith explains to Cloud that she is being hunted by Shinra’s elite black ops division, referred to as The Turks, and asks him to be her bodyguard. Cloud agrees and enters a battle with an agent named Reno, virtually murdering the person earlier than the hooded figures intervene.Aerith convinces Cloud to remain the evening at her and her mom’s dwelling in Sector 5 and return to Sector 7 the following day. Cloud agrees and the pair get to know one another a bit higher, in addition to tackle Reno’s companion, Rude. Later that evening, Aerith brings Cloud again to her home the place the pair are chastised by her mom, Elmyra. Elmyra resents Cloud for being a Soldier and thus inviting extra hazard into Aerith’s life; Cloud understands her issues and agrees to depart in the course of the evening.However, Aerith hears Cloud sneak out and takes him to a close-by park, the place she reveals that her past love was additionally a Soldier First-Class. Aerith reveals the identify of her former flame to Cloud, however we’re unable to listen to it, as Cloud’s ears start to ring on the point out. The pair then discover a carriage passing by means of the park, and Cloud realizes Tifa is within the again. Aerith informs Cloud that the carriage is headed to a robust slumlord named Don Corneo’s manor, and Tifa is at risk.The pair head to Wall Market, the slums’ shady leisure district, and uncover Tifa has been “recruited” as a possible bride for Corneo. Cloud and Aerith resolve to get elaborate makeovers themselves with the intention to current themselves as potential brides as effectively and sneak into the manor. After a somewhat risque therapeutic massage and a incredible dance efficiency by Cloud, the pair wind up within the manor and Cloud is reunited with Tifa. The trio confronts Corneo, who lets it slip that Shinra will quickly be dropping the Sector 7 plate down on Sector 7’s slums, killing all those that dwell beneath it. He then opens a lure door, sending them down into the sewers.The destruction of Sector 7 SlumsCloud, Tifa, and Aerith race by means of the sewers and a prepare graveyard to get again to the Sector 7 slums, which is below assault by the point they arrive. The trio overhears a Shinra broadcast purporting that Avalanche is presently attacking a pillar important to preserving the Sector 7 plate standing, all whereas Barrett, Jessie, Wedge, and Biggs are preventing their hardest to defend the pillar towards Shinra’s deliberate detonation. Cloud and Tifa set off forward to hitch the remainder of Avalanche in preventing Shinra, whereas Aerith rushes to Tifa’s bar to make sure Barrett’s younger daughter Marlene makes it out of Sector 7 safely. Aerith rescues Marlene whereas seventh Heaven burns to the bottom, however the pair are confronted by a Turk named Tseng, who agrees he’ll get Marlene to security if Aerith comes with him; Aerith agrees.Cloud scales the tower, and is devastated by the lack of each Biggs and Jessie, the latter of whom dies in his arms. Cloud, Tifa, and Barrett attain the highest of the tower and face off towards Reno and Rude, and whereas each are severely injured by the following battle, the trio finally fails to cease the Turks from each taking Aerith and destroying the pillar, thus dropping the plate down on Sector 7. Barrett, Tifa, and Cloud handle to make use of a cable to flee Sector 7, however are devastated by the lack of their family members and houses.Barrett, consumed by grief over his daughter’s presumed demise, turns into enraged. However, Cloud tells him he believes Marlene is protected at Aerith’s home. The trio heads straight there and discovers Marlene is alive and protected below Elmyra’s care. Elmyra then opens as much as the group about why the Turks are so focused on Aerith, revealing that she is definitely her adopted mom and that Aerith’s organic mom died exterior a prepare station after she and her daughter escaped a Shinra analysis lab. Elmyra determined to absorb Aerith, however shortly observed the younger woman has unusual powers–including the power to speak with the lifeless.Aerith and the AncientsThe Turks quickly monitor Aerith down, and inform Elmyra that Aerith is an Ancient, a near-extinct race with mystical powers tied to the lifestream. Naturally, Shinra is focused on exploiting Aerith’s talents for private achieve, however Elmyra tells Cloud that she does not imagine the Turks would ever harm Aerith, as they’ve by no means used drive towards her.The trio goes again to the Sector 7 slums and discover an injured Wedge in addition to an underground Shinra analysis facility. As they discover the power, the crew discovers that Shinra has been conducting experiments on residing beings to create monsters. However, the hooded specters stop the group from exploring too deeply, they usually return to Aerith and Elmyra’s home, Cloud now insistent that they need to rescue Aerith.Cloud floats the thought to Elmyra, who says she wants an evening to consider it. Cloud agrees, and he, Barrett, and Tifa settle in for the evening. At this level, Cloud has a particular dialog with whichever teammate he has fashioned the closest bond with. With Barrett, the pair talk about the opposite sects of Avalanche and Cloud guarantees to satisfy them as soon as that is throughout. If he meets up with Tifa, he consoles and embraces her as she breaks down over every little thing Shinra has taken from them. Cloud additionally has the prospect to satisfy up with a dream-like model of Aerith, who tells Cloud to not develop too hooked up to her, as she suspects her time with him will not be lengthy.Infiltrating Shinra HQElmyra finally agrees with the crew that Aerith must be rescued, they usually set off to Shinra HQ to rescue her. After one other journey to Don Corneo’s and the sewers the place he now hides out, the crew finally finds a method to infiltrate the Shinra constructing. Cloud then deduces that Aerith might be trapped in Hojo’s workplace on the 65th ground, as he’s the top of Shinra’s analysis and science division and would almost certainly be observing her. However, a detour to the 64th ground permits the crew to overhear a Shinra C-suite assembly through which President Shinra denies Midgar head of city improvement Reeve Tuesti the mandatory funds to rebuild Sector 7. President Shinra states that now that they’ve Aerith, they are going to use her Ancient ancestry to search out the Mako-rich “Promised Land” to construct Neo Midgar. Hojo provides that he additionally plans to breed Aerith with Soldiers to provide extra Ancients.The trio shadow Hojo to his lab the place they bear witness and battle a few of his grotesque take a look at topics and finally rescue each Aerith and a feline-esque character known as Red XIII. Hojo remarks that Cloud bears resemblance to a Soldier, however is pretty sure he was not part of this system, which causes Cloud’s head to pulse as soon as once more. However, Hojo is ushered away by the cloaked figures earlier than he can additional interrogate Cloud.A short time later, Cloud collapses after sensing a creature known as Jenova is close to. He finally involves in Aerith’s outdated room at Hojo’s lab, the place she explains to the occasion her Ancient–or Cetra–heritage, and states that she hasn’t the faintest thought on how one can lead Shinra to the Promised Land. The crew leaves the room and finds a tank labeled Jenova, which holds the physique of the humanoid creature. Red XIII explains she is Hojo’s most treasured take a look at topic. The occasion explores a bit more–warding off extra of Hojo’s experiments as they do so–before coming again to the tank and realizing Jenova is not there.Jenova unleashedThe crew follows a path of blood to President Shinra’s workplace, the place they discover a cowering President Shinra asking them to avoid wasting him. After Barrett rejects his provide, Sephiroth seems and fatally stabs the President. After killing Shinra and stabbing Barrett, “Sephiroth” reveals himself to be a cloaked man much like the one who lived by Cloud in Sector 7. He then transforms right into a type of Jenova, Jenova Dreamweaver, and assaults the group.Following the battle, one of many specters seems and heals Barrett, complicated the occasion, who’s not sure of whose facet the spirit-like beings are on. The crew then notices one other “Sephiroth” carrying away Jenova’s physique, simply earlier than President Shinra’s son, Rufus Shinra, lands his helicopter on the constructing and has an intense one-on-one showdown with Cloud.After Cloud defeats Rufus, he races to hitch the remainder of the occasion of their makes an attempt to flee Shinra HQ. The crew steal a truck and a motorbike from one of many constructing’s reveals and race away, preventing off Shinra cell models as they achieve this. While the crew manages to flee Shinra, the highway out of Midgar leads them to Sephiroth. Sephiroth tears a passage into the air, then asks Cloud to comply with him. However, earlier than the crew enters, Red XIII explains that the specter-like beings which were intervening by means of their journey are known as Whispers, and they’re primarily arbiters of destiny whose solely goal is to make sure the predetermined path the world is meant to comply with occurs.The struggle towards destinyUpon this realization, many moments all through Final Fantasy 7 Remake start to make extra sense. Throughout the sport, the Whispers ensured Cloud met Aerith on the proper time, Cloud attended Avalanche’s second bombing mission (subsequently sending him tumbling by means of Aerith’s church), Reno was spared by Cloud, Barrett survived being stabbed by Sephiroth, and extra.The gang then enters the portal and faces off towards each Sephiroth and the Whispers. By the sport’s finish, the crew have quickly defeated Sephiroth and the Whispers, thus liberating themselves from the bindings of destiny. The crew reaches the outskirts of Midgar and Aerith expresses a worry of the unknown. Later, we see clips of Biggs recovering from his thought-to-be-fatal damage and a dark-haired man–Zack Fair–leading a collapsed Cloud to Midgar. These cutscenes appear to point the existence of a Final Fantasy 7 multiverse, the place the predetermined path explored within the unique Final Fantasy 7 is just one of many situations that might have performed out.Episode IntermissionRemake’s one-and-only DLC, Intermission follows Yuffie Kisaragi–a beforehand optionally available occasion member–on her journey to Midgar to retrieve a legendary piece of materia from Shinra. Upon arriving, Yuffie meets up with one among Avalanche’s many cells, however finds herself annoyed by their aim of liberating town from Shinra, as she believes town is so related to the corporate it isn’t attainable. However, Yuffie approves of the extra action-oriented Barrett and Tifa who’re lamenting the lack of Cloud following the Sector 5 bombing when she catches a glimpse of them; whereas a short second, this incident offers us a greater thought of when precisely this story takes place.Yuffie then meets up along with her companion, Sonon, and the pair receive false worker IDs with the intention to infiltrate Shinra HQ. During the mission, Sonon compares Yuffie to his youthful sister who was killed throughout a Shinra raid on Wutai, clearly upsetting the presumably love-struck Yuffie. However, the pair proceed on their journey till they’re confronted by Scarlet, Midgar’s head of weapon improvement. Scarlet informs Yuffie that Shinra doesn’t have any legendary materia and sends quite a few Shinra weapons on the pair. While these machines are bested by Yuffie and Sonon, the tables flip when Scarlet deploys the top-secret army group Deepground on them.Nero the Sable, one of many Tsviets or leaders of Deepground, pursues the pair and is finally defeated by them. However, as Yuffie and Sonon put together to depart the power, Nero rises as soon as extra. Sonon shortly shoves Yuffie into the elevator to assist her escape, sacrificing himself to make sure she goes free. Yuffie escapes in time to see the Sector 7 plate dropped, successfully killing an eighth of Midgar’s inhabitants, and cries out in grief and anger over every little thing the corporate has taken from each her and the world.What’s subsequentSo there you might have it: every little thing you’ll want to know earlier than enjoying Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. For the following a part of the trilogy, we’ll be following Cloud and the crew ranging from the quiet metropolis of Kalm, all the best way to their fateful showdown on the Temple of the Ancients. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth might be launched completely on PlayStation 5 on February 29, 2024.