Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth vs Original - 10 BIGGEST STORY CHANGES

There was little doubt in anyone’s mind that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth would be diverging from the story of the original Final Fantasy 7 in significant ways, given how the remake trilogy’s first game panned out, and sure enough, now that the game is out, we can say that that turned out to be exactly right.

The key story beats you remember from the original are still here (for the most part), but on top of that, there are several changes as well, from additive additions to flesh things out to radical changes that completely recontextualize the larger story to smart remixing that manages to retain the original’s events but in ways that are just different enough to keep returning fans on their toes. Here, we’re going to talk about a few such narrative changes in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

[Native.Heathen]

My gosh! It's not multiverse! There different worlds, sephiroth literally just said they're all still a part of the same planet, ever unfolding, notice how he doesn't say planets? Even at the temple, he says jenova can't be whole until all the worlds are reunited? Because her cells are dispersed across the multiple world's, Notice how there's no multiple Jenova's and sephiroths? I suspect since destiny was broken, this is the planets way to try and get back on track while filtering out the world's detrimental to her.

[khamla]

Cloud still remains a virgin so at least that doesn’t change

[fcukyoutubeidverification]

The game is fine. As for the story, I like it. As an OG fan of FF7 I didn't want to buy a game $60 game knowing the exact same shyt and course. Also the NPCs in this game are freaking amazing.

[deva]

It is said by Naoki Hamaguchi in the rapid-fire questions interview that these changes have one purpose, so that players who have already known the original enjoy the remake as well. However, the remake will remain faithful to the original.

[supersaiyanzero]

Yuffie's character is damn near perfectly done in Rebirth. However i liked the intermission combat synergy better. Sadly...well.

[dekaynine]

aside from the story the gameplay is immaculate, so much depth and setups u can make

[GodOfAI_]

This makes me wonder if they really are gonna connect the trilogy to advent children due to the fact that the OG and the Remakes are actually vastly different.

[iyeetsecurity]

Seph and Cloud being love interests in this game was an odd change.

[DevinMacGillivray]

why are u sayin all of the names so weird they literally same them in the game?? the g??? nibbleheim??? who are theee characters

[IMZ]

I like the changes and Areith death is more filled with hope than depressing.

The devs want to stay faithful to overall theme of FF7, but they want to forge their own path in the process.

If folks dont like it. Thats okay, we still got the OG game to play.

[waterforgizmo]

What do you mean 10 changes??
The whole game and story was changed drastically…

That is not ff7 it’s kingdom hearts and that is in no way shape or form how any of this story went down

[ambitiouskickz]

thank u for advising me there is spoilers ahead! thats why i f with you man!

[trizzi_exe]

Why do you guys always let people who don't know the games read the scripts? 😂 They ALWAYS mispronounce names and locations. Who is Sis-Knee?? Lol.

[Blackcriterion]

tbh this Games Story is dogshit compared to the Original. You had those Emotions and what the F Moments in all FF7 Games back then.

Since the Remake you got only Weirdo Cutscenes and a luckluster Storyline based by a 12 Year old who doesnt have an idea what Exactly he is trying to tell us. Man and i was about to buy the Expensive Sephiroth Edition of this Game....

[christophergibbs]

10 changes was not enough, with the way that they changed so much of the source material on this 2nd part, I have honestly lost interest in the remake trilogy, I was already disappointed in the changes on remake, I only got rebirth just to see if they would do right by the core scenes such as golden saucer, planetarium, costal de sol, Junon, and different story beats for everything the game is beautiful but the fighting mechanics, the forced overload of minigames, and the fluff content, I cant suggest this game to a true fan of ff7 original

[DJRaverTeddy]

It's cool fleshing out the story but changing key plots and bringing in the played out Multiverse nonsense is destroying the whole story plot and purpose.