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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s biggest twist is concealed in a tiny detail
Holy Shinra, this game is so cool!
After seeing a post comparing Cloud during the Nibelheim flashback and his arrival at the city much later in the game, my mind is reeling from the subtle brilliance in how Square used the tiniest of animation details to convey one of the biggest, most shocking plot twists in Final Fantasy narrative history. The left half of the clip was taken during the game’s opening hours that retell the infamous Nibelheim incident that takes place five years before the events of Rebirth. In putting myself in Cloud’s SOLDIER boots, I can feel the phantom discomfort of the sword’s tip dragging on uneven ground or clanging against the stairs as he runs up the Shinra headquarters building.
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