History VideoGame / FinalFantasyVIIRemake

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The rank-and-file Shinra security forces are mostly literal {{Punch Clock Villain}}s. Some of them seem to be reasonable, maybe even friendly people, Cloud comments a couple times that most of them are normal people going about a regular day job, and most of them have no idea what Shinra is up to -- from their perspective, Avalanche ''are'' terrorists who are destroying mako reactors and causing chaos and disruption around Midgar. In a couple specific cases, a few of them don't even ''want'' to fight Avalanche and value their lives and stand down rather than fight, and in a particularly importany scene one of them [[spoiler:recognizes Cloud from when he was in the infantry, and chats with him for a moment and is glad to see Cloud is still alive after all these years]]. However, the party never shows any hesitation about killing them en masse throughout the game, and whenever they express any remorse for the things they've done, it's usually framed as being the destruction of the mako reactors and the harm its done to Midgar and its citizens, not the dozens and dozens of security guards they've murdered. Barret for his part espouses that in his eyes, those who work for Shinra are just as culpable for the crimes of the whole company since they're all helping to prop them up.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Wedge manages to pull off not just one, but ''two'' of these! He singlehandedly convinced Avalanche HQ, who had already effectively cut off Barret's group, into coming to their aid by assaulting the Shinra building, AND snuck into said heavily guarded building on his own just to inform Cloud and the others.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Legendary Becomes Real]]

** The final line of the game in English is Aerith saying "I miss it. The steel sky." The meaning being that she is now outside of Midgar in a big, wide world that is overwhelming her, which calls back to her conversation with Cloud in Chapter 8 on the rooftops. However, her line in Japanese evokes a very different emotional response: she says "The sky... I hate it."[[note]]''"Sora... kirai da na"''[[/note]] An interview with Creator/TetsuyaNomura in the ''Final Fantasy VII Remake Ultimania'' artbook explains that for Aerith, the (natural) sky is a symbol of sadness to her, as it is blocked out by the plate (ironically, the "steel sky"), [[spoiler:both her mother and Zack died underneath the sky, and the Calamity From The Sky destroyed the Cetra.]] All this adds up to almost sounding like the complete opposite of her line in English.

->''"[[NothingIsTheSameAnymore I miss it. The steel sky.]]"''

** Also in ''Intergrade,'' [[spoiler:''Deepground'' of all people, including Weiss]] appear even though they wouldn't show up until [[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus a certain spinoff]]. And the ''[[AllThereInTheMual Ultimania]]'' confirms that [[spoiler:the laboratory Cloud, Tifa, and Barrett explore in Chapter 13 is a part of Deepground]].

** Tifa has new dialogue in which she expresses discomfort with the lengths that the other members of Avalanche are willing to go to, telling Cloud she feels [[SadisticChoice trapped between two impossible choices]] -- letting the planet die by doing nothing, or helping to hurt and kill people by doing something. She's also given more dialogue where she struggles with the destruction of Sector 7 and the loss of her bar, bringing back to the forefront old wounds when she lost her family and town in the Nibelheim Incident. In the original, it's mostly Barret who struggles with the aftermath of this, due to loosing Jessie, Biggs and Wedge.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Barret. While the original version genuinely cared for his fellow AVALANCHE members, he tended to be harsh with them, calling them "screw-ups" after their ''successful'' reactor bombing mission, reacting with anger when Wedge asked about his pay and sending Biggs flying during an impromptu sparring session back at their hideout. Here, Barret is far more pleasant and openly affectionate with his crew. He also intended for them to simply sabotage Reactor 1's Mako pump, rather than blow up the whole reactor like in the original; it got blown up anyway because [[FalseFlagOperation Shinra was setting them up]].

** Tifa has new dialogue in which she expresses discomfort with the lengths that the other members of Avalanche are willing to go to, telling Cloud she feels [[SadisticChoice trapped between two impossible choices]] -- letting the planet die by doing nothing, or helping to hurt and kill people by doing something.

** Tifa gets an entire chapter where she helps Cloud get settled into Sector 7 and set up his reputation as a mercenary. Aerith similarly gets a section where Cloud accompanies her in Sector 5 as she helps the locals.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Yuffie's DLC story mode is rendered this when it turns out the super-powerful Materia she was tasked with stealing doesn't even exist, Sonon is killed protecting her, and she can only watch in despair and horror as Shinra drops the Sector 7 plate onto the slums -- seemingly killing the Avalanche members she'd befriended as well]].

* NintendoHard: The early game is lenient on potions and the boss patterns aren't too overly difficult, but by the time you reach the Wall Market, bosses start getting much more demanding and actively requiring you to figure out and counter their patterns, and character mastery becomes crucial since trying to brute force battles will get you killed in no time. This is especially prevalent on Hard Mode, where all enemies are max level, the damage output between both the player and the enemies is notably different on top of higher HP values for foes, and the player can't use items to heal or restore MP regularly anymore.

''Final Fantasy VII Remake'' is the first entry of a three-part EpisodicGame VideoGameRemake series of the [[RunningGag teeth-shatteringly popular]] 1997 Platform/PlayStation RPG, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', developed by Creator/SquareEnix for the Platform/PlayStation4. It is the fifth entry in the ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'' and the first one in nearly 11 years, with the last entry being ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete]]'' released in 2009. Multiple members of the original ''FFVII'' team are involved in the remake, including Yoshinori Kitase, Creator/TetsuyaNomura, and Kazushige Nojima. External developer Creator/CyberConnect2 originally worked on the game, until Square Enix moved the game's development in-house.

** Also in ''Intergrade,'' [[spoiler:''Deepground'' of all people, including Weiss]] appear even though they wouldn't show up until [[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus a certain spinoff]].

* TheUnSmile: After your party breaks from the Shinra building, Cloud on a motorcycle and everyone else on a truck, Barret says that they're home free. Red XIII tells him that he wouldn't celebrate just yet and Barret replies that he needs to lighten up, that he might even try smiling. Red gives a grimace that causes Barret to say that on second thought maybe frowning suits him better.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Beck's Badasses, a group of thugs that reside in the Sector 6 tunnels and come into conflict with Cloud and the gang several times. They're really not as badass or as clever as they think and end up getting humiliated each time they're encountered.

* {{BFS}}: Cloud's iconic Buster Sword returns, and he has no problem spinning it around and hefting it over his head. In addition are the other swords you can equip for him: The Iron Blade, Hardedge, and the Twin Stinger.

** [[spoiler: The final battle against Sephiroth does the same, with One Winged Angel beginning as just the instrumentals and the vocals picking up more with each stage of the fight.]]

** Chapter 15's English title is called [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill "The Day Midgar Stood Still"]], despite having no relation to the film itself (the Japanese title of the chapter is "The Setting Sun").

* ForWantOfANail: Johnny's father overstocking on grappling guns leads to [[spoiler:Biggs getting some for the rest of the Avalanche gang, which leads to Wedge having a means of surviving the fall from the Sector 7 tower that killed him in the original game, his survival then leading to him being able to convince one of the security officers to open the gates into Sector 6 before the plate falls, and the gates being open leads to countless lives that were lost in the original being saved]].

* AttractiveBentGender: When Cloud is forced to crossdress in order to get into Don Corneo's mansion, not only is [[CovertPervert Aerith apparently very into it]], but several men in Wall Market make passes at him. Even Chadley is flustered if you talk to him.

''Final Fantasy VII Remake'' is the first entry of a three-part EpisodicGame VideoGameRemake series of the [[RunningGag teeth-shatteringly popular]] 1997 UsefulNotes/PlayStation RPG, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', developed by Creator/SquareEnix for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. It is the fifth entry in the ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII'' and the first one in nearly 11 years, with the last entry being ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete]]'' released in 2009. Multiple members of the original ''FFVII'' team are involved in the remake, including Yoshinori Kitase, Creator/TetsuyaNomura, and Kazushige Nojima. External developer Creator/CyberConnect2 originally worked on the game, until Square Enix moved the game's development in-house.

An UpdatedRerelease titled ''Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade'' was released for the {{UsefulNotes/PlayStation 5}} on June 10, 2021, and PC via UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore on December 16, 2021 and later via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on June 17, 2022. The rerelease features improved graphics, a photo mode, additional {{Superboss}} fights, and the new "Episode [=INTERmission=]" chapter, a short sidestory centered around self proclaimed materia hunter Yuffie Kisaragi as she infiltrates Midgar during the reactor bombings, planning to carry out a mission for her homeland of Wutai to steal a rare Materia from Shinra's possession.

* MadScientist: Professor Hojo, the head of the Shinra Corporation's Science Research Division and mastermind behind the [[SuperSoldier SOLDIER Program.]] A man who values an exceedingly twisted view of science and experiments on various specimens, humans included. He is given a new introduction that compounds what kind of person he is where he passionately taunts Aerith about [[spoiler:retrieving and taking apart her mother in graphic detail.]]

* TeenGenius: Chadley is only 15 years old yet he is working as a scientist for Shinra and is dedicated to studying the world around him. He assists your party by developing new types of Materia for you to purchase.