I'm actually fine with this to be honest lol

Yeah, looks like it. I feel like they'll go the FFX route and have it look open world but it actually be a linear path

RIP all my hype

Same. FF7 didn't really need a world map like it had in the originals anyway. In the game it was always like "go this way" "now go here" -wasn't a lot of exploring on your own However this makes me wonder how they'll handle the air ships

Most of the end-game side-quests rely on exploring the world map. I would be strongly against removing it in favor of what we got in FFX.

Come oooon. Give it a shot.

I'm thinking something like the world map in FF XIII-3 (Lightning Returns.)
There were large open world areas, but in order to get from one large area to another, there were loading screens in between them. (Usually you take the train, but late in the game you get the ability to walk between the areas.)
I think there were 4 areas like that.

Well, since this game is still relatively early in development, and things may change down the line, you'd be giving false info if you said something about the world map today that ends up being different later. And the multi-game series aspect of it probably makes it even more diffcult to talk about it whithout going into too much details. For example, if the first game is only Midgar, it may not even have a world map. While the second game could be different.

But I hope they'll give us more specific details as soon as they can, because fans will want to know what direction the remake takes.