Note: This post contains massive spoilers for the ending of Final Fantasy 7 Remake! Don't read unless you've already finished the game.

For the most part, the story of Final Fantasy 7 Remake sticks pretty close to the beats of the original game. Where the remake deviates from its source material, it's usually to expand and enrich, developing the characters and building out the world.

And then you come to the last few chapters of FF7 Remake, where the biggest deviations are found. It's in Chapter 18 in particular that FF7 Remake becomes something more than a modern retelling of the original and adds a whole bunch of new material. But what the hell was actually going on at the Destiny's Crossroads, and what does it all mean? The finale of Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a timeline reboot, and it has massive implications for future installments of the Final Fantasy 7 saga.