Final Fantasy 7 Remake Sequel - 10 Bold Predictions

10. No More Whispers

One of the most controversial additions to the remake has been the ‘whispers’. These spectral figures, which didn’t appear in the original, show up throughout the game’s eighteen chapters to influence events, preventing and forcing certain actions by the leading characters. Their appearance is very confusing at first, and many originally mistook them as an artistic reinterpretation of the hooded Sephiroth clones.

It isn’t definitively explained anywhere, but between Red XIII’s description of their nature and the fact that the game’s Kingdom Hearts-esque penultimate boss fight is against the Whisper Harbinger, a manifestation of fate, the prevailing assumption is that the shadows were a meta representation of the series’ fanbase, attempting to ensure the remake’s story panned out exactly as it did in the original game, twenty three years ago.

This explains plot developments such as Barret being revived from his skewering at the hands of Sephiroth, and Cloud being forced onto the second reactor bombing when Jessie was initially set to take his place, as these didn’t/did happen in the original respectively.

By defeating this manifestation, the party seem to have created an alternative timeline, meaning that all bets could be off plot-wise going forwards.

Glimpses offered into what we knew to be the future (such as Aeris’ death and Red XIII running with members of his own species) could now be undone, and the fallout of this will certainly have be explored and explained in an expository fashion to more casual players.