Final Fantasy VII Remake demo has leaked, is packed with teases, spoilers
With less than three months to go before its announced March release date, the upcoming game Final Fantasy VII Remake has already kicked the year off with a bang—though likely not the way its creators at Square Enix intended. Hours before the end of 2019, the game's playable teaser demo leaked before it had even been announced as a freebie for fans. (Most of its 45 minutes of content can still be found at YouTube as of press time, though we've grabbed screens of its 720p footage just in case.)
Once Square Enix gets down to takedown business, however, there's also the matter of what else came packed into the leaked demo's file set: a ridiculous amount of uncleaned code from the rest of the upcoming retail release, including hours of music and apparent spoilers.
The story began on Christmas Day with a hint of this very Final Fantasy VII Remake demo. Gamstat, a public depository for updates to the PlayStation Network's newest products, posted an official image for both this demo and another unannounced game: a remastered version of the portable PSP classic game Patapon 2. This one-two punch of classic-gaming fan service could have ended there, but days later, the FFVIIR files found their way to impatient users.
