Final Fantasy VII Remake is loaded with Easter Eggs. While some are callbacks to the original or to other games in the Final Fantasy franchise, the developers have snuck in more than a few Easter Eggs that hint at what the remake’s next installment will have in store.
Here are five Easter Eggs that are heavy on foreshadowing.
Jessie’s Play Tickets
Sneaking into Jessie’s house while the other members of AVALANCHE enjoy her mom’s pizza gives you a prime opportunity to snoop around. One of the things you can find is an old letter with two Gold Saucer play tickets attached. This is a reference to a play that you get roped into during the Gold Saucer segment of the original game. Yuffie, a possible companion you can recruit later in the game, plays Jessie’s role as the Princess.
Barett’s Hometown Theme
Barett confronts a group of Shinra workers on the train back to Sector 7 after bombing the first Mako Reactor. While players might be a little busy feeling frustrated about his inability to lay low after an act of ecoterrorism, paying attention to the background music is particularly revealing. The song that plays during this scene is a remix of the Correl Theme, Barett’s hometown. While his past is left deliberately obscure in the remake’s first installment, there are more than a few hints about what’s to come, and his hometown theme playing during a confrontation with Shinra employees is a very heavy-handed one.
Rude Swerving The Helicopter
The Turks are definitely assholes, but they do nice things sometimes. Specifically, Rude does. If you don’t remember him, he’s the sunglasses-wearing Turk who saves Tifa’s life as she’s climbing the Sector 7 pillar. Rude swerves the helicopter when his partner Reno aims to kill her, his first overt act of defiance. But why does he save Tifa? Easy answer: he’s a brawler; she’s a brawler trained by the greatest martial artist in the world—can we make it any more obvious? The Gongaga section of the original game explains that Rude has a bit of a fighter’s crush on Tifa—and honestly, who wouldn’t?
Karma Houdini Corneo–Or Not?
Leslie is a new character who was likely introduced to make Wall Market and Don Corneo’s (frankly) terrible everything easier to bear. His role in the remake ends with Tifa persuading him to search for his missing fiancée, who Don Corneo poached to be one of his consorts. But while Leslie has resolved to find his missing fiancée, it’s unlikely that he’s just going to let Don Corneo get away with his crimes unscathed. The player encounters Don Corneo again in Wutai in the original game; with Leslie’s introduction mixing things up in Wall Market, can we expect to see a new twist on the Don Corneo encounter in Wutai?
There’s A Weird Cat In My Cutscene
Cait Sith, otherwise known as the weird-looking cat thing that makes an unexplained appearance after Sector 7 is destroyed, is a plushie controlled by Reeve, the only Shinra board member with any moral compass to speak of. While his sudden cameo in an otherwise very serious, hyper-realistic cutscene is incredibly jarring, he does play an important role in the original game and can be expected to do so again in the remake’s next installment.
