This was not something I wanted to wake up to, but thank you Basil for giving full info. The way I see it, this will work almost exactly like the original FF7 did being on three discs (although this will unfortunately not be a multi-disc release; a dumb idea imo). Thus you can visit every area in the game in every episode, but some story events/cutscenes etc are only available in singular episodes. This is probably the reason why the game is being split up; cutscenes that is, not to mention the different animations (Knights of the Round Table anyone? LOL)