I lost it when Barret went off the rails about Marlene in the middle of the escort the dog Junon quest, and Cloud told him to get his shit together. It was such a hilariously real scene.
The tifa and cloud dialogue is what I’ve been wanting for years it’s so mature and human, who are the writers and the localizers because they deserve their flowers too
I'm currently at North Corel at about 34 hours playtime, done basically everything up to this point (100% every area etc) and it's been absolutely magical. The stuff they do with these character makes me love them even more, and just like Remake Barret is the standout.
I just got out of Costa del sol myself and just started all of the extra stuff in Corel I've also 100% everything so far and am at 29 hours everything is so incredible can't wait to see more
I'm now at chapter 6 and i feel like the story has not been progressed in the slightest. I love the game but the story is just going from town to town without anything really big happening. And no spoilers pls because i havent played the og but i would like to know what you like so much storywise until chapter 6 and if it getd better after this?
I’m 68 hours in and only 64% of the main story is done, I truly believe that this is one of the greatest games that I’ve ever played. Personally, FF7 Rebirth is an all-timer for me, the world keeps getting more & more magical. The OST is also legendary. *yes I took a vacation and have been grinding the game 😂
I'm at what, chapter 10 now I think and yes, it really just keeps one-upping itself time and time again, its crazy. And the music is just... how are they doing it?
It’s magical. There was a part in Chapter 10 where that’s the only word I could think of. This game is magical. Feeling things I’ve never felt from a video game.
I was 9 when the original was released in 97. I now have an 8 year old son who is getting to experience this with me, and seeing the excitement in his eyes while we play together brings back memories that I thought were long forgotten. Thank you to everyone that had a hand in this and for giving my son and I these memories.
My sons are 10 and taking their first playthrough of the game. Watching their play styles is something else. One likes to play the story and take his time and strategize, the other wants to DMC full combo. It’s nuts
@@Mauvias92 He is on Chapter 8 now on twitch and beats every QB match. Many starts off rough like Max did, and that's normal, but he's definitely got it now and much better. People above hating like usual.
I finished Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth just in time to jump over to FF7 Rebirth. I thought Infinite Wealth was gonna be game of the year. Hawaii was an amazing place to explore, and the characters they introduced in that game quickly became my favorites of the series. The amount of things to do is staggering. Full stand alone games in it, as optional side content. 9 out of 10. (There were a few small things that kept it from being perfect if you are fair.) Then I hopped on FF7 Rebirth, and yow. I have to do... EVERYTHING. I have to take screen shots galore (I NEVER take screen shots.), I'm trying not to say anything specific, but there are some specific plot points, and twists that I cannot praise highly enough. Even if FF7 didn't already have a special place in my heart, Rebirth would be worthy of a 10 out of 10, but then you pop on the nostalgia, and this game turns into an experience that I cannot get anywhere else.
Yeah, me too, I never take photos or screenshots 😂. But in this game sometimes I do, outiside of having to. 9.2/10 Simply is wrong. It's an easy 20/10. Because it's better than other 10/10 games.
If this doesn't win game of the year I will be very surprised. No matter what else comes out this year I don't think anything could ever beat this game in my eyes, even in the last decade.
You should play persona 3 reload too! I finished it just before starting ff7 rebirth and i fucking loved it. This year is an amazing year for JRPG fans
the ff7 remake team should be proud of what they've done - the expectations for this game were otherworldly and they somehow managed to achieve them and more
@@taterboob tf you talking about? if you play games like you look thats not my problem xd resident evil remakes , persona elden ring zelda armored core ..i could go on for days never a battle pass it just a great games with love including all main ff i enjoyed and i didn't ask tatergayboy
@@metalghost4869 Dude you just named good games from Japan, that doesn't mean all games from Asia are all amazing, I could do the same for the non-Asian games. The Last of Us, The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3. See how easy it is to just name good games and pretend that's all there is? You made a generalized statement that is objectively wrong and that dude called you out on it. All you did was insult his appearance cause you have nothing of value to say back to him.
@@FruitPunchSamurai717 you just named old ass games including one that was broke on release and baldures was the one game after years a a nothing lol go to bed . Called me out ? I said the love that they out into games is far of from the western greed we see . Enough with this conversation children I’m right here didn’t call out anything. Enjoy your battle pass games then you nerds. I added the value I needed it’s not a hard debate . Yet he still would reply and deleted his comments . Deal with it
Im really happy that the command menu exists ngl. Im watching Max play and have no idea how he manages to remember all these buttons for every action. I never use the shortcuts unless I have to for synchro moves (those still confuse me sometimes). Being able to pause time and just think for a moment about what I want to do is SO NICE. The way my combat gameplay is completly different from Max's and it still works just as well, just shows how great of a system it really is.
My feeling is exactly as yours Max. A lot of times is like: "This game is crazy!" "There's more and more and it doesn't stop!" "The Devs really Cooked" And before I realize... I have a huge smile on my face I can't help it!
I'm now at chapter 6 and i feel like the story has not been progressed in the slightest. I love the game but the story is just going frkm town to town without anything really big happening. And no spoilers pls because i havent played the og but i would like to know what you like so much storywise until chapter 6 and if it gets better after this?
I'm about half way through as well...I will say this game/series has the greatest music I have ever heard in a video game in my 35+ years of playing them. Second to that is the characters and dialogue...they have perfected these characters to the point where I find complete joy in every single interaction/banter between them, nor matter how small. This game is a masterpiece.
My biggest worry coming into rebirth was that they FOR SURE couldn't keep up the great characters and how they interact like in remake, god damn I was so wrong and I'm so glad.. These writers know ff7 like the back of their hands and it's great
Nobuo Uematsu is regarded as one of the greatest composers of modern times, he kinda transcended video games. So now you have people refining his works and extending them into different tracks, etc. So yea, music is insanely good and next level.
FF7 has some of the best alongside classic Zelda. I would mention that you should try the Octopath Traveller series. Its composer imo inherited the will of the great masters. He even shares the ‘Yasunori’ name. It’s the best modern rpg music to me hands down.
i think i can say it’s the best game i’ve ever played, if anything it has by far the best soundtrack i’ve ever heard in any media, even over star wars and LOTR
I'm not too sure about it being the best ever. It certainly is great. I think FFXIII beats Rebirth when it comes to OST, but to each their own, opinions are meant to be respected.
I wonder if he found the jazz band in the junon area that was playing a jazz ensemble version of the bombing mission, that song goes on for like 10 minutes and it's got a brass ensemble, guitar, piano, drum solos, I literally stood there and just listened to it for a good while and could not tell when it looped lol. The music is amazing in this
Omg really!? I notice a lot of those bands around the world but I didn’t realize they were actually playing from the OSTs. Was it the same ensemble version from the jukeboxes in Remake?
Playing Rebirth reminds me of playing Kingdom Hearts 2 for the first time. Great combat, interesting characters, a few callbacks to the prequel, somewhat confusing story beats, but very fun mini games and challenges to give the world they created feel alive.
My experience playing KH2 for the first time left an everlasting impression on me and I wish I could experience that again, but I’m getting that feeling from this game all the samw
This the comparison that I keep coming back to, I think that it's my favourite Sqeenix game since KH2. Would love to have a more in depth party automation option that doesn't use materia slots in the 3rd.
@@Meakachuyeah, something like how they do in the Tales of Series where you can have a general behavior for party members, like “focus on defense” or “target enemy with lowest HP” But at the same time, I think SE wants us to constantly switch between characters to still give it that turn based RPG feel like we influence every battle decision.
@@Capothekid Yeh for sure, they're going for something different, which definitely works. I find myself only really switching characters on a battle to battle basis or every hour or so of playing just to keep it fresh but I think that is just personal preference. I've found it useful to switch the party member control to the shortcuts rather than the menu, that's kept it more action focused.
The sky box is a big difference between the two that I noticed. In remake going up from the slums to Shinra had such a pretty sky box, but it didn't actually show the slums, just a generic image if slums. But last night going through cosmo canyon you can see the actual environment underneath. Beautifully done!
I think I just hit chapter 5, I'm already over 40 hours in, Junon and Grasslands are 100% complete, and I can't stop thinking about diving back into the world while being responsible and actually getting my work week done lol. The nostalgia is hitting WAY harder than I thought it would, all while providing new memories/experiences, which is all accompanied by an amazingly orchestrated soundtrack. Game of the year, period.
Shocked how huge this game is. They actually did it. I’ve been waiting on a legit next gen open world FF game for a minute and we finally got it from Square…yet it’s wrapped in the skin of our beloved FF7. Masterpiece.
I'm all for exploration, but it falls under the usual open world traps of quantity over quality. A lot of pointless busywork that just eats your time instead of being genuinely entertaining. FF7 gains nothing from it, hell they had to rip the OG into three pieces so they could do that, when they could have cut out a bunch of boring garbage and made an actual complete game. It's pathetic to have to split a game from 1997 into 3 in 2024. They could have done that but splitting it into 3 means more money, and they're now just about that instead of quality art so obviously they're going to go with the 3 poorer quality games if it means three times as much money.
I'm currently in the Golden Saucer and I have yet to find a single sidequest or mini-game along the way that I didn't at least somewhat enjoy. I had been fairly critical of post-FF10 Square (FF14 ARR aside) until Remake came out and they kind of won me back over. But, holy shit, Rebirth is an absolute triumph and is 100% living up to the hype.
I liked frog jumping but it gives no rewards really and totally optional. to compltete the quest 1 try will be enough the rest is your choice so it is executed well. I like Queens cards game but some people hate it and it is part of the story so some are pissed off. The same was for FF9, you had to play it as part of the story. I dont know is it good or bad thing... @@Chris-yz7cs
I just opened up the Corel Region, and so far my least favorite is the Run Wild minigame, not just because I suck at it, but because Red's collar is tied to beating it in first place.
I’m a massive FF fan. 52 year old Gen X here. I have to admit, story lines were not always my favourite aspect for FF series. Sometimes the dialogue can be a bit over the top corny which can be cool… but on occasion… I would have the need to skip through some of the more lacklustre conversations. This game??!! I have watched every single cut scene in its entirety and thoroughly enjoyed it. I even found myself either laughing my ass off or deeply engrossed with the endearing writing and voice acting. I’m 25 hours in and obsessed!! Excellent job to all those involved with the making of this game. They’ve outdone themselves!
I think we all are! I disliked it. I’m more acceptive of it now. I was/am disappointed. There was a large helping of cheese. However… I fully trust SE.
If they can pull off part 3 given all this multiverse crap it would be truly astounding and I'm not gonna hold my breath since I am extremely turned off by anything multiverse.
Having gone though a good chunk of it, I will say this one feels like such a strong set-up for how much of a hit the finale is going to be, I say that because Part 1 felt like it’s goal was creating the bones of what the game will be so while it was limited the quality was so high to make sure they can build off of it, and now it gives that feeling of trying to setup the bones of an open world and doing it at such a high quality so it could all pay off in the last entry, cause now seeing the world and how great the gameplay is I know they will do everything in Part 3 to heighten the experience with the moment to moment gameplay since all the actual setup has been done, one key example is the start of the second act for Part 3 is going to be the diamond weapon chapter and given how they have this giant open world that has been already made they can now use it to make the experience that much more dynamic, I am genuinely expecting the diamond weapon chapter to probably be the first thing they show when they reveal part 3 Same principle the new Zelda, the open world is done, the core gameplay is done, now they have the freedom to add as much as they want while having such a strong foundation
Wutai is going to be huge, It's landmass in OG is more than double some of the areas we've been to in Rebirth. Icicle area also has a large explorable area in OG finding Alexander took quite a lot of work.
@@syed2694if it’s PS6 then expect a long development time as they need to wait until they get the development kit from Sony first. They have already been working in the script and I would expect development on the PS5 version to begin shortly after. My expectation is that it will release towards the end of the PS5 with a 4 year development goal lifecycle but perhaps also on the PS6. There should be no problem with “gimping” as we’ve seen what’s capable from HZFW. The console can manage high performance and graphics. The real question is if they use unreal engine 4 again (it will definitely release on PS5 then) or switch to UE5 (release on PS6) which would require new training and recruiting which takes more time.
i think they will do with part 3, the same they did with part 2, take things from the game before, so they can build the world better and faster. for example, there's no reason to redesign many of the cities for part 3, but they could change the npcs, and add stuff to them. and because it will be the same engine, that gives them space to expand the game. but yeah, i wouldnt put past them, to make the third game be 200gigs, and 3 discs... which would be hilarious on a meta sense.
I’m astounded. Every time you think the game has shown you everything, it goes ahead and opens up again. As a huge OG fan, I feel unbelievably satisfied in what they’ve done here. I’m 80 hours in at 79% 100 precenting where we can. I’m in love. Masterpiece
64% done with the main story after 72 hours, and this game has been a life altering experience. I cannot believe how good it is. Consistently amazing game. I honesty cannot believe this game exists. This also has nothing to do with nostalgia for me personally. I didn't even play original FF7 until after Remake. Rebirth is just that game. It's so good in fact that I wouldn't even be mad if people skipped Remake just to play this.
I played and loved the OG FF7 almost as much as Max loves it. Hot Take: I got bored of Remake and quit mid way through. Never finished it... Fast Forward to Rebirth. I am 28+ hours in after 2 1/2 days. Rebirth is shaping up to be the best videogame I have ever played/heard/seen, etc...
@@scurbbb on ps5 on the bottom right corner of the game when you're on the ps5 home menu there'll be a small flag with the percentage next to it which indicates completion or story completion, not sure which one it is, think it's story, but that's how people can tell usually
@@scurbbb When you're on the game at the PS5 home menu, there's a little percentage counter at the bottom right alongside hours played. That percentage tells you how much of the story you have completed in the game.
I'm going to be 100 percent honest and throw this out there. The day this dropped me and my wife got the news that we had a miscarriage. This game has kept me from having an emotional breakdown.
Took me 75 hours to complete all initial world intel, all QB, and all side quests except 2. This game is a fucking beast. Still gotta do all combat trials
7 hours in and still discovering new stuff in the grasslands. I love the games design and the combat is the best parts of remake amplified. More moves and abilities and I love that the og cast retained some of their moves from remake (triple slash and sorcerous storm ❤️)
@@Shak2k11 I mean yeah probably but it's fine, I had my own thoughts about it & don't "hate hate" it but it was definitely handled in a interesting way.
When I on the boat to Costa Del Sol I legit had a moment where I teared up and was so thankful I'm finally playing it and hope there is a hard mode so I can go through it agaib
The thing I noticed while playing was it just kept getting better, and better and then you think it’s going to calm down somewhat and boom, here’s another amazing thing. Absolutely phenomenal game.
Same, I was about to leave under Junon and had the thought "I don't think I've had a single npc interaction or quest that wasn't delightful, surely this can't keep up." And then I rounded up my troops, was called a mophead, won a military parade, danced with my biker boyfriend, got on a cruise ship with some fabulous old friends, beat em in QB and then had my beach episode. Now I'm just crossing my fingers that I can finish it before my console bites it (overheating)
Man I felt that, it does feel like youre dreaming, it feels like christmas morning when you are 12 years old. This is def in top 5 GOAT games for me, im about 50 hours in and still no idea whats going on with the story, which is a good thing. Its going to be crazy when we see wtf is actually going on. Dude when I first stepped into the golden saucer and when I first saw the haunted hotel, mega chills. Really the whole game is like that. This game leaves me wanting for nothing, its exactly what I was hoping for and was 100% worth the wait.
About 30-ish hours in and the game is fantastic man. Anybody still trying to say splitting the Remake into 3 parts was a cash grab is absolutely delusional.
Sorry for typos. Sleepy texting. My one main gripe as of hitting Costa Del Sol is im seeing a small amount if the side quests sumply be tied into the tower exploration stuff. My only gripe. Overall, just hit Vhapter 9 and i have thus feeling of being overwhelmed. Its not in a bad way, mind you, but all the big sets you see, the grandiose story, developing characters qnd their relations, the upgrades combat. It mak s me feel like i need to optimize my time to properly see everything. For me, thats a great sogn that im hooked, a la Elden Ring. Its been a fantastic week experience. My two close-to-tiers moment were hearing the Lifestream track when finding the mako stones and watching Cloud and Tofa devope towards one another and just listening to them talk. What a magical game
So far I really like it and love the variety. I can see the passion in every part of the games development. 4 years to bring out, I can totally see why, my jaw is constantly dropping that they pulled this off and just how beautiful it is.
I'm in Gongaga with 30 hours in (focusing on the main story) and I love the game so much! I can't wait to finish the story and then dive deeper into each region and finish every side quest
I'm now at chapter 6 and i feel like the story has not been progressed in the slightest. I love the game but the story is just going frkm town to town without anything really big happening. And no spoilers pls because i havent played the og but i would like to know what you like so much storywise until chapter 6 and if it getd better after this?
@@timkerkemeiker9791 well you get a lot of story at the very start of the game and then once you reach the grasslands it’s a lot of character development and subtle story subtext, which if you’ve never played the OG you may not pick up on. It will pick up in the next few chapters with bigger story beats don’t worry 😉
Final fantasy, one of the greatest JRPG series to ever be released, loved watching max play FF7R and now this. Very sad news though and remembrance to another hero who helped define the JRPG world, Akira Toriyama. Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger (collaboration of Akira Toriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yuji Horii) helped bring Joy to many peoples lives. R.I.P Akira ❤
I just finished barrets chunk at the golden saucer, and so far, I've just been in a state of continuous awe. I liked remake, but it really dragged out some sections to raise the playtime and didn't really expand upon the midgar section in any meaningful way. Rebirth, on the other hand, is immaculately paced. Every area lasts just long enough to not get boring and feels super distinct Visually. The sidequests are fun and have great writing for the main characters and don't feel like a drag at all. I also quite like a lot of the changes. I won't talk about much, but the stuff they do with yuffie is just outright better than the original, I can't believe how much she adds to the party dynamic. I have no idea what's coming, and there's also a whole other game that is adapting my favourite parts of ff7. I'm so happy with this game.
I'm 48hrs in and finishing up Coral region, like the new gold saucer games/levels/difficulties and the last one or two side quests in the area. So far, I love the game but it does have some major faults IMO. I have to say Chadley just gets in my nerves sooooo bad. He simply doesn't fit if you ask me. The amount of comedic relief has also brought it down a bit for me. Sometimes I just wish it was a bit more serious as, so far, it's been in the sillier side more than the serious side. I have to say, the whole Coral region has been a blast. I was legit thinking the game was just a step above mediocre for much of it but now that has totally changed. The most enjoyable thing for me is that I can stop somewhere, look around, and my mind is flooded with memories amd the feelings I felt when I explored the same places in the OG game. I still find myself thinking, "I can't believe I'm actually here again"
I'm certainly glad that these aren't exactly like Ubisoft towers that reveal everything in that chunk of the map, but that really makes me question why they're there in the first place. They are completely unnecessary to begin with, especially because the devs have implemented all these guides you discover organically, like the springseeker owls and chocobo chicks for example. Even those are aguably too much, because it feels like you're just following directions the entire time. Everything else in the game is insanely good, but the exploration really suffers from all the handholding provided. It's an unfortunate side effect of most modern games, where everything costs so much money to make, that the developers don't want the player to miss anything anymore, making the stuff you find a lot less meaningful in my opinion.
@@cosmiczeppelin its hard not to justify that when the vast majority of people who play a game never play more then 20%, its absurd the industry is incredible inflated by people who barely even play games.
I think it’s unnecessary for them to add more ladders to the towers to activate them each new region. Like what’s even the point besides to waste time?
@Mohgenstein that's what all of the world intel is, just a waste of your time. The green side missions are great along with the story, but the rest is garbage
My top 5 is notoriously difficult to penetrate tbh, (Okami, Shenmue, 3rd strike etc)..... and Max, I wholly agree with you. This is my favourite game ever. Not just in the way it keeps delivering, and the quality thereof. It's just the way they've entirely captured the essence and realised it beyond my imagination ever could've fathomed. It's a product that's been so meticulously loved by it's creators. Everything is interesting or fun, hugely interactive and even the stuff that you know won't progress anything really still feels meaningful. Mastered the art of making the player ask "what was I doing again?" haha.... I also love that it knows how good it is. The vista's in cosmo has raw flex in there and im totally here for it. Honestly can't sing the praises of this enough. It's 93 on meta at the moment and I think that's low tbh It's more than a masterclass, i feel this is once in a generation level of cohesive nostaligic quality, it's just simply excellent. Glad you're loving it to.
Games a total masterpiece. This game proves you can make a FF game in the mould of the old PS1 era games. With the open world, the combat and character building and land traversal. This shoulda been what they did after FF9 to bring the series forward. I hated the lack of freedom and the lack of open world and the linear maps of FFX, XIII -XVI. This is what the original game was to me when i played it in 97. This is what i saw in my head and now its here. Im 46% and 56 hours in and im in awe. This game gets better and better each area and I cant even imagine what Gold Saucer is gonna be like. Im in Corel Mts right now. Part 3 is gonna be INSANE. especially when you get the Highwind!
Same here except I’m 42% of the way through 46 hours in on chapter 7 I still can’t believe this game is real I keep saying that it’s insane and the Junon city parade part god it was amazing brought tears to my eyes everything in this game is perfect 🥹
The terrible gameplay and bloated story aspects are nothing like the old games. Just cause you have a semi open world with Ubisoft map markers doesn’t make it like the original game in the slightest. Everything about these remakes is done with the hope of keeping a kid’s attention by constantly jingling keys in front of them. It’s persistently annoying at best and embarrassing at worst. But hey at least Tifa looks good in that swimsuit.
They can't make a game as good as FF7 because most of the original team is gone. That's why the story is trash in the remake and rebirth. Anything good about it is good because the OG made it good. They can't think of a game like that now, they don't have the people for it. They have a lot more people, but the wrong people. It's all about having the right artistic minds and they don't. Look at how they ruined sephiroth for example, he's an annoying edgelord popping in to either insult you or try to say something mysterious which ends up just sounding idiotic, he comes off as a tryhard which is nothing like the OG made him out to be when he introduced him. You even beat him in a fight in MIDGAR... that is pathetic. It's clearly just to please fanboys who want a sephiroth battle instead of making sure they have a threatening villain. Beating the villain in the first game of a trilogy is NOT the way to make him seem like a threat. Obviously. Sure, it has some of the OG's old charm at some points, but when your main threat in an rpg seems like a wussy edgelord.... what is there to look forward to? Why do I care about a climax with that guy, how could I possibly be pumped to beat someone who is idiotic who I beat multiple times? Seems like people look past that because "CHILDHOOD", I'm so sick of that. That's why we get so many video game remakes and sequels and movie remakes and sequels instead of cool fresh ideas because you people that can't let go of your damn "things were simpler when I was a kid" crap, you just buy what you're already familiar with. Hollywood and game designers are always blamed for it but honestly the consumers are to blame. FF7 OG was great. I didn't ask for a remake but was happy that new players might get to see it again in a new form. This isn't it again in a new form: this is it torn apart into three, filling the parts with bloated filler, and then rewriting the story to be idiotic. It's a shame.
I unfortunately have not been able to tune in live because I wanted to preserve my own play through, and I haven’t even been able to start the game yet. Max, it comes as no surprise to me that you’ve managed to further infect me with your enthusiasm for all things FF7. You’ve managed to help me discover a love for the franchise(FF7) that can only be compared to my equally as influenced resurgence of love for the FGC that you brought upon more than 10 years ago. I can’t wait to play this game and can’t wait to tune into your VODs to watch the play through. Thanks for this mid-game review.
For me, Remake and Rebirth have one of my favourites Action RPG combat systems ever. I loved it so much that I even made a Tifa cosplay in Nioh 2 using the fists weapon, just for how cool her playstyle is 😂 P.S.: Vanillaware = instant buy, for me ❤
I couldn't have said it better. This game is an absolute masterpiece. It pulls emotions out of me I didn't eve know I have. It's invredible what these devs have created here.
I played the original when I was 16 at release and it became really important to me loved it ever since. I feel genuinely lucky to be playing this, something very special about being there in 1997 and here now with Rebirth. It’s incredible.
I look like an idiot the whole time I'm playing because I can not stop smiling. FF7 is so special to me and you can tell it's special to the development team. What an amazing game.
This game is what I always thought games would be starting in the PS3 gen. Bigger, more cinematic, more polished gameplay. Instead, everything got chopped up, and come the PS4 gen, things were being sold for parts. Then that became the norm. Games just felt watered down, but I always knew they could be so much more. Rebirth realizes this. It's a game from the PS2 Era with modern game design and technology. That's what makes it so incredible. You have the NPCs with personality, different areas are all distinct, the gameplay feels great, and it's disturbingly long. It took me 40 hours to beat, and I was ignoring most of the side content because I wanted to beat it before the internet could spoil anything. This game proves that you can make a full, content complete, game with an expansive world in the modern day. It deserves 100% of the praise it's been getting. I'm still working my way through the side content, and I have no doubt I'm in for another 100 hours. And I can't wait.
What use to be still images and polygons in OG 7 are now full blown towns/landscapes etc. I never could of imagined it would look the way it does, I love this game soo much♥
It's beyond what I ever imagined. The love poured into this is astounding and I appreciate the devs. It's already a perfect game but then the nostalgia elevates it to something else entirely. Pure joy
@9:50 I'm at 92 hours into the game and still have 2 chapters left. I also just unlocked the "tiny boat bronco" and was immediately met with the option to go and explore new areas AND revisit previously explored areas. I've got another 20 to 30 hours left, with everything that just opened up + the last 2 chapters....so that 100 to 150 hour presumptive playtime is very broad but it's within the actual range of what to expect for total playtime.
Rebirth gets the benefit of having a lot of the core combat, ui design, level design concepts, and main character models and rigging complete, and they can focus on iterating on a good amount of content. Part 3 is going to be even bigger since they're working on the same type of game but making it even more expansive. I am waiting for the pc version, so I'm not gonna see it to the end with the ps5 players, but I'd imagine they'll roll over quite a lot of content from this game into the next.
Im 20H in right now and I have only 2 bad things to say so far : - In performance mode, sometimes the game look really bad with horrible texture and blurry effects due to AI upscale - It's great that made those big open world areas, but oh my god they are empty, there is literally no point exploring it unless for side quests, no chests, no materias, nothing
My tear yup moment with the music happened in the Terror of the Deep fight in Under Junon. When they weaved in the Wutai/Yuffie theme in the fight music I was taken away
I love FFXVI but what I don't like about it are the side quests. Funnily enough in Rebirth, the side quests shines. Loving it so far, especially the mini games like Queen's Blood.
FF16 is a masterpiece If you skip every side quest…. The side quests were so boring, so pointless, and literally didn’t add anything worthwhile…. The weapon upgrades weren’t anything special, the world building wasn’t fun and I felt wasn’t worth a 20+ minute fetch quest each time…. But the main story was phenomenal. The extra hunts were cool but not really worth doing imo bc after beating them all nothing really was that memorable.. extra hunts need to be God of war epic.
@@lottcrosby666346 hours in, I would say this: is a masterpiece and a great way to move forward the franchise and I say this as not a fan of remake but I am genuinely loving Rebirth and the gameplay loop (I took forever to finish remake because of how uninterested I was in the gameplay loop and on my view some very weird padding), but here I am just having fun constantly and is great (between great minigames and amazing unexpected moments).
Same here and I feel like I barely have scratched the surface with this game it’s massive I’m 46 hours in and I just reached chapter 7 last night I swear each chapter just keeps delivering this game is amazing it’s truly magical what square enix made 🥹
I got a tattoo of cloud on my arm after I had played remake. Beacouse I was blown away. I got a PlayStation and ff7 as a Christmas gift when I was 8years old. And to be able to experience a remake was huge. Then THIS came out and thought that I was sent to heaven ❤️
I literally teared up playing today from sheer joy. Hasn’t happened in gaming in so so long. This has been a dream come true for many of fans. I’m watching a couple hrs of your vod every night as well lol
As soon as i hear ff7 music i am already tearing up not to mention seeing the world and seeing how alive all the characters are expanded on, i dont even care about where the story takes us i am just here for the ride i am with the characters the story is just the journey we go together.
What I really like is that there's actually MORE incentive to play some of the minigames, like Queens Blood has a backstory, the protorelic/Captain battles have stories. It's a great way to get people invested in the content, which is great since a lot of work has gone into this
The ending is mentally straining right not looking forward to going back to the last chapter in hard mode lol that ending was dogshit. Not enough to ruin the game overall at least
@@clarityreunitedI think it was bit much, they could have cut out several of the Sephiroth fights and it would have been much cleaner. We'll see how Cloud's delusional state plays out in part 3.
just finished the game after 70+ hours and yea it really did maintain that quality. i did less and less side stuff not because it wasn't interesting but because i just wanted to get to the next step tho the real hurdle is there are spots in cosmo i have no idea how to get to XD def excited to go back and clear sidequests, get the intel i missed and so on and so on, had a blast the whole way through!
I think part of what makes doing the side stuff so fun still is the writing quality. You get lore, charming character moments, emotional storytelling, and just genuinely funny stuff. The world is vibrant in every sense of the word.
I just got my platinum trophy last night, 160 hours, and like Combat is 10/10 Characterization is 9.5/10 'Dungeon' design is 8/10 World design is 9/10 Side quests are 8.5/10 Main story, including changes, is 9/10 Music is 10/10 If I give remake an 8.5 this gets an easy 9, maybe even 9.5 Things I have gripes with: Materia diversity/combos available. Nothing yet gives me the feeling of linking three deathblows with added cut, HP restore and Counter each. Also even after beating hard mode and the brutal VR challenges a lot of materia is still limited in quantity which seems odd. The last two chapters feel a little rushed pacing-wise. Cloud feels a ~little~ too floaty. It makes sense for why he is like this but it's reminiscent of KH3 Can't redo a Barrett mini game once you get the score without redoing the whole chapter. Skip will often skip until the next time you control the characters vs a single cutscene. Playing all the dates made this a little annoying but it's not a huge deal. The game should have a cutscene viewer tbh. There's a chocobo minigame I had to cheese because the tolerance for success is way too narrow (third minigame in Cosmo Canyon) When replaying on hard mode I don't need to cinematically walk through areas. Looking at you flashback Cloud, holding your leg, making this take forever.
there's no problem using only the main weapons, but you should at least try to unlock the special skills from each weapons. they add so much to the combat.
This is a MASTER PIECE!! My jaw is on the floor. I don't blink, and my heart is racing so much that it's hard to go to bed! Hahaha it's a drug and I'm addicted to it. I loved how long they took to give me the open world map hahaha beautiful, just absolutely beautiful. Game of the year!
Glad I’m not the only one having a transcendental experience. Anyone else feeling so connected to all theses characters like hours after you put the game down?
The fact that they were able to pull this off just blows my mind. This is more than i think anyone would imagine an ff7 remake to look like. The way they have recreated and reworked some of the scenes like the junon parade and just the way yuffie joins the party and that moment on the beach in Costa del Sol after the boss there is simply magical. The amount of times i have stopped just to stare at how beautiful this game is and wonder how its even possible that it exists..man im gonna cry 🥲
I just started chapter 5 and I’m not even halfway through the game. I’m completing everything within the areas in the chapters and this is just been an absolutely magical experience. This is a massive game with a lot to offer and I’m really enjoying it. I will say a minor criticism I have is why couldn’t we continue our game save from FF7 Remake and still have the weapons and progress that we made and just continue that progress into Rebirth?
I loved the midgar section of the original game but always wished it was longer and I could explore it more. The high technology with slums. Shinra company. Hojo and the experiments. The main tower. That’s what I remember most and it was so iconic that the front cover of the cd case. I enjoyed the open world , too, but midgar was such a cool city. I’ve just started remake and it’s a joy to see it look so good. Though, I’m not going to get the exploration I wanted, it seems.
Minor correction: The fact that the lighting changes to different times of day suggest that none of it is baked (cooking the lights into a static result). Dynamic lighting is more costly (performance wise) to the system while also making it harder to tune to all the possible lighting combinations a player might run into. So while there are a few spots where it's not amazing, the fact that it's mostly amazing is pretty amazing.
@@MF-wf5ww oh yeah maybe. I haven't seen it change before my eyes. Maybe they have a few different bakes for each zone. Either way, there will still be portions in between zones that need good transitions, and I think that's where we see the biggest issues
Square got their mojo back with the FF7 Remake project. They haven’t had it for a long time and it’s so wonderful to see them come back to form. Rebirth is one of the most incredible games ever made. I have a lot of nitpicks with it but damn it’s so chock full of content and I enjoy nearly all of it. The love and care with which this was crafted is unparalleled.
I lost it when Barret went off the rails about Marlene in the middle of the escort the dog Junon quest, and Cloud told him to get his shit together. It was such a hilariously real scene.
All of remember from that scene is Bow Wow Wow 😂
The amount of character interactions in every side mission takes this game from a 9 to an 10/10
The tifa and cloud dialogue is what I’ve been wanting for years it’s so mature and human, who are the writers and the localizers because they deserve their flowers too
You and me goddamn both. I played through the game eager to get to the next section with just those two😂 The devs knew what fans wanted.
No sweet baby inc forced into this one 👍
@@deetsitmeisterjd Oh, lamenting over brand-new boogeyman in unrelated comments I see
4chan is just around the corner
dude the tifa sidequests are so wholesome...the frog one in junon had me laughing
i dont want human i want cringe fantasy, this game is pretty good but my god the minigames are annoying.
I'm currently at North Corel at about 34 hours playtime, done basically everything up to this point (100% every area etc) and it's been absolutely magical. The stuff they do with these character makes me love them even more, and just like Remake Barret is the standout.
I just got out of Costa del sol myself and just started all of the extra stuff in Corel I've also 100% everything so far and am at 29 hours everything is so incredible can't wait to see more
Same. Exactly.
Everything in Corel region is great! There was so much to experience all over that map. I just departed for Gongaga
I'm a little bit before the second half of Corel. This game is dog gamn amazing. It makes me just want to keep playing, like damn
This low-key felt more like Barrets game than Clouds. The writers just fucking Nailed Barret
Under Junon and Junon sequences of this game BLEW my mind that’s where I really felt this game is gonna be insane
Im riding with Midgar Seventh Infantry
I'm now at chapter 6 and i feel like the story has not been progressed in the slightest. I love the game but the story is just going from town to town without anything really big happening. And no spoilers pls because i havent played the og but i would like to know what you like so much storywise until chapter 6 and if it getd better after this?
I’m 68 hours in and only 64% of the main story is done, I truly believe that this is one of the greatest games that I’ve ever played. Personally, FF7 Rebirth is an all-timer for me, the world keeps getting more & more magical. The OST is also legendary. *yes I took a vacation and have been grinding the game 😂
Wait how can you tell the percent done?
I'm at what, chapter 10 now I think and yes, it really just keeps one-upping itself time and time again, its crazy.
And the music is just... how are they doing it?
@@sootythunder3111ps5 tells you when you hover over the game on the main screen
It’s magical. There was a part in Chapter 10 where that’s the only word I could think of. This game is magical. Feeling things I’ve never felt from a video game.
Its up there with kh2 as my favorite game ever man.
The OST is so sick, the bow wow tickled me so much I didn't even realize I was doing an escort quest
during this quest they made us run across the whole region but i got so into the music i didn’t even notice LOL
"This games makes me feel like I'm dreaming." Yep. Teary eyed 24/7.
I haven’t played the original, and it still does that to me.
Yeah we know your profile pic is@@GMOTP5738
True af lol everyone at the office see me like I was on crack in this past week.
Same. I cannot believe it's real.
Yea it’s pretty fucking surreal this Remake exists.
I was 9 when the original was released in 97. I now have an 8 year old son who is getting to experience this with me, and seeing the excitement in his eyes while we play together brings back memories that I thought were long forgotten. Thank you to everyone that had a hand in this and for giving my son and I these memories.
I’m a little bit older than you and I would love to do the same with my 8 year old son but the swearing is too much so I haven’t, 16 was even worse
My sons are 10 and taking their first playthrough of the game. Watching their play styles is something else. One likes to play the story and take his time and strategize, the other wants to DMC full combo. It’s nuts
As a HUGE fan of FF7, I get really excited to hear Max’s input on the new games since he has such a deep appreciation for this title!😁
I agree, too bad he is absolutely atrocious at Queens Blood…
@@douchonmandyke9895lmao that bad huh
@@douchonmandyke9895 as much as I like him. It hurts to watch. I legit have to skip queens blood segments lol
Im not 100% caught up with the VoDs, but from what i can tell up until junon, he has beat every queens blood match he's done@FDRTKOva
@@Mauvias92 He is on Chapter 8 now on twitch and beats every QB match. Many starts off rough like Max did, and that's normal, but he's definitely got it now and much better. People above hating like usual.
I finished Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth just in time to jump over to FF7 Rebirth. I thought Infinite Wealth was gonna be game of the year. Hawaii was an amazing place to explore, and the characters they introduced in that game quickly became my favorites of the series. The amount of things to do is staggering. Full stand alone games in it, as optional side content. 9 out of 10. (There were a few small things that kept it from being perfect if you are fair.)
Then I hopped on FF7 Rebirth, and yow. I have to do... EVERYTHING. I have to take screen shots galore (I NEVER take screen shots.), I'm trying not to say anything specific, but there are some specific plot points, and twists that I cannot praise highly enough. Even if FF7 didn't already have a special place in my heart, Rebirth would be worthy of a 10 out of 10, but then you pop on the nostalgia, and this game turns into an experience that I cannot get anywhere else.
Yeah, me too, I never take photos or screenshots 😂. But in this game sometimes I do, outiside of having to.
9.2/10 Simply is wrong. It's an easy 20/10. Because it's better than other 10/10 games.
Infinite wealth story is disappointing ngl
If this doesn't win game of the year I will be very surprised. No matter what else comes out this year I don't think anything could ever beat this game in my eyes, even in the last decade.
@@okyes9507Nostalgia at its finest.
You should play persona 3 reload too! I finished it just before starting ff7 rebirth and i fucking loved it. This year is an amazing year for JRPG fans
the ff7 remake team should be proud of what they've done - the expectations for this game were otherworldly and they somehow managed to achieve them and more
asians always puts love into games the fact that ff7 original is still a magical ride says it all
@@metalghost4869Not even vaguely true. There's a ton of garbage from Japan, even in the FF series.
@@taterboob tf you talking about? if you play games like you look thats not my problem xd resident evil remakes , persona elden ring zelda armored core ..i could go on for days never a battle pass it just a great games with love including all main ff i enjoyed and i didn't ask tatergayboy
@@metalghost4869 Dude you just named good games from Japan, that doesn't mean all games from Asia are all amazing, I could do the same for the non-Asian games. The Last of Us, The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3. See how easy it is to just name good games and pretend that's all there is? You made a generalized statement that is objectively wrong and that dude called you out on it. All you did was insult his appearance cause you have nothing of value to say back to him.
@@FruitPunchSamurai717 you just named old ass games including one that was broke on release and baldures was the one game after years a a nothing lol go to bed . Called me out ? I said the love that they out into games is far of from the western greed we see . Enough with this conversation children I’m right here didn’t call out anything. Enjoy your battle pass games then you nerds. I added the value I needed it’s not a hard debate . Yet he still would reply and deleted his comments . Deal with it
Im really happy that the command menu exists ngl. Im watching Max play and have no idea how he manages to remember all these buttons for every action. I never use the shortcuts unless I have to for synchro moves (those still confuse me sometimes). Being able to pause time and just think for a moment about what I want to do is SO NICE. The way my combat gameplay is completly different from Max's and it still works just as well, just shows how great of a system it really is.
My feeling is exactly as yours Max.
A lot of times is like: "This game is crazy!" "There's more and more and it doesn't stop!" "The Devs really Cooked"
And before I realize... I have a huge smile on my face
I can't help it!
I'm now at chapter 6 and i feel like the story has not been progressed in the slightest. I love the game but the story is just going frkm town to town without anything really big happening. And no spoilers pls because i havent played the og but i would like to know what you like so much storywise until chapter 6 and if it gets better after this?
I love when a game knows what it excels at and doubles down on it. The focus and care on the characters is phenomenal
I'm about half way through as well...I will say this game/series has the greatest music I have ever heard in a video game in my 35+ years of playing them. Second to that is the characters and dialogue...they have perfected these characters to the point where I find complete joy in every single interaction/banter between them, nor matter how small. This game is a masterpiece.
My biggest worry coming into rebirth was that they FOR SURE couldn't keep up the great characters and how they interact like in remake, god damn I was so wrong and I'm so glad.. These writers know ff7 like the back of their hands and it's great
Yuffies introduction after you head for Corel mtns and clouds response: “cool” had me dying
Nobuo Uematsu is regarded as one of the greatest composers of modern times, he kinda transcended video games. So now you have people refining his works and extending them into different tracks, etc. So yea, music is insanely good and next level.
FF7 has some of the best alongside classic Zelda. I would mention that you should try the Octopath Traveller series. Its composer imo inherited the will of the great masters. He even shares the ‘Yasunori’ name. It’s the best modern rpg music to me hands down.
@@lordrikudouzero9119 Have played both Octopath and Bravely Default - fully agree - fantastic music.
i think i can say it’s the best game i’ve ever played, if anything it has by far the best soundtrack i’ve ever heard in any media, even over star wars and LOTR
I'm not too sure about it being the best ever. It certainly is great. I think FFXIII beats Rebirth when it comes to OST, but to each their own, opinions are meant to be respected.
Lmaooo calm down
As someone who doesn’t have a big connection, or any nostalgia towards final fantasy, it’s pretty good.
@@hotcoldman77 Royal probably just got hella nostalgia for the game. Imagine your childhood game being remade with this much effort put into it.
Nobuo Uematsu better get a freaking Grammy for this soundtrack
I wonder if he found the jazz band in the junon area that was playing a jazz ensemble version of the bombing mission, that song goes on for like 10 minutes and it's got a brass ensemble, guitar, piano, drum solos, I literally stood there and just listened to it for a good while and could not tell when it looped lol. The music is amazing in this
Omg really!? I notice a lot of those bands around the world but I didn’t realize they were actually playing from the OSTs. Was it the same ensemble version from the jukeboxes in Remake?
Persona 3 Reload and FF7 Rebirth within a few months, goddamn old JRPG fans are EATING atm
Star Ocean Second Story got a Remake too like few months ago. It was so well done, right up there with rebirth.
I still watch Max's reaction to remake every now and again to remind myself how amazing and touching this franchise is to other people ❤️
Hehe glad I was not the only one, this last month I rewatched everyones Playthrough of remake :D
I do too to get hyped as well as the trailers.
Playing Rebirth reminds me of playing Kingdom Hearts 2 for the first time. Great combat, interesting characters, a few callbacks to the prequel, somewhat confusing story beats, but very fun mini games and challenges to give the world they created feel alive.
My experience playing KH2 for the first time left an everlasting impression on me and I wish I could experience that again, but I’m getting that feeling from this game all the samw
This the comparison that I keep coming back to, I think that it's my favourite Sqeenix game since KH2. Would love to have a more in depth party automation option that doesn't use materia slots in the 3rd.
@@Meakachuyeah, something like how they do in the Tales of Series where you can have a general behavior for party members, like “focus on defense” or “target enemy with lowest HP”
But at the same time, I think SE wants us to constantly switch between characters to still give it that turn based RPG feel like we influence every battle decision.
@@Capothekid Yeh for sure, they're going for something different, which definitely works. I find myself only really switching characters on a battle to battle basis or every hour or so of playing just to keep it fresh but I think that is just personal preference. I've found it useful to switch the party member control to the shortcuts rather than the menu, that's kept it more action focused.
The sky box is a big difference between the two that I noticed. In remake going up from the slums to Shinra had such a pretty sky box, but it didn't actually show the slums, just a generic image if slums. But last night going through cosmo canyon you can see the actual environment underneath. Beautifully done!
I think I just hit chapter 5, I'm already over 40 hours in, Junon and Grasslands are 100% complete, and I can't stop thinking about diving back into the world while being responsible and actually getting my work week done lol. The nostalgia is hitting WAY harder than I thought it would, all while providing new memories/experiences, which is all accompanied by an amazingly orchestrated soundtrack. Game of the year, period.
I feel this fully, but, game of the decade. 👍🏻👌🏻
@@rastaboy_gamesnstuff7778 Agreed, I almost said that in my post 😄
Shocked how huge this game is. They actually did it.
I’ve been waiting on a legit next gen open world FF game for a minute and we finally got it from Square…yet it’s wrapped in the skin of our beloved FF7. Masterpiece.
the best part is, its not "true open world", but segmented open world. kinda like the older AC games. which to me, works better.
@@marcosdhelenoyeah its so easy to fk up an open world game, esp with ue4. they chose the best way to do it
I only pray for Chrono Trigger to get a similar treatment
@@rastaboy_gamesnstuff7778seems like licensing would be a Bch
I'm all for exploration, but it falls under the usual open world traps of quantity over quality. A lot of pointless busywork that just eats your time instead of being genuinely entertaining. FF7 gains nothing from it, hell they had to rip the OG into three pieces so they could do that, when they could have cut out a bunch of boring garbage and made an actual complete game. It's pathetic to have to split a game from 1997 into 3 in 2024. They could have done that but splitting it into 3 means more money, and they're now just about that instead of quality art so obviously they're going to go with the 3 poorer quality games if it means three times as much money.
The guy in crows nest talking about the ocean... when he yells Look at it! I immediately thought of Max 😂 They put that line in for him 😂😂😂
I'm currently in the Golden Saucer and I have yet to find a single sidequest or mini-game along the way that I didn't at least somewhat enjoy.
I had been fairly critical of post-FF10 Square (FF14 ARR aside) until Remake came out and they kind of won me back over. But, holy shit, Rebirth is an absolute triumph and is 100% living up to the hype.
say hi to the chickens for me😂
Agree except ff12 was great on its own way.
For me the horrible frog hopping and the CC mini game in Junon are shitty. But the rests is stellar so far
I liked frog jumping but it gives no rewards really and totally optional. to compltete the quest 1 try will be enough the rest is your choice so it is executed well. I like Queens cards game but some people hate it and it is part of the story so some are pissed off. The same was for FF9, you had to play it as part of the story. I dont know is it good or bad thing...
@@Chris-yz7cs
I just opened up the Corel Region, and so far my least favorite is the Run Wild minigame, not just because I suck at it, but because Red's collar is tied to beating it in first place.
I’m a massive FF fan. 52 year old Gen X here. I have to admit, story lines were not always my favourite aspect for FF series. Sometimes the dialogue can be a bit over the top corny which can be cool… but on occasion… I would have the need to skip through some of the more lacklustre conversations. This game??!! I have watched every single cut scene in its entirety and thoroughly enjoyed it. I even found myself either laughing my ass off or deeply engrossed with the endearing writing and voice acting. I’m 25 hours in and obsessed!! Excellent job to all those involved with the making of this game. They’ve outdone themselves!
This gives me hope as a 40 year old who doesn't ever want to get bored of gaming!
Ff7 story is great. I’m a big ff fan ff7 being my fav, the only thing rebirth has is graphics. Rebirth feels like a reskin of kingdom hearts
How is a 52 yo a gen X? 😂
@@KJames2345 1965 - 1980 = Gen X
@@KJames2345 -- born 1965-1980
I'm so interested to see what theories Max'll have on the ending when that comes.
I wanna know how he will react to *those* scenes
Haven’t made it to the end but I’m already excited to hear what Max says will happen in Part 3. In Max we trust.
I think we all are! I disliked it. I’m more acceptive of it now. I was/am disappointed. There was a large helping of cheese. However… I fully trust SE.
@Beadiman we heard you your last other comments dude we get it already 😂
If they can pull off part 3 given all this multiverse crap it would be truly astounding and I'm not gonna hold my breath since I am extremely turned off by anything multiverse.
The combat in this game might be some of the most satisfying combat I've played ever.
Having gone though a good chunk of it, I will say this one feels like such a strong set-up for how much of a hit the finale is going to be, I say that because Part 1 felt like it’s goal was creating the bones of what the game will be so while it was limited the quality was so high to make sure they can build off of it, and now it gives that feeling of trying to setup the bones of an open world and doing it at such a high quality so it could all pay off in the last entry, cause now seeing the world and how great the gameplay is I know they will do everything in Part 3 to heighten the experience with the moment to moment gameplay since all the actual setup has been done, one key example is the start of the second act for Part 3 is going to be the diamond weapon chapter and given how they have this giant open world that has been already made they can now use it to make the experience that much more dynamic, I am genuinely expecting the diamond weapon chapter to probably be the first thing they show when they reveal part 3
Same principle the new Zelda, the open world is done, the core gameplay is done, now they have the freedom to add as much as they want while having such a strong foundation
The world is not totally done. I assume Part 3 is going to have a bigger world map. Especially the eastern continent, Wutai, etc.
Wutai is going to be huge, It's landmass in OG is more than double some of the areas we've been to in Rebirth. Icicle area also has a large explorable area in OG finding Alexander took quite a lot of work.
Well hopefully it's a PS6 release title on a very polished (fingers crossed) UE5. It better not release on the PS5 or it'll be gimped like remake was.
@@syed2694if it’s PS6 then expect a long development time as they need to wait until they get the development kit from Sony first. They have already been working in the script and I would expect development on the PS5 version to begin shortly after.
My expectation is that it will release towards the end of the PS5 with a 4 year development goal lifecycle but perhaps also on the PS6. There should be no problem with “gimping” as we’ve seen what’s capable from HZFW. The console can manage high performance and graphics.
The real question is if they use unreal engine 4 again (it will definitely release on PS5 then) or switch to UE5 (release on PS6) which would require new training and recruiting which takes more time.
i think they will do with part 3, the same they did with part 2, take things from the game before, so they can build the world better and faster.
for example, there's no reason to redesign many of the cities for part 3, but they could change the npcs, and add stuff to them.
and because it will be the same engine, that gives them space to expand the game.
but yeah, i wouldnt put past them, to make the third game be 200gigs, and 3 discs... which would be hilarious on a meta sense.
I’m astounded. Every time you think the game has shown you everything, it goes ahead and opens up again. As a huge OG fan, I feel unbelievably satisfied in what they’ve done here. I’m 80 hours in at 79% 100 precenting where we can. I’m in love. Masterpiece
64% done with the main story after 72 hours, and this game has been a life altering experience. I cannot believe how good it is. Consistently amazing game. I honesty cannot believe this game exists.
This also has nothing to do with nostalgia for me personally. I didn't even play original FF7 until after Remake. Rebirth is just that game. It's so good in fact that I wouldn't even be mad if people skipped Remake just to play this.
I played and loved the OG FF7 almost as much as Max loves it. Hot Take: I got bored of Remake and quit mid way through. Never finished it...
Fast Forward to Rebirth. I am 28+ hours in after 2 1/2 days. Rebirth is shaping up to be the best videogame I have ever played/heard/seen, etc...
Stupid question, but do you know much you've completed? Does it tell you the percentage somewhere? I'm only 5 hours in and still am on Grasslands
@@scurbbb on ps5 on the bottom right corner of the game when you're on the ps5 home menu there'll be a small flag with the percentage next to it which indicates completion or story completion, not sure which one it is, think it's story, but that's how people can tell usually
@@scurbbb When you're on the game at the PS5 home menu, there's a little percentage counter at the bottom right alongside hours played. That percentage tells you how much of the story you have completed in the game.
72 hours in one week is pretty crazy
I'm going to be 100 percent honest and throw this out there. The day this dropped me and my wife got the news that we had a miscarriage. This game has kept me from having an emotional breakdown.
That sucks man but I’m glad you got a bright ray on a shitty day
@@BrentonCDavis oh it was the brightest of rays. And it keeps shining brighter the more I play..... besides the moogle emporium quests.
Cannot imagine going through that, but understand having that type of light in the midst of tragedy.
sorry bout dat
Many prayers but glad you have that ray of light👌🏾
Took me 75 hours to complete all initial world intel, all QB, and all side quests except 2. This game is a fucking beast. Still gotta do all combat trials
7 hours in and still discovering new stuff in the grasslands. I love the games design and the combat is the best parts of remake amplified. More moves and abilities and I love that the og cast retained some of their moves from remake (triple slash and sorcerous storm ❤️)
Go touch the grass lands lil bro
I can’t wait for Max’s theories on the ending gonna be so interesting when that comes.
Junon and the ship were incredible. Hard to believe real people thought of this. Can’t wait for the rest of the game
Well yeah, it was in the original..
Stardust ray at 15:44 is timed perfectly with the music.
This game is truly incredible experience.
I am looking forward to knowing what Max thinks about the story and his analysis of it all.
Especially with "that" ending.
@@hailrugal2695 do u think he will like it?
@@Shak2k11 I mean yeah probably but it's fine, I had my own thoughts about it & don't "hate hate" it but it was definitely handled in a interesting way.
Why he’s not going to give his real opinion.
what makes you say that?
@@hollow3d
When I on the boat to Costa Del Sol I legit had a moment where I teared up and was so thankful I'm finally playing it and hope there is a hard mode so I can go through it agaib
The thing I noticed while playing was it just kept getting better, and better and then you think it’s going to calm down somewhat and boom, here’s another amazing thing. Absolutely phenomenal game.
Same, I was about to leave under Junon and had the thought "I don't think I've had a single npc interaction or quest that wasn't delightful, surely this can't keep up." And then I rounded up my troops, was called a mophead, won a military parade, danced with my biker boyfriend, got on a cruise ship with some fabulous old friends, beat em in QB and then had my beach episode. Now I'm just crossing my fingers that I can finish it before my console bites it (overheating)
Man I felt that, it does feel like youre dreaming, it feels like christmas morning when you are 12 years old. This is def in top 5 GOAT games for me, im about 50 hours in and still no idea whats going on with the story, which is a good thing. Its going to be crazy when we see wtf is actually going on. Dude when I first stepped into the golden saucer and when I first saw the haunted hotel, mega chills. Really the whole game is like that. This game leaves me wanting for nothing, its exactly what I was hoping for and was 100% worth the wait.
About 30-ish hours in and the game is fantastic man. Anybody still trying to say splitting the Remake into 3 parts was a cash grab is absolutely delusional.
Fr it makes so much more sense now lol
The original had 3 discs maybe that's why they doing 3 parts
@@joekooy3821not true. If the game could fit into a single CD back then they would.
I wanted them to go ham expanding the world and characters and they exceeded what I was hoping for. We'd never have got this if it was a single game.
Sorry for typos. Sleepy texting.
My one main gripe as of hitting Costa Del Sol is im seeing a small amount if the side quests sumply be tied into the tower exploration stuff. My only gripe.
Overall, just hit Vhapter 9 and i have thus feeling of being overwhelmed. Its not in a bad way, mind you, but all the big sets you see, the grandiose story, developing characters qnd their relations, the upgrades combat. It mak s me feel like i need to optimize my time to properly see everything. For me, thats a great sogn that im hooked, a la Elden Ring. Its been a fantastic week experience. My two close-to-tiers moment were hearing the Lifestream track when finding the mako stones and watching Cloud and Tofa devope towards one another and just listening to them talk. What a magical game
Finally got halfway myself and genuinly so blown away it’s unbelievable how brilliant this game is man
The music is so good. The amount of variations they have of Main Theme alone keeps it so fresh.
I feel like I am 8 years old again playing the OG for the first time. It has been magical.
I watched all the entire credits roll after beating the game. Everyone involved..thank you.Its a dream come true.
So far I really like it and love the variety. I can see the passion in every part of the games development. 4 years to bring out, I can totally see why, my jaw is constantly dropping that they pulled this off and just how beautiful it is.
I'm in Gongaga with 30 hours in (focusing on the main story) and I love the game so much! I can't wait to finish the story and then dive deeper into each region and finish every side quest
I can’t wait until he gets past Costa del Sol… it will blow his mind even more than anything before it. It just keeps getting better and better…
I'm now at chapter 6 and i feel like the story has not been progressed in the slightest. I love the game but the story is just going frkm town to town without anything really big happening. And no spoilers pls because i havent played the og but i would like to know what you like so much storywise until chapter 6 and if it getd better after this?
@@timkerkemeiker9791 well you get a lot of story at the very start of the game and then once you reach the grasslands it’s a lot of character development and subtle story subtext, which if you’ve never played the OG you may not pick up on. It will pick up in the next few chapters with bigger story beats don’t worry 😉
Final fantasy, one of the greatest JRPG series to ever be released, loved watching max play FF7R and now this.
Very sad news though and remembrance to another hero who helped define the JRPG world, Akira Toriyama. Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger (collaboration of Akira Toriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yuji Horii) helped bring Joy to many peoples lives.
R.I.P Akira ❤
I just finished barrets chunk at the golden saucer, and so far, I've just been in a state of continuous awe.
I liked remake, but it really dragged out some sections to raise the playtime and didn't really expand upon the midgar section in any meaningful way.
Rebirth, on the other hand, is immaculately paced. Every area lasts just long enough to not get boring and feels super distinct Visually. The sidequests are fun and have great writing for the main characters and don't feel like a drag at all.
I also quite like a lot of the changes. I won't talk about much, but the stuff they do with yuffie is just outright better than the original, I can't believe how much she adds to the party dynamic.
I have no idea what's coming, and there's also a whole other game that is adapting my favourite parts of ff7. I'm so happy with this game.
I'm 48hrs in and finishing up Coral region, like the new gold saucer games/levels/difficulties and the last one or two side quests in the area. So far, I love the game but it does have some major faults IMO. I have to say Chadley just gets in my nerves sooooo bad. He simply doesn't fit if you ask me. The amount of comedic relief has also brought it down a bit for me. Sometimes I just wish it was a bit more serious as, so far, it's been in the sillier side more than the serious side. I have to say, the whole Coral region has been a blast. I was legit thinking the game was just a step above mediocre for much of it but now that has totally changed. The most enjoyable thing for me is that I can stop somewhere, look around, and my mind is flooded with memories amd the feelings I felt when I explored the same places in the OG game. I still find myself thinking, "I can't believe I'm actually here again"
I felt the same. Great analysis.
I love that the towers, when you activate them they only bring up like 2 or 3 markers. It makes you feel like you want to actually go for them.
I'm certainly glad that these aren't exactly like Ubisoft towers that reveal everything in that chunk of the map, but that really makes me question why they're there in the first place. They are completely unnecessary to begin with, especially because the devs have implemented all these guides you discover organically, like the springseeker owls and chocobo chicks for example. Even those are aguably too much, because it feels like you're just following directions the entire time. Everything else in the game is insanely good, but the exploration really suffers from all the handholding provided. It's an unfortunate side effect of most modern games, where everything costs so much money to make, that the developers don't want the player to miss anything anymore, making the stuff you find a lot less meaningful in my opinion.
@@cosmiczeppelin its hard not to justify that when the vast majority of people who play a game never play more then 20%, its absurd the industry is incredible inflated by people who barely even play games.
I think it’s unnecessary for them to add more ladders to the towers to activate them each new region. Like what’s even the point besides to waste time?
@Mohgenstein that's what all of the world intel is, just a waste of your time. The green side missions are great along with the story, but the rest is garbage
My top 5 is notoriously difficult to penetrate tbh, (Okami, Shenmue, 3rd strike etc)..... and Max, I wholly agree with you. This is my favourite game ever. Not just in the way it keeps delivering, and the quality thereof. It's just the way they've entirely captured the essence and realised it beyond my imagination ever could've fathomed. It's a product that's been so meticulously loved by it's creators.
Everything is interesting or fun, hugely interactive and even the stuff that you know won't progress anything really still feels meaningful. Mastered the art of making the player ask "what was I doing again?" haha.... I also love that it knows how good it is. The vista's in cosmo has raw flex in there and im totally here for it. Honestly can't sing the praises of this enough. It's 93 on meta at the moment and I think that's low tbh
It's more than a masterclass, i feel this is once in a generation level of cohesive nostaligic quality, it's just simply excellent.
Glad you're loving it to.
Penetrate... mmmmmmmm
Games a total masterpiece. This game proves you can make a FF game in the mould of the old PS1 era games. With the open world, the combat and character building and land traversal. This shoulda been what they did after FF9 to bring the series forward. I hated the lack of freedom and the lack of open world and the linear maps of FFX, XIII -XVI. This is what the original game was to me when i played it in 97. This is what i saw in my head and now its here. Im 46% and 56 hours in and im in awe. This game gets better and better each area and I cant even imagine what Gold Saucer is gonna be like. Im in Corel Mts right now.
Part 3 is gonna be INSANE. especially when you get the Highwind!
Same here except I’m 42% of the way through 46 hours in on chapter 7 I still can’t believe this game is real I keep saying that it’s insane and the Junon city parade part god it was amazing brought tears to my eyes everything in this game is perfect 🥹
The terrible gameplay and bloated story aspects are nothing like the old games. Just cause you have a semi open world with Ubisoft map markers doesn’t make it like the original game in the slightest. Everything about these remakes is done with the hope of keeping a kid’s attention by constantly jingling keys in front of them. It’s persistently annoying at best and embarrassing at worst. But hey at least Tifa looks good in that swimsuit.
They can't make a game as good as FF7 because most of the original team is gone. That's why the story is trash in the remake and rebirth. Anything good about it is good because the OG made it good. They can't think of a game like that now, they don't have the people for it. They have a lot more people, but the wrong people. It's all about having the right artistic minds and they don't. Look at how they ruined sephiroth for example, he's an annoying edgelord popping in to either insult you or try to say something mysterious which ends up just sounding idiotic, he comes off as a tryhard which is nothing like the OG made him out to be when he introduced him. You even beat him in a fight in MIDGAR... that is pathetic. It's clearly just to please fanboys who want a sephiroth battle instead of making sure they have a threatening villain. Beating the villain in the first game of a trilogy is NOT the way to make him seem like a threat. Obviously.
Sure, it has some of the OG's old charm at some points, but when your main threat in an rpg seems like a wussy edgelord.... what is there to look forward to? Why do I care about a climax with that guy, how could I possibly be pumped to beat someone who is idiotic who I beat multiple times? Seems like people look past that because "CHILDHOOD", I'm so sick of that. That's why we get so many video game remakes and sequels and movie remakes and sequels instead of cool fresh ideas because you people that can't let go of your damn "things were simpler when I was a kid" crap, you just buy what you're already familiar with. Hollywood and game designers are always blamed for it but honestly the consumers are to blame.
FF7 OG was great. I didn't ask for a remake but was happy that new players might get to see it again in a new form. This isn't it again in a new form: this is it torn apart into three, filling the parts with bloated filler, and then rewriting the story to be idiotic. It's a shame.
30 hours in and it's f*cking crazy. I am just blown away. Everything. Just... f*cking crazy man. This is how you make a game.
I've just got through the Desert Prison and I am blown away so far. The fight with Dyne and the aftermath hit me so hard.
I unfortunately have not been able to tune in live because I wanted to preserve my own play through, and I haven’t even been able to start the game yet.
Max, it comes as no surprise to me that you’ve managed to further infect me with your enthusiasm for all things FF7.
You’ve managed to help me discover a love for the franchise(FF7) that can only be compared to my equally as influenced resurgence of love for the FGC that you brought upon more than 10 years ago.
I can’t wait to play this game and can’t wait to tune into your VODs to watch the play through. Thanks for this mid-game review.
For me, Remake and Rebirth have one of my favourites Action RPG combat systems ever. I loved it so much that I even made a Tifa cosplay in Nioh 2 using the fists weapon, just for how cool her playstyle is 😂
P.S.: Vanillaware = instant buy, for me ❤
For the first time in my life, I had massive expectations for a release and they somehow exceeded them all at pretty much every turn.
I couldn't have said it better. This game is an absolute masterpiece. It pulls emotions out of me I didn't eve know I have. It's invredible what these devs have created here.
I played the original when I was 16 at release and it became really important to me loved it ever since. I feel genuinely lucky to be playing this, something very special about being there in 1997 and here now with Rebirth. It’s incredible.
I look like an idiot the whole time I'm playing because I can not stop smiling. FF7 is so special to me and you can tell it's special to the development team. What an amazing game.
This game is what I always thought games would be starting in the PS3 gen. Bigger, more cinematic, more polished gameplay. Instead, everything got chopped up, and come the PS4 gen, things were being sold for parts. Then that became the norm. Games just felt watered down, but I always knew they could be so much more. Rebirth realizes this. It's a game from the PS2 Era with modern game design and technology. That's what makes it so incredible. You have the NPCs with personality, different areas are all distinct, the gameplay feels great, and it's disturbingly long. It took me 40 hours to beat, and I was ignoring most of the side content because I wanted to beat it before the internet could spoil anything.
This game proves that you can make a full, content complete, game with an expansive world in the modern day. It deserves 100% of the praise it's been getting. I'm still working my way through the side content, and I have no doubt I'm in for another 100 hours. And I can't wait.
What use to be still images and polygons in OG 7 are now full blown towns/landscapes etc. I never could of imagined it would look the way it does, I love this game soo much♥
It's beyond what I ever imagined. The love poured into this is astounding and I appreciate the devs. It's already a perfect game but then the nostalgia elevates it to something else entirely. Pure joy
I haven’t been this addicted to exploring a game since Horizon: Forbidden West! Which makes sense since Hamaguchi is a die hard fan of those games.
@9:50 I'm at 92 hours into the game and still have 2 chapters left. I also just unlocked the "tiny boat bronco" and was immediately met with the option to go and explore new areas AND revisit previously explored areas. I've got another 20 to 30 hours left, with everything that just opened up + the last 2 chapters....so that 100 to 150 hour presumptive playtime is very broad but it's within the actual range of what to expect for total playtime.
I was amazed by all the exploration in the tiny bronco! Loved loved loved it!
FF 7 The Rebirth of Mini Games and 10 hours of plot.
Rebirth gets the benefit of having a lot of the core combat, ui design, level design concepts, and main character models and rigging complete, and they can focus on iterating on a good amount of content. Part 3 is going to be even bigger since they're working on the same type of game but making it even more expansive.
I am waiting for the pc version, so I'm not gonna see it to the end with the ps5 players, but I'd imagine they'll roll over quite a lot of content from this game into the next.
Im 20H in right now and I have only 2 bad things to say so far :
- In performance mode, sometimes the game look really bad with horrible texture and blurry effects due to AI upscale
- It's great that made those big open world areas, but oh my god they are empty, there is literally no point exploring it unless for side quests, no chests, no materias, nothing
My tear yup moment with the music happened in the Terror of the Deep fight in Under Junon. When they weaved in the Wutai/Yuffie theme in the fight music I was taken away
I love FFXVI but what I don't like about it are the side quests. Funnily enough in Rebirth, the side quests shines. Loving it so far, especially the mini games like Queen's Blood.
FF16 is a masterpiece If you skip every side quest…. The side quests were so boring, so pointless, and literally didn’t add anything worthwhile…. The weapon upgrades weren’t anything special, the world building wasn’t fun and I felt wasn’t worth a 20+ minute fetch quest each time…. But the main story was phenomenal. The extra hunts were cool but not really worth doing imo bc after beating them all nothing really was that memorable.. extra hunts need to be God of war epic.
The game is absolutely incredible! I can't wait for part 3. I just got to Gongaga. I am so looking forward to seeing what happens there.
Oh, man. The last cutscene before Gongaga chapter ends is just CRAZY! Crazy good, that is😊
Already 40 hours in and goddamn its amazing
At 70 and it really only gets better. This game is unreal
@@ISoundMasterBlasterIi am so hype to continue playing man. The boss fights are a masterpiece
@@lottcrosby666346 hours in, I would say this: is a masterpiece and a great way to move forward the franchise and I say this as not a fan of remake but I am genuinely loving Rebirth and the gameplay loop (I took forever to finish remake because of how uninterested I was in the gameplay loop and on my view some very weird padding), but here I am just having fun constantly and is great (between great minigames and amazing unexpected moments).
@@Siul_987yeah I agree mostly. It improves on everything from remake. I actually can’t believe it
Same here and I feel like I barely have scratched the surface with this game it’s massive I’m 46 hours in and I just reached chapter 7 last night I swear each chapter just keeps delivering this game is amazing it’s truly magical what square enix made 🥹
I got a tattoo of cloud on my arm after I had played remake. Beacouse I was blown away. I got a PlayStation and ff7 as a Christmas gift when I was 8years old. And to be able to experience a remake was huge. Then THIS came out and thought that I was sent to heaven ❤️
I love this game so much.. this is probably my game of the decade…
Same & the crazy thing is it's not even all that close.
Unicorn Overlord is FIIIIIIIRRREEEEEE. Bless you for the plug Max.
So much love and care were put into this.
Whoever cast the VA for the goodest boi Red 13, needs a raise and i havent got to Cosmo Canyon yet.
No. His kid Voice is Atrocious
@damienkun8786 can confirm, that was a terrible direction to go
I literally teared up playing today from sheer joy. Hasn’t happened in gaming in so so long. This has been a dream come true for many of fans. I’m watching a couple hrs of your vod every night as well lol
Why would you spoil yourself watching others play ahead of time?
@@justindza I’m not spoiling myself lol. I only watch what I’ve already done
I just beat and I honestly cried about how good this game was 10/10 for sure and so much replayability
As soon as i hear ff7 music i am already tearing up not to mention seeing the world and seeing how alive all the characters are expanded on, i dont even care about where the story takes us i am just here for the ride i am with the characters the story is just the journey we go together.
Just finished the game, no spoilers ahead. I think this is the best FF I have ever played since the OG 7
I’m not done with the game (Ch.12) and definitely think that!
What I really like is that there's actually MORE incentive to play some of the minigames, like Queens Blood has a backstory, the protorelic/Captain battles have stories. It's a great way to get people invested in the content, which is great since a lot of work has gone into this
I just finished the game, what a wild ride, I am emotionally exhausted.
How the game takes 200 plus hours to finish everything
I guess if you rushed to finish the game than only 35 to 50 hrs
what did you think of the ending?
The ending is mentally straining right not looking forward to going back to the last chapter in hard mode lol that ending was dogshit. Not enough to ruin the game overall at least
@@clarityreunitedI think it was bit much, they could have cut out several of the Sephiroth fights and it would have been much cleaner. We'll see how Cloud's delusional state plays out in part 3.
just finished the game after 70+ hours and yea it really did maintain that quality. i did less and less side stuff not because it wasn't interesting but because i just wanted to get to the next step
tho the real hurdle is there are spots in cosmo i have no idea how to get to XD
def excited to go back and clear sidequests, get the intel i missed and so on and so on, had a blast the whole way through!
I think part of what makes doing the side stuff so fun still is the writing quality. You get lore, charming character moments, emotional storytelling, and just genuinely funny stuff. The world is vibrant in every sense of the word.
I just got my platinum trophy last night, 160 hours, and like
Combat is 10/10
Characterization is 9.5/10
'Dungeon' design is 8/10
World design is 9/10
Side quests are 8.5/10
Main story, including changes, is 9/10
Music is 10/10
If I give remake an 8.5 this gets an easy 9, maybe even 9.5
Things I have gripes with:
Materia diversity/combos available. Nothing yet gives me the feeling of linking three deathblows with added cut, HP restore and Counter each. Also even after beating hard mode and the brutal VR challenges a lot of materia is still limited in quantity which seems odd.
The last two chapters feel a little rushed pacing-wise.
Cloud feels a ~little~ too floaty. It makes sense for why he is like this but it's reminiscent of KH3
Can't redo a Barrett mini game once you get the score without redoing the whole chapter.
Skip will often skip until the next time you control the characters vs a single cutscene. Playing all the dates made this a little annoying but it's not a huge deal. The game should have a cutscene viewer tbh.
There's a chocobo minigame I had to cheese because the tolerance for success is way too narrow (third minigame in Cosmo Canyon)
When replaying on hard mode I don't need to cinematically walk through areas. Looking at you flashback Cloud, holding your leg, making this take forever.
Seeing Max turn into a little kid again in this review is absolutely Beautiful!
I am halfway. And i can't wait to replay it. I never said that about a game in decades!
I just made it to the Shinra facility, still using default weapons, since every weapons has a unique upgrade path and I prefer the original weapons.
there's no problem using only the main weapons, but you should at least try to unlock the special skills from each weapons. they add so much to the combat.
This is a MASTER PIECE!!
My jaw is on the floor. I don't blink, and my heart is racing so much that it's hard to go to bed! Hahaha it's a drug and I'm addicted to it. I loved how long they took to give me the open world map hahaha beautiful, just absolutely beautiful. Game of the year!
What I don't like so far are Chadley/MAI talking too much lol.
@@ASSEMBLOTRON MAI is more annoying when fighting and she is still talking lol
We're not getting off this train!!! Thanks Max!
Glad I’m not the only one having a transcendental experience. Anyone else feeling so connected to all theses characters like hours after you put the game down?
The fact that they were able to pull this off just blows my mind. This is more than i think anyone would imagine an ff7 remake to look like. The way they have recreated and reworked some of the scenes like the junon parade and just the way yuffie joins the party and that moment on the beach in Costa del Sol after the boss there is simply magical. The amount of times i have stopped just to stare at how beautiful this game is and wonder how its even possible that it exists..man im gonna cry 🥲
I just started chapter 5 and I’m not even halfway through the game. I’m completing everything within the areas in the chapters and this is just been an absolutely magical experience. This is a massive game with a lot to offer and I’m really enjoying it. I will say a minor criticism I have is why couldn’t we continue our game save from FF7 Remake and still have the weapons and progress that we made and just continue that progress into Rebirth?
I loved the midgar section of the original game but always wished it was longer and I could explore it more. The high technology with slums. Shinra company. Hojo and the experiments. The main tower.
That’s what I remember most and it was so iconic that the front cover of the cd case. I enjoyed the open world , too, but midgar was such a cool city.
I’ve just started remake and it’s a joy to see it look so good. Though, I’m not going to get the exploration I wanted, it seems.
I was disappointed we never got to explore the actual city of midgar and not just the slums. We get CGI of it and it looked interesting.
Minor correction: The fact that the lighting changes to different times of day suggest that none of it is baked (cooking the lights into a static result). Dynamic lighting is more costly (performance wise) to the system while also making it harder to tune to all the possible lighting combinations a player might run into. So while there are a few spots where it's not amazing, the fact that it's mostly amazing is pretty amazing.
Uh but the lighting doesn’t actively change while you’re in the area iirc, right? Its based on story points. It could still be prebaked.
@@MF-wf5ww oh yeah maybe. I haven't seen it change before my eyes. Maybe they have a few different bakes for each zone. Either way, there will still be portions in between zones that need good transitions, and I think that's where we see the biggest issues
Square got their mojo back with the FF7 Remake project. They haven’t had it for a long time and it’s so wonderful to see them come back to form. Rebirth is one of the most incredible games ever made. I have a lot of nitpicks with it but damn it’s so chock full of content and I enjoy nearly all of it. The love and care with which this was crafted is unparalleled.