Square Enix reveal Final Fantasy 7: Revelation, the final part of the remake trilogy, coming to PC in 2027

Parachuting done the Clouds

Square Enix person announced the 3rd portion of their Final Fantasy 7 enactment RPG remake trilogy. It's called Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, and it's retired connected each platforms including PC successful outpouring 2027. Yep, there's nary hold for a larboard this time. We get to unrecorded retired the closing enactment of Cloud Strife's travel and enactment successful the associated Discourse astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic those console gremlins.

The publishers dropped a trailer for Revelation astatine this year's Summer Game Fest, revealing 2 additional/returning playable characters - Vincent Valentine and Cid Highwind. They'll articulation Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Red XIII, Yuffie and Cait Sith connected a ngo to avert an apocalyptic Meteor spell and decision swishy atrocious lad Sephiroth, who is connected the brink of godhood. They'll besides leap retired of airships a lot, successful funny echo of the conflict royale genre.

"The full satellite is freely explorable via the iconic Highwind airship," explains the property release. "Players tin driblet successful via parachute anywhere, seamlessly transitioning from aerial to land. With Meteor descending and tremendous Weapons unleashing terror, the planet’s conflicts are many, and the enactment volition request to disagreement and conquer.

"Choose wherever to go, who to assistance and successful what bid arsenic the satellite itself fights for survival," it continues. "Make 1 past basal alongside a beloved formed of legendary heroes, making decisions on the travel that tin interaction aspects of their stories. Customize combat by switching betwixt real-time enactment and Tactical Mode successful the series’ acclaimed hybrid conflict system, present expanded and perfected with caller playable characters and almighty caller abilities."

New areas successful Revelation see the Mideel archipelago, the federation of Wutai, and the ice-locked Northern Continent. As for those caller characters, Vincent is inactive the nimble gunslinger of yore, portion Cid is simply a brute with a polearm, "quickly closing the region for almighty single-target lance strikes oregon sweeping area-of-effect damage."

There are immoderate lukewarm words from idiosyncratic developers. "All the stories and emotions accumulated implicit the years volition culminate successful the astir satisfying mode with this experience, brought to you arsenic the series’ last chapter," enthuses manager Naoki Hamaguchi. It's surely been fascinating and, astatine times, alarming, watching Square Enix research the knotty extended beingness and bequest of the 1997 RPG successful the Remake trilogy.

I confess, I fell disconnected the remake bid aft finishing the archetypal FF7 Remake, released successful 2020. I've yet to interaction the 2nd instalment, Rebirth; everything I cognize astir it comes from Nic's (RPS successful peace) perfectly stonking reappraisal of the PC version, which doubles arsenic a dissection of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. To boil his good words down to the bones, helium characterises it arsenic task made with emotion yet cruelly stretched betwixt eras successful crippled design. Now I look the grim ordeal of deciding whether I person the clip and vigor to play Rebirth, with each its flaws, successful bid to play Revelation adjacent year.