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I did a marathon replay of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Intermission and Rebirth. Knowing that so much of it is available now, I found myself not taking my time to savour it all quite as much as previously. I still did most of the major sidequests and some of the other optional stuff, but it's interesting how much it reduced my usual playtimes. Remake came down from 40 hours to 35, Intermission from 7 to 5, and the real shocker was Rebirth coming down from 124 hours to 84 just by skipping some of the copy/pasted map marker activities (mostly the rare monster fights and some of the later protorelic quests). Also interesting was that I ended this playthough of Rebirth at the same level as the one that was 40 hours longer.

The ending of Rebirth was a bit less confusing this time, but it's still far too ambiguous with the way it combines a bunch of visual cues that all imply different things (static, green glow, white light, rainbow glow, the tear in the sky). Based on my previous list of theories, I'm now leaning towards a combination of theories 1 and 2, that it's a living alternate reality version of Zack in the final battle, but the Aerith who appears in the final battle is her spirit. As for why only Cloud can see Aerith in the post-final-battle scenes, I'm pretty sure now that it's theory 2. I can't shake the concern about theory 4 though, that it's being left intentionally ambigious because they haven't decided how to wrap up the story in the next game yet.
 
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