FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

The worlds bland, full of meaningless quests and ubisoft style towers. A real shame after the first part.

English localization team should be fired. Like yesterday. They take way too much liberty in changing the script. Now every character has the personality of a edgy teen trying way too hard to sound cool. Everyone character just comes off as somewhat dumb and unlikable. I had to download a mod called Faithful Subs to get a more faithful translation. That paired with the Japanese VO and I immediately noticed the tonal shift and how much more realistic and likable the characters and dialogue became. Can't recommend this game as it comes with the original English localization. But with an English translation mod installed combined with the Japanese voice acting it's an easy buy.

在游玩的每一分钟我都在珍惜和爱丽丝在一起的时光

The longer I play this game, the more disappointed I am with it. If you liked Remake Intergrade, you likely won't like this. I will edit this in the future if my opinion changes as I progress in it. I will note, I got Remake and Rebirth at heavy discounts, if I paid full price for Rebirth I would have been very upset. To start, this game is bloated with random objectives that don't feel like they have much substance, namely the Chadley questlines, of which Chadley constantly interrupts your gameplay to talk to you while progressing in said questlines, which you are unable to do anything except skip the dialogue. Ultimately they are there to help you gain materia, but it feels like the sheer quantity of objectives feels unnecessary. There's a ton of materia for you to get, but some of it is not really needed, but I want to complete every side quest along the way and appreciate the artwork and efforts from the devs. Comparing to Remake of which the side questing was more about helping people and getting stronger along the way as well as making money as a merc, it tied together well. I feel it didn't at any point distract too heavily from the main questline. The pacing was well done. Not for Rebirth, there's lots of low value objectives to complete, and many of them go on too long and feel like they are there only to slow progress, adding zero substance to the story. There is also a TON of handholding in this game. I don't mind quest markers and objective lists, but telling me how to fight something while I'm fighting it with character callouts defeats the purpose of the Assess materia, which gives you tips on how to fight said creature, alongside vulnerabilities, immunities, etc.. Don't have the character tell the player how to play the game. Let the player figure it out on their own. Puzzling out a battle is part of the fun. Tutorial prompts are fine, but the way the characters will say in combat what to do is far too much with how the game is structured. Stick with the Assess materia giving you the necessary information, that format worked perfectly with Remake without distraction, and it works here too. (Also why is it assess instead of libra?) Mai is entirely unnecessary. She will talk to you while you're in combat to assist you while facing specific combat encounters through Chadley's questlines. Though she is extremely distracting throughout each combat encounter. I hate to say it, but you could remove her from the game and it would only be a positive. She can exist narratively and for an initial tutorial, but there is not a reason for her to tell me what to do in combat. Let me figure out encounters on my own. Some notes on the combat, it feels the effectiveness of dodging and blocking were reduced to put in perfect guard, while I don't mind a perfect guard mechanic, it feels it wasn't needed. I understand that I can upgrade the perfect guard materia to be able to block grapple attacks, but that doesn't mean you should make enemies grapple you more easily when you dodge. It feels when enemies make these attacks they can turn more quickly and on a tighter radius than before, making your dodge window even smaller than Remake, which wouldn't be a huge issue if these were different games, but it's a single game remade and split into 3 standalone games. No sequels or prequels, the same game made into 3. I don't need to go into details of the crafting and material gathering, it's there to slow your progress, nothing more. A gimmick added because it was popular at the time this was developed. Should have stuck with equipment being a reward for discovery. I'm sure investors and/or the publishing department was a heavy influence on this. So far Rebirth is feeling cheap and unpolished compared to Remake, with none of the love. A lot ideas but nothing to tie them together. Minimal substance and a disappointment overall. I don't blame the devs, I blame the publishers. I'm worried the publishing department at Square and pressure from investors is overtaking the development team by adding what works in other games for a 'formula' to try and make money instead of what fits and makes the game good, and it's making me not want the third installment. If I paid full price I would want a refund. 190 Gigabytes of disappointment is what I'm looking at. It feels to me that Square Enix saw FF7 save them in the 90's and they're hoping to bank on the fanbase and modern game formulas to make them more money than ever, and it's unfortunately working.

Too much annoying mini games/10

I can't recommend this game unless you are the type of gamer that can freely ignore side activities. If you can, enjoy I guess. This game was everything REMAKE INTERGRADE wasn't, and that's a bad thing. Uninteresting story, horribly optimized, boring plot points and minigames I felt forced to engage with, weird progression systems, and worst of all it overstays it's welcome with a forced and a boring open-area gameplay loop of what is essentially doing checklists for materia upgrades you'll probably never use unless instructed to by a YT overpowered guide.

Overall, it's a disappointing game when compared to the thrill I got from playing the original FF7. I hate the action combat. Many of the mini games were tedious. Several boss fights had insane difficulty compared to the rest of the game. That final boss fight with 25 phases, no moment for a break, unskippable cutscenes, no chance to save materia changes, etc. made it a super frustrating way to finish the game and definitely pushed me towards the negative review. The game has some decent moments, but it's ruined by all the headaches. How many slow-walking scenes does a game need? Even in the final moments, I was being forced to slowly walk around.