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Nearly everyFinal Fantasygame afterFinal Fantasy 6contains an oddStar Warsreference , includingFinal Fantasy 7 Remake . A " Skywalker " here or a " Leia " there would n’t be too surprising as piddling nods from locating teams , butFinal Fantasy’sStar Warsreferences are far more niche , and they have occasionally been important to the games ' patch - especially inFinal Fantasy 7and8 .
Rather than referencing a main character , location , or item fromStar Warsthat most effortless fans would recognize , theFinal Fantasygames contain references to two characters barely find out in the films :X - annex buffer Biggs Darklighterand Wedge Antilles . Biggs was inclose inStar Wars : Episode 4 A New Hopeas a childhood booster of Luke Skywalker ’s , who was later kill by Darth Vader while attempting to put down the Death Star . Wedge survived the first Death Star and the 2d , inhabit long enough to make a cameo in thesequel trilogy’sThe Rise of Skywalker .
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begin inFinal Fantasy 6 , most mainlineFinal Fantasygames have include two grapheme named Biggs and Wedge ( or credit to them).Final Fantasy 6 ’s source is harder to catch , since Biggs ' Nipponese name was erroneously translate - much likeAerith ’s name inFinal Fantasy 7- as " Vicks " instead of Biggs , but it nevertheless began the custom . While most game afterFinal Fantasy6relegated Biggs and Wedge to small role ( as recruitable blitzball player inFinal Fantasy 10 , for instance),Final Fantasy 8cast them as goofy enemy goons encountered throughout the game , andFinal Fantasy 7made Biggs and Wedge allies to sympathize with .
InFinal Fantasy 7and its remake , Biggs and Wedge are part of the eco - terrorist AVALANCHE organization Cloud Strife assists at the game ’s beginning . Along with their companion Jessie , they wait on to help Cloud connect to AVALANCHE ’s reason . They ’re some of the first citizenry the player cope with , and they provide lend levity to the early game,[spoilers ahead]which gives their deaths at the destruction of Sector 7 more weight . In this way , they issue forth nearer than otherFinal FantasyBiggs and Wedge cameos to fulfilling Biggs ' role inStar Wars : Just as he provide a little but still emotionally poignant death for Luke to mete out with , they do the same for Cloud and the player[end of spoilers ] .
In audience with publication such asGamesRadar , originalFinal Fantasy 6,7 , and8Director Yoshinori Kitase has bring up the firstStar Warsfilm as part of what got him interested in moving-picture show and , later , television games . Perhaps this love forStar Warsmotivated the comprehension of Biggs and Wedge in these earlyFinal Fantasygames , and that tradition has stuck around since . According toFamitsu(viaTechnoBuffalo ) , Kitase , along withFinal Fantasy 7 RemakeDirector Tetsuya Nomura and Scenario Writer Kazushige Nojima , allege the team wants to explore Biggs ' , Wedge ’s , and Jessie ’s origins inRemake . Square Enix has already confirmed there will beFinal Fantasy 7 Remakestory changesto material body - out the original Midgar discussion section into a full - length secret plan , so fans will likely be see more ofFinal Fantasy’sStar Wars - cheer dyad .
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Final Fantasy7 Remakereleases for PlayStation 4 on April 10 , 2020 .
