After the dramatic climax in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, fans of the Final Fantasy series have been theory-crafting and speculating on how the eventual third game would conclude this epic story. Square Enix hasn’t given us a date or title for Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 yet to give it a proper entry on our list of all upcoming video games, but that hasn’t stopped it from already becoming one of our most anticipated upcoming PlayStation 5 games along with Monster Hunter: Wilds and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. More and more information is starting to appear about what the last leg in Cloud’s adventure will look like, so let’s equip our best materia and scan the internet for everything there is to know about Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3.
Odds are this game won’t be on Xbox (at least at launch), but there are still plenty of great upcoming Xbox Series X games to look forward to.
Release date speculation
Square Enix hasn’t pulled the trigger on giving us a release date, or even a release window, for Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3. However, we can speculate a bit based on what the team has said about development thus far. Recently, game director Naoki Hamaguchi spoke at a G-Star panel that was reported on by 4Gamer. The key takeaway was that the game’s plot and concept are all finalized and now the team is hard at work at actually building the game. This is confirmed in an interview with Daily Star where Hamaguchi said that Rebirth would not get a DLC chapter like Remake did. Instead, the team is fully focused on Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3.
Series producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Naoki Hamaguchi have been speaking out more and more about work on Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 which inspires confidence that development is going well. Speaking to Famitsu and translated by Eurogamer, Hamaguichi stated that is is “very satisfied” with the game and that work hasn’t hit any delays after beginning immediately after work on Rebirth was completed. We already learned that the story for Part 3 is already complete so all that’s left is the actual development.
Platforms
Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 hasn’t been confirmed for any platforms as of now, but it is highly likely that it will follow the same pattern as the previous entries. We predict it will launch as a PlayStation exclusive before coming to PC six months to a year later. However, there is always the chance that deals will change for this game.
One interesting statement Kitase made during a 4Gamer interview related to platforms. When asked if players should be concerned if Part 3 would be for the PS6, Kitase replied “No, you can rest assured about the next one.” This implies that the next game, at the very least, won’t be exclusive to PS6 and also be on PS5. Square Enix has also been making a bigger push to put its games on more platforms. We expect it to come to PC at some point, if not at the same time, but we may see the trilogy come to Xbox as well by the time the game is done.
Trailers
No footage, screenshots, or even concept art for Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 are available yet. Once we get our first look at the game, we will share every bit of information we can pull from it.
Gameplay
Much like the refinement we saw going from Final Fantasy VII Remake to Rebirth, we expect Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 to evolve upon the satisfying combat the series has built thus far. There will likely be some new features, but the big addition will be our final party members of Vincent and Cid being playable.
Hamaguchi told Daily Star “I think that what we did with Rebirth, the structure of the game, the balance of everything in it, was very good and it was received very well by the fans. So I don’t think there’s any need for major changes there really.” However, he did mention one area of feedback the team was in regards to the number of minigames in Rebirth. “We’ll work out how maybe we can cut it down to maybe a bit more manageable size for the group of players who quite rightly said that maybe there was too much there for them.”
The only other concrete information we know, again from that G-Star panel, was the fact that the team intends to give us the entire world to explore with our airship with no restrictions. “We will not cheat with the airship system (in Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3), but take the challenge head-on so that it can freely fly all over the game map,” Hamaguchi stated. The only other mode of traversal not yet mentioned that was included in the original game is the submarine that let us explore below the oceans.
Preorder
Without a release date or window, we have no preorder information for Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3. As soon as we do, we will update this article.
