[Shadow5YA]

Originally Posted by Mad Pierrot

The part about Rebirth that confused me is why

Spoiler for spoiler:

Cloud remembered Zack so early. This is meant to be content for the game's climax when Cloud understands that most of his own memories are fake as a result of Hojo's experiments and how Sephiroth takes advantage of it to obtain the Black Materia. In the original FF7, Zack was killed by Sephiroth in Nibelheim while the Western version added that scene where he is killed by infantrymen once reaching Midgar.

He technically didn't.

Spoiler:

If you look more closely at how he "remembers" Zack in Gongaga, he assumes that Zack was the Shinra grunt who got washed down the river in his version of the Nibelheim flashback.

Cloud still doesn't remember how Zack really died, where he really got the Buster Sword from, or what actually happened during the Nibelheim incident.

There's no conflict with the original.