I have played this game +20 times and I don't think I will ever know everything there is to know about it.

If with Squall and Irvine earlier you went to the Grease monkey's house in Fisherman and found the Elite Soldier then if you go with Irvine alone you can go again and get some ammo rewards, including some Pulse Ammo which is the best one.

This is the sort of thing that 16 is missing. Just small things that people can discover decades later.

I'm still learning things about 7, even though I've been playing since launch. An 10 has a whole bunch of things like this. (For example, when you fall through the lake, Sin catches you. You're actually standing on Sin when you're under the lake).

Fisherman's Horizon is a nest of secret scenes and dialogue! It's a fantastic area of the game.

On the gameplay perspective, I was amazed a few years after playing the game numerous times that there were A TON of rare drops from monsters that you kinda have to go out of your way to get. Many used to teach all kinds of abilities to GFs. Not game changing or anything, but I thought it was neat at the time.

Raijin doesn't attack if only female characters are alive. However, if he's blinded, he will still attack.

It took me 20 playthroughs to realize that the game starts at the end. Sorceress Rinoa stands in the flower field, waiting for Squall to return from the future. But Squall is actually stuck in the past, where Ultimecia is giving her powers to Edea. So Rinoa grabs a petal from the wind, turns it into a feather and sends it into waning Time Compression. Feather traces events of the game starting from the duel between Squall and Seifer, and falls into Squall's lap in the final cutscene.

On the other hand, if you die in battle, game over screen shows you Squall's broken gunblade and the feather lying beside it, implying that the feather was not able to find Squall, and that it was there, when the battle happened.

No, there isn't. To my knowledge, at least. And she is waiting in the present, not past. "The past" usually refers to the era we play as Laguna in.

I really am wondering how the flying and underwater areas are going to be incorporated. It feels like a massive undertaking.

I am slightly concerned that we won't have a submarine in part 3. If you recall the submarine game you play to escape junon becomes available in the gold saucer and while there is definitely an area of the wonder square that is blocked off and has the snow mural indicating the snowboard minigame will be available at some point in part 3, I see nowhere that the submarine game has any sort of placeholder. I hope I am wrong bc I liked the sub game every bit as much as the bike game, maybe more in OG. I really hope they bring back the dart minigame you play in 7th heaven at the beginning of Remake. I'd love to see that put into every bar around the world. Thought that game was super fun as well.

I came across this dialogue a few days ago and had the same thought! It felt just like a tease for submarine exploration

Great catch OP! I think it’s safe to assume >!the submarine part!< of the game will be expanded and this would be an awesome way to do so.

I agree with you but the mods should spoiler tag this post. Its basically ruining one of part 3's greatest surprises for newcomers.

I came to say Nibelhiem but after reading these comments, I'm stoked for all of it and am gonna do another playthrough of the OG

The forgotten city. I loved the atmosphere in the OG and I can’t wait to hear the music they’ll use of it (they used some version of that song in Remake called “Seven Seconds till the End” which was incredible )

Yes, with the abandoned reactor. And the heavy tank (half-dinosaur, half-tank). Really underrated how weird that enemy is.

Costa de Sol! And the parade...love to excercise the march!

I'd have to say The Forgotten City/City of the Ancients

You know Gongaga?

Can't wait to go to Gongaga and meet Zack's parents. I bet Cloud will have one of those weird Harry Potterey headache moments haha

The ending when Cloud asks Aerith if she's going to be okay then Aerith asks "And if I said I wasn't?"

A reference to an interaction of theirs in Remake in the park right before they see Tifa in the chocobo wagon headed to Don Corneo

For me it's all the NPC side stories going on, and that they progress and change as you get further into the game. Also, there are alternate versions of some of the NPC stories in Zack's world where the dreams they hoped for in reality come to fruition.

Main world there's a couple you run into that have tried for years to get pregnant. You see them in Cosmo Canyon trying to make peace with it and talking about adoption. Later in Terrier you see she did get pregnant and they say something like "I just wish we had the chance to meet her." talking about the unborn baby. It's bittersweet but illustrates that these extra worlds are for unrealized hopes/dreams/desires.

Outside of that subplot, there's tons of fun details all over:

• Kalm: The two girls fighting over the same guy get into a slap fight, then start dating each other.

• Kalm: A guy commenting about the "hot blonde with pigtails" or something back in Wall Market.

• Kalm: The whole farmers market alley is a delight, same with the vendors in Costa Del Sol.

• Gold Saucer patrons fill all the stereotypical tourist tropes; the over-organized itinerary person, a mom trying to corral her whiny kids, guy forcing his GF/friends back to races to keep gambling, person trying to do too much in one day, etc.

• Love that all the weapons from Remake adorn Johnny's hotel, and the descriptions on all the trophies are great - the Loveless ones hint that Chadley runs a fan club lol.

• All the posters and pictures all over the place, but Tifa's room is the best. On her bed wall she's got pictures of all the locations the party visits in Rebirth (up until ToTA/FC). Love the Zell reference, the weapon posters, Dumbapple juice posters too.

• Chadley dressing up as a Tonberry wizard was so cute!

• All the music for even small things like optional side quests or optional NPCs - the guy playing blues on his guitar in the Crows Nest was awesome and he has 2 songs, who doesn't love Bow Wow Wow, One-two Sabo, the Gus battle area version of his theme, they made unique and amazing music for everything. It's incredible.

• The Cloud Jr. questline: once you finish it and go back with Barrett to Corel, the chicks and the mama bird follow Barrett around everywhere. It's adorable.

• Devs trolling us with the chicken quest.

• Vincent enjoying the decor of the Haunted Hotel

• Vincent being a QB god and the aftermath cutscene of beating Regina was fucking phenomenally absurd over the top anime Yu-Gi-Oh level ridiculousness and I absolutely loved it.

• Cid and Barrett bickering, and Cid showing his true colors if you put around in the tiny bronco enough. If you try to pull up next to the Shinra ship in Junon he gets pissed and says "I ain't dockin' at no Shinra port!!"

• Cloud straight up hitting on the storybook author in Gongaga made me laugh so hard.

• The Yuffie graffiti up Mt. Corel

There's so much I could keep going forever!

You don’t notice it if you don’t stop, but as you’re running to safety as Aerith after the black materia is removed, Cloud sticks by Aerith wherever she runs. If she runs back, only he follows her. I guess that’s their way of writing in that he could be out of his mind but he still remembers his instincts, protection being one of them.

When Aerith gets off of a Chocobo she pats its head, which many people know by now, but something I also noticed is if she gets on the Chocobo from the right, she swings her legs to the left. They could have just animated her on transport sitting on the chocobo’s left all the time so it’s a neat little add in.

A subtle thing I with they didn’t remove from remake was Aerith waving goodbye to Bahamut. It would have been cute if they kept that for Bahamut Arisen.

When Bugenhagen says that the Cetra are not a religious people, Aerith is visibly disappointed. Her favorite place in the world is a church.

The extra quests that open up after Ch 12, one has you helping a woman write a children's book. But here's the video if you don't want to play it.

https://youtu.be/pIsaVCnmNNo?si=m664sF6r6SQezrgV

Barrett straight up blocking lmao I love it.

Did you return to that area later on ands see the grave Dio made for him?

Dude there are SO many unique voice moments that they totally didn’t have to add but did. Like if you put Elena to sleep in battle, she mutters some insecurities while dreaming, something like “did I do good, boss?” Like the smallest most obscure moment, and they manage to inject some personality traits.

It’s actually a Kingdom Hearts reference.

First thing I thought was Destiny Island in Kingdom Hearts.

Reminds me more of XV. Looks similar to Galdin Quay

Because there’s a beach?

People die, and Aerith dances

The hidden scene between Sabin and Duncan's wife.

No one ever sees it, not even hardcore FF6 fans, because you have to backtrack for no logical reason midway through the Returner's hideout quest.

I'm telling the truth; no one ever sees this scene because it's so minor. I've never met any fans online who have seen it (though I assume I can't possibly be the only one so they're likely out there too).

After the Vargas fight and meeting Sabin for the first time, instead of going onto the Returners' camp, you have to backtrack back to South Figaro and see Duncan's Wife. She'll have a short bit of dialogue where Sabin tells her about Vargas and she hints Duncan is still alive.

I am sure there are bigger ones, but Excalibur II from FFIX is pretty big, imo.

One of the largest one is the scene in FFX which spoils the ending. Go to the Macalania Temple before confronting the final boss, and the Fayth will info dump in a way which totally reveals the ending to the game. A lot of people miss that one.

"Should the dreaming end, you too will disappear--Fade into Spira's sea, Spira's sky." "But do not weep, nor rise in anger." "Even we were once human. That is why we must dream." "Let us summon a sea in a new dream world." "A new sea for you to swim."

Who the hell expects people to backtrack from the final dungeon 16 times?

a quick tour of the towns talking to everyone once should be enough to cover any final quests before you finish the game,

the only possible way of stumbling into that quest if you happen to head back for the tour of towns after you've already been to lindblum and run into benero and zenero leaving, then you get to see genero going after them, now i'd go back and fourth between the screens a few times to see if more scenes come, maybe i'd fight a few battles outside lindblum when that fails, see if it's on a battle counter before deciding that must be the final scene, i certainly wouldn't go back to the final dungeon walk onto the next screen from where i got last time and then head straight back and i wouldn't repeat it 16 bloody times!

it is literally the most stupid inane quest i know of in all of gaming

Even more disappointing, we only get a protect ring, we hadn't even finally gotten the medal to fit into the fountain in lindblum castle! how many decades must we wait for that one?

The biggest secret has got to be the Lost Nero Family sidequest in Final Fantasy 9; it took people thirteen years to even figure out it existed.

I think most of them are because of engine limitations. The world is gigantic af but most of it works because of some kind of technomancy witchcraft with loading and unloading assets. Seeing how many fake loading screens Remake had its incredible how seamless Rebirth is in comparison.

Kalm was so cozy

That overhead shot of Kalm is incredible. I was excited to see how that town would look in the game, and they did not disappoint.

That first screenshot made me think I was looking at a FF7 battle royal game

Nothing says understated like a quarter mile long cannon with rainbow jets flying over it. /s

Looks similar to the place where Cloud and Aerith fought against Sephiroth at the end of Rebirth 🤔

Could it be the "reunion". I mean a place that appears when a new destiny is created and the worlds are linked together? Or kind of something like this.

I am attracted to the explanation of a neutral state of Lifestream.

Without forgetting what are still in the uniqueness (this plane copied the Beagle world as a mirror) to finish riding the destination against Sephirtoh. 

Hmmm, Aerith is the only one without a weapon here. I wonder if that has any significance.

It's the white space. It could be the space between the Lifestream or in the Lifestream. (Copout answer), which it totally could be.

Or it could be the space between consciousness of ones mind as we see it in Advent Children, which Aerith lives in Clouds consciousness. So when with her, it's the white space.

I think it's outside of reality like in-between. the Edge of creation/ white space. Before they fight at the end, Cloud and Aerith against Sephiroth. He appears to be in that space before she shows up and the white whipsers make it white. I think as it breaks apart that other timeline/world. It is in these pieces of Gaia. We see them all separate and fight Sephiroth and his different forms. We see Tifa and Yuffie, Cloud, and Zack, etcetera. Fighting on different broken up timelines/ worlds. Or it is to represent the center of the planet like in OG where they fight and its all broken up. We clearly see the white whipsers, which, according to the asses, belong to the planet. They can make it a white space. So it could be several things. We probably won't know 100% until the last game. When and where this is supposed to be.

Personally, to me, it's two places.

1. The one easiest to tell. It's in Clpuds head or consciousness. When he speaks to Aerith in AC. And when he speaks to himself in Remake to move something.

2. The other is the space between each timeline or world as it breaks apart after Sephiroth sucks up the Lifestream to give himself more power from the dying bits of Gaia. Until there is nothing left and it becomes the broken prices of the planet we see, as well as the white space we see after nothing is left.

3. Or the water-y ground white place is a reality Sephiroth has destroyed and they are in the remains. The no water-y floor is between worlds/realities. Just the white space is between, like when we see Zack and he sees a frozen Cloud. Except in Remake, because when Cloud talks to himself, that is just his mind and inner self.

Of course, the cop out answer per usual is Lifestream, and I hope they don't cop out on us.

They got the areas, they're going to use them. It makes more sense that they expand them a bit around the edges like Spider-Man 2 as opposed to just not ever using them.

The borders closing is just a hint at the Highwind.

Don't forget the fleet of fighter jets Junon had - I suspect a number of aerial battles to happen, particularly while leaving Junon initially after you steal the Highwind and probably enroute to Wutai.

I also think that the Moogles will be hidden in the clouds this time, with some sky surfing nonsense to access their moogle emporium, given that the devs have hinted at snowboarding and a "unique mechanic" for the Highwind. Cloud got his Moogle wings after all...

No way. Maybe at the very start to limit where you can go, but by the end of the game you will be able to go anywhere you want with the Highwind (and possibly with the golden chocobo).

What makes people think theyll scale back hard on something so crucial as the highwind gameplay? they already proved that they can expand on it and do it faithfully with the Plane/Boat sections - you have set docking locations sure and yah some areas will probably be locked during story moments, but youll Still be able to fly throughout the entirety of the map, i firmly believe this will happen - this game isnt built on the bethesda engine where everything needs loading screens.

Again theyve already proven that the systems are inplace to allow full Highwind control, and they said in dev interviews that what they cooked for the Highwind should make people happy so im holding out that people should be satisfied, Rebirth sets up alot for Part 3 to go all out, no reason to assume otherwise imo.

Hell just imagining being able to see the Weapons far off in the distance just hanging out around the world map sounds like the coolest shit ever, let alone how we'll actually fight them.

We havent gotten anything like that in a game recently let alone a Final Fantasy game, so whatever happens i have no doubt will be amazing.

I think this is absolutely awful if it happens.

They’ve built the map. I want to access it all in part 3.

This would be incredibly incredibly incredibly disappointing.

I tend to disagree given the fact we are getting the Highwind in part 3 and the story requires we return to multiple locations. I think itll work similarly to the boat in Rebirth where there are landing points. Maybe they cut down the areas weve been to before a little. Like I can see the Cosmo Canyon and Junon areas being cut down for example, even if Cosmo Canyon and Junon itself isnt. But it would be weird if we have Junon and Fort Condor but nothing in between for example. Or Kalm but no Choco farm.

I dunno, Im sure the game will be massive regardless. I trust the dev team to deliver a satisfying world to explore with the Highwind. I think they want us to return to alot of areas and visit characters weve already met to effectively show the difference in mood and vibe between Rebirth and part 3 now theres a meteor coming to destroy the world. Alot of people in Rebirth are upbeat, most of them will be sombre in part 3 given the events at play.

Obviously theres alot of new areas to visit still, but they spent along time building up to a fully visitable world. I think they know theres alot of backlash they will recieve if they dont delivery at least a majority of locations around the world in part3.