Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Release 2023 and trilogy with trailer confirmed

The Final Fantasy 7 Remake will enter its second round next year. The sequel is titled Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and there is a first trailer.

Tokyo – In 2020, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake was released and allowed millions of fans to fall in love with the game all over again. But the five million players were left unachieved when Final Fantasy 7 Remake ended on a cliffhanger at the end of the first act from the original. Soon, Square Enix will finally be continuing the story of Cloud. Now, to mark the 25th anniversary of the original, the company unveiled the sequel, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Square Enix has also announced a release date.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Release narrowed down with new trailer for the anniversary of the original

When did the trailer come out? On June 16th, Square Enix had a big anniversary to celebrate. The original release of Final Fantasy 7 was 25 years ago on this day – reason enough for one or the other celebration. To mark the occasion, the publisher and developer from Tokyo organized a large anniversary stream, which also featured the remake of the role-playing classic. Finally, Square Enix dropped the bombshell and showed the first trailer of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the full-scale sequel to the remake.

What’s in the trailer? Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will pick up right where Remake left off and show the outside world around Midgar. The first trailer already shows excerpts from a joint scene with Cloud and Sephiroth – probably parts of a large flashback that also occurs in the original. What is new, however, are scenes in which Zack and Cloud, visibly injured, roam the world together. You can already guess that Square Enix is ​​working on the story again and making changes, because Zack didn’t even appear in the original.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Release in winter 2023 – Director confirms work on third part

When will Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth be released? To top off the trailer, Square Enix made a few important revelations about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The release of the second part of the remakes should happen “next winter”, i.e. in winter 2023. Apparently this also means the winter from December 2023, so it will take over a year until the release. A remake of Crisis Core, the prequel to Final Fantasy 7, will be released in winter 2022/2023. And if you really want to play more than Cloud, you can do so with the help of the wildest mods in Elden Ring.

In addition, the Final Fantasy 7 Remakes should become a trilogy. After Rebirth fans will follow a third, concluding part. As game director Tetsuya Nomura noted during the livestream, work on the final installment in the series is already underway.

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