If you’ve been a FFVII fan, either from the original release or from Remake, you’ll enjoy this game. The nostalgia and bias will have you feeling great all through the adventure, and you won’t think of it lower than a 4/5 game. That being said…
I am a huge FFVII fan. The original is my favorite game of all time and I got the platinum trophy in Remake. I had every intention to see Rebirth through with another platinum, but even with my level of enjoyment and love for the game and its world… it’s just too much. That might not sound like a bad thing, but at 60+ hours in, playing as a completionist through every region up through that point, finishing every quest I could, I felt I had the pulse of the game in check. I was wrong. In the last quarter of the game, you suddenly have a significant influx of content thrown at you. Refreshed mini games and challenges you’ve completed already are made available in upgraded/hard versions. The Gold Saucer updates all its content with new challenges and hard versions. Regional content reveals hard mode versions. The battle simulator ends up being 1 of 3 different battle simulators in the game, all of which have additional battles thrown at you, then having hard mode versions and extra character versions after you finish the game.
Again, after 60-70 hours of playing, the games scope and content pacing is radically altered and I just lost my engagement to see it through. It was too much. Plus, the entire game needed to be completed on Hard Mode, and the optional 70+ proto-relic finale… Too much.
Realistically, this isn’t a major complaint for most players. If you want to jump in just for the story and amazing combat, it’s a wonderful game to dig in to.
There are minor gripes with no real “newly acquired” items section of your inventory, or cleaner/simplified UI choices for equipment and menu navigation. I would also have liked materia “sets” to change up a few different loadouts or combinations for your party without having to manually adjust everything for key challenges and fights.
Play it for the story and gameplay, skip it if you’re a completionist.
I am a huge FFVII fan. The original is my favorite game of all time and I got the platinum trophy in Remake. I had every intention to see Rebirth through with another platinum, but even with my level of enjoyment and love for the game and its world… it’s just too much. That might not sound like a bad thing, but at 60+ hours in, playing as a completionist through every region up through that point, finishing every quest I could, I felt I had the pulse of the game in check. I was wrong. In the last quarter of the game, you suddenly have a significant influx of content thrown at you. Refreshed mini games and challenges you’ve completed already are made available in upgraded/hard versions. The Gold Saucer updates all its content with new challenges and hard versions. Regional content reveals hard mode versions. The battle simulator ends up being 1 of 3 different battle simulators in the game, all of which have additional battles thrown at you, then having hard mode versions and extra character versions after you finish the game.
Again, after 60-70 hours of playing, the games scope and content pacing is radically altered and I just lost my engagement to see it through. It was too much. Plus, the entire game needed to be completed on Hard Mode, and the optional 70+ proto-relic finale… Too much.
Realistically, this isn’t a major complaint for most players. If you want to jump in just for the story and amazing combat, it’s a wonderful game to dig in to.
There are minor gripes with no real “newly acquired” items section of your inventory, or cleaner/simplified UI choices for equipment and menu navigation. I would also have liked materia “sets” to change up a few different loadouts or combinations for your party without having to manually adjust everything for key challenges and fights.
Play it for the story and gameplay, skip it if you’re a completionist.