That’s probably apparent enough from the game’s mind-boggling final boss fight and reimagined combat system. For starters, Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura is also directing the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. There are two key reasons to think that a Kingdom Hearts 2 approach is entirely in the realm of possibility. Zack could extend that idea by giving players two completely separate parties that they control through the adventure.
As it stands, FF7 Remake already swaps the player’s party around based on the narrative, rather than letting players pick and choose their crew. The multi-dimensional teaser opens the door wide open for big structural changes that can build off the first remake’s momentum. That dual protagonist setup, which was utilized to even greater extremes in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, is a natural fit for the next FF7 Remake installment. And for lore reasons we won't dive into here, Roxas remains important throughout the rest of the Kingdom Hearts games since. While the story eventually kicks over to Sora, it’s a sucker punch of an introduction that scoffs at the idea of immediate fan service (bold for a video game starring Donald Duck). That puzzling narrative choice continues for two hours with only hints sprinkled throughout as to what the hell is happening. Rather than picking up with Sora’s story, the game puts players in control of a new character, Roxas. The classic RPG begins with a sequence with the same amount of mind-boggling weirdness. That ending has some fans speculating that the next installment of the remake will feature Zack as a playable character in some form. That unexpected turn gets even stranger when a visual cue in the finale implies that Zack now exists in a different timeline than Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, and Red-XIII. Square Enixįinal Fantasy VII Remake ends with a bizarre twist: Zack (Cloud's friend from his time working for Shinra's armed forces and the doomed protagonist from Crisis Core) miraculously survives a battle he’s supposed to die in.
The journey is only beginning for the FF7 Remake squad.