A trio of videos posted on the official Final Fantasy 7 Remake Twitter account has revealed the animations and abilities for three summons: Chocobo Chick, Carbuncle, and Cactuar.

First up is Chocobo Chick, who’s definitely not just a tiny version of the classic ChocoMog summon. Instead, the tiny bird flies around Cloud and casts magic spells at its target. It’s a cute little addition, but certainly doesn’t seem to be the tide-turner that many summons are.

Carbuncle is undoubtedly the cutest of the trio, and – as is tradition for the summon – casts Reflect on the whole party in order to protect characters from magical damage.

Finally there’s Cactuar, who once again brings the 1,000 Needles attack to the battlefield. As summons in Final Fantasy 7 Remake don’t just cast their signature move and then leave the fight, Cactuar can also be seen doing a much wider, 360-degree attack. Cloud is shown to defend with the Buster Sword when this attack is being used, so it seems that perhaps Cactuar doesn’t distinguish between friend and foe.

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All three summons are new for the remake, and were not available in the original game. They are available through a variety of purchase-based means; Chocobo Chick is a pre-order bonus, Carbuncle comes with the Digital Deluxe or 1st Class edition, and Cactuar is available with any purchase of a deluxe edition.

In other FF7 Remake news, it appears this beefy new interpretation of the classic RPG will be over 100GB. It’s got a fancy new opening movie, too, and you can see how it compares to the original in our video below. If you’ve never played the original, catch up with episode 1 and episode 2 of our Never Played Final Fantasy 7 let’s play series.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter. 
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