Final Fantasy 7 Fans Think Part 3's Opening Will Be That Snowboarding Minigame

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It's official: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will not have any snowboarding. While fans of the original Final Fantasy 7 won't find this particularly surprising, it confirms when exactly Rebirth's story will end - and perhaps more importantly, it gives us a hint on when Part 3 will begin.

With the minigame now definitely not appearing in Rebirth, fans think that Part 3 will make the bold move of opening on Cloud sadly snowboarding through the mountains, reflecting on everything he saw in Rebirth's finale. It would certainly be memorable, and make sense timeline-wise. Better yet, the game could just open like that with no explanation, just a very depressed Cloud dashing through the snow, trying to run from his feelings.

The fact that snowboarding won't be in Rebirth was revealed by the game's director, Naoki Hamaguchi. In a quickfire interview with Game Informer, Hamaguchi gave a simple answer when asked if the iconic minigame would be playable in Rebirth: "In Rebirth, there is no snowboarding."

We don't actually know what the third part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series will be called, although some fans have speculated that its subtitle will be either Reborn or Relive. This would fit in nicely with Remake, Reunion, and Rebirth.

In fairness, snowboarding was only on the second disc of the original release, and we're expecting the finale of Rebirth to take us to the end of the first disc. If Rebirth did dive into the earlier parts of disc two, it might make it a little tonally jarring. Even if Aerith doesn't kick the bucket, it's widely accepted that someone will, and players might not be in the mood for a daft minigame right after witnessing that.

Speaking of death, some fans really, really think that Tifa will be the one to get killed off this time around. The most recent trailer seems to want us to think that's a possibility anyway, but that might just be some misdirection to keep us on our toes. After all, if it's Aerith again, Square Enix will want to make it