It’s no secret that the upcomingFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeis making some big changes to the game. And now some more changes have been discovered inFinal Fantasy 7 Remakepertaining to the Sector 5 area of the game.
InFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, players will attack the Sector 5 reactor withAVALANCHEjust like in the original game. However, it’s discovered that the Sector 5 reactor is also building Airbusters, which are powerful robots that players will have to fight later in the area. As noted in a hands-on preview from IGN, players are able to manipulate their future fight with an Airbuster robot by removing its components from the assembly line.
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This mechanic was not in the original version ofFinal Fantasy 7on PS1. The way it works is that players are given a limited number of keycards that they can use on consoles in Sector 5 to remove certain parts from the Airbuster assembly line. For example, they can choose to remove its Big Bomber Shells, which would reduce its damage abilities, or they can choose to remove its AI Programming Cores to rob it of its stunlock ability. This way, players can adjust the Airbuster fight to better suit their playstyle.
This change toFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeis just one of many thatFinal Fantasyfans will notice in the remake. One major change happens at the beginning of the game, whenAVALANCHE blows up the Shinra Mako Reactor. In the originalFinal Fantasy 7, the significant collateral damage that comes from the explosion is pinned entirely on AVALANCHE, but in the new game, it’s revealed that Shinra itself made the explosion much worse than it would have been otherwise. While this may seem like a small change to some, it goes a long way in dropping the moral ambiguity of AVALANCHE and paints them as purely “good guys” versus Shinra’s “bad guys.”
Besides story changes,Final Fantasy 7 Remakealso features gameplay changes. TheFinal Fantasy 7 Remakegameplay changesare rather significant, with the game boasting a completely different battle system than the one found in the original release. Despite this, early reaction to theFF7 Remakegameplay changes have been pretty positive, so it seems as though Square Enix has made the right call.
Those who are impatient to try theFinal Fantasy 7 Remakegameplay changes out for themselves can check out the recently releasedFF7 Remakedemo on the PlayStation Store. Those who don’t want to bother with the demo just have about a month’s time until the game itself launches, so the long wait is almost over.
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