Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and FFVII Cloud Piano Playing Screenshots Compared

There are two new Final Fantasy VII screenshots, with one showing Cloud playing Tifa’s piano in Rebirth and the other taken from that moment in FFVII. It also means a slight look at the area around the piano in Tifa’s childhood home as well.

First, here’s how it will look when Cloud plays the instrument in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. While the original FFVII involved holding certain buttons down to play a specific song, here we’ll actually see onscreen indicators to help pin down the key and octave when taking part in the minigame.

Meanwhile, the FFVII screenshot shows how things were a little more vague. We had a better view of Tifa’s home as a whole during moments when he’d play the piano. We also wouldn’t see any chords or notes to give us hints.

For those who didn’t play the original game, Cloud playing Tifa’s piano in the original Final Fantasy VII is tied to a series of rewards, though Square Enix hasn’t noted if this will return in FFVII Rebirth. In the original game, the key was to play it three times during the course of events when you’d see it in flashbacks and the present. If you did, you’d get Tifa’s secret savings (a whole 1 gil), Elemental Materia, and finally her Final Heaven Limit Break.

Square Enix is regularly offering these updated looks at Final Fantasy VII Rebirth by comparing screenshots of it to FFVII. Earlier in November 2023, we saw Elena from the Turks and the Mog House.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will come to the PS5 on February 29, 2024, with the platform exclusivity arrangement ending on May 29, 2024. FFVII Remake is available for the PS4, PS5, and PC. FFVII Ever Crisis is on mobile devices, with a PC release planned.