• As with Sector 8, Sector 7, Sector 5, and Wall Market, any further hubs will also be self-contained episodes. Such will be the case with both Kalm and Chocobo Bill's Farm.
  • Leaving the Midgar desolation area needs to be its own episode.
  • Midgar Marsh needs to be a fleshed-out area with Zolom as the boss at episode's end.
  • Mythril Mines episode.
  • Fort Condor just like any other reactor but as a hub with NPCs offering sidequests.
  • Forest area between FC and Junon: whole episode.
  • Town below Junon: hub.
  • Path to Junon, airport, and Shinra barracks (where Cloud obtains his disguise) as all one episode.
  • Shinra soldiers will force Cloud to join the parade which be at least a 5-minute mini-game and then the send-off to Rufus will play out similarly. Expanding the Junon story will require a disguised Cloud to play a part in more story elements (Rude playing poker; Reno, Tseng, and Elena in the bar; Heidegger and Rufus on Junon's upper level, etc)
  • Even including the Nibel flashback and the Shinra Boat, this only adds up to 12 episodes.
  • Costa Del Sol: hub.
  • Corel Mines
  • North Corel: hub.
  • Gold Saucer: hub.
  • Corel flashback.
  • Corel Prison with Dyne final boss.


    This assumes SQEX will want to repeat its 18 episode count. Unlikely.