Square has confirmed that their long-gestating Final Fantasy Remake Trilogy will finally be completed early next year, with the release of Final Fantasy VII Revelation.
The game follows Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024). The trilogy retells the story of the original Final Fantasy VII (1997), a pivotal and influential title for the original PlayStation console and the biggest-selling game in the venerable Japanese roleplaying series (currently up to sixteen mainline titles). The remake trilogy expands on the original storyline by adding numerous new subplots, quests, side-quests, characters and Easter eggs, with some hints that this remake story is a parallel universe version of the original instead of a straight retelling.
Fan response to the trilogy has been mixed, with some praising the radically improved graphics and deeper exploration of areas and characters only lightly touched on by the original game, but others unimpressed by the monstrously bloated length (Rebirth alone is roughly three times longer than the original entire game), the move away from turn-based combat and changes to the original story/canon. Most annoying is the fact that a new "man in the van" character, the profoundly irritating Chadley, has more dialogue lines than anyone else in the games. Hopefully his presence in the third game has been moderated.
Another shift this time around is that the game will be a multi-platform release, launching simultaneously on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in Spring 2027.
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