Final Fantasy VII Remake

Final Fantasy VII Remake
ファイナルファンタジーVII リメイク (Fainaru Fantajī Sebun Rimeiku?)
Developers	Square Enix (Creative Business Unit I)
Publishers	Square Enix
Engine	Unreal Engine 4
Genre(s)	Action role-playing game
Release dates	April 10, 2020
Game modes	Single player
Ratings	ESRB: Teen PEGI: 16+ CERO: 15+ ACB: M
Platforms	PlayStation 4

Final Fantasy VII Remake is the first part of the Final Fantasy VII remake project and the first installment of an intended trilogy of games, acting as a partial remake of Final Fantasy VII, originally released for the PlayStation in 1997. The game covers the first portion of the game completely remade, using the story and characters from the original, but with new gameplay systems inspired by the original title. Each game in the project will have a volume of content comparable to a standalone Final Fantasy game. The disc version of the first game is a two-Blu-ray Disc set. The official title is Final Fantasy VII Remake to convey its nature as a remake instead of a spin-off or sequel. The Remake is a reimagining of the original game that goes deeper into the world and characters. The game is being developed by Square Enix's Business Division 1, helmed by Yoshinori Kitase as producer (the original director of Final Fantasy VII) and Tetsuya Nomura as director (the original character designer known as the director for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and the Kingdom Hearts series).

The remake was a surprise announcement made on June 15 during E3 2015, after years of rumors and fan demand. The debut gameplay trailer was shown on December 5, 2015 during PlayStation Experience 2015. The first part of the project was set to be released worldwide on March 3, 2020, but the release date was pushed back to April 10. The first part covers the events of Midgar from the original game. The game Is 100GB in size. A playable demo of the game was released for PlayStation 4 on March 2, 2020, one day before the title's originally scheduled release date. On March 30, 2020, it was revealed that the game had been shipped early to some consumers in Europe and Australia to counter any potential disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic of the time. Producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Tetsuya Nomura implored those who received the game early to not spoil the game for fans.

An updated rerelease of Final Fantasy VII Remake titled Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade was released on June 10, 2021 for PlayStation 5, along with a special episode titled FF7R EPISODE INTERmission featuring Yuffie Kisaragi as the main character. At The Game Awards 2021, it was announced that Intergrade would be releasing for Microsoft Windows PCs on December 16, 2021, for the Epic Games Store, while the Steam version released on June 17, 2022.

A follow-up and second installment of the trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, was released on February 29, 2024 for PlayStation 5.

Gameplay

Battle system

Main article: Final Fantasy VII Remake battle system

Combat in Final Fantasy VII Remake is in real-time, with the player being able to switch between party members on-the-fly and use a wide range of abilities and spells. The player can issue orders to the other characters, or leave them to AI. Switching to a different party member is encouraged, however, in order to make best use of their unique abilities, as the AI will mostly play defensively and will not use abilities and magic on their own. In addition, enemies will often favor attacking the player-controlled character, which makes switching between characters optimal to avoid being overwhelmed by opponents. The materia system can be used to tailor one's playstyle and abilities.

During battle, the player can press the button to bring up the in-battle menu, called "Tactical Mode", where time slows down drastically, allowing the player to assess their current situation plan their next move, such as using magic or items. Players can also use the and buttons to issue specific commands to the non-active characters (the ones that are not being controlled).

Players can block incoming enemy attacks by pressing and holding the button, which reduces the damage taken by 40%; players can move while blocking, but at greatly decreased speed. Not all enemy attacks can be blocked, however. It is also possible perform dodge rolls as evasive maneuvers using the and the analog stick to roll into the desired direction; this action does not grant any form of invincibility frames.

To aim for a new take on the classic concepts that the original Final Fantasy VII is known for, the development team revamped the ATB system with an evolution of that which yields a fast action paced experience, yet retains tactical control. Characters can now be moved freely during battles and can use basic attacks () and unique skills () to deal damage to their opponents. Each character have their own ATB bar, that once filled allows them to use abilities, spells and items.

In standard modes, Easy, Normal, and Hard, the ATB gauge fills up slowly by itself and by repeatedly attacking, but in Classic Mode, this aspect is handled automatically, where characters will target enemies with their basic attack, allowing the player to focus solely on selecting commands, similar to the original release. Classic Mode is activated from the difficulty menu. It is possible to revert to direct control at any time during Classic Mode.

Characters can unleash powerful moves that deal a lot of damage to their opponents, called limit breaks. Each character has a limit gauge, which fills as they take damage (and when they stagger opponents), and once filled, the characters can use their special attacks, which can be used at any time during battle and consume no ATB. Unlike in the original game, players cannot "store" their limits after battle to use on the next; the gauge will reset at the end of battle.

A new system introduced in Final Fantasy VII Remake compared to the original is the stagger mechanic, where attacking an opponent will fill up a gauge that once filled will leave them in a vulnerable state where they take increased damage. Staggering enemies is a core part of the gameplay in the remake, encouraging players to exploit it through abilities and elemental vulnerabilities.

Abilities and weapon upgrades

Main articles: Final Fantasy VII Remake abilities, Final Fantasy VII Remake weapons, or Final Fantasy VII Remake weapon passives

Weapon customization screen. Buster Sword shown.

Each character has two sets of abilities: signature abilities (which they start with) and weapon abilities (which are attached to specific weapons the characters can equip). Using abilities requires ATB, and unlike magic, they do not consume MP.

Each weapon ability has a proficiency value that improves as the ability is used. When this proficiency is maxed out, the wielder learns it permanently and it can be used with any weapon. Additionally, upon leveling up, the character earns Skill Points (SP), which can be spent in the weapon upgrade menu to enhance the weapon, ranging from granting stat bonuses to adding more materia slots. Players can also obtain character-specific manuscripts by performing specific tasks to grant 10 SP apiece.

Materia system

Much like in the original game, players use materia to customize their characters and tailor their playstyle. Materia are obtained in various ways, some found while exploring while others can only be purchased at shops. The player can partake in a sidequest chain with Chadley to obtain unique materia that cannot be found elsewhere.

There are five types of materia:

• Magic Materia: Used to grant magic spells, which require ATB and MP to be cast, such as Cure, Fire, and Thunder. It also includes materia that grant status effects. Elemental magic is key to exploit enemies' weaknesses to deal extra damage and increase the stagger gauge.
• Command Materia: Used to grant abilities that require ATB to be used such as Assess, Steal, and Enemy Skill.
• Support Materia: Used to link with other materia to enhance the one they link to, provided that the player has a weapon or armor with linked slots. Examples include Magnify Materia (which when linked with magic materia, causes the spells to affect all allies or enemies) and Elemental Materia (which imbues the weapon or armor with the elemental properties of the magic materia attached to it).
• Complete Materia: Used to grant passive effects to the wielder, such as stat boosts.
• Summoning Materia: Used as a special materia that have a dedicated slot in the character's weapon. Only one can be equipped at any one character. Summoning materia require specific conditions to be used. Once the conditions have been met, and the character has enough ATB, the summon can be activated, where a creature will appear and fight alongside the player until the timer expires, and the summon exits by performing its signature attack. The majority of summoning materia are obtained by completing VR missions with Chadley.

Enemy types and elemental affinities

Main article: Final Fantasy VII Remake enemy types

Final Fantasy VII Remake streamlines elemental affinities by tying them to specific enemy types and sub-types. As a general rule of thumb, each enemy type is weak to the same element. Some specific enemies and bosses are an exception to this rule. The main types are:

• Human: Includes enemies such as Security Officers and Bandits. Weak to Fire.
• Biological: Includes "Wildlife" found in Midgar, such as Guard Dogs and Wererats. Mostly weak to Ice.
• Mechanical: Includes the autonomous robots created by Shinra, such as Sweepers. Mechanical enemies are weak to Lightning, including bosses. They are also immune to Poison and Sleep, with boss-types often being immune to all forms of status effects.
• Artificial Life: Includes the monstrosities created by Shinra's R&D Division, such as Monodrives. Generally not weak to any element, but may be depending on their sub-type.
• Unreadable: Includes mysterious enemies with insufficient data, such as supernatural entities like ghosts. They tend to have unique elemental affinities.

Aside from the main types, each enemy also has one of the two sub-types:

• Grounded: Includes enemies that walk on the ground. Stationary enemies, such as Sentry Rays, resist Wind.
• Flying: Includes enemies capable of flight or hovering. Most are weak to Wind.

Synopsis

Setting

Midgar, powered by Shinra Electric Company's Mako power.

Gaia is a technologically advanced planet dominated by humans, who are the only major sentient race other than a few nearly extinct species. The world is economically, militarily, and politically dominated by the powerful conglomerate of Shinra Electric Power Company, which profits from the use of mako reactors.

The reactors siphon energy called mako out of the planet and convert it into electricity, giving consumers access to technological comforts and innovations that ease and improve the quality of everyday life. One of the byproducts of the extraction and refinement of mako energy is materia, a concentrated form of mako that allows the wielder to harness its magical properties.

President Shinra leads his eponymous organization, and is the world's de facto ruler. Unbeknown to most of the world, Shinra's existence hides many atrocities and acts of despotism committed since its rise to power, including public manipulation and internal scandal, in addition to abuses of its authority, from morally questionable scientific experimentation, human rights abuses, unaddressed civil inequalities and unrest, military and police-scale oppression, as well as repeated denial of any detrimental effects resulting from the use of mako as a source of energy.

Withered flowers in Midgar.

Mako energy is drawn from the lifestream, a flow of lifeforce beneath the planet's surface. All life originates from the lifestream, and returns to it upon death, and the stream is the sum of all the life that has ever and will ever live upon the planet. The process of extracting mako energy drains the life of the planet to generate electricity. This can be seen in the Shinra's capital city of Midgar surrounded by a wasteland where plants barely grow.

Characters

See also: Final Fantasy VII Remake characters

The cast featured in the original Final Fantasy VII is said to return with all the same playable characters.

Playable characters

The main cast.

• Cloud Strife: The main protagonist, introduced as a former member of SOLDIER now operating as a mercenary caught up in the actions of eco-terrorist group Avalanche.
• Barret Wallace: The leader of the Midgar cell of Avalanche, who wields a machine gun on his right arm in place of his injured hand. Despite his brash and loud-mouthed personality, he is a caring person.
• Aerith Gainsborough: A kind-hearted flower girl from the Midgar Slums, who has a mysterious past involving the Legend of the Cetra.
• Tifa Lockhart: A member of Avalanche and Cloud's childhood friend. She runs a pub in the in Sector 7 Slums called Seventh Heaven, which doubles as the rebel group's hideout, but has doubts regarding the methods being employed by the group.

Intergrade

• Yuffie Kisaragi: A self-professed Materia hunter and agent of the New Wutai government seeking to restore her homeland of Wutai to its former glory.
• Sonon Kusakabe: Yuffie’s partner from Wutai, assigned to accompany her in Midgar.

Guest

• Red XIII: A mysterious beast who was experimented on by Shinra. He accompanies Cloud and his friends upon their escape from the Shinra Company.

Other characters

• Sephiroth: The main antagonist and legendary supersoldier of Shinra Company, believed to have died five years ago. He is on antagonistic terms with Cloud but needs him alive for unknown purposes.
• President Shinra: The president of Shinra Company who cares more about money than the fate of the planet's energy draining.
• Heidegger: Head of Shinra's Public Security Division. A cruel and scheming man who often advises President Shinra, and advocates for the destruction of Avalanche at any cost.
• Scarlet: Head of Shinra's Advanced Weaponry Division. A sadistic woman who rose through the company ranks during the war with her powerful weapons and research on materia.
• Palmer: Head of Shinra's Space and Aeronautics Division. Since the Shinra space program is on hold due to the plentiful supply of mako on the planet, he has lots of free time, some of which he spends in Wall Market.
• Reeve: Head of Shinra's Urban Planning Division. He is a black sheep among the other executives due to his conscience and genuine desire to improve the quality of live of the people residing in the slums.
• Professor Hojo: Head of Shinra's Research and Development Division. A man driven by science, he is devoted to finding the so called "promised land" of the Cetra, with no concern for ethics.
• Cait Sith: A robotic cat who witnessed the destruction of Sector 7.
• Biggs: A member of Avalanche who likes to help. The main strategist of Barret's cell.
• Wedge: A member of Avalanche who dreams of being more than a cowardly sidekick.
• Jessie: A member of Avalanche who is an expert on bombs. A former actress, she joins Avalanche because she believes destroying the reactors will help her father.
• Marlene Wallace: Barret's kind-hearted daughter who cares for her father and his friends.
• Roche: A 3rd Class SOLDIER with a strong sense of honor, who is obsessed with speed, motorcycles, and competition.
• Reno: A member of the Turks. Brash, rebellious, and snarky, he fights with his exceptional speed. Rude's partner.
• Rude: A member of the Turks. Calm and rational. Always ready with a spare pair of sunglasses. Reno's partner.
• Tseng: The leader of the Turks working for President Shinra.
• Rufus Shinra: President Shinra's son and Vice President of the Shinra Electric Power Company. Ready to take over the company after his father.
• Don Corneo: A wealthy man from Sector 6 who runs criminal activity in Wall Market, and loves to exploit women.
• Weiss the Immaculate: The leader of the Deepground, Shinra's secret supersoldiers, who is tasked to hunt down Yuffie’s party.
• Nero the Sable: Weiss’s brother and a Deepground's elite member.

Story

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Cloud Strife is a mercenary formerly of the Shinra Electric Power Company's elite special forces known as SOLDIER, hired by a cell of the eco-terrorist group called Avalanche to aid them in the bombing of Mako Reactor 1 in Midgar's Sector 1. Both Avalanche and the cell's leader, Barret Wallace, embrace the ideals of planetology that posits that the planet is a living organism and that Shinra's harvesting of the planet's lifeforce will lead to the end of the world.

Mako Reactor 1 explodes.

Cloud, Barret, Jessie Rasberry, Biggs, and Wedge infiltrate the reactor, and Cloud sets up a bomb developed by Jessie at the core. They get out within the time limit, unaware that President Shinra was watching their every move and that he had the reactor core self-destruct when Jessie's bomb failed to properly detonate. The area in Sector 1 surrounding the reactor is devastated. Cloud and the Avalanche members scatter into the streets and agree to meet up at the train going back to the slums.

While moving through the shocked crowds, Cloud hallucinates a meeting with Sephiroth, a rogue First Class SOLDIER whom Cloud remembers killing in the past. Cloud cannot believe that Sephiroth is still alive, now seemingly able to distort reality and send Cloud into a vision where everything around him is burning. Cloud snaps out of the illusion and meets a woman selling flowers being attacked by invisible monsters. Unable to see the cloak-like entities until the woman grabs his hand for help, Cloud's reaction alerts the Shinra Public Security Forces. The woman flees and Cloud is chased by Shinra troops to the railway bridge from where he jumps onto the passing train, reuniting with the others.

Cloud gives Tifa the flower he got from Aerith.

They head to the Sector 7 slums where Barret's Avalanche cell has a hideout in the Seventh Heaven bar owned by Tifa Lockhart, Cloud's childhood friend who reconnected with Cloud after he came to Midgar for work and enlisted his services to Avalanche despite Barret's reservations. The bombing having been much more destructive than Jessie had anticipated frazzles both her and Tifa, but Barret is ready to move onto the next bombing mission, though he is not interested in hiring Cloud's services again.

Tifa suggests Cloud make a name for himself as a mercenary at the Sector 7 slums, and gets him an apartment next to hers. Overnight, Cloud hears moaning from the room next door, and when investigating, finds it belonging to a delirious man wearing a dark cloak whom he hallucinates as Sephiroth. As he is about to attack, Tifa stops him, and Cloud realizes it was another hallucination. Tifa helps Cloud find work around the slums, and they find Tifa's friend, Johnny, being taken by Shinra's Public Security under suspicion of being connected to Avalanche. Though Johnny is not part of the group, Tifa fears he might still spill something, and Cloud and Tifa save him by taking out the soldiers holding Johnny under arrest. Cloud is about to kill Johnny to ensure he will not expose Avalanche, but a shocked Tifa stops him and Johnny instead flees Sector 7, vowing to never return.

Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge at her mother's house.

Though Barret has rejected Cloud's participation onto the next bombing mission, Jessie hires him to help procure a new blasting agent from a Shinra warehouse, still thinking that her haywire bomb caused the previous carnage and civilian casualties. Biggs and Wedge join them and Cloud gets to know the trio better. As they head topside by riding motorbikes through the train tunnels, they are accosted by Shinra and meet a SOLDIER Third Class called Roche, who challenges Cloud to a race. At the Shinra employees' housing district, Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge meet with Jessie's mother while Cloud sneaks in through the back to steal Rowan Rasberry's (Jessie's comatose father) ID card so they can gain access to the Shinra warehouse; Rowan has been suffering from mako poisoning ever since an industrial accident at a Shinra plant, which prompted Jessie to join Avalanche.

During their time topside, Cloud glimpses at the starry skies and recalls a time seven years ago in Nibelheim when he had promised a 13-year-old Tifa that after he would enter SOLDIER, he would be her "knight in shining armor" and come save her if she was ever in trouble. Cloud, Biggs, and Wedge act as a diversion to buy Jessie time to find the blasting agent, and Cloud duels Roche at the SOLDIER's insistence, though Cloud asserts he is no longer affiliated with Shinra.

The place is overrun by Shinra troops and Wedge is hurt. Another cell of Avalanche arrives to their rescue, and after they reunite with Wedge, Jessie shows them where the parachutes for Shinra's maintenance workers are kept. They ride down from the plate, Cloud riding with Wedge. Back in the slums, Wedge shows Cloud where Biggs and Jessie live and shows him the cats he lives with, being known as something of a local "cat whisperer". After Cloud heads to Jessie's for payment for the successful mission, she hugs him and wants him to go out with her, but Cloud is reluctant to promise her anything.

Heidegger, the head of Shinra's military, interrupts the party's bombing mission via a holographic message.

The mysterious invisible beings attack the Sector 7 slums the next morning and Jessie is hurt. Barret hires Cloud as her replacement, and the mission is back on track. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa head topside on the train, but fail an ID check under the updated security system and abandon the train mid-journey and trek their way to the reactor on foot. After setting up the remote-controlled bomb they try to leave, but discover that they are being broadcast to the public, live on the Shinra News. They learn that Shinra is aware of their operations and have been allowing their acts of terrorism to build Avalanche up as a public enemy the populace needs to turn to Shinra for protection. Shinra sets the bomb to detonate themselves, and after fighting a Shinra war machine, the walkway they were on is destroyed and Cloud falls into the Sector 5 slums.

Cloud crashes through the roof of a church onto a flower bed. He hallucinates talking to Sephiroth again, but is woken up by Aerith, the woman who sells the flowers he had met in the aftermath of the Mako Reactor 1 bombing. She is being pursued by the Turks, Shinra's black ops and intelligence operations division, and hires Cloud to be her bodyguard to take her home safe. Cloud protects her from Reno, but they find the church being overrun by the mysterious cloaked beings. This time the beings do not attack, only stopping Cloud from killing Reno and guiding them to a way out. Aerith convinces Cloud to stay the night and head back to Sector 7 the next day, and the two get to know each other better when Cloud helps her deliver flowers to the local school, and when they help the local kids and other slum dwellers with their problems. They meet a delirious cloaked man with a large tattoo of the number 2 whom Cloud momentarily hallucinates as Sephiroth, but after the encounter, the mysterious man staggers away. When Cloud and Aerith return to her house, they run into another Turk, Rude, whom they defeat.

Aerith's mother, Elmyra Gainsborough, is not happy Aerith is getting caught up in something dangerous, and despises Cloud for being an ex-SOLDIER, saying he has traded his chance for a regular life for power and thus cannot stay around Aerith. Cloud agrees to sneak out in the dead of night, but Aerith catches up with him and insists to take him to Sector 7 anyway. At the park in Sector 6, Aerith tells Cloud about how he reminds her of her first love who was also a First Class SOLDIER, but Cloud's vision goes blurry and his ears begin ringing when she mentions his name.

From left to right, Tifa, Aerith, and a disguised Cloud taking part in Don Corneo's "bridal audition".

Cloud and Aerith spot Tifa being taken to Don Corneo's mansion, and Aerith insists that Cloud go help her, as Don Corneo is a dangerous crimelord. They find that Don Corneo is looking for a "bride", but only entertains women endorsed by one from a "Trio", influential locals who run the notorious slum entertainment town called Wall Market. They procure endorsement for Aerith from Madam M after winning a tournament at the local Corneo Colosseum, and another endorsement for Cloud from Andrea Rhodea, who helps Cloud disguise himself as a woman. Once inside Don Corneo's place, they are subdued by gas and taken to a dungeon where they meet up with Tifa, who is shocked to see Cloud dressed as a woman. Don Corneo makes his pick of the three, but they subdue his lackeys after their weapons and other equipment are delivered to them by Don Corneo's disloyal lackey, Leslie Kyle, working together with Andrea. Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith, after ditching Cloud's disguise, threaten Don Corneo to reveal what he knows about Shinra's plans for Avalanche. Don Corneo reveals that Shinra is about to drop the upper plate on the Sector 7 slums, killing countless people, to crush Barret's Avalanche cell. He drops them into the sewers below through a trap door.

Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith race back to the Sector 7 slums. The way takes them through the sewers and the train graveyard, which they find haunted by the captured spirits of children whom Aerith can still commune with. They free the childrens' spirits by felling the demon haunting the grounds and make their way to the Sector 7 slums where they find the pillar under attack by Shinra, with the locals up in arms to protect it. Shinra announces that Avalanche is about to drop the plate and that Shinra does not negotiate with terrorists and thus they need to give themselves up. Wedge, who was protecting the pillar along with Biggs, Jessie, and Barret, falls down and is injured. Tifa and Aerith tend to him while Cloud races up the pillar, but ends up in the sights of Reno and Rude who are the Turks on the mission to separate the plate. Reno holds a grudge towards Cloud over their previous meeting and opens fire at him. Tifa cannot bear to stay back and with Wedge recovered, declares she will follow Cloud, asking Aerith to find Marlene Wallace, Barret's four-year-old daughter, at her bar.

Aerith shields Marlene from Tseng.

Wedge shows Aerith the way, but they part ways when Wedge leads the slum dwellers towards Sector 6 when a nervous Shinra Public Security soldier opens the gates against his superior's orders. Aerith finds her way to the bar even if the area becomes engulfed in flames from a downed Shinra helicopter. She finds Marlene and the two have an instant connection, but as she leads the girl out, they are stopped by Tseng, the leader of the Turks. Aerith agrees to go with him in exchange for Marlene's safety.

Cloud finds a gravely injured Biggs, and reunites with Tifa. They find Jessie, who dies in Cloud's arms. They find Barret atop the pillar, but Reno and Rude arrive and begin the plate separation procedure. Though Cloud, Barret, and Tifa defeat them and destroy Rude's helicopter, they fail to stop the plate separation procedure from completing. They learn through a video message that Tseng has taken Aerith captive because she is an "Ancient". Reno and Rude evacuate on a Shinra medical helicopter while Cloud, Barret, and Tifa ride a ropeway to safety as the pillar separates from the plate above and it comes crashing down.

Elmyra discovers the young Aerith with her dying mother.

Barret goes ballistic at the sight of carnage and the thought of having lost Marlene, but Cloud thinks that Marlene is safe at Aerith's house. They find her there and Elmyra tells the story of how she and Aerith, not her biological daughter, came to meet. Aerith and her biological mother had escaped from a Shinra facility, but the mother had passed while asking a random passerby, Elmyra, to take Aerith somewhere safe. Elmyra had adopted the girl as her own, but soon noticed she had mystical powers and the ability to connect to the spirits of the dead. When the Turks had come looking for her, Elmyra had learned Aerith is an Ancient, whose mystical powers Shinra wants to exploit. The Turks had never taken Aerith by force, and Elmyra still thinks Aerith is being treated well.

Cloud, Barret, and Tifa return to the Sector 7 ruins where they find Wedge still alive and a secret underground testing facility where Shinra has been exposing people to mako energy to turn them into monsters. This sparks some memories in Cloud, but the mysterious ghostly beings eject them from the testing site before they can investigate any further.

Cloud meets Barret, Tifa, or Aerith in the garden at night.

Cloud, Barret, and Tifa carry Wedge to Elmyra's. Cloud asks again for Elmyra's permission to rescue Aerith. He believes that Aerith, being the last Ancient, is too valuable for Shinra and its professor named Professor Hojo to ever be released. Elmyra needs some time to think. Later, Cloud hears footsteps and follows them outside, and finds either Barret, Tifa, or Aerith among Aerith's flowers. If Cloud meets Barret, he tells Cloud about the other members of Avalanche Cloud never had the chance to meet, and promises to introduce them after they save Aerith. Or if the person Cloud finds is Tifa, she asks if the flower he had given her was from Aerith and cries over how Shinra has again taken everything away from them while Cloud embraces her. Or if the person Cloud finds is Aerith, he is surprised and wonders if it is a dream. Aerith talks about the importance of living in the moment as everyone dies one day, and warns Cloud not to become too attached to her as she may not be able to stay with him for long. As she touches his face, she disappears, and Cloud wakes up in the the guest room.

The next morning, Elmyra has concluded that Cloud is right about Shinra, and allows them to go rescue Aerith. Barret asks her to look after Marlene and Wedge, with Marlene also saying Barret should go help Aerith. Since the trains aren't running and Shinra probably has every station under lockdown, they need an alternate route topside. Tifa suggests they ask Don Corneo, but he's not at his mansion. Instead they find Leslie, who claims he can help them get topside on the condition they help him find Don Corneo in his sewer hideout. Barret doesn't trust him, but Cloud agrees to help.

Leslie holds Don Corneo at gunpoint.

When they find Don Corneo's hideout, one of Don Corneo's pets steals the key from Leslie. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa give chase, and reclaim it, only to find it was not a key, but a necklace that once belonged to Leslie's fiancée, Merle. Leslie reveals that she was chosen to become one of Don Corneo's brides, and disappeared without a trace right after. He wants revenge, and Barret softens up to him. They return to the hideout door and Leslie goes in alone, but Don Corneo sees his attempt to kill him and disarms him. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa come to Leslie's aid, but Don Corneo sets another one of his pet monsters on them and escapes. Leslie gives Cloud and his friends grappling guns to climb over the Sector 7 wall, and from there they can reach the Shinra Building.

Cloud, Barret, and Tifa make their way through the collapsed Sector 7 plate and reach the Shinra Building. While Barret is eager to charge in through the front door guns blazing, Cloud suggests they use Shinra trucks to infiltrate the parking garage. They jump onto a truck and get inside, but when the truck leaves the checkpoint, they fall and have to fight their way in. In the lobby, Tifa makes her way inside the reception and obtains a keycard to access the rest of the building. Cloud believes Aerith is being held in the research labs near the top floors, and Tifa thinks Hojo's lab being located on the 65th floor is the most likely place. Either using stairs or an elevator, they make their way to the 59th floor, and work from there.

A vision of Midgar being destroyed by a meteorite impact.

To reach the higher floors, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa act like tourists participating in a virtual tour. In one exhibit, they experience distressing images about Midgar being destroyed by a meteor, and Cloud sees Sephiroth. The image ends, and the trio meets Hart, Mayor Domino's deputy, who leads them to Domino, who has been aiding them by silencing any possible alarms. He is Avalanche's man inside Shinra, as he loathes the company for locking him up in the archives, and not giving him any real authority in Midgar.

With Domino's help, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa reach the 64th floor where they eavesdrop on the Shinra directors' meeting where President Shinra denies Reeve Tuesti's plan to rebuild Sector 7, since they now have Aerith: through her, they can build Neo Midgar in the promised land. Hojo believes they can use Aerith, even though she is not a pureblood Ancient, suggesting they use SOLDIER candidates to reproduce more Ancients from Aerith for Shinra to study.

Professor Hojo.

Cloud, Barret, and Tifa shadow Hojo as he leaves the meeting and intercept him in his lab and force him into leading them to Aerith, only to deal with one of Hojo's grotesque experiments as he escapes during the fight. The group fights their way through guards and advanced soldiers to reach Hojo, who notices Cloud has SOLDIER qualities, but claims he's not a member of that force. Cloud clutches his head as his ears begin to ring, and the mysterious ghosts blow Hojo away.

The group later encounters a creature chasing Hojo into an elevator, with the now freed Aerith preventing a fight as she calms the creature down. The creature reveals his ability to speak to everyone's shock. Tifa notices a XIII tattoo on the creature, who calls himself Red XIII. Cloud is stricken again, and stumbles towards the elevator, sensing that Jenova is close. He collapses and awakes in Aerith's old room in Hojo's lab, where she tells them about her Cetra heritage, but how Shinra is wrong about her being able to lead the company to the promised land. They get a video message from Wedge and Domino on Avalanche HQ coming to rescue them on a helicopter from the roof, with Barret being surprised as Wedge was supposed to be bedridden and he had never asked for Wedge to help bail them out.

As the group goes through Hojo's lab, they find Jenova's tank where its headless body spooks everyone. Red XIII explains that Jenova is Shinra's most precious research specimen and that Hojo has spent his life studying it. A cloaked man appears in front of the tank, but everyone sees him as Sephiroth who breaks the walkway they are on and sends everyone plummeting to the deep recesses of the lab into an area called "the Drum", where Hojo controls their every move and ushers more of his "research specimens" onto the group, only to watch them be destroyed much to his delight. The party reunites and makes their way back to where Jenova's tank was, but Jenova is gone with only a trail of dark liquid leading to President Shinra's office.

President Shinra killed by "Sephiroth".

The party reaches the seemingly empty office and finds President Shinra hanging on the side of the roof, offering them wealth to save him. Barret pulls President Shinra up and tells him to confess to the Sector 7 plate collapse and that there is no Avalanche-Wutai link, only for President Shinra to hold Barret at gunpoint while scoffing at him for only wanting to clear his name rather than asking the company to shut down all mako reactors. Sephiroth appears behind President Shinra and kills him before stabbing Barret in the chest with his sword when he tries to protest. The "Sephiroth" is revealed to be another cloaked man, who transforms into the Jenova Dreamweaver, a monster able to create illusions. Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith destroy it, and Barret is healed by one of the ghostly mysterious beings that have begun to fly all around the Shinra Building. Another "Sephiroth" appears and carries away Jenova's body that has been released from the tank, and the two fall off the building.

As they step onto the roof, the Avalanche helicopter that was sent out to extract them is shot down by another helicopter piloted by Reno and Rude, which brings President Shinra's son, Rufus Shinra, onto the building. Rufus fights Cloud one-on-one while the others escape downstairs, though Tifa stays behind to help Cloud. Rufus is flown off by the Turks after he loses the duel against Cloud, and Cloud is saved by Tifa.

The party riding stolen Shinra vehicles.

Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, and Red XIII escape the Shinra Building via the expressway with vehicles stolen from the Shinra exhibition rooms, taking out numerous Shinra troops and robots sent out to pursue them. At the end of the expressway, they run into Sephiroth, who was waiting for them and everyone being able to see him now. Sephiroth cuts a passageway into thin air and disappears, telling Cloud to follow. Red XIII explains that the mysterious ghosts that have intermittently been helping or barring their advance are called Whispers, arbiters of fate and beings sent out by the planet itself to enforce a fixed future. Aerith hesitates over defying destiny, but tells the others that Sephiroth is more dangerous to the planet than Shinra and must be stopped.

They step through the passageway and enter a surreal realm where they fight giant Whispers as well as Sephiroth himself. How much of what they experience truly happens is ambiguous as Sephiroth is a master of projecting illusions, having trapped Cloud into illusions numerous times since he started his journey already. They witness distressing images of Aerith dying, a meteorite hurtling toward Midgar, and of a much older Red XIII witnessing a destroyed Midgar, wondering if they are glimpses of a bleak future. They defeat the giant Whispers and afterwards, battle Sephiroth. Although they prevail, Sephiroth remains and shows Cloud a vision of what he calls "the edge of creation". He implies that the world is ending and asks Cloud to embrace his plan for the planet's future. Cloud refuses, but is defeated and left with a warning that he has "seven seconds before the end".

The Whispers defeated and fate thus defied, the party, once back in reality, is free to advance toward a new unknown future. Aerith misses the steel sky, deeming the new sky ahead of them unknowable. As the party leaves Midgar to pursue Sephiroth to stop whatever his plan is, people back at the ruins of Sector 7 are rebuilding, Biggs is recuperating from the injuries he had sustained at the plate's fall, revealed to having survived, and Marlene thinks of Barret with Barret declaring that he will return to her. Rufus takes over the company, pondering over Sephiroth's apparent return and the strange occurrences at the Shinra Building and Cloud and his friends' involvement. Hojo discovers that Jenova's body has disappeared from his lab and breaks into hysterical laughter.

Zack survives his "final stand".

Destiny's course changed, Zack Fair has survived "his final stand". He is last shown bringing the delirious Cloud to Midgar, where he ended up becoming a mercenary and working for Avalanche, now wielding Zack's buster sword, but what happened to Zack himself from this point on is unknown.

Spoilers end here.

Music

Main article: Final Fantasy VII Remake Original Soundtrack

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Original Soundtrack.

The game features arranged and updated remixes of songs heard in the original game, as well as several new tracks. Background music will transition to a battle variation in certain areas.

In June 2019, it was revealed Nobuo Uematsu would return for the remake, though in what capacity was not stated in full at the time. It was then revealed in January 31, 2020 that the game's ending theme, "Hollow", was composed by Nobuo Uematsu and sung by Yosh from Survive Said The Prophet. The lyrics are by Kazushige Nojima, translated by Ben Sabin and John Crow. It was also revealed that Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki were composing and arranging music for the game.

The music featured in the E3 2015 reveal trailer was "Beyond The Wasteland" from Advent Children as well as part of the Distant Worlds orchestrated rendition of "Opening - Bombing Mission", which was further used in the gameplay trailer shown at PlayStation Experience 2015.

Development

Main article: Final Fantasy VII Remake development

Release

The game is planned for release in multiple parts, as a remake of Final Fantasy VII would not fit into a single release. Was the team to dedicate to a single release, the content would need to be cut, so rather than remake the game as a full volume, it was decided to do it in parts. The parts will be full-sized games with the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy cited as the base model, each part being the scale of one game from the XIII series. The first installment was released on two Blu-ray discs.

The game was relaunched for the PlayStation 5 on June 10, 2021 under the title Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, with updated graphics and a side story revolving around Yuffie Kisaragi working with a branch of Avalanche. The game was later released for Microsoft Windows PCs on the Epic Games Store and Steam, on December 16, 2021 and June 17, 2022, respectively.

Reception

Critical reception

Aggregator	Score
OpenCritic	88% (150 reviews)
Metacritic	87% (126 reviews)
Publisher	Score
Destructoid	9/10
Easy Allies	90
Eurogamer	Recommended
Electronic Gaming Monthly	3/5
Game Informer	87.5
Game Revolution	10/10
GameSpot	10/10
GamesRadar	9/10
IGN	8/10
Kotaku	Recommended
TheSixthAxis	10/10

Final Fantasy VII Remake received strong critical reception. On Metacritic, its review score aggregated to 88% based on 116 reviews, and on OpenCritic, its review score aggregated to 88% based on 150 reviews, with 94% of critics recommending. This score aggregate is lower than that of the original PlayStation release of Final Fantasy VII, but higher than the subsequent ports of the game, and higher than every single player game in the Final Fantasy series since Final Fantasy XII. Critics praised the combat, characters, story, graphical fidelity, attention to detail, and humorous writing, though it drew criticism for its sidequests and controversial narrative choices, particularly the conclusion.

The combat was praised by critics for feeling exciting and action-packed, yet still strategic and challenging. Tamoor Hussain of GameSpot said that the combat "asks a lot" of players, but is "incredibly gratifying" when considering strategy behind unique ways characters function as well as the properties of enemies, likening it to playing "high-speed chess". Heather Wald of GamesRadar praised the variety of combat styles between the characters for helping to "prevent the fighting from ever feeling too stale", and said that the boss battles "present a real challenge". Tom Marks of IGN said that though he was "initially sad to hear" that the combat of Final Fantasy VII Remake would not use the same Active Time Battle system as Final Fantasy VII, the way the system transformed to real-time brawling is "exceptional", saying that the menu slowing time to select commands adds tension to choice that was reminiscent of the "frantic decision making the original elicited".

Though reviewers reacted positively to the combat sections, many were divided on the sidequests. Heater Wald of GamesRadar said that many of the sidequests comprise "rather menial tasks that aren't particularly too exciting", and Tom Marks of IGN said that he completed the sidequests but "felt forced to do so out of a sense of obligation rather than amusement". Conversely, Bradley Ellis of Easy Allies said that the sidequests become "more captivating" as the game goes on due to the "meaningful character moments between your party", and because they "help bring life to the citizens of Midgar".

Critics praised the game's writing and characterization, as well as the game's sense of humor. Aoife Wilson of Eurogamer said that familiar characters are "fizzing with new life and personality", saying that their depiction captures "the essence of what made them so iconic and enduring". Heather Wald of GamesRadar said that the characters with the game's "biggest strength", filling out the experience with humor and heart-felt moments. Tamoor Hussain noted that the narrative and characters "truly stand out as its crowning achievement", and praised the game for embracing the "goofier elements of the original", which he found "bring levity to what is otherwise heavy subject matter". He added that the game would allow newcomers to "learn to love the characters for the first time".

Many reviewers praised the atmosphere of Midgar, and the graphical fidelity. Tamoor Hussain of GameSpot called it a "stunning depiction" of Midgar, and Chris Carter of Destructoid said Midgar's atmosphere "wins out as the true pivotal character" of the game, for giving players a " context for the city and the class-based politics that define it". Many reviewers praised the graphics in the depiction of the city and its characters, and noted that although textures occasionally popped in, the issue was not pervasive.

Critics were divided on the narrative changes. Jason Schreier of Kotaku said that new characters may initially be "baffling" but "all serve either to help develop the main cast or to add life to Midgar itself", and pointed to sections in which Cloud visits Jessie's house as an example of the "delightful additions to the story", enhanced by due to the "top-notch voice acting and stunning views of Midgar". However, he noted that other changes "aren't all great", drawing attention to the sewers and the Sector 5 tunnel as examples of dungeons that were originally a few screens long, and can sometimes take an hour to finish in Final Fantasy VII Remake, thus feeling "tedious". Likewise, Tom Marks of IGN said that the additions range from "welcome expansions to existing sequences" and new scenes that offer "enticing new perspective", while others are "pointlessly dull padding that frequently makes you retread previously explored areas". Aoife Wilson of Eurogamer praised the game for preserving the "spirit and tone" of the original, saying that the game "even manages to frequently improve upon the original's telling of the story".

One major point of contention for reviewers was the ending. Joe Juba said that the ending scenes are "jarring" and "surprising", calling them "mildly disappointing as a resolution to this game, but much more disappointing in what they imply for any installments that lie ahead". Tom Marks of IGN said that the game "raises a metric ton of questions that it doesn't deliver any semblance of answers to", referring to parts of the story as "Some Kingdom Hearts BS". Jason Schreier of Kotaku said the ending causes the game to become "something else entirely" from a remake, elaborating that he found himself grappling with the consequence of the ending days after finishing the game and also likened it to Kingdom Hearts. He concluded that he "certainly cannot wait to see what's next". Tamoor Hussain of GameSpot said that the "cryptic references to something more in Cloud's past" and unexplained elements nonetheless do not "diminish the story that is told", and the ending rather "lays the foundation for future revelations in an intriguing way".

Time magazine listed Final Fantasy VII Remake as one of the best games of 2020, saying "It's not shocking that Square Enix would make this game, but it is shocking that the results are so fantastic". The Trusted Reviews publication and its readers awarded Final Fantasy VII Remake as the best game of 2020.

Accolades

Before its release, Final Fantasy VII Remake won the overall "Game of Show" award from E3 2019. Shortly after releasing, it won an Editors' Choice award from PlayStation, saying it "stands proudly alongside its forebear, ready to inherit its legacy and keep its flame burning bright".

On the year of its release, Final Fantasy VII Remake was nominated for six awards at The Game Awards, including "Game of the Year", "Best Game Direction", "Best Narrative", "Best Score and Music", and "Best Role Playing Game". Of these, it won "Best Score and Music" and "Best Role Playing".

In Japan, it won IGN Japan's Game of the Year in 2020, and at the CEDEC Awards, the game won in the "Excellency Award for Sound" category.

Commercial performance

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Square Enix, by choice, shipped fewer physical copies to stores. This impacted sales of the disks, but the setback was overcome by digital sales. Final Fantasy VII Remake shipped and digitally sold 3.5 million copies within its first three days of release, making it the biggest PlayStation 4 exclusive opening weekend, an outcome Square Enix was pleased with. The game set a new launch month sales record for the Final Fantasy series in both unit and dollar sales, beating Final Fantasy XV. Because the growth in digital sales meant that they increased the percentage of digital sales overall, Square Enix expected a better gross margin overall.

In Japan, it debuted in first selling 702,853 copies in its first week, and was attributed to boosting sales of the PlayStation 4. In the United States, the game was the best-selling game of April 2020, both on the PlayStation Network and in physical sales overall across all platforms. In the United Kingdom, the game was the best-selling physical game for the month April 2020, leading the strongest April month for physical games in the country since 2015. Though physical sales in the United Kingdom were slightly below Final Fantasy XV, it has been noted that distribution challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic played a role.

In August 2020, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy VII Remake had sold over 5 million copies. After the success of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Square Enix planned initiatives throughout the year designed to capture a larger audience of players and further grow sales. These initiatives are not yet disclosed, though they have stated that marketing strategies would not solely rely on pricing. In September 2023, Square Enix announced that it and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade had collectively sold over 7 million copies.

Packaging artwork

North America.

Deluxe edition.

Deluxe edition.

PS4 Japanese.

PS4 package plus figure set Japanese.

Digital deluxe edition icon Japanese.

PS4 bundle Japanese.

PS4 Pro bundle Japanese.

Production credits

Executive Producer / FF Brand Manager	Shinji Hashimoto
Producer	Yoshinori Kitase
Director & Concept Design	Tetsuya Nomura
Co-director (Game Design/Programming)	Naoki Hamaguchi
Co-director (Scenario Design)	Motomu Toriyama
Story & Scenario	Kazushige Nojima
Music	Masashi Hamauzu Mitsuto Suzuki
Theme Song & Original Music	Nobuo Uematsu
Character Design	Roberto Ferrari
Graphics & VFX Director	Shintaro Takai
Battle Director	Teruki Endo
Lead Application Programmer	Daiki Hoshina
Lead Battle Programmer	Satoru Koyama
Environment Director	Takako Miyake
Lighting Director	Iichiro Yamaguchi
Cutscene Director	Hidekazu Miyake
Character Modeling Director	Masaaki Kazeno
Lead Rendering Programmer	Shuichi Ikeda
Animation Director	Yoshiyuki Soma
Facial Director	Akira Iwasawa
Lead Animation Programmer	Ryo Hara
Lead Technical Programmer	Tomohito Hano
Lead UI & Localization Programmer	Takeshi Mouri
Lead Build Engineer	Satoshi Kitade
Sound Director	Makoto Ise
Music Supervisor	Keiji Kawamori
Lead Dialogue Editor	Asako Suga
Movie Director	Kazuyuki Ikumori
Project Manager	Nobuyuki Ueda
Marketing & PR Lead Planners	Hitoshi Nishio Akiko Wada
Lead Quality Assurance Coordinator	Ikaru Koike
Logo Illustration	Yoshitaka Amano

Voice cast

Character	Japanese Voice Actor	English Voice Actor	French Voice Actor	German Voice Actor
Cloud Strife	Takahiro Sakurai Yukihiro Aizawa (age 14)	Cody Christian Major Dodson (age 14)	Tanguy Goasdoué Gabriel Bismuth-Bienaimé (age 14)	Felix Mayer
Aerith Gainsborough	Maaya Sakamoto Chihiro Tanaka (age 7)	Briana White Capri Oliver (age 7)	Céline Melloul Leslie Lipkins (age 7)	Manja Doering Verena Dienst (age 7)
Tifa Lockhart	Ayumi Ito Ayaka Mitsumoto (age 8, 13)	Britt Baron Glory Curda (age 8, 13)	Jessica Barrier	Shandra Schadt Leonie Landa (age 8, 13)
Barret Wallace	Masahiro Kobayashi	John Eric Bentley	Frédéric Souterelle	Tobias Brecklinghaus
Red XIII	Kappei Yamaguchi	Max Mittelman	Fabrice Fara	Peter Lehn
Biggs	Shuhei Sakaguchi	Gideon Emery	Benjamin Gasquet	Erik Borner
Wedge	Takayuki Asai	Matt Jones	Mathias Casartelli	Sebastian Huther
Jessie Rasberry	Satomi Moriya	Erica Lindbeck	Marie Chevalot	Leyla Trebbien
President Shinra	Genzo Wakayama	James Horan	Bernard Métraux	Helge Heynold
Professor Hojo	Shigeru Chiba	James Sie	Arnaud Arbessier	Axel Gottschick
Heidegger	Katsumi Cho	John DiMaggio	Gabriel Le Doze	Thomas Balou Martin
Reeve Tuesti	Banjo Ginga	Jon Root	Frédéric Popovic	Andreas Otto
Scarlet	Masako Katsuki	Erin Cottrell	Marie Zidi	Gisa Bergmann
Palmer	Naoki Tatsuta	William Salyers	Gérard Boucaron	Peter Weis
Rufus Shinra	Toru Okawa	Josh Bowman	Bertrand Nadler	Nils Weyland
Tseng	Junichi Suwabe	Vic Chao	Stéphane Fourreau	Oliver Schmitz
Reno	Keiji Fujiwara	Arnie Pantoja	Jérémy Prévost	Martin Sabel
Rude	Taiten Kusunoki	William C. Stephens	Bruno Magne	Dirk Hardegen
Don Corneo	Yohei Tadano	Fred Tatasciore	Patrice Melennec	Frank Felicetti
Andrea Rhodea (Aniyan Kunyan)	Tomokazu Sugita	Trevor Devall	Jean-Alain Velardo	Oliver Wronka
Madam M	Yuka Komatsu	Mallory Low	Sabrina Marchese	Katrin von Chamier
Chocobo Sam	Masashi Sugawara	Larry Davis	Pascal Casanova	Jürgen Holdorf
Roche	Kenta Miyake	Austin Lee Matthews	David Krüger	Cédric Cavatore
Scotch	Kenji Kitamura	Greg Chun	Serge Thiriet	Peter Dischkow
Kotch	Subaru Kimura	Chris Jai Alex	Pierre Alam	Michael-Che_Koch
Leslie Kyle	Tasuku Hatanaka	Mark Whitten	Martin Faliu	Jan Langer
Elmyra Gainsborough	Gara Takashima	Julie Dolan	Maïté Monceau	Tina Eschmann
Claudia Strife	Noriko Hidaka	Jeannie Tirado	Jessie Lambotte	Leoni Kristin Oeffinger
Marlene Wallace	Otoha Umezaki	Brielle Milla	Adeline Chetail	Anni C. Salander
Johnny	Yasuyuki Kase	Yuri Lowenthal	Grégory Laisné	Toni Michael Sattler
Kyrie Canaan	Sumire Uesaka	Erika Harlacher	Isabelle Volpe	Franziska Trunte
Marle	Tomoko Miyadera	Barbara Goodson	Colette Noël	Dorothea Reinhold
Mireille	Ako Mayama	Susan Silo	Laura Zichy	Barbara Krabbe
Wymer	Hideaki Tezuka	Andre Sogliuzzo	Gilduin Tissier	Christopher Kussin
Narjin	Masayasu Nagata	Josh Keaton	Éric Gumbault	Christian Blecken
Gwen	Mika Kanda	Danielle McRae	Olivia Dutron	Jannika Jira
Katie	Rui Tanabe	Anna Brisbin	Mélanie Bourlé	Nadine Schreier
Jessie's Mother	Ai Sato	Cathy Cavadini	Nathalie Homs	Susanne Grawe
Shinra Middle Manager	Eiji Hanawa	Brian Maillard	Jean-Pascal Quilichini	Matthias Keller
Mayor Domino	Motomu Kiyokawa	Neil Ross	Frédéric Cerdal	Wolfram Fuchs
Deputy Mayor Hart	Manabu Muraji	Enn Reitel	Denis Boileau	Gerhard Fehn
Beck (Begu)	Wataru Takagi	Andrew Kishino	Pierre-Alain de Garrigues	Steffen Wilhelm
Burke (Bado)	Anri Katsu	Sean Rohani	Antoine Schoumsky	Stefan Senf
Butch (Buccho)	Chikahiro Kobayashi	Ben Pronsky	Stéphane Roux	Maximilian Sordon
Betty	Erena Kamata	Hadley Gannaway	Fily Keita	Sofia Palacios
Oates (Mugi)	Buntoku Nakamura	Ben Plessala	Emmylou Homs	Michael Heidemann
Jules (Jinan)	Shunsuke Takeuchi	Alejandro Saab	Nicolas Djemag	Markus Manig
Jay (San Tou)	Yasuyuki Sano	Zach Aguilar	Cédric Ingard	Marek Erhardt
Ronnie (Zen Wan)	Hiroaki Tajiri	Imari Williams	Bastien Bourlé	Fabian Harloff
Chadley	Shuichiro Umeda	Sean-Ryan Petersen	Benjamin Bollen	Marco Rosenberg
Ms. Folia	Toa Yukinari	Erica Luttrell	Anne Massoteau	Dagmar Dreke
Sarah	Himari Mochida	Skyler Davenport	Clara Soares	Uta Krüger
Moggie (Moguya)	Satoshi Yamazaki	Hudson West	Fanny Bloc	Adam Rock
Zack Fair	Kenichi Suzumura	Caleb Pierce	Fabrice Josso	Patrick Keller
Sephiroth	Toshiyuki Morikawa	Tyler Hoechlin	Bruno Choël	Florian Hoffmann

Additional voices

Japanese

• Soichi Abe
• Yuka Adachi
• Nahoko Akita
• Yurina Amami
• Hirosato Amano
• Kazuhiro Anzai
• Takashi Aoki
• Reina Aoyama
• Mari Doi
• Keiko Domon
• Takuhiro Eda
• Daisuke Egawa
• Yasuko Egawa
• Daichi Endo
• Sayaka Endo
• Daisuke Endou
• Keisuke Fujii
• Tomohiro Fujitaka
• Mioko Fujiwara
• Takahiro Fujiwara
• Jun Fukazawa
• Shinya Fukumatsu
• Yutaka Furukawa
• Nozomi Furuki
• Kousuke Goto
• Atsuo Hasegawa
• Shunsuke Hasegawa
• Ryuzo Hasuike
• Yu Hatori
• Yukiko Hattori
• Takeshi Hirabayashi
• Yuumi Hirota
• Honami
• Mariko Honda
• Soshiro Hori
• Chisa Horii
• Chie Horikoshi
• Yuuki Hoshi
• Hazuki Hoshino
• Sen Hoshino
• Yusuke Hoshino
• Kazuyoshi Hosoya
• Yuya Hozumi
• Minami Iba
• Misako Iino
• Minami Iinuma
• Misaki Ikeda
• Atsushi Imaruoka
• Takuya Inagaki
• Fumitake Ishiguro
• Ai Ishikawa
• Kazumasa Ito
• Takuya Iwabata
• Momone Iwabuchi
• Mutsuki Iwanaka
• Rina Iwasaki
• Maki Izawa
• Shohei Kajikawa
• Saki Kaneko
• Ai Kaneta
• Yuichi Karasuma
• Ren Kato
• Ayumi Kida
• Tasuku Kida
• Ryuichi Kijima
• Michitake Kikuchi
• Tatsuhiro Kikuchi
• Taira Kikumoto
• Masamichi Kitada
• Taro Kiuchi

• Mari Kiyohara
• Satomi Kobashi
• Masafumi Kobatake
• Kei Kobayashi
• Akira Koga
• Nozomi Kojyo
• Shuma Konoe
• Kanade Koshino
• Megumi Kumagaya
• Erisa Kuon
• Naoki Kuwata
• Arthur Lounsbery
• Chika Makihara
• Takuya Makimura
• Yuki Masuda
• Shuhei Matsuda
• Yuichi Matsuda
• Kazunori Matsui
• Kotaro Matsumaru
• Shinobu Matsumoto
• Akihiro Matsushima
• Hodaka Mieno
• Nozomi Mikajiri
• Keisuke Misaizu
• Kozo Mito
• Eri Miura
• Junya Miura
• Kazuki Miyagi
• Satsuki Miyahara
• Takeshi Miyajima
• Jun Miyamoto
• Takahiro Miyamoto
• Takayuki Miyamoto
• Satoshi Miyazaki
• Takanori Miyazaki
• Yu Mizuno
• Marina Mizusaki
• Chiaki Mori
• Fumie Mori
• Natsuko Mori
• Kyosuke Motoshima
• Mariko Munakata
• Satoru Murakami
• Haruka Murata
• Makiko Nabei
• Masaki Nagai
• Yoshikazu Nagano
• Mikoto Nakai
• Daisuke Nakamura
• Sakura Nakamura
• Tatsuya Nakamura
• Satoshi Nakao
• Yukitaro Namura
• Makoto Naruse
• Tomoko Natsukawa
• Yuko Natsuyoshi
• Nozomi Nishida
• Chinami Nishimura
• Youhei Nishina
• Anju Nitta
• Hideto Nitta
• Saki Nitta
• Masashi Nogawa
• Yuta Odagaki
• Hazuki Ogino
• Seiro Ogino
• Toshihiko Ogisawa
• Marie Oi
• Eimi Okada
• Yoshihiro Okada

• Katsunori Okai
• Saori Okamoto
• Shou Okumura
• Tomohiro Ono
• Takashi Onozuka
• Takaki Ootomari
• Yukari Oribe
• Tamaki Orie
• Fumiko Osaka
• Yui Otagiri
• Chikara Ousaka
• Miyuki Sahaku
• Ayumi Sakai
• Masaki Sakaide
• Megumi Sano
• Kenta Sasa
• Hinako Sasaki
• Biichi Sato
• Kasumi Seki
• Yu Seki
• Misaki Sekiyama
• Takamaru Seko
• Mei Shibata
• Go Shinomiya
• Ayako Shioya
• Yukito Soma
• Songhwa
• Kenji Sugimura
• Riho Sugiyama
• Emiri Suyama
• Saki Suzuki
• Junji Tachibana
• Kaori Tachibana
• Yuhei Takagi
• Yuka Takakura
• Hana Takeda
• Kouji Takeda
• Yoshiko Takemura
• Emiko Takeuchi
• Yukimi Takeuchi
• Saori Terai
• Taiki Terai
• Tatsuya Tojo
• Yukitoshi Tokumoto
• Mari Uchiyama
• Kana Uetake
• Kenshiro Usuki
• Risa Watanabe
• Yurina Watanabe
• Miho Wataya
• Tomokazu Yajima
• Kyoko Yamaguchi
• Masaomi Yamahashi
• Kanehira Yamamoto
• Masahiro Yamanaka
• Kenji Yamauchi
• Kentaro Yamazaki
• Asami Yano
• Yasuhiro
• Kazuya Yazaki
• Yuki Yonai
• Motohiro Yoneda
• Saki Yonemoto
• Kenji Yoshida
• Seiko Yoshida
• Kiyohito Yoshikai
• Sakura Yoshioka
• Kota Yoshizawa
• Isamu Yusen

English

• Brad Abrell
• Orion Acaba
• Antonio Alvarez
• Leif Anders
• Stacey J. Aswad
• Tony Azzolino
• Brock Baker
• Ogie Banks
• Anjali Bhimani
• Johnny Yong Bosch
• Edward Bosco
• Andrew Bowen
• G.K. Bowes
• Robert Buchholz
• Kira Buckland
• Reba Buhr
• Griffin Burns
• Andy Chanley
• Brian Chase
• Ray Chase
• Sean Chiplock
• Charlet Chung
• David Cooley
• Jamie Costa
• Sara Cravens
• Hunter Davis
• Robbie Daymond
• Darin De Paul
• Ben Diskin
• Lucien Dodge
• Courtnee Draper
• David Earnest
• Richard Epcar
• Doug Erholtz
• Dorothy Fahn
• Keythe Farley
• Keith Ferguson
• Erin Fitzgerald
• Antonia Flynn
• Connor Fogarty
• Lauri Fraser
• Crispin Freeman
• Chris Fries
• Larissa Gallagher
• Grant George
• Peter Giles
• Jean Gilpin
• Marc Ginsburg
• Alana Gospodnetich
• Michael Gough
• Anna Graves
• Jake Green
• Kim Mai Guest
• Todd Haberkorn
• Chris Hackney
• Heather Halley
• Gavin Hammon
• Arin Hanson
• Mark C. Hanson

• Kyle Hebert
• Megan Hensley
• Marieve Herington
• Kate Higgins
• Heather Hogan
• Megan Hollingshead
• Erika Ishii
• Kevin Ivie
• Shane Johnson
• Bob Joles
• Danielle Judovits
• David S. Jung
• Billy Kametz
• John Paul Karliak
• Mikey Kelley
• Matt Yang King
• Brianna Knickerbocker
• Jason Konopisos
• Brandy Kopp
• Lex Lang
• Mick Lauer
• Aleks Le
• Dana Lee
• Mela Lee
• Misty Lee
• Wendee Lee
• Cherami Leigh
• Ben Lepley
• Ryan Colt Levy
• Jonathan Lipow
• A.J. Locascio
• Eric Lopez
• Matt Lowe
• Scott Ly
• Julie Maddalena
• Deborah Marlowe
• Vanessa Marshall
• Elizabeth Maxwell
• Kyle McCarley
• Erica Mendez
• Matthew Mercer
• Jason Miller
• Dave B. Mitchell
• Julie Nathanson
• Chris Niosi
• Joe Ochman
• Colleen O'Shaughnessey
• Jason Palmer
• Bryce Papenbrook
• Chris Parson
• Christopher Patton
• Tara Platt
• Laura Post
• Jay Preston
• Derek Stephen Prince
• Jamieson Price
• Griffin Puatu
• Andrew Racho
• Phillip Reich

• Maximilian Reid
• Jordan Reynolds
• Scott Reyns
• Eden Riegel
• Sam Riegel
• Daniel Robaire
• Bumper Robinson
• Cindy Robinson
• Isaac Robinson-Smith
• Michelle Ruff
• Tara Sands
• Alem Brhan Sapp
• Jeff Schine
• Jonah Scott
• Patrick Seitz
• Ashlyn Selich
• Pete Sepenuk
• Nick Shakoour
• Stephanie Sheh
• Keith Silverstein
• Christopher Corey Smith
• Roger Craig Smith
• Michael Sorich
• Jason Spisak
• Ted Sroka
• Steve Staley
• Karissa Lee Staples
• Brian T. Stevenson
• Karen Strassman
• Teke Tabor
• Kaiji Tang
• Richard Tatum
• Armen Taylor
• Courtenay Taylor
• James Arnold Taylor
• Craig Lee Thomas
• Kirk Thornton
• Josh Tomar
• Katy Townsend
• Amanda Troop
• Abby Trott
• Maya Tuttle
• Cristina Vee
• Brad Venable
• Selah Victor
• Anna Vocino
• Kari Wahlgren
• Talon Warburton
• Ezra Weisz
• Scott Whyte
• Sarah Williams
• Travis Willingham
• Brandon Winckler
• Mick Wingert
• Wally Wingert
• Dave Wittenberg
• Fryda Wolff
• Anne Yatco
• Zakiya Young

Motion capture actors

• Hideki Sugiguchi (action coordinator)
• Katsuyaki Yamazaki
• Haruka Shibai
• Hidenori Takei
• Asuka Yoshikawa
• Yasunari Kinbara
• Minoru Nanaeda
• Noriko Tatsumi
• Kousen
• Hiroko Yashiki
• Naohiro Takao
• Takumi Kato
• Miyabi Sato
• Mao Morohoshi
• Kanon Ohkawa
• Makoto Obata
• Naho Nakashima
• Akihiko Kikuma

Dancers

• Yoshino Shimizu
• Kengo Tamaki
• Masakazu Yuizumi
• Aijiro Tanaka
• Nanami Ozawa
• Misato Senoo
• Natsumi Iguchi

Merchandise

• Play Arts -Kai-
• Trading Arts

Three Final Fantasy VII Remake statuettes were released by Square Enix in 2020. The figures comprise of Cloud, Aerith, and Sephiroth. They are non-posable and include a display stand.

Release date: October 2020(US)
Size: Cloud: 9.4” (240mm)  Aerith: 9.1” (230mm)  Sephiroth: 10.6” (270mm)
Price: Cloud: $44.99 USD (approx. ¥4,887 JPY)  Aerith: $39.99 USD (approx. ¥4,344 JPY)  Sephiroth: $49.99 USD (approx. ¥5,430 JPY)

Gallery

See also: Concept art gallery

Artwork

Visual art from January 31, 2017.

Artwork revealed at A Symphonic Reunion.

Key visual from 22 September 2019.

US boxart.

Opening title card.

Screenshots

Aerith's lily and a black feather.

Prototype gameplay.

Escape in Midgar.

Midgar Highway.

Midgar Slums.

Barret Wallace.

Cloud Strife and Wedge.

Cloud and Tifa

Sephiroth

Jessie and Biggs.

Gameplay at Monaco Anime Game International Conferences 2017 event.

Hiding from Shinra troops.

Aerith Gainsborough in State of Play trailer

Barret in battle in State of Play trailer

Abzu

MPs

Custom Sweeper

Aerith in battle.

Cloud at the mako reactor No.1.

Gameplay.

Gameplay.

Shiva summoned.

President Shinra.

Roche.

Sephiroth.

Tifa, Cloud and Aerith.

Sector 7 fall.

Hundred Gunner.

Shinra robots.

Merchandise

Un-released image designed by Hidemi Matsuzuka

Tote Bag designed by Hidemi Matsuzuka

Sephiroth shirt designed by Hidemi Matsuzuka

Sephiroth shirt designed by Hidemi Matsuzuka

External links

• Official Japanese site
• Official English site
• Final Fantasy VII Remake on Wikipedia