When Final Fantasy 7 Remake part two was officially revealed to be titled Rebirth, an immediate question arose for pretty much everyone: what will part three be called? That question has persisted since Rebirth came out, with way too many people suggesting Reunion despite the fact they did that one for Crisis Core (seriously, what’s with that). The answer was finally revealed this month to be Revelation at Summer Geoff Fest, and as it turns out, we all found out at the same time as pretty much everyone that’s working on the threequel.

Speaking to Game Informer, game director Naoki Hamaguchi explained the central theme of the game is going to be “Resolve,” saying that this 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?” He also drew attention to the fact that you, the person playing the game, might have different experiences of these questions compared to your friends, as parts of the story can be changed.

Of course this then raises the question of why the subtitle isn’t Resolve? “”The central theme being ‘Resolve,’ and it being a word that starts with R-E, that’s just a coincidence,” Hamaguchi explains. “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.” Definitely a non-answer there! Perhaps something to loop back around to post release.

Hamaguchi also spoke of how the team “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. Most of them found out about the title at the SGF stage presentation!” Perhaps going a bit overboard there, and a tad Marvel Cinematic Universe-like, but hey ho, whatever it takes I suppose.

The director lastly noted that, despite the Biblical vibe about the name, that isn’t really a factor either, as it’s more about “revealing all these unanswered questions that the fans may have with Remake and Rebirth,” particularly in how the game is going to wrap up. “As a response to that, this is our message, to say that this is the end of everything, this is where everything gets revealed, and this is where you will find out all the answers,” Hamaguchi teases. I guess we’ll have to wait for all the revelations about Revelation, which is due out spring 2027.