Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Wants You to (Re)play Differently
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Please consider trying Hard Mode.
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In rebirth hard mode is all about use of synergy commands for example when a enemy is staggered use cloud and yuffie synergy which increases stagger time while at the same time tifa is using the unbridle attacks to increase the stagger percentage if she has atb assist then she will also give 1 atb charge to cloud and yuffie which can be followed up with strong attacks.
Another example don’t waste mp use unlimited mp synergy then use the spells you will be amazed to see that you will end up killing the boss without using any mp.
And always increase the limit level by 1 before you stagger an enemy and make sure that the characters whose limit you want to use initiates the stagger.
Also disempower with a character just before staggering which helps a lot in fights when you don’t have tifa in your team
Pinning this to see if anyone else has more useful/helpful tips for Rebirth's Hard Mode. Thanks for sharing!
Start hard mode last night a good one I have for the ch.1 boss. Need to have a double helix in your pocket after the first trine when he goes up for a second one. Call out to remake when the guard scorpion double fires tail laser in hard mode. Also cloud, yuffie, red 13 has been my go to party. Yuffie covers all your elements without having to use mp saving that for debuffing bosses really since you can heal and both with command materia. barret is also very nice with auto protect and auto regen
I’m looking for advice on how to deal with those Moss Grown Adamantoise mini bosses. I can’t find out a strategy to beat it consistently!
Also use stop when you stagger which will freeze the stagger bar
Okay so my tips so far are mostly what I did in remake:
- knowing enemy weaknesses is key, once you know it, equip as many party members with elemental as you can, and have one party member with synergy materia. Using a character that uses lots of actions like Tifa, synergy will have a spare party member casting the weakness every time you use the ATB.
- speaking of ATB, ATB assist, boost, and all that stuff is so useful. Corsair’s compass from the pirate questline is great to have for a character to gain 3 ATB segments for a short time.
- Prayer is your friend, when applicable I try to have it on every party member to save me in tight spots.
- Red XIII is full of party buffs in vengeance mode. Increasing ATB, healing, and casting haste on the whole party
- I think other tips are covered but that’s what I have to add for now!
In FFX, any character can hit a flying monster with a physical attack. It's just that they have a high evasion and in the beginning of the game Wakka is the only one with enough accuracy to hit them consistency.
its that way in most of the FF's , cus it was all turn based xD
@@DekkarJrIn 7 you could not hit airborne enemies with melee attacks, you needed the Long Range materia equipped for that.
i think barrett was the only one who can hit airborne enemies? could be remembering wrong tho as I remember I couldn't hit Safer Sephiroth while he's floating high. @@CidGuerreiro1234
@@Saber_Nico Barret and Vincent.
@@CidGuerreiro1234 yuffie too actually, cause she's throwing ninja stars for her attacks
I’m so glad you made this video. I played through FF7Remake’s hard mode for the platinum. At first, I was really upset I had to play through it twice but the second time through was an experience that I STILL think about as being one of the most rewarding gaming experiences I have ever had. You hit the nail on the head why it sticks out to me so much
Glad to hear this. Love the pfp as well. Looks like we both have had interesting weeks 🥲
I really enjoyed this video. The fact you gone into all the details made me even more hyped to start hard mode on Rebirth, (also played Remake on hard mode twice). You got yourself a new subscriber.
Thank you for the kind words and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
@@wizcatcheslightning No worries can’t wait for more FF related content.
@@nsgxd8343 I’ll eventually have that big one I alluded to finished 🤞
MY dad is a left-handed twin.
I was not expecting this 😯
Im a left handed twin too lol
I know a left-handed twink.
There's not much out there that's more satisfying than completing a good old-fashioned JRPG hard mode playthrough. Also, FFXII's Gambit system does need to make a comeback!
Awesome video as always, Wiz!
Thanks GG 😎👉👉
Also: Tidus, like Cloud and Squall before him, and Lightning after him, has a weather phenomenon derived name. I know there's more going on with his name in Japanese. But in English: It's the word Tide, with a latin twist.
So his name is Tide-us. Not Teedus.
I thought it come from tiida which means sun, and I'm sure I've heard it pronounced as tee-dus in spin-off games
@@cantdestroyher7245 his Japanese name is tiida which is an Okinawan word.
@@cantdestroyher7245 Yes the official name is Teedus. I recognize the council made a decision, but it's a stupid-ass decision so I choose to ignore it. (To borrow from Nick Fury).
As I said "I know there's more going on with the name in Japanese," but still if you look at it from the English point of view - and the setting of the game - then "Tide" makes a lot of sense, when you put the game into a long line of other games with weather style names.
@@TheAurgelmir Why would we look at it from the English point of view when the game is developed by a Japanese company and its setting is heavily inspired by south east asian culture?
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT they literally say his name in Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia😊
For me, a kid growing up in the 90's playing FF7 in elementary school ; hard mode was when the real game started for me.
Right?
Were you high in high school? There was no hard mode back in the 90s. Just one mode. Normal and that’s all you needed.
@@asu5632 too easy to break, not challenging enough
@@asu5632 i think what icyblue878 is trying to say is the super bosses for him her counts as the hard mode for them. while i do not necessarily agree it counts as a hard mode i get why they would count it that way.
@@supersaiyaman11589I took it to mean either that the definitive experience didn’t start until almost thirty years into their FFVII love affair, or that the International release of the original, with its difficulty tweaks, counts as “hard mode”.
Just want to say this video was written really well ... I'm not even interested in playing hard mode (have way too many other things to do) but it made me think more about it and appreciate the effort of the developers.
Good to have well thought out analytical content in the video game space too!
Hey thanks a bunch. I’m glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for taking the time to make a heartfelt comment
Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth aren't turn-based. Sure, they may have elements found in a turn-based game, but that doesn't make them so. To put it very simply, turn-based games have turns, which are shared between you and your opponent, creating this straightforward "I perform an action, then you perform an action" gameplay style. That's why they're called "turn-based." Think Chess, which is a turn-based game. Perhaps the most popular one. In these Final Fantasy VII games, and several other Final Fantasy games, you can issue commands or initiate moves without waiting for your opponent to dealing theirs, or vice versa. Unlike in turn-based games, you're free to attack at any point, acting as much or as little as your want. But the enemy will not wait for you. What the new Final Fantasy VII games do is bring fast-paced elements typically seen in action games, but retain some of the strategic ones seen in turn-based games. For instance, elemental weaknesses. But the latter elements aren't unique to turn-based games, nor are the former unique to action games. Combining these elements wouldn't suddenly make the games a "hybrid" of turn-based and action. In reality, they just have elements one would find in both types of games. But as I said before, these elements aren't unique to these types of games. They don't define these games. They're just conventions.
I'm not sure why people today so loosely throw around terms and descriptors that already have strong meanings. I swear, this strange practice has likely led many to believe Horizon Zero Dawn is an RPG, for instance , when it very well isn't one. It supposedly has elements typically seen in an RPG, like looting or whatever, but that doesn't make it so. It's just a game with a few RPG elements. RPG stands for Role-playing game. Simply put, an RPG has characters acting in the game's established roles or classes, or the player must build them according to their class or base build or attributes. Think Healer or Tank or Enfeebler or Thief. There's more to it than that, of course, but most Final Fantasy games have presented themselves this way. People today have seemingly tried to twist the descriptor "RPG" into meaning, “you play as a videogame character, thus you're role-playing as them.” How ridiculous. That would make a vast majority of games an RPG, even when they're clearly not. You've done something similar with turn-based. Stop. "Turn-based" already has a meaning. Which is: a game that's played in a rotation or an exchanging of turns. Quite simple.
Before I wrap this up, I have to say that I've heard several ridiculous things said about Final Fantasy XIII over the years, but never have I heard anyone claim its Paradigm system is a "needlessly complicated, watered down version of the Materia system." An absolutely ridiculous observation, yes, but quite unique. I'll give you that. I'm definitely clipping the entire Final Fantasy XIII section of your video and showing it off to the game's fans, just to see their reaction. They know the system better than anyone, especially you. I might show it to Final Fantasy VII fans, too. Most of them will surely have the same reaction I did. Anyway, I imagine your strange observation stems from your misunderstanding of both the Paradigm and Materia systems, or just one of them. Though I'm not sure how that's possible, as both are quite easy to understand. If not out of sheer ignorance, perhaps you were purposefully misrepresenting either system just to give your weak points some validity. A common tactic used by those trying to push something false, rather than speak truthfully. Look, I know for sure why you said what you said. And you do, too. That was ridiculous move on your part. The many other nonsensical observations you made I let slide, but this one was hard to ignore. Its ridiculousness is beyond measure. The truth is, the Paradigm system and the Materia system share little in common. I recommend you play the games first before commenting on them. Or do I need to explain their systems to you, if you already have? Please. I can't believe this oddity is happening. These games have existed for a long time. You should know them well by now.
Name a system other than the Paradigm System that’s easy to excel at but takes 30 hours to “learn”. Easy to Master, long time commitment to learn = needlessly watered down. It wants to be the Materia System by giving you the illusion of choice and paradigm combinations. That’s why I said what I said. Didn’t realize I would need a college thesis to stick in a video not about any of the less desirable qualities of FF13’s battle system :p
I played Remake hard mode and indeed gained a whole new respect for combat. Just finished Rebirth a couple days ago and need to clean up some side quests ... then onto hard mode. I am dreading a few battles.
Cool video. Well written. Nice blast from the past. Good music choices too.
Thank you for all of the feedback. I’m glad you liked it!
1/10 people are left handed
“Less than one tenth of the player base, I wonder how many of those players were left handed”
It’s like 10 percent inception….. or just compound statistics… but I’m not here for that. Inception😂.
You get it 😉🤚
I don’t think I’ve done this with any other game in recent memory, but I’ve beaten the base game 4x and the intermission dlc 3x easily totaling 40hrs with each play through and I never gotten sick with it. I grow to love not only the combat more and more but I look forward to the story set pieces time and time again. I’m glad there’s others like you out there that recognizes the complexity and sense of reward FF7 Remake/Rebirth’s battle system. Awesome work on the video!
I’m looking forward to Rebirth’s Hard mode next!
Thanks for watching and even more thanks for the heartfelt comment!
I agree! I heard some people complaining about how much work it takes to unlock the Genji Armor. You literally have to complete almost everything in the base game. But the beautiful thing is that the armor is really designed for a hard mode playthrough, just like maxed out materia. It’s amazing how when you replay the game on hard mode you do so with a new set of skills, abilities, knowledge and a few items ;). It’s so beautifully rewarding ❤
Put a lot of work into hard mode lmao omg thats funny. If making the enemies ho spounges while also taking away a vital option and removing the ability to restore ur mana is work then yes i most certainly said fuck that. Id only one was taken fine i can compensate but this game was supposed to be diverse and have the players create various builds and explore options....on hard mode u have one option and one build.....not very fun imo
I agree. Hard mode was never something interesting. It does not change the game mechanics in any way just nerfs your ability to use them. Something like honor mode in BG3 is way better since the AI actually becomes smarter and has new actions.
Bro literally explained the whole franchise combat to make us play hardmode 😂😂😂😂,
Just finished hard mode - I got wrecked more times than I would like to admit by the first side quest that you have the option of doing over again. then wrecked by midgardsormr, wrecked by Gi Nattak more than all the previous fights combined and I honestly loved it. Yes, it was frustrating although I am glad that the devs really forced players' hands to learn each character, synergy skill, the ideal order of use of when to implement each skill and when to properly. It's wild that for some reason critics said FFVIIR was too easy but also being left handed and finally beating Weiss, I saw that barely anyone (out of the total public purchasers of the game) completed that fight with only a slightly higher number actually going through hard mode. Hard mode is canon to me, that is where the game actually begins (- that's just my 0.02 -), and it I feel like it should be earned. As for rebirth, I'm happy that there is a grinding element, familiarizing yourself with all the variations of party lay outs, materia customization and abilities that the devs have layered on top of each other extremely well. There are life long fans of the OG FFVII and I really hope that this game has at least half the staying power of the OG game. I would guess that most of the people in the comments could talk about the good and well... some bad* about the game for hours and I hope others had as much fun as I did. Thanks for the video, you nailed it.
IM A LEFT HANDED TWIN (and a gemini, haha)! Hello Brother!!!
Brother or Sister?
Not to get too astrological here, but Gemini is my moon sign (if you know anything about that haha)!
Sister. Fraternal :p
Teruki Endo, good to have that name. He designed possibly my favorite combat system ever, due in part to the aforementioned unique feel of every character, as well as how each one has utility.
Yeah so he’s a huge factor involved in the active battle system, and then Nomura came in and said “this is awesome, but let’s make sure we stick to our series’ roots” and boom, that’s the ff7r battle system. It’s awesome
I'll have to pass on playing hard mode. The no item's rule is kinda a deal breaker for me, since remakes normal mode is already challenging enough for me. I'm currently replaying it now to get ready for when it eventually releases on pc.
I like to believe I'm a little better with playing as cloud (favorite playstyle) and barret (easiest for me to understand how to use), but i completely suck with tifa so i normally don't use her unless im forced to, and kinda the same with aerith. Hell I just found out from my roommate that you can fight normal bahamut in the simulator (the only one i knew about was the one you fight before sephiroth) but that's mainly because I never made it pass leviathan so i just left it alone. Which kinda shows how bad i am at the game.😅 But I know it's a me issue, mainly because i can't really adapt and customize well with the materia system.
I feel like I'm in a similar boat as you LOL. Like I was able to enjoy the hard mode for the remake, don't get me wrong. But sometimes it gets so complicated, and it can be an even BIGGER pain looking at so many differing opinions on the internet and still not making things "work" with certain builds, if that makes sense? While I don't necessarily have any pointers, I am trying to get into the habit of getting into active playing with the shortcuts instead of relying on the command menu. Maybe that might help you, as well?
I played and completed Remake in Hard Mode, but I don't have high hopes on completing Rebirth in hard mode. My main problem with hard mode in Remake is that you basically have to know before the battle begins, all that you have to do to defeat the boss, heck you even have to know how to defeat the regular mobs before you even fight them. I hated I had to basically change my setup every 5 minutes because the new mob doesn't respond to my current setup, I even have to have specific setups for each particular boss, otherwise, my characters would die easily and also, I basically had to babysit all characters I wasn't actively controlling, because they either just attacked like crazy or defended like crazy or run towards the boss as if they were su1c1d3 bombers. So, yeah, in theory, in Remake, they wanted you to understand the mechanics so good, to the point you basically dream about them, you basically had memorized how a particular enemy works, what are their weakneses, what are their strengths, the same goes for your characters and, on top of that, if you are not top level (50 in Remake, 70 in Rebirth), you are going to be basically in disadvantage from the start, and also, you have to have all materias maxed or you are busted. Have the same setup for Hard Mode and play in Normal mode, and the game is a joke for how easy it is, try the same in Hard Mode, it will be a miracle you even manage to finish the first boss. Even worst, you can have the perfect setup for a particular boss, but the boss suddenly decided to mix things up and your not actively controlled characters decided that they want to meet their creator and you have to restart the battle. Yes, even in Remake, some bosses on Hard Mode are still a joke, you basically just spam a particular -ra or -aga magic and is pressured and can't do anything, but others, you can have the perfect setup and preassure just means, they got mad and are going to spam damage to whoever you are controlling at the moment and, if you dare to change the active character, they will turn in less than a micro second and start spamming you for preassuring (Sephiroth 3rd stage tends to do that until you stagger him). Sorry, but I rather complete Contra on NES without loosing a single life or passing Megaman 2 on NES without loosing a single bar of damage on any battle (even boss battles) than doing this. I mean, your suggested setup for playing hard mode will most likely make the first boss go longer than it should, and trust me, I can do that battle in 4 minutes or less with a very different setup and not casting a single healing spell, heck probably I don't even have healing or resurrecting materias for that boss, but the moment the boss ends, I need to make a different setup because battles ahead get me more damage than the damage I can make. So, I understand why very few people complete the game in Hard Mode, because is not a challenge of surviving, it's a challenge of how to mix setups to prevent a particular enemy to act or to act as little as possible, and since each boss is different, you have to know beforehand what you need to do, not adapt as the situation happens, which is what a real Hard mode does.
I did Remakes hard mode up to like ch 17 before I lost interest...im almost finished the base game in Rebirth but prolly not gonna do the hm bc its a much longer game than remake w/ less chapters and I feel like the mp management thing will add a layer of sweatiness that my mind just isnt ready for atm😂
Honestly, I tried to "100%" my initial run of rebirth. Most of the game was not fun for me due to the minigames BEFORE reaching the end of the story, but now that I've finally finished a bulk of them (at +140 hours), I'm pretty excited to invest in the hard mode.
@@xRoycex yea im approaching the end of my 1st playthrough and ive been thinking to adopt a similar strategy...slowly go thru and finish the minigames while getting to max lvl ans leveling materia, and that might make me mentally prepared for hm
One time I thought i left the game on pause, but i just left it on the action choice menu. And when i came back, it was aerith being flown back by the hell house and cloud standing in the middle watching as it happened, REALLY SLOWLY.
Jesus Christ I barely beat up that fish in rebirth trying to save Yuffie. I’m a hulk smash kind of player especially when it comes to action packed games. Don’t like “souls” type of gameplay it’s goes against my religion
FF7R games can be anti Souls format if you want them to. I just always found the battle strategy elements to be somewhat lacking throughout the series and I think FF7R does an excellent job of addressing that
Left handed gang 🗣️
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I'm on the last chapter of remakes hard mode
Hard mode in remake made me realize how much of a "cheat" items are, so much so than i'm playing rebirth already without touching them.
its not a cheat normal is meant for those people that want to play the game with normal reasonable difficulty so items are available. hard mode is for those that want a way better challenge so items are not available as it would make hard mode too easy. not everyone has the skill to play on hard mode or wants to the first time. that bing said did you play remake as well what did you think of the first game in the series of 3
Funny thing is I blasted through the story of remake on release because it was “the cool remake of that game my dad would play over and over back to back when he was my age” picked it back up maybe 2 months before rebirth released, did a thorough playthrough, preordered rebirth, and now I’m working on platinum. I could have beat hard mode already but I want pride and joy first. I am so close
However I do have to say, hard mode really does make you play different. Can’t just stay as cloud and spam square. You have to switch between party members, exploit weaknesses, learn what each party member adds to your arsenal
butttttt i dont wanna use tifa >:3 I wanna try some insane combo like red XIII and Cait Sith xD
Tifa, Cait Sith, and Red XIII will be busted as long as the enemy isn’t too out of reach
@@wizcatcheslightning I just plan to spam stardust ray xD
very cool video! i platinumed remake in 2 weeks and went from "this combat is ok" to "this combat is phenomenal" when i did hard mode. just did chapter 1 of rebirth on hard mode at lvl 50 and realised i need to go back and finish gilgamesh and leveling before i challenge the remaining chapters after trine did more damage than i had HP. i also didnt know the weapon desinger from MHW worked on FF7R, but looking at it, it makes so much sense. subbed to see more!
Glad you liked it and thanks for the comment! Regarding the battle system changing: right?? It’s like night and day!
I breezed through hard mode in remake en route to the platinum. Midgar snake in rebirth on hard mode was a rude awakening. It wiped the floor with me multiple times until I leveled up to 66 (from 52) and even then, only a party of Cloud, Red XIII and Barret was able to withstand the onslaught
It’s pretty easy to level up everyone from levels 50 to 70 before entering hard mode. You just need the EXP Up Materia, the harder Chadley Trials, and about 3-4 hours to get everyone there.
there is literally no point in playing Hard Mode unless you just wanna brag about having a 100% save file. your progress doesn't carry over to the next game, so literally a waste of time.
My guy just made a video with a title emphasizing ff7 rebirth, and my guy just went through almost all ff games and barely Even mentioned rebirth... 😂
I have to say you did a great job at showcasing this man. Great job. I still cant get to like the perfect block mechanic which seems to be the future of FF games. It seems 16 spear head the game play style and FF7 Rebirth kick up a notch by making to the point you can block all attacks if you are quick enough with the dodge. Great Vid
Thanks for watching as well as sharing your insight. And thank you for the feedback!
I enjoyed most of the changes that hard mode offered, but you can't deny that no items is a deal breaker for most people. And you can't really justify taking them away either since the game isn't any less hard even with items. It's a layer of fake difficulty that takes what would be an enjoyable challenge and turns it into an unenjoyable slog.
Imagine you're playing with a rubix cube. On normal and below let's say that this rubix cube is a standard 3×3 cube. Then you get to hardmode and you're given a 6×6 cube. It's more difficult to solve, but you're looking forward to the challenge. The problem with remake's and rebirth's hard mode is that it takes that 6×6 cube, chucks it into a box filled with arctic cold water and will only let you play with it by plunging your hands into that box to solve the cube. It's completely unreasonable. It doesn't make solving the cube any harder, it just makes it painful and not fun!
Tldr people want to play hard mode, but don't because the restrictions are unreasonable.
On the contrary, I think no items is kind of the point. It’s a restriction that compels the player to strategize the materia. Failure requires you to get introspective. And if you’re frustrated enough, you will eventually strategize a successful hard mode playthrough. That’s part of the fun to me. Are you having a hard time in hard mode? Rethink your strategy. Success after repeated failures makes you realize that you had the tools to win just sitting there in your arsenal the entire time 😎
@@wizcatcheslightning the problem with that take is that by taking away items you're also making item related materia useless. Which in turn means there are now less materia strategies to utilize. It's like taking cheese off of a burger and telling me to be okay with it. If I'm making a burger I want to use condiments and toppings I like to make that burger taste better. Hard mode basically tells me that i can't put cheese on my cheese burger and that isn't right.
@@wizcatcheslightningyour wrong on every level taking away a player's items is inexcusable makes the item transmutation system irrelevant and banning items in a rpg is a idiotic way to increase the difficulty I put up with it in Remake cause I thought my progress would transfer over to the next game but Square hasn't learned anything since Remake thought Dynamic was a step in the right direction but same lazy uninspired square enix can't wait to be done with this garbage game so I can delete it
@@dustinvance243 if it were your first time playing hard mode, I could understand. I find that the item related materia take up my materia real estate, personally. I hate to say that I would ever take the cheeseless burger. But my hand has been forced in this hypothetical 😅
Plenty of quality of life improvements have been made to serve this itemless end. Lots of new accessories designed to act as hidden materia slots so you can make extra room for configurations that you want to try
@@axelwinchester4220 taking away the items is a restriction: can you handle the rule or not?
That’s completely false about the item transmutation system. If you fulfill that to its goal in a normal/dynamic playthrough, you can take your enhanced armor and accessories with you into a hard mode playthrough. I haven’t made it yet, but I’m willing to bet that the best items you’ll have available for a hard mode playthrough will have been transmuted from your previous playthrough.
I did beat remake on Hard Mode and got the platinum. My first Hard Mode run was not fun. It was a terrible experience. It almost made me hate the game. Soo much soo that after I got the platinum I swore I'd never play a game on hard if i didn't have to. The only reason I played it was because I like having my characters maxed out and square decided to lock skill points behind that mode. This was a decision that I vehemently detest to this day. I hate when games do this and Its unfortunate they're doing this with rebirth. I found it especially annoying in Remake because they turned hard mode into new game plus. The point of new game plus is to max out and play the game on its hardest mode (if u choose) so you can use all of your abilities at thier maximum without one shotting everything. You can't do this with the way hard mode was designed. It wasn't until I after beating the game on hard once that subsequent hard mode runs became more tolerable. (This is cause I my characters were maxed out as a result of beating the mode. Enemies didnt have enough health on normal after you're max level). Not being able to use magic during regular fights becuase of MP restrictions is still something I don't like but I deal with it it'll never forget having to leave my PS5 on for a few days during remakes final chapter. Sephiroth was tough and If i quit the game after dying to him you had to restart at the beginning on the chapter.
I plan on playing Rebirth on hard (again cause they locked skill points and items behind that mode) but it likely won't be for some time. (I'll be graduating college in a few months so my time to play games is very limited, Rebirth is a big game, and there are other games i want to play.) If I do beat Rebirth on hard Im dropping the difficulty down to Dynamic afterwards. That way i can enjoy the fruits of my labor without that MP restriction. They probably will do the same thing for the 3rd game but id appreciate square not locking things away behind hard and its there just to give people a challenge if they want it. Or just treat new gameplus the way most other games do. These are just ny 2 cents. Whatever the devs decide to do is up to them and I can choose to engage with it or not.
Square Enix was not playing when Hard Mode was first introduced in Remake. Rebirth is a whole lot of different games and strategies cuz if you are caught lacking, the game will beat you to bricks. Golly. Shows to go, Square still has it
Also, think a fusion of materia is already OP like fire/ice mixed into one?
Can you imagine if they brought back MASTER materia for part 3?
Not be able to use items turns me down, so I tried hard mode after finished the game and I hated it. Some really hard jRPGs like SMT Nocturne, Dragon Quest, didn't use these cheap tactics to make a game artificially hard.
I really enjoyed the gameplay of remake. But as a turn based player, the action in remake is taking the toll on me. I can finish the game on normal but hard mode gets truly tough on me.
My issue with hard mode is that playing in normal did not make me fully understand the nitty gritty details of the gameplay. Just mashing the attack and using the abilities when atb and mp are available are enough to do the job. No need to practice perfect timings, or familiarize barret's charge or tifa's unbridled strength.
But this is just me. I'm not suggesting that hard mode should be easier or normal mode should be harder. I'm leaving the hard mode to better players.
The problem with Red XIII is that, unlike every other character, the enemies stop hard focusing me when I control him. So I stopped using him :/ Even though I love the archetype. It's not fun if it can't be used.
I use the stagger time extension synergies and they feel like they do nothing in terms of actually extending the stagger. Unlimited MP is mostly useless to me too until I got Comet. I'm ATB locked, not MP. I always have MP. I think ATB should have been 3 bars by default and Refocus (and Remake's equivalent) should have opened it to 5.
I also really hate all the enemy moves that CAN'T MISS. Holy fuck.
Eh... Hard mode in both gemes really just feels like a VERY forced Dark Souls-esque experience. Most even miniboss abilities are one hits in(or several in succession, which happens ALL the time)... Through 8 chapters of Hard mode and I'm actually just annoyed. Not frustrated with the difficulty(which to be fair isn't actually THAT hard they just essentially made the mobs do anywhere between 500-1000% more damage almost utterly negating defense stats), but just annoyed that I'm forced to play the EXACT same way in every encounter. Either Cloud, Red, or Tifa as main, rest as buff/healer bots or magic damage. Wow, SO much fun!
It took the soul and freedom of choosing your party depending on your preferred characters in the harder content from the original and just shit all over it. Again. Plat'd the remake and I was hoping this would be a least a bit more lenient, but they actually pushed MORE into one build or you're f'd mentality. Oh well... Dragon's Dogma II is coming out soon so maybe I'll get the plat after I play a game that isn't just a mini-game fueled nightmare or a wannabe Dark Souls clone.
The inability to not use items is a bit overkill.
When an item costs the same ATB as a healing/resurrection spell, and the only items worth using are mist giga potions, phoenix downs, ethers (various grades), and elixirs, it’s not that terrible of a restriction. Healing spells counteract half of those items, if not outperform them. So then it boils down to resource management (you’re already doing this with items) and finding ways to use materia efficiently.
Cool informative video dude. Yet aside most won't STILL WONT complete hard mode. They're still complaining about mini games on easy smh
Glad you liked it! Yeah I’ve been seeing people saying Hard Mode is “too hard”. If that’s the case, figure out how to beat the challenge. You’re doing something wrong. Don’t cave at the first sign of resistance. Believe in yourself!
Oh believe me, I'm on hard mode getting my butt whooped but, no other FF platinum had me quit so not likely rebirth will.
@wizcatcheslightning every FF since part 6 iv platinum. I'm working on rebirth now fighting Roche at end chap11 . But not gonna lie rebirth is slightly difficult than previous installments. Do u agree?
@@PhyzEdPixelz haven’t been able to jump into it yet. I almost have my entire party on level 70, and I’m also leveling up materia as well as acquiring the Genji Armor to prepare for it all. Probably like a 2-3 hr commitment but I’ve been focused on making content 😅
@@wizcatcheslightning fair play. Keep it up in both angles
I don’t think you mentioned weapon ability Trade Off for Cloud and Barret which replenishes MP when you take damage. Regaining MP and HP after staggering enemies also helps a lot. Cushions at choco stops also replenish MP. Hard mode’s biggest challenge are the bosses as they do significant damage and the game punishes you for being reckless.
Yeah no. I platinum'd Remake. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze. It was a grind and simply NOT FUN. Nobody irl cares how good anyone is at video games, so worthless for bragging right too. Hard mode was a frustrating grind. I'd rather the game had some superbosses to take on in normal mode, not use Double Dipping to waste my time doing shit over again for a worthless digital trophy. It also gated the ability to complete your weapon skill trees, so I was compelled to play, and while challenge is great, and I did finish it, afterward I can say it violated the main number 1 rule, of what a game needs for me: Games need to be fun. HM was a grind, not fun, and killed any dopamine hit I'd otherwise get from finding items.
FF7 Remake’s hard mode is probably the best I’ve ever played. It’s not that they simply just made enemies damage sponges, taking your items away and making benches only refill health fundamentally changes how the game is played. You’re forced to use materia you ignored in the normal game, and completely changes your strategy. I’m still working on my first playthrough of Rebirth, but I guarantee you I will play it again on hard mode
I only didn't finish Remakes hard mode cause I didn't have a ps5. Got 99% of the way through, then intergrade came along. Then got it on Epic and got intergrade. By the time I unlocked hardmode I was totally burnt out at the prospect of a 4th playthrough. Rebirth is whooping my behind.
Hey, I’m left handed…but I ain’t no twin, bay-beeeeeeee
@thegammelier I knew you were a real one 😎
I enjoyed your video and writing style keep up the good work I look forward to seeing more of your content
Thanks for the view/comment/feedback!
I get EXTREMELY enraged when I get interrupted because I got tickled my a normal attack from a monster and lose all the MP and ATB bars that I tried to use, I will never take this combat and game seriously.
I strongly disagree. Hard mode all it does is greatly diminish your choices in how to approach the fight, by locking you with one way. Also, just because some work hard on something doesn't mean is good. Increasing enemy power without robbing the player of his or her small advantages would had be enough.
You forgot a catagory of people who have not got that hard trophy.
Me who have not finished the game on normal yet due to my life being on hard mode 😂.
But the first was a blast on hard so i will give it a go
i have spent days now just trying to beat materia keeper. it keeps one-shot killing cloud with that attack where he pins you down.
i give up.
it's too hard, and honestly i can't devote months of my life just to beat this, i will never have enough reflexes to perfect parry every single attack from the 1st boss in the game.
and ff7 is my fav game of all time, it hurts me that i will never get a platinum because rebirth just takes too long to get through the 10 million boss fights.
I have played, but never finished Remake Hard Mode, but all I had left was the final boss. I failed and promised I'd get back to it but never did.
As such, I know how hard Hell House can get, haha.
The padding sections of the chapters (e.g: Cait Sith section in chapter 11) makes playing on Hard a hassle I dread
Hard mode was an absolute blast. It took me a bit to get used to after beating it for the first time. But playing it a 2nd time in hard mode was rewarding as fk. Eventually... i stopped playing remake. And then rebirth came out. And then i realized i forgot how to play this game 😂😂😂
Question: if you’re a left handed twin, then is your twin also left handed? 🤔
Right handed 😅
I find it weird how many people are complaining about hard mode Rufus. Like we didn’t fight him in Remake.
Right? 😆
@@wizcatcheslightning chill video, bro. A lot of your commenters are absolute l u n a t i c s. Like they feel personally betrayed that they don’t like rebirth/you.
@@stevendouglas3781 thanks! You know what they say: if you got a few haters, find yourself 10 more.
But from what I’ve read, it resonated with more people than it didn’t in the comments. If someone wants to put the energy into making a thoughtless jab, 1) I’ll take the engagement, 2) it’s an opportunity for discussion, and 3) it could be a character development moment for them (but maybe not, ha ha)
@@wizcatcheslightning oh for sure. I mean, it’s just a Rebirth Hard Mode video lol. We all got what we clicked on.
I really like arguing, but it’s like these people are angry they didn’t like the vid as much as they wanted to. Like that’s immoral. Bizarre. But you’re def right about engagement.
I’ll jump off the soap box though. Heck House bit was funny. Have a good weekend, buddy. I subscribed.
@@stevendouglas3781 I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy a lil’ confrontation myself.
Hey well thanks! Hope you have a great weekend too 😎
I wish they would just do away with the "beat the game to unlock hard mode" concept. I'd rather just play the full experience from the start.
Hard mode on remake was all cake walk except hell house, hell house is by far the hardest boss on hard mode, i cannot wait to do hard mode rebirth though after playing a bit, im really not excited for that fort condor mini game again, especially on hard mode 😂😂😅😅😢😢
I got the Remake Platinum, I'm left handed and trans. I don't have Rebirth yet, I'm waiting for the complete collection after the third part comes out, but I will be getting that Platinum.
Completed hard mode and am left handed… hi
Welcome home 🤗
xenoblade 2 and 3 are two of my favorite games of all time.
ff7 remake and rebirth feel like xenoblade's combat systems cranked up to 11.
ff7 remake and rebirth are now two of my favorite games of all time.
rebirth hard mode makes Sekiro and all the other FromSoft games a cake walk, remake did the same. goes to show that Square don't fuck around when it comes to "HARD"
Ff rebirth endgame is so bad. The collesium literally recycles the same classified enemies, the brutal simulations have literally every annoying enemy in one stage and the best equipment is locked by stupid mini games. They put no effort in for the endgame at all.
Ha yes when i picked up hard mode and ended passing 3 hours fighting the first boss. I did finish the playthrough but i was on edge the whole time. Good times. Seriously was fun.
I absolutely do not play this game for the combat challenge.
It is literally the lowest priority to me.
The game to me is more like... experiencing a reading a book.
The only reason why I didn’t get platinum on ff7 remake was because of that stupid dress trophy after playing through it on normal and hard mode I was not about to play through it again for a damn dress one of the dumbest trophies ever
i tried the platinum for this, getting all the dresses killed that crusade, i have all trophies except for those ones. Such an annoying process made even worse by all the forced walking sections
Hard mode is where the game shines. I have the Remake Platinum trophy, it was a grind but i loved every moment of it. Learning the game mechanics and materia loadouts. It really forces you to think and plan ahead to exploit enemy weaknesses
For sure
Play differently as in smash my ps5 and tv from frustratingly unfair boss gauntlets?
It's not that bad bruh
@@bravobird9435i nearly broke a controller just getting that stupid 7* hotel trophy. I didnt even feel good after getting that trophy. I was just peed off. Im prob just going to play normal mode on 3rd game then leave it at that.
@@platterbuss2328 it's not that deep man if you're wanting to break a $500 system or a $70 controller you oughta pick up a different game
not got rebirth yet as I'm a PC gamer but the new game plus of remake was way way way better then the original version of the game. the original version of the game was made way too easy hard mode you had to think about the fights you would take and your set ups for said fights
Nah bro Aerith is best girl
You misspelled Tifa ;p
When i decided to try hard on remake i kept getting stomped on air buster but i eventually beat it. Poor cloud kept getting big bomered
lol any real gamer would tell you normal mode is easy mode…. Hard mode is where the game really starts and where you test your decision making skills.
The first play through was a joke
Excellent video. Spoiler warning, Rebirth is the greatest video game ever made
Hard Mode is where the game has always shined.
Get to really flush out the mechanisms and learning the boss mechanics as if it were a FromSoft game.
The reason why most people don’t beat games on hard is because 99.9% of people only play video games for fun. The most important aspect of a video game is fun for the people that find a challenge to be fun they’re going to play it on hard. It’s the same reason why people look at gamers funny when they say they beat a game on hard, because they don’t care that you did it and Will laugh at you behind your back saying this guy thinks he’s special because he meet a game on hard.
I guess I probably should have shared in the video that normal mode feels like baby’s first adventure to me. Hard Mode introduces different enemy mechanics and kind of just makes the game nearly unrecognizable to its normal mode. I want to feel challenged. I don’t want to skate through a game. Maybe that boils down to life experience. It’s not something I’m trying to use as a status symbol. And I realize hard mode is not for everyone.
My algo has been picking up growing creators lately and I love it. Vids like these, made with passion and excitement are why I love youtube.
Great video, enjoyed the depth and the humour :D
Hey well thanks a bunch! That means more than you know 🥲
Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t struggle with hard mode at all. I 100% the game pretty easily.
Definitely going to need more content from you on on rebirth battles! I’m loving it so far, but I don’t think I’m operating at even a quarter of full potential.
There are a lot of new things to learn! But I’ll see what I can do. I appreciate the feedback
This just sounds real shit.
Can't restore hp or mp and everything hits harder/takes more hits? I'll pass
14:00 yes! Fight me its TIDE-us. I agree. Never let anyone change your mind good sir 💪
Having finished it in Remake, I'm actually really looking forward to hard mode in Rebirth, which means I'm like you in that regard. Not a leftie or a twin, though.
Your desire to play Hard Mode has absolved you of any would be irredeemable qualities /s
NGL i found rebirth easier than remake on hard simply because of perfect parry and it was a boss in nibelheim that made me Git Good
I need to finish the Chadley stuff before hardmode and am struggling on the „last few“ (even with guided attempts). So, it may take a while until I get the hardmode trophy, but I’ll eventually get there. :P
Bought and played Remake shortly before Rebirth Launch so I was late on the series and yeah, Hell House took me few hours on both, normal and hard. But at least on hard I was better prepared. I just have no good timing for blocks and stuff. ^^
I used Mana almost exclusively for reviving fallen Party Members. x)
Oh, and also: Even tho it stressed me out as a not so good player, the restrictions of the hardmode somehow did feel really cool and gave me an unique experience.
Ive got Remakes plat, twice straight and cant wait to get Rebirth's plat as im going thought hard mode at the moment.
The game came out and while Hard mode in Remake was a great challenge, Hard mode in Rebirth is just absurd. It is borderline impossible to do *anything* unless you are absolutely perfect with your builds for every situation, which absolutely kills any variety you could get out of a replay, and the entire new premise of item transmutation is *completely* useless, because you CANT USE THE ITEMS THAT YOU MAKE. Massive L this time around, especially with the various materia nerfs.
What level did you start hard mode with? How leveled up was all of your materia? My counter argument to your item transmutation argument is that completing it in your first run leads to the best armor in the game.
I beat Remake Hard mode and loved it, 7R's combat is just some of the most fun I've ever had with a video game and a big reason for me not even noticing any "pacing" issues in my initial playthrough because I was just having so much fun fighting and experimenting with all the characters and abilities, something apparently a lot of people never do, they just stick to Cloud for 90% of the game and only switch if he dies or is stunned, anyway I completed Rebirth Dynamic after 100+ hours a day ago and had this video in my Watch Later playlist for a couple of weeks now and now I'm finally watching it and now I'm itching to boot up Rebirth despite planning to take a break for a couple of weeks cause good lord it too me 30 days to beat Rebirth, but the combat is just so fun!
I think that if you do as much of a completionist run as you can in Dynamic Mode before attempting Hard Mode, you’ll be able to do mostly main story related content during your HM run 😎
13 has a great battle system, I won't stand for sny backhanded compliments of it
For Remake, All Haste + 2 Prayers made Hard mode a joke lol Some bosses can still be a pain, like the graveyard ghost, hell house, or even Airbuster, if you picked the wrong debuffs. But overall, once you remove over reliance on Curaga, the game becomes much more manageable. Sucks to have all my hoarded items go to waste tho lol Wish there was a hard mode with items on just so I could use them. Excited to see how Rebirth shakes things up.
Man I hated that Graveyard Ghost boss…
Based on what I hear, find the revive/prayer materias, transmute the best items before going in, get at least 2 luck up for Cait Sith for posterity, get all elemental folio abilities
Hey! I’m one of those 848,000 Hardened Veterans! 😂 And I’m ambidextrous, does that count?
And this Hard Mode in Rebirth is kicking me in the balls. I didn’t mind Chadley now, but now I HATE CHADLEY 😂
…being ambidextrous can count! You’ve got a war going on in that head of yours on a daily basis 😅
Great video, however hard mode isn't for me. I loved in the original how if you were having trouble, you just go grind and outlevel the next enemies. Hard mode doesn't have that power fantasy anymore, it's punishing, small fights can suddenly turn game over. Not to mention Chadley's battles, no way I'm going to platinum this.
Glad some people like the challenge, but it's too frustrating for my playstyle. Not fun.
Thanks! And I hear you
Stagger recovery lets you run around the world and spam magnified quickcast Firaga/Quakega and get all the MP back. Hard mode is a joke. Also you could just perfect block, by the time you finish all the advanced arena fights in gold saucer and all the combat sims you pretty much know the moveset of every enemy
Any chance you could repost this comment underneath the pinned comment? Trying to give people tips and tricks 😅
Aerith can raise the stagger bar. Dunno if yuffie or Red XIII can do that as well.
Really? I didn't know that KH2 vets worked on Rebirth's combat
I gotta disagree with hardmode being awesome as its not even hard for one thing and the other is the item and mp restrictions are stupid and the artificial modifiers don't make any encounter harder at all. Rebirth guardswormyr, water beast, and mythril guardian along with other monster bosses suck. Dynamic however was mad fun. In the moment of doing hard mode. Have genji gloves cause i farmed them quickly as well and bosses have too little charging time and too little openings. Hardmode isn't a fun way to play ff7remake series and its actually far easier than dynamic in many ways since bosses won't scale with you. Also level 3 limit breaks suck because it takes forever to charge synergy abilities up. Turned cloud into a magic nuke for hardmode since part 3 will have red a physical fighter oriented around sekiro gameplay and support skills that are really good but only usable with the revenge gauge filled, barret an atb stagger monster thats physical, tifa the physical carry this time around, cait sith the other physical carry as well as gambling support, Vincent likely either physical with atb skills or like og magical and bad, and then cid another physical fighter. Red losing his mage capabilities from the og sucks. Also if everything is maxxed before hardmode in rebirth and remake then nothing can challenge you since in remake aerith and cloud nuked everything with magic and tifa had gottdammerung and spammed dolphin flurry which has less stagger than ascension and calamity lazer now but in remake instantly staggered a large majority of the bosses in the game. Also the AI are so effing stupid that sometimes you could play perfectly in a fight an then your ai teammates throw and you have too restart since they practically suicided. Hardmode is not good at all imo. Only play through hard mode in the series for the manuscripts and nothing else.
Appreciate all of the info here
YESSSSS LEFT HANDEDNESS UNITE! Do you have ADHD? I feel like a lot of youtubers have adhd. Random oversharing segment over, I appreciate your content my dude.
I have an overstimulation of content and ideas coming at me at all times, but I think that’s just normal with content creation. Glad you liked it
Dude it's been like a week. I'm not even done with my first play through yet. These are some bod claims off the rip
Bold how? @MrGary8767
I platinumed remate 100% og ff7 several times on psp ps1 ps3 ps4 and on my phone and 100% crisis core twice and platinumed reunión and I only started playing rebirth like I did hardmode jumping between party members and setting up combos and synergies and asses never left my party because I assumed that's how I'm supposed to play
Assess is definitely important on the first playthrough, so you don't have to keep it with you during the second playthrough.