Final Fantasy VII Remake: 10 Things Everybody Missed In The New Trailer

8. Midgar (Probably) Isn't As Big As You Think

It's like Final Fantasy XIII all over again. The above GIF isn't footage cut together, it's the way the PSX trailer was aired; edited in a way to show Cloud journeying through what would appear to be a sizeable chunk of Midgar's underbelly, yet if you look to the background of each shot, you can see how it's all essentially one short, linear path. Considering the problem of taking hundreds of static images depicting the various towns from the original and making them fully 3D, interactive environments, this 'reduction' to having a more 'corridor-like' map could be the only way to go. We already know that the game is going to be released in chunks to allow something baring the FF VII brand to appear before too much time has passed since the first announcement, but I'll be very surprised if this element of linearity isn't commonplace throughout. It would save on time and art assets, and the vast majority of exploration/battling would take place out on the World Map.