What do you think of the fan theory that Tifa will die instead of Aerith in the FF7 remake?

[Anonymous]

I think Aerith will die

I think Tifa will die

I think both will die

I think neither will die

One will die but which one depends on the choices that you make

[Savage_Wisdom]

I actually have another theory entirely. Obviously I'll be talking about major spoilers, so if you haven't beaten FF7 yet stop reading



In the end we see the birth of not one, but two alternate timelines, one in which the group rebel against fate, and another where Zack survives that last battle. So now we technically have three Clouds in play; one from the original timeline, one from the rebellious timeline, and one from the Zack timeline. It might verry well be one of these Clouds who sacrifices himself in place of Arith. Or who knows, maybe Zack will save her somehow. Either way, I doubt we've seen the last of the new Zack survives timeline.

[Asker]

I think what they'll do is have a sequel to dirge of Cerberus in the original timeline where the protagonists learn about the alternate timeline and then a FFVIIR-2 where the player has to make a decision at the end that will divide the remake timeline again and end the compilation with "FFVII-3" where it will jump back and fourth between all three timelines and then they "converge" in a way.

[Asker]

They could have also included some dope symbolism like a cat if they're playing with alternate realities (i. e. Schrodinger's cat).

[SlothySlob]

They've already deviated with Zack surviving. You get different cut scenes at certain key points. Biggs is show to have survived.

With next episodes of the game I expect an extremely convoluted story where the devs explore a couple of fanfic universes and intertwine them, where the original is one version of many universes of how the story unfolds with the help of plot ghosts.

[Agape93]

They would be fools to change something so iconic. That would be equivalent to making sephiroth a woman or that shinra Corp was always the good guy.

[Asker]

Well if you believe the "alternate timeline" theory, they wouldn't really be "changing it."

[Agape93]

Except they would be as it’s not a Final fantasy seven remake, it’s just a different final fantasy seven spinoff, like dirge of Cerberus

[Asker]

It might be (despite the name).

[Agape93]

Except it isn’t. This game is iconic to millions, changing something so iconic would slap them all in the face. This would end up being their literal “final” fantasy game.

[hellacray]

Well maybe they could include a choice or maybe some sort of alternate timeline dlc.

They definitely can't just change who dies. Otherwise it wouldn't be a remake.

[Asker]

We're not really sure that it's really a "remake".

[hellacray]

But it's the title of the game...