Tetsuya Nomura woke up one morning like: "Hm....nono this is not complicated enough, it needs to be more like Kingdom hearts"
to give everyone a recap what i mean, for those who don't know already FF7:Remake is not a seperate titel/series its a continuation of the OG 7.
OG Timeline:
First Soldier: Mobile game focused on the Hystorie of Shinra and the soldier programm
Crisis core/before crisis: these games play before FF7 and introduce new characters to develope the world, known Charakters from a different perspective.
Main characters like Zack, get explained how Sephiroth became how he is and other/new villains as well as a deeper look into Shinra.
FF7: The main game following the events of the above games focuses on our main group, them meeting and going on their journey to save the planet and stop sephiroth.
they Defeat him after he merged with the Planets life force to become basically a god (Yes this will be importend later)
FF7 Advent Children: Movie plays 2 years explores the aftermath of the game and follows up on shinra Inc.'s former/other experiments before their end.
FF7 Dirge of Cerberus: explores Vincents Sephiroths and Shinra Incs complete past as well as secondary military group they had (Deepground) and ties itneatly to Crisis core and the main game.
now.....remember how i said the point about Sephiroth becoming a god even if he got defeated was important?
Well now comes FF7:remake wich focuses on the main FF7 game after god Seph said: "Me losing is cap and pretty cringe, so im gonna manipulate Fate and time to start this franchise from the beginning".
Character who where supposed to die live, some wo we never met get shown, some charas just take an entire different way of life and the new game FF7:Reunion focuses on the FF7:crisis core time when God Seph startet his timeline chenanigans.
and in FF7:rebirth the characters start to notice and even go "Wait i was supposed to die".
At this point im just numb and impressed.
