Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Director Has a Request for Fans

Highlights

• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth set for release on February 29 with high expectations from fans after 4 years of anticipation.
• Creative director Tetsuya Nomura urges fans to be cautious with spoilers when sharing content online to respect others.
• With a minimum of 35-40 hours of gameplay, surprises and fan-favorite character moments await players in Rebirth.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a week from release on February 29, and Tetsuya Nomura has one important request for fans regarding spoiler warnings when streaming and posting online. Fans expect Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth to deliver on four years’ worth of excitement since the release of the first installment of the Final Fantasy 7Remake trilogy. That does not account for the 26-year legacy Final Fantasy 7 has, along with the series’ legacy in general. From the climactic ending of Remake as well as the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo, it seems that there are many surprises lying in wait once fans return to this game’s world.

Many questions are going around about what will occur in the story of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth ever since Remake opened up potential possibilities for its successor. In Remake, several scenes blocked recording, making sharing gameplay with communities online difficult. The Final Fantasy 7 series and the franchise as a whole tell compelling narratives within beautiful but often unforgiving worlds. It becomes pretty easy to get attached to and talk about these characters, and that is one of the largest appeals of the franchise. These stories can be plenty of fun to discuss, but spoilers are never taken lightly.

Tetsuya Nomura appears conscious of this devotion, and in a statement released on Twitter, has asked fans to be careful about what they post. Nomura states that the game’s team “deliberately did not restrict the record and share functions,” but asks that fans do their due diligence in including spoiler warnings and not showing spoilers in video thumbnails. After this, Nomura emphasizes respecting players who want to complete the game before seeing any information online. Considering how long Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is, this message is welcome.

While community engagement is important, Rebirth is a plot-focused game that will take a long time to finish if only focusing on the story, and even longer for players who want to appreciate all it has to offer. This tends to be why limits are placed on the ability to record these kinds of games and why a statement like this one needs to be issued when those limits are not set. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is still far from completion and people may jump into it later when it is finished.

There are exciting possibilities regarding what may happen next in the Final Fantasy 7 franchise, and considering that many are saying that Rebirth will easily clock most players a minimum of 35–40 hours, there will be plenty of moments for fan-favorite characters to have their time in the spotlight. Some are indifferent about knowing what happens before playing, but for many, surprise can define an experience.