‘Revelation’ was one of three contenders for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s name
Posted on September 19, 2026 by Brian(@NE_Brian)
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The director of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation has spoken more about the game’s name, including how it was one of three finalists Square Enix considered for the title.
Prior to the reveal of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, fans were very interested in seeing what it would be called. After all, it’s a huge game, marking the conclusion of the remake trilogy.
Speaking with IGN, director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed that ‘Revelation’ was one of three possible titles. However, it has been confirmed that ‘Resolve’ was not one of them. The team did think of the term ‘resolve’ during development, but it’s ‘ketsui’ in Japanese, which “doesn’t have that RE sound.”
Wondering what the other two contenders were? Unfortunately, we’ll probably have to wait a while to find out. Hamaguchi mentioned that the game has yet to launch and feels that “now’s not the right time” as “it’s just going to create some unnecessary discussion and debates online.”
“So to answer the first question, ‘Resolve’ was actually not considered as one of the contenders for the title, and there actually is a reason for that. The development team that we have for this game is in Japan and consists of Japanese staff. So when we were having internal discussions about what the core concept or the philosophy of this game was going to be, we did use the term ‘resolve’, but in Japanese. So in Japanese, the word is called ‘ketsui’, which as you can tell, doesn’t have that RE sound. And then when we were making plans for our first major reveal at Summer Game Fest earlier this year, I actually wrote a script for myself on stage, and I did want to use the term for ketsui, resolve. So when I was looking at the English equivalent of that, I found out that resolve actually started with RE, so I thought, ‘oh, this is actually a perfect fit!’
I can talk more about how we ended up with the title Revelation. So way before this whole resolve discussion that we had, we did decide to go with the title Revelation, but even before we made that decision, there were actually three final contenders and I had a discussion with the creative director of the series, Tetsuya Nomura.
In terms of the other two contenders that we had aside from Revelation, I might share it sometime in the future, but I don’t think now is the right time for us to share it because the game isn’t out yet. If we do share the other two contenders, I don’t want people to be like, ‘Oh, the other one was better than Revelation.’ And it feels like it’s just going to create some unnecessary discussion and debates online. So I feel like now’s not the right time. Maybe sometime down the line we might be able to revisit this discussion again and share what the title could have been. But I will say that when I discussed with the North American Square Enix team, I did share the other two options that we had as the final contenders, and we unanimously agreed that Revelation was the best choice. So I think we made the right decision on that.”
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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lands on April 8, 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2. We also have comments from Hamaguchi here as to why the game is sticking with Unreal Engine 4 instead of 5.
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