While the third part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is going to be called Revelation, director Naoki Hamaguchi has been quite vocal in the past about how one of the core themes of the title will be the idea of “resolve”. In a new interview with IGN, he has provided more details on the choices made by the team that ultimately led to the game being named Revelation.
Interestingly, he noted that “Resolve” wasn’t one of the potential titles that the team was considering before it settled on Revelation. The reason behind this came down to the fact that while the team used the term resolve during development, it used the Japanese word for it – Ketsui – which Hamaguchi noted doesn’t have the “re” sound that would make it fall in line with Remake and Rebirth.
“And then when we were making plans for our first major reveal at Summer Game Fest earlier this year, I actually wrote a script for myself on stage, and I did want to use the term for ketsui, resolve. So, when I was looking at the English equivalent of that, I found out that resolve actually started with RE, so I thought, ‘Oh, this is actually a perfect fit!’”
“I can talk more about how we ended up with the title Revelation. So, way before this whole Resolve discussion that we had, we did decide to go with the title Revelation, but even before we made that decision, there were actually three final contenders, and I had a discussion with the creative director of the series, Tetsuya Nomura.”
Hamaguchi also confirmed that there were two other “contenders” for the title of the game aside from Revelation. “I might share it sometime in the future, but I don’t think now is the right time for us to share it because the game isn’t out yet,” he said. “If we do share the other two contenders, I don’t want people to be like, ‘Oh, the other one was better than Revelation.’ And it feels like it’s going to create some unnecessary discussion and debates online. So, I feel like now’s not the right time.”
“Maybe sometime down the line we might be able to revisit this discussion again and share what the title could have been. But I will say that when I discussed with the North American Square Enix team, I did share the other two options that we had as the final contenders, and we unanimously agreed that Revelation was the best choice. So, I think we made the right decision on that.”
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch 2 on April 8th. Hamaguchi has confirmed that, while the physical release will include a disc in the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions, players will still need to download some files. He noted that this was to ensure that no compromises were made in terms of the quality and fidelity of the game. This indicates that the third entry in the trilogy will likely end up being larger than Rebirth.
