Spork3245 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 48 minutes ago, best3444 said: So is FF16 the only FF without mini-games? FF6 and earlier didn't really have them, at least not in the sense FF7 did. I can't remember any in FF13. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 The date at the Gold Saucer got me, I think because I've spent so much time with these two characters that it hit more than I thought it would. My date was Spoiler Tifa. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Near the end of Ch. 12, what Spoiler Cait Sith says, which is something along the lines of, 'I knew it had to end this way, but it still kind o stings. For a moment, I thought we were friends," is what I felt as well. Unless they were going to change something, I knew Cait Sith would betray us with the keystone, but it felt a bit sadder since we spent more time with him here. My dude was crying, too. =( And it's going to be a little bit before I see him again with some of the other side quests. Caaaaaaaiiiittt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Just got done exploring the Gold Saucer for the first time. Unfortunately, I couldn’t progress in the Queen’s Blood challenges because I’m one or two wins short before I can advance to the next level. That “Behind Enemy Lines” challenge was a BITCH to get through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 On 4/14/2024 at 3:39 PM, ThreePi said: Yeah, but there's also a lot more "slowly walk down a hallway so people can give you an unnecessary long exposition." You could cut 75% of Chadley's lines and not lose a thing in the game. It's a game that doesn't respect the player's time. There's a trend among older gamers who want shorter games because they don't have time in between work and family and blah blah blah. I'm not that kind of person, I've done two 80+ hour playthroughs of Cyberpunk. But none of the side stuff in Rebirth really has value. What was even the reward for finishing all the Queen's Blood matches? It never felt like any of the side stuff led to anything worthwhile other than checking off a box on a list. Until the Protorelic stuff at the end, but by then I was so burnt out and just wanted to mash Square through the combat anyhow. I guess I just fundamentally disagree. I absolutely loved doing everything this game has given to me. Except the chicken side quest. So many great pieces of lore and easter eggs behind all of it. The protorelic stuff was awesome, fighting classic monsters from the games past throughout the different lands. The Turk stuff in Gongaga was an awesome treat. as far as QB, it being so good was reward enough in itself. Completing my card collection is enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 On 4/15/2024 at 7:28 AM, SaysWho? said: I disagree with a lot of this but I appreciate your perspective considering how highly you view OG FF7. I also feel the opposite as crispy does. First, I loved playing Queen's Blood; anytime that opened up, that's what I started with. I'm also nearly 90 hours into the game on Ch. 12 and I've not bored of the side activities; the only problem I had was losing two hours of progress chocobo racing because of a power outage. But I actually enjoy racing and feel the chocobos handle very well, making it less frustrating to try to win. Plus, 3D Brawler was actually possible to win. I also went to the divine temples to get summons, which were useful, especially Phoenix. Transmuter chips were a godsend. Cache locations don't give you a ton, but they're fun to find and they're easy to skip if you want. Plus, you have plenty of side quest opportunities to get more skill points and items, or combat arenas to get useful armors. Hell, the Hide contents Chocobo Sage stuff gives you an APx3 armor, which is sweet. Huh? APx3 armor? What is it? I know he gave me a weapon for Cait Sith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 2 hours ago, BloodyHell said: Huh? APx3 armor? What is it? I know he gave me a weapon for Cait Sith. Spoiler That ChocoBangle or whatever it's called. 2 slots but 3x AP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Gotta get the Spoiler Odin summon and then I’m going through the point of no return. I think I’ll do the other side stuff I haven’t gotten to after I finish the main story. The side things I finished are Spoiler Queen’s Blood, protorelics, 99% of Chadeys stuff, pirate booty, and some additional side quests and vr missions. I got to the island of Gilgamesh, but I have not fought him yet. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 I've never had so much Spoiler anxiety at the endgame of a video game before. I'm at the Temple of the Ancients and I managed to never find out what happens to Aerith, and I'm so worried about her. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 45 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: I've never had so much Hide contents anxiety at the endgame of a video game before. I'm at the Temple of the Ancients and I managed to never find out what happens to Aerith, and I'm so worried about her. Not much long now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Taking my sweet time sidequesting in Chapter 12. Deciding whether I want to do all the hard mode stuff in the Gold Saucer, but I'll do the chocobo racing questline as a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 lol I love that chocobo racing is basically Mario Kart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 8 hours ago, MarSolo said: lol I love that chocobo racing is basically Mario Kart. It's legit fun in this game. I thoroughly enjoyed chocobo racing. I'm deep into Ch. 13 right now; it's a long chapter! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 22 Author Share Posted April 22 12 hours ago, MarSolo said: lol I love that chocobo racing is basically Mario Kart. 3 hours ago, SaysWho? said: It's legit fun in this game. I thoroughly enjoyed chocobo racing. Better than the actual Chocobo Racing game (Chocobo GP) they brought out a couple years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 The final battle gauntlet you unlock in the Gold Saucer is absurd. Definitely an endgame activity. And here I was thinking I'd 100% all the quests before the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 That (first?) temple boss is no joke. Really nice to see you can't just cheese through the game by doing most of the side quests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 On 4/8/2024 at 8:17 PM, legend said: Tonight I took another crack a the mindflayer combat simulator now that I knew I had to kill the flayer first. That was indeed a fucker. I was doing okay managing my teammates to keep them from fighting the scrubs but I'm pretty sure the mind flayer's AoE attacks would kill them or something because their health would go from nearly full to "where the fuck did they go" Finally got him using the sleep strategy on the scrubs to keep them away and going all out to build synergy attacks as fast as possible and unloading tifa to kill him in the first stagger. Just poking my head in this thread. If anyone's still yet to do this or having trouble... remember, you don't need to take 3 party members. You can solo it, or do what I did and take a single fighter + Aerith and just have her chain sleep the little guys while you single-target the big dude. Trying to micromanage two party members just makes it way more complicated and headache-inducing than it needs to be! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 At the beginning of 14 and Spoiler that whole thing with Aerith liking Cloud, hugging him, telling him not to blame himself, then pushing him into the light with Sephiroth approaching from behind... y'all, that got me, and I have MAJOR anxiety about Aerith now. That shit seems there to freak out people who played the original, those fuckers. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Final boss spoilers: Spoiler I had to pause for now since I have to sleep, but I was NOT expecting what’s essentially Bizarro Sephiroth in this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Rolled credits, fantastic game. It's been a long time since I played og FF7. The feelings of loss and hopelessness in Rebirth definitely don't hit quite as hard. Rebirth realizes that it can't live up to the first time the story is told, so takes things in a different direction to flesh out these events, but in doing so spoils where og FF7 goes later. It's realistic to what most of us know about these characters, and doesn’t feel cheap as a result. So long as you can understand most of the split universe stuff as sort of a side note. (for now?) There are some interesting wrinkles left, particularly: Spoiler Cloud still having the black materia, Zach thinking dimensions can be reunited, Cloud still sees Aeirth while the rest of the party can't except maybe RedXVIII, the possibility that it's still Seperoth/Jenova playing tricks on him, only him seeing the tear in the sky, white whispers, what if Sephiroth knows the current timeline is where he loses and does something in the third game to sabotage it, etc. I'd still recommend playing and finish the OG before you get to the final chapters of this game. The og hits harder, Rebirth instead softens it by fleshing out the context, both with new additions and references to future events. Oh, and Intergrade DLC is recommended as well. There's a few sequences with Yuffie in Rebirth that won't land at all if you haven't played it. Whereas you can still enjoy Rebirth fine enough if you've only played remake (though og FF7's impact will be dampened). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 @crispy4000 I plan on beating this sometime down the road but I will never play the OG FF7. So if the ending doesn't hit as hard etc then so be it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 3 hours ago, best3444 said: @crispy4000 I plan on beating this sometime down the road but I will never play the OG FF7. So if the ending doesn't hit as hard etc then so be it. You’ll be fine. Once you beat it, go back and watch the big moment in question in the original. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 I beat the game a day or two ago and I’m back in chapter 13 to do a lot of the higher level side quest and the side quest I never finished. i’m still reading about the ending, but I have to say that emotionally, I thought it was a very strong narrative in that sense. Because of the length of the game, you were doing a lot of things that don’t relate to the main story, but a lot of that other stuff was character stuff, and it made me bond with the characters quite a bit more, and it made me like some of the new characters a lot, like Kyrie. I really love this group of characters, and I look forward to continuing their adventure in a few years. Now, I’m just going to enjoy the gameplay and other quests and the lovely world that the developers gave me. 103 hours or so and I’m still going. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 7 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: I beat the game a day or two ago and I’m back in chapter 13 to do a lot of the higher level side quest and the side quest I never finished. i’m still reading about the ending, but I have to say that emotionally, I thought it was a very strong narrative in that sense. Because of the length of the game, you were doing a lot of things that don’t relate to the main story, but a lot of that other stuff was character stuff, and it made me bond with the characters quite a bit more, and it made me like some of the new characters a lot, like Kyrie. I really love this group of characters, and I look forward to continuing their adventure in a few years. Now, I’m just going to enjoy the gameplay and other quests and the lovely world that the developers gave me. 103 hours or so and I’m still going. Yeah I think taking this game to flesh out the character relationships was a really good narrative choice. I feel more attached to these characters than ever before and it makes everything that happens to them so much more meaningful. That said, I do also understand what @crispy4000 means. We have so much additional knowledge about this universe than we did the first time, and then there are game specific changes that soften something we otherwise took at face value in the OG. But I'm okay with that. I'm happy with them do a little bit of divergence and am interested to see where it goes, and the the character strengthening really helps with that. Then on top of that, I just really like the gameplay loop of this series. I don't think any game has nailed mixing turn-based and realtime combat in a way that's as satisfying as Rebirth. I was already a big fan in Remake, but Rebirth evolved it in all the right ways. It's why if they ever do remake KOTOR -- another game I love that was real-time with pause -- that they do it Rebirth style. Starwars is such a good match for this approach. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 A remake of KOTOR with Rebirth's combat would be heavenly. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Kiss my ass Tonberry King, your pristine crown is MINE. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Okay, the Spoiler Gilgamesh boss music and boss fight are fucking epic and hilarious. GREAT SHIT! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 I’m reaching a point with the addition of Cait Sith where I feel overwhelmed by the amount of characters I have. Also, he kind of sucks in battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 In Gogonga Village, and the character development has me in stitches. Yuffie singing about how bored she is to the tune of her theme song is AMAZING. And I love the sisterhood between Tifa and Aerith, it’s something completely missed from the original. THIS moment in particular cracked me up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Got my first ribbon accessory. On 5/1/2024 at 1:50 PM, MarSolo said: I’m reaching a point with the addition of Cait Sith where I feel overwhelmed by the amount of characters I have. Also, he kind of sucks in battle. I think he gets better the more you try him, but if I have to do a battle arena with two teams of three, I've not found a use for him yet that the other six can't handle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 After my Cyberpunk complete playthrough and then Starfield, I'm happily coming back to this with patience. I look forward to it. I did get to chapter 12 but then I had to take a break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I've wanted the soundtrack for a while and have had some life changes the past few weeks, so I haven't bought on the OST. I was wanting the Special Edit edition: FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH Original Soundtrack ~ Special edit version ~ | SQUARE ENIX Store NA.STORE.SQUARE-ENIX-GAMES.COM <div>The special edit version of the original soundtrack for FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is confirmed for release!</div> But it already sold out. Hopefully the other one doesn't when I have the opportunity to make a purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Hopefully it’s on Apple Music eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 2 hours ago, MarSolo said: Hopefully it’s on Apple Music eventually. Honestly it looks like such a lovely thing to display in my game room that I’d love to buy it as is, but I missed out in the special edit. Can’t buy yet but hope the regular doesn’t sell out too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.