Spoilers... Why did they fight the ...

By killing off the arbiter of fate, it was a sign for us that we're no longer abiding by Destiny anymore. We fought the very thing that controlled the destiny/fate of the characters and we won. The directors wanted this so they can make modifications to the story and keep us wondering what's going to happen, and it worked pretty well lol. At the same time though, they also said according to the Ultimania interviews that the story of ff7 is still going to play out the same way.

I take this as showing us that everything we saw in the original (the characters, the towns, the interactions, the overall story line, etc) will all still be there, but now, certain key events might change, but there's no guarantees. It's like... 95% the same as og with that other 5% being some crazy shit we would have never expected, part 1 for example.

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