I... CAN'T... WAIT

Once upon a time, we all retained a healthy combination of fantastical expectation and dubious skepticism as to whether 7R would be made and what that would entail.

Now that we've had a glimpse into the world of 7R, I feel safe to unload my desire to see specific things faithfully remade in Part 2 (maybe Part 3, I don't know).

In case y'all hadn't noticed, I've been posting a bunch of theories and predictions about the upcoming sequel. Needless to say most of what I've compiled is wishful thinking rather than any real logical deduction on how SQEX may approach the next installment.

Here now, I will just list what I hope to see because wishful thinking is realistically all what I've got as of May 2020.

  • The Flashback obviously. I don't want the original. I want Cloud's presence to mean something here. I don't want Sephiroth to one-shot the dragon or use "-ga" spells at the beginning of every random battle. We've met the man anyway, we already know how powerful he is.
  • Zolom...again, I want this battle to mean something. I don't want to have to catch a chocobo to cross the marsh. I think it should be its own place with Zolom as the boss and you should have to "beat" it (like you beat Beatrix in IX), but the story will present the Zolom (Sormr?) as still alive and threatening enough to force the party to flee only to have their asses saved by Sephiroth who straight-up pig-slaughters the wiggly beast. I KNOW... I'm being too specific. My creativity's doing laps around my imaginary think tank. (Also I don't think the Zolom should continue to exist after defeating it. Maybe different versions like the different Weapons, but not the same one.)
  • Fort Condor battles... I have no idea how to expand on this but I have high expectations nonetheless.
  • The Junon parade. They forced us to have a dance-off in Wall Market. They sure as hell better expand on the parade march.
  • Everything in Gold Saucer: Chocobo Racing, Speed Square, Battle Square, Super Dunk, Snowboarding, G-Bike,should have its own difficulty ranks with separate bosses, Torpedo Attack, 3D Battle, Arm Wrestling, even Event Square (just needs to happen more and have more variety).
  • Playing Tifa's piano. Come on, why not?
  • Vincent
  • The numbered chutes in Nibel.
  • The Wutai pagoda. YEAH. Just yeah.
  • The TotA maze, clock, and door game. And the boulders.
  • The excavation site.
  • Climbing the glacier.
  • Oh, my god, how are they going to present the Weapons?
  • Junon vs Sapphire.
  • The slap fight. Nah, I'm kidding. That was hella stupid.
  • The Highwind: as big as the Shinra Boat, which should be big enough to warrant its own "episode".
  • Stopping the train to Corel.
  • Finding "Cloud"
  • Underwater exploration.
  • Fighting Ultima
  • Knights of the Round

And I think that's as much as I want personally.

Things I want that are not likely: Genesis, DGS, reference to Ravens and Elfé, more Turks, Cissnei, Shelke, reference Zirconiade, Omega and Sin, also Gilgamesh... okay, that last one has no connection to even the Compilation, but come on. Gil is practically in every numbered FF. It's about time he show up here too.