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Final Fantasy VII Revelation: The meaning behind the final game’s title explained

Naoki Hamaguchi explains the meaning behind the third and final chapter’s title.

Update: Jun 17th, 2026 01:22 CEST

One of the surprises at Summer Game Fest was the announcement of the third installment in the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy. And although there was a lot of speculation about what the title might be, fans could finally breathe a sigh of relief when it was revealed that, following Remake and Rebirth, the next game would be Final Fantasy VII Revelation. But what’s the reason behind this name? Director Naoki Hamaguchi spoke about it.

“Resolve” as a central theme, but not part of the title

During an interview with Game Informer, the director discussed how “resolve” is central to the game’s characters, and how, despite continuing the “R-E” pattern from previous titles, it was not considered. “As I spoke about in my stage presentation, the central theme of this title is going to be ‘Resolve,’” Hamaguchi said. “That could mean a lot of things, but one of them is the resolve of our party player-characters heading into the final battles. What kind of resolve do they have in them? What are they feeling? What are they thinking about?"

“The central theme being ‘Resolve,’ and it being a word that starts with R-E, that’s just a coincidence,” he says. “It wasn’t really a candidate for our title. We landed with ‘Revelation,’ because that was the word that was the best match for what we wanted to depict in the third installment of our series. One thing I can share about the title ‘Revelation,’ though, is that we kept this under the veils for the longest time, and we wanted to be very careful about it. We have a very huge development team, but among those development team members, only five or six people knew about the title.”