Ok I spoiled myself on a few things and...
Is it true that it's actually a sequel and not a remake? And the "Remake" in the title is not referring to it being a remake of the game? It's the actual subtitle like how Crisis Core and Advent Children are? Because it's about time travel and remaking the story.
If that's actually true, Nomura is crazier than I thought. I don't know if I love or hate this, but I'm hyped.
There is a future sephiroth and a present sephiroth. Present sephiroth is dead and in the northren crater. Future sephiroth wants to change shit, but he cant because of watchmen of fate, spirits that want to keep the events just like that, and they were probably even following future sephiroth to the past to stop him. Im sure ive seen this concept before in soul reaver, where monsters attack raziel when hes travelling around time since hes messing with it and that shouldnt be.
Sephiroth wants to change things but he cant, so he tricks the party into thinking that watchmen of fate are bad and that if they dont change fate, they will get a bad ending (showing that red XIII scene where he runs towards a destroyed midgar. They assume this is the bad ending, when in reality it is the good one). The party defeats the the spirits and now they have to face sephiroth, because since theres no spirits, he can do whatever he wants. Cloud defeats future sephiroth and shit is, for now, restored.
Now the party knows that something is up with sephiroth, so they leave midgar to find present sephiroth and try to change fate since they think the good ending is the bad ending. They dont know what is gonna happen.
Thats it.
My theory is that sephiroth also shows all this scenes to Cloud to prevent Aeris from dying. With aeris not dying she cant have access to the lifestream, therefore meteor should win. Probably the new objective is to take her holy materia and not to kill her.
I dont know about you, but i firmly think that this part was about future sephiroth + watchmen of fate, while the next parts will purely be present sephiroth and jenova like the normal OG, with the potential of fate changing.
I just wanted to know if what I said in the spoiler is true or not. I don't want to read that and spoil myself even more.
This sounds like a better story than the original.
>time travel shenanigans
The madmen have actually found a way to avoid killing off Aerith
You are gonna get bits of shitposts like "AC is canon and KH shit retcon ghosts", so its either the whole post or nothing.
My question was if it being called "Remake" is not because it's a remake but it's a sequel with "Remake" as the subtitle. It's pretty much a yes or no question.
Oh and to answer your question. We just dont know yet. Its an alternate timeline that might not be so alternate than the original. But it is not meant to replace the original, in fact i think thats the whole point of everything.
So it's not a sequel/time-loop but just an alternate universe?
This is the second time in the span of a few weeks that a character who was famously killed is brought back in a new game. Did the industry collectively decide no gaming character was allowed to stay dead? Was there a memo I missed?