FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I absolutely love the original Final Fantasy VII, and I also love the remake projects! Replaying both the original and the remakes has made me so attached to these characters. The way they designed them in the remakes, and the voice acting is just fantastic. The story is great, and in my opinion, has a good pace despite how much content there is. The gameplay was great in Remake and is even better in Rebirth. The introduction of synergy skills, aerial attacks, perfect parries, etc. adds so much more depth to the combat. It feels very rewarding switching between characters, since doing so let's you build up your ATB and set yourself up to use different abilities. There's just so many layers to the combat mechanics and I absolutely love it. Exploring is also a lot of fun. And even though I find Chadley rather annoying, I actually really enjoyed gathering world intel for him throughout the world. But man... Chadley does NOT need to inform me every damn time I'm doing it! I'm fully aware that I have scanned a life spring or done a summon shrine. There are a few reasons why I don't think this is a perfect game though. Minigames. Not exactly a shocking take, but they really went overboard with the minigames in Rebirth. A lot of them are genuinely fun, hell, some of them are really well executed like Queens Blood, but I'm not a fan of some of them being forced into the main story or side quests. I get that most of them are optional, but the completionist part of my brain just can't ignore that 100% world intel. Having to learn new minigames can get pretty tiring. Chocobo racing was fun though. Red XIII/Nanaki. Don't get me wrong, I understand he's technically a teenager, and I really like to see him open up and everything, but that voice acting... REALLY doesn't do it for me. AURA LOSS! And the most important one, is Aerith's death. In the original, it was a much more straightforward, tragic and permanent event that left such a huge impact on the game. It's one of the most iconic scenes in gaming. Rebirth makes it much more distorted, which can leave new players feeling confused after finishing the game. It still hits hard, at least for me, but it doesn't come close to being as emotional as the original scene unfortunately. But overall, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth feels like an ambitious journey with friends, and despite it's flaws, It is a game that will leave you with a wide range of emotions. I absolutely love this adventure and I can't wait to see what Revelation have in store for us. I'm a little concerned about how they're going to handle the multiverse elements introduced here though, since I'm not the biggest fan of that concept. But either way, I'm still so hyped for the next and final installment!

しょーもないミニゲームとギミックのせいでストレス満載のゲーム 肝心のストーリーがミニゲームのせいで薄まっているのがもったいない 戦闘も爽快感がなく楽しくない 色々詰め込みすぎてダメになっている印象 いいところは映像美だけ ムービー中のカメラワークとかキャラクターの動きは素晴らしい 原作のほうがおもろい

《最终幻想7：重生》，一部体量巨大的JRPG。 美术、配乐、过场演出属于第一梯队，角色表情细腻，大地图从草原到城镇，氛围感直接拉满 。战斗系统是本作最大亮点，ATB+动作的玩法，新增的合击协同技可玩性很高，不同角色搭配玩法丰富，打BOSS的战斗演出热血十足。 角色刻画做得很棒，每个人物的性格、羁绊都刻画到位，主线故事悬念重重，牵动人心。游戏内容爆炸，主线支线、陆行鸟探索、卡牌小游戏女王之血，能玩上百小时。 客观说：部分支线偏重复，小游戏数量很多，有一些挺有意思的。PC端设置得当优化有待改善，而且帧数是锁120帧的，大场景探索或者骑陆行鸟会掉帧卡顿有点难受，期待更好的优化吧 如果你喜欢FF7世界观，喜欢日式角色扮演，这一部绝对值得入手，期待明年的终章。

Aerith will always be my goat

я прошел её. игра колоссальных масштабов, одна из самых огромных и дорогих рпг в которые я играл. здесь просто безумное количество качественного контента и активностей, приятные культовые персонажи, которых раскрыли еще больше, идеальный баланс, улучшенная боевая система и почти отсутствие бесячих моментов, будь то сайд квесты или основная кампания, всё это только играет нам на руку (ff7 remake тебе привет с дерьмовейшей системой сайд активностей). самый сложный контент игры - испытания Чедли, спокойно закрывается если учесть механики игры. каждая секунда игры кричит о бюджете и стараниях которые приложили разработчики, каждый диалог даже в сайд квестах сопровождается уникальной анимацией, и это очень бросается в глаза. обилие минигеймов которые тут на каждом шагу, только в наилучшем смысле напоминают мне о серии Yakuza. игра заслуживает 9/10. субъективные -1 потому что случайно заромансил собаку. ждем продолжение в Revelations

First of all, I've never written a Steam review before, but after playing Rebirth I genuinely felt that I should leave a review simply because someone might actually be helped by knowing what they are getting into. Rebirth had the potential to be a genuinely good game, but a series of bad design choices in almost every aspect (although, to be honest, they feel less like choices and more like a lack of competence and painfully outdated sensibilities) ultimately turned it into a rather pathetic game. --- 1. Mini-games are not the real problem Everyone complains about the mini-games, but that is almost giving Rebirth too much credit. The real problem is the complete absence of restraint. Mini-games, forced sequences, forced interactions, extra modes, repeated challenges, the game keeps introducing things that would be perfectly acceptable in moderation, then proceeds to give you absolutely no moderation whatsoever. The combat, while it does look like something from a Chinese mobile game made in 2017 with the excessive air combo ♥♥♥♥, is decent enough to carry an RPG by itself, which makes it particularly impressive that Square Enix managed to bury it under all this other stuff. 2. Exploration is bizarrely miserable The open world is enormous and beautiful, and apparently the developers decided the best way to make you enjoy it was to make moving through it as irritating as possible. Each zone is basically one giant puzzle. Paths twist around for no reason, obvious routes are blocked by invisible walls, and you constantly reach places that look accessible only to discover that, no, apparently Cloud is incapable of stepping over that particular piece of geometry. Mounts are painstakingly badly designed. You ride along and constantly bump into one of the 8000 pebbles that the dev put in for no reason, and the bird does its little flapping animation and locks you up for two full seconds. This happens constantly. It genuinely stops you from pressing the G key and rather run everywhere. For a AAA game released in 2024, this genuinely feels embarrassing. 3. The game constantly gets in its own way One of the most frustrating things about Rebirth is how often it refuses to simply let you keep playing. You finish a quest and have to sit through the completion animation. You trigger something and suddenly the game takes control away from you for another little sequence (there's this kid called chadley that'll make you want to quit the game). You pick something up, open something, interact with something, and there is another unnecessary animation, notification, transition or dialogue before you can move again. The game is so desperate to try and show stuff that they think is cool (but of course the opposite) that it frequently kills its own pacing. 4. The writing and direction feel painfully dated It feels less like natural writing/characterization and more like watching a group of executives in their 60s enthusiastically recreate what they remember young people enjoying. The character models are 'somewhat' detailed and the presentation is expensive, but the dialogue, gestures, character animation and so-called comedies feel like someone's idea of “cool” from forty years ago (Yuffie is probably the worst offender) I hate the word cringe and I think the word hurts a lot of things, but sadly it's the only word that's able to explain the game. The game keeps insisting that these characters are cute, funny, sexy, badass or emotionally devastating, but somehow they managed to make it worse than the original game. 5. An empty world The world looks like an enormous amount of effort went into it, which makes it even more sad for the devs that almost all of that effort ends up feeling pointless. NPCs aren't Cs (characters), they are props. People just stand in their designated spots and you can't meaningfully interact with them at all. In fact, they're somehow worse than invisible objects because they're collidable 'pillars' making you wish they weren't there. The same goes for the environments. There are countless detailed buildings and rooms you can enter, but once you're inside, there is essentially nothing to do. You can't interact with anything, you can't sit down, you can't do anything that makes the place feel lived-in. And the funniest part is that even something as basic as sitting down on a couch apparently wasn't worth implementing. Cloud already has the sitting animation and assets (for benches), so this wasn't even a development effort they couldn't afford. They put an absurd amount of effort into making the world look detailed, only to make it completely meaningless through unbelievably shallow interaction design. --- Overall, it genuinely feels like the devs worked incredibly hard to make a good game, then spent the rest of the development cycle finding new ways to make sure it wasn't one. At this point, I honestly have to admire the consistency. Sad game for everyone. Sad for original fans, sad for new fans, sad for devs.

I did not like FF7 Remake. Gave up after about 8 hours as the combat just wasn't gelling for me, not to mention the initial Midgar part of the original game is, in my opinion, one of the weakest parts of the story. That said, I watched a primer and went in to the sequel with an open mind, knowing that there's a lot more ground to cover here than just one city and I'm glad I stuck with it. The odd part though, is while the highs are extremely high, the lows are bafflingly low which makes for kind of a "Yeah it's good but" sequel that really didn't need to be this ambitious. I've played through FF7 countless numbers of times on my PS1 and I was glad to be out of Midgar at the beginning of Rebirth (I have a set save on my memory card at Kalm every time I start a new game). Just a recap, although I understand the reasoning, I really don't see the point of adding characters and giving them backstory that just are around to die at the end. They're ultimately cannon fodder and "Look how bad Shinra is" when the sector plate falls. I don't think we needed a whole 40 hour game just covering that part of the story, but again, if they didn't do it, we wouldn't get Rebirth. And Rebirth is a massive expansion on the sections of the game leading to the Northern Crater. And I really liked some of the creative liberties they took story-wise, like giving Cait Sith something to do besides his one story beat, expanding the lore of the Cetra and Gi, and making the world feel lived-in. I also appreciated the reduction in backtracking, like having to return to the Midgar Zolom a second time just to see that Sephiroth had killed it. Where I think the story falters though is in their insistence of establishing the multiple timelines. It's never really explained, characters just seem to come out and leave into nowhere, and at no point does anyone just point out exactly what's happening with it. I feel it even undercuts the big emotional moment of FF7 when you're like "wait, what just happened". The combat is much improved from what I played in Remake and the half real-time, half turn-based combat worked for me this time. I do think there are too many systems that I didn't engage with, including the Synergy skill shortcuts mapped to the right bumper, and the weapon mastery skills which I never figured how to do. I don't think they needed all of it and hope they cut back in part 3. The fights though, are amazing, especially when boss fights get interrupted mid-battle for something crazy to happen, and the last string of bosses brings a tear to my eye. This is what we should be doing with Final Fantasy going forward. That said, while the fights and combat are great overall, the open world is more of a mixed bag. I think it's a triumph that they were able to go open-world and that world is so unique and luscious with detail, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Chadley. I'm glad they toned his down a bit for this one, but his World Intel is probably the worst part of the entire game. The first two zones, fine, go to a few locations, climb a tower, fight some monsters. But once the intel screen pops up for the SIXTH time, I was just done with it, and completing the intel felt more like a chore than anything, even though the rewards were pretty good. I completed my playthrough in 76 hours. That's the main story and all of the world intel, minus the secret boss section at the end, but there is still so much to do, including all of the Combat Sim fights, the summons I gave up on, mastering each of the side quest chains, not to mention Queen's Blood and the rest of the Golden Saucer, AND the whole game in Hard mode. Is it for me? No. I'll probably just stop here and be happy. I'm going to echo a sentiment many others have said: I think there's too much here, especially for a middle part of a trilogy, and it's going to be a really tough ask for new players once the third game comes out to go through it all especially if Revelation is just as long. There's definitely a good 40-hour version of this game that cuts the bloat of the open world and I can't understand why they packed in the extra junk except to justify the AAA price tag. But I was hooked for all 76 of those hours. There's a level of polish that very few other JRPGs have, and you can tell Square is putting a lot of care and money into this. I think the gamble is paying off, let's hope it can stick the landing. There's a lot of potential with the last few acts of the story and I can't wait to see what they do. Maybe just a few fewer timelines though Check out my other reviews on [url=backloggd.com/u/DanipoGames]Backloggd[/url]