They spent way too long trying to justify the weird multiversal shit. For a game that was doing a very good job building up character dynamics and relationships. However, they keep jumping back and forth between things, and made the final scenes a "go for broke all out crazy fever dream.". Cool visual spectacle and Cloud's even more an unreliable narrator...but fucking hell. FF just can't keep things simple, can they?
"Evening caress, Always yearning, I must confess, The stars aren't burning"
Copernicus - Candlemass