Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Concludes At The End Of The Original’s Disc 1
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth looks to be a huge game, as we found in our preview, but now we know exactly how much of the original Final Fantasy VII the new game will cover, and it’s still just the equivalent of the 1997 game’s first disc.
In its recent State of Play presentation showing off Rebirth gameplay, Square Enix noted that Rebirth goes from when Cloud and his friends leave Midgar, “through their arrival at the Forgotten Capital.” That’s a major event in the game’s story and originally marked the end of the release’s first of three CDs when it was released on the original PlayStation.
That suggests that while Rebirth covers a lot of ground, apparently offering players the ability to traverse a huge portion of the original game’s world, from Junon and Costa del Sol to Cosmo Canyon and the Golden Saucer, it’s leaving the last two discs’ worth of story for the final game in the remake trilogy. Granted, the original’s disc 3 mostly included mop-up content like side quests, but there’s still quite a bit of content that Rebirth might not get to.