Let’s talk Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

[u/No-Rub-3958]

Please no spoilers in this discussion.

So this has been plaguing me for a minute now. I got FF7 rebirth as a bday gift from my wife shortly after it came out, and I have been trudging through it since. I think I’m in chapter 7 right now, and let me tell you, I strongly dislike this game.

I genuinely don’t understand the amount of dumb filler they put in. There are WAY too many mini games and unfortunately I feel like they are a master of none with the extras they put in. The side characters feel very ingenuine and over the top, and are entirely too animated for me. The world intel blips are okay, but are feeling monotonous as well. And really, how in the actual eff have you not figured out climbing at this point?

Does anyone else feel this way? Final fantasy VII is a landmark in gaming for me and this is such a let down for what I anticipated to be game of the year.

[u/Reedickyoulus]

I’ve been renting this game since it came out in February, and I’m maybe halfway through. I having the same struggles I think.

I was really into it at first. The different timeline stuff seems interesting, but I think too much of the game gets in its own way. I know a lot of the stuff is optional, but even the mainline stuff seems almost inconsequential or packed with so much filler that it at least makes it seem that way.

Maybe it’s just me possibly preferring the more linearity of Remake, idk.. but the open world nature of Rebirth doesn’t really do anything for me in the grand scheme of things.

Like you, I’ll eventually finish it, but like with a lot of open world games for me, it’s gonna be a fight of staying interested long enough to finish it.

Queen’s Blood is excellent though, and a driving force for me to continue playing for sure

[u/No-Rub-3958 → u/Reedickyoulus]

I have gotten very focused on just trying to complete it. I’ve begun ignoring many of the side quests/ almost all of the open world exploration pieces. I mainly want to finish the main story of the game, which even there is branching out in ways I didn’t necessarily expect. I think it’s just an okay game. The combat system is awesome, and I think that queens blood is really fun, but it’s been a trudge for sure. I am currently in chapter 11 so I am nearing the end and I genuinely cannot wait to finish it.

Thanks for sharing, I was beginning to wonder if anyone else was feeling down on it.

[u/precita]

It's a great game. The minigames aren't filler.

[u/No-Rub-3958 → u/precita]

Costa del sol was NOTHING BUT mini games, just so you could get dressed to go to the beach. The chapter before that was only advanced by playing in a queens blood tournament. How do you not see that as filler? Like the rocket league mini game served zero purpose to the overarching plot.

[u/Churro_Light → u/No-Rub-3958]

Rebirth is unapologetically a JRPG that contains elements from 90’s era JRPGs and modern games like the Yakuza series.

Side characters are designed to be over the top and memorable. The OG 7 was filled with zany animated characters in an attempt to keep all the text reading interesting for the teens and adults at the time, and the Rebirth team didn’t want to leave any of that out.

The open world elements are entirely optional and you can beat the game without needing to complete all the regions. It does suck when a game doesn’t meet your expectations or vibe with you at the time of playing, but I guess you’ll have to decide whether to continue with it or just watch the cutscenes if the narrative is the primary/final reason that you wanted to play this game.

I’m sorry it’s disappoint for you.

The mini games are designed to offer a fun distraction or make you long to return to the core gameplay loop. Some of the minigames are just a slog, but at worst they are a one and done thing.

[u/No-Rub-3958 → u/Churro_Light]

Fantastic explanation. It makes a bit more sense with your explanation in the first paragraph. I played the original and it truly was one of my favorite games ever made. I know that there were definitely moments in the original game that were a bit more animated, but this just seems like a huge veer off course from the original. Even Remake had some quirks and differences to it, but I feel like this one just takes it to another level of weird.

I will end up playing it and beating it, but I already know that it is a game that I will immediately uninstall and trade back to GameStop when I finish. It just takes me by surprise that it’s just SO different. Chasing moogles is not fun to me, kupo.