Timeline?

[catsniffer9000]

I'm getting a bit confused with the timeline. There's a flashback when Cloud sleeps at the Haunted Hotel in Gold Saucer. Zak is caring for Cloud and Aerith, Marline is downstairs with Aerith's adopted mum. Avalanche has all been captured other than whatshisface Charlie Sheen bro.
What?
I got the impression from Remake that Aerith's mum had never met Cloud, nor Marline. Where's Barrett in all this flashback too?

[catsniffer9000]

I'd say it's a flashforward, but then it fades in with Cloud seeming to remember Zak's words to him when he's wounded.
What the toot is going on?

[elynnmiller78]

I believe its an alternative reality

[Yarchonis Marfedelom]

There are like 3 or 4 Alternate timelines going on concurrently at the time of this game.

[catsniffer9000]

Okiedoke. Thanks, fellas!

[Kitsububbles]

Originally posted by Yarchonis Marfedelom:

There are like 3 or 4 Alternate timelines going on concurrently at the time of this game.

Close but not quite, its paradoxes. Some are constants and others are variables that don't belong. But have their own place and time. And what we are witnessing is the rubberband coming back.

[Kitsububbles]

The Remake = The Cause
The Rebirth = The Effect

And whatever the next game is will be the conclusion. Unless this somehow becomes like a saga instead of a trilogy.

[Frostbeast]

And i thought, it happens because of the whispers. They took some memories and the new bodies are the outcome of it.

[Severian]

Originally posted by Kitsububbles:

The Remake = The Cause
The Rebirth = The Effect

And whatever the next game is will be the conclusion. Unless this somehow becomes like a saga instead of a trilogy.

That's good way to explain. Remake showed why and how those paradoxes and different things happening, and in Rebirth you experience it first-hand

[Fitzy]

The bit at the start of the game with Zack, the news report talks about a whirlwind that caused all the wreckage, The characters are all unconsious and taken away by Shinra, the chopper that Aerith and Red are in is taken down by Red, that's the same whirlwind that appears and you go into at the end of Remake.

So Zack has appeared in the Remake world, the Rebirth world is something else.

[Sauriel]

would be awesome if this different timelines thing got developed further and turned into some chronotrigger, or FF 13-2 scheme..though its already been done once in that FF so not sure they will use that again. Still would be over the top fittingly for third part

[MaChao]

It's multiple parallel timelines
The original game + expanded universe
The R-Trilogy
The "Flashbacks"

Remember how the "Lifestream is made of memories"? The lifestream is out of whack which is why people keep "remembering" things from parallel timelines.

[Miesmann - allkeyshop]

Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed there are 5 different universes at play on rebirth, good luck figuring out what is going on :D

[Sevrojin]

Originally posted by Miesmann - allkeyshop:

Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed there are 5 different universes at play on rebirth, good luck figuring out what is going on :D

the new time line
the original time line
the Criss core alternate timeline.

what are the other 2?

[MaChao]

Originally posted by Sevrojin:

Originally posted by Miesmann - allkeyshop:

Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed there are 5 different universes at play on rebirth, good luck figuring out what is going on :D

the new time line
the original time line
the Criss core alternate timeline.

what are the other 2?

I'm just finishing up Gongaga and so far, it's 3 parallels with no indication that more are active.
Unless they're referencing some "Ocarina of Time" shenanigans, where other parallels are implied where "Character X actually died" and such.

[Yílõng Má]

Originally posted by Sevrojin:

Originally posted by Miesmann - allkeyshop:

Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed there are 5 different universes at play on rebirth, good luck figuring out what is going on :D

the new time line
the original time line
the Criss core alternate timeline.

what are the other 2?

Advent Children timeline and Ever Crisis timeline.