Summary
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill continue the story of 2020’sFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, and some of the upcoming sequel’s developers have answered lingering questions about whether players can import a save file from the last game or have to start their characters over from level 1. A full-blown reimagining ofthe highly-influentialFinal Fantasy 7was on many gamers’ wish lists for a long time before Square Enix releasedFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, which not only retold the legendary story of Cloud Strife and his party of allies, but expanded greatly on it with new content and a few surprising plot twists.
Final Fantasy 7 Remakebuilt on the story of the original so much that it will not be contained within a single game. Sure enough, the first entry inthisFinal Fantasy 7 Remaketrilogyonly covered Cloud and company’s early adventures in the dystopian city of Midgar in the opening hours of the originalFinal Fantasy 7. Next year’sFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill pick up from there, detailing Cloud and his friends’ search for the rogue SOLDIER Sephiroth in the lands beyond Midgar’s borders and reportedly ending with their faithful encounter against the villain in the Forgotten Capital.
Naturally, fans have wondered ifFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill allow them to import a completed save file fromFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, similar toBioWare’s originalMass Effecttrilogy. In a recent interview with ThisIsGame Thailand (as translated by The Gamer and Twitter user ShinraArch),Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthcreative director Tetsuya Nomura, director Naoki Yamaguchi, and producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed that this wouldn’t be the case, as they wanted all threeFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeentries to be standalone experiences that anyone can jump into without having to play the ones before them.
This doesn’t mean that gamers who havealready clearedFinal Fantasy 7 Remakewill be starting from a clean slate inRebirth, as the developers also revealed that the game’s cast won’t be starting at level 1. Instead, Cloud and the rest ofFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s playable party will begin their next chapter at the average level that players had them at when they left Midgar at the end of the first game. For reference,Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s experience system capped at level 50, and recentRemakescreenshots showed the cast at around level 21.
Tetsuya Nomura and the rest of theFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthdevelopers interviewed assured fans that there would be some kind of bonus for players with an oldFinal Fantasy 7 Remakesave file, but didn’t specify what. Perhaps this will be some sort of extra summon or piece of equipment that Cloud or another party member can use at the start of the game. What’s known at this point is that the experience players built up inRemakewon’t necessarily transfer over intoRebirth- though Cloud and his friends won’t be starting over from square one either.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthwill launch on Jul 18, 2025 for PS5.
