7 Biggest Story Changes in Final Fantasy 7 Remake

Here are the 7 biggest changes between Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the original PlayStation game.

[FireShinbo]

Is everyone ready for Final Fantasy 7 Remake 2: Chains of Destiny ReMix 358/2

[DeVoEse]

Shinra always blew up the reactor. It was just implied in the original and outright stated in the remake. Jessie remarks a number of times that her bomb shouldn't have done that much damage, and if you look, there was a small explosion followed by a larger one.

[blushingralseiuwu]

Say all you want about FF 7 Remake, Barrett story and characterization in this game is insane. Especially that bit where the party save president Shinra and Barret immediately ask for the president to clear their name, which immediately refuted by the president on why Barret didn't ask for reactor shut down? It just show that Barrett don't care about saving the planet and stuff, just revenge for Shinra and what they did on coral.

[JustAName-itqp]

Square Enix: Watches Marvel movies

*I've got a new recipe

[mangasaint]

Wanna hear whats really Meta, when you realize _We_ are the whispers.

[MrBigsmallguy]

The Whispers are all the fans telling the devs how to write the game

[berkataofficial]

Get ready for:
FF VII Chain of Lifestream
FF VII Death Dawn Different 3D
FF VII 777/20 Years
FF VII Burn by Sephiroth
FF VII Back to The Future
FF VII End Game

[lssjgaming]

Avalanche being huge was technically a thing in the original but was only shown in spin-off material like Before Crisis and this reimagining makes it more clear to people and makes it make more sense

[joel]

So no one is gonna talk about the fact that Wedge and Biggs are alive? (And maybe even Jessie)

[ChristopherToro]

I believe FF7's story just got "square enixed" or KH'ed.

[almightyme]

See u guys in another 5 or 10 years later for part 2 of ff7 remake

[kendonl.taylor]

So Final Fantasy 7 "Remake" is an alternate timeline.

[YetiCoolBrother]

I do not think there is an alternate “Zack is alive” timeline, the scene with Zack walking with Cloud is how it plays out in OG FFVII before they changed it in CC to be more dramatic. Likely what we saw is the literal seconds before Zack is shot. Cloud is basically a vegetable at that point so the Shinra Troops just leave him for dead.

After beating it myself my assumption is that somehow Sephiroth has managed to travel back in time after being defeated in OG FFVII. It is destiny for the story to play out how it should however, so when Sephiroth gets back to the past he is immediately beset by the Whispers (ie. the manifestation of the will of the planet) who are trying to keep everything on track. So Sephiroth knows everything that will happen but he can’t directly influence/change it because the Whispers always interfere, as evidenced to us when he tries to kill Barret. He knows ultimately however that his fate is to be defeated by Cloud, and Cloud’s fate is to defeat him. And so my theory is that the only way to avert this is if they BOTH decide to do go against destiny (aka the Whispers aka the will of the planet) and do something differently than how we know it happens in OG FFVII. That’s why at the very end Sephiroth asks Cloud to join him, he needs Cloud to choose to change fate as well in order for him to even have a chance avoiding his fated death at his hands. So the reason he has to use all the illusions and cryptic language he does throughout the game is because the Whispers won’t let him just out right tell Cloud the situation PLUS he knows Cloud hates him and would never join him willingly (even tho he tried to get him to in the end). He has to leave all these bread crumbs so that Cloud comes to the conclusion to change fate of his own free will, and then from there who knows what will happen and what Sephiroth’s ultimate goal will be.

[looots]

Sephiroth not showing himself in the Shinra Building was a must, it builds the suspense.

[Narutos]

I can’t wait to see cid, My boy Vincent, Yuffie and Cait Sith

[SuckMyAsianDick]

Excellent remake.
In disc 2, cloud, with the help of sarah Connor, will have to generate 1.21 gigawatz with bill and Ted’s phone booth so he can send sephiroth back to his real Mickey Mouse timeline

[rezalzalahmusic]

I'm cool with the changes. I like not knowing what's gonna happen. call me a blind fanboy, but I'll like a FF7 reboot, remake, sequel, disc. I love ff7. it's my favorite game of all time, and I really want more of it.

[MJeffSantos]

I played like 40% of the original game when I was a teen, really liked it, but never finished. Believe or not, to this day, I only knew that Aerith dies in the original, but don't even know the ending. So I got the remake almost like a fresh new game, played it to the end and I'll tell you: I loved it. Sorry if the old fans didn't like it, but I'm 100% on board for the next one.

[blues]

Roche isn't really a villain, more of a rival. And he was a great addition. The original game Cloud doesn't really interact with any other Soldier's really. Unless you count Sephiroth. So having Shinra use other Soldier's in the game to stop Avalanche was perfect.

[JimV]

The whispers of fate inclusion felt super forced into the story. Didn't feel natural at all. They should have stuck to the original source material like they led us to believe.