Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - PS5

[Tobal]

Quick question - finishing up on chapter 2 with only a couple of activities to complete. If I move on without doing these can I come back to them later?

you'll be able to travel back and forth, the game always warns you when you can't do that for a hour or so when the main story needs you to be in once location.

[Finsbury Girl]

Had to pause right in the middle of the cut scenes after

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fight with Scarlet in the Gongaga Reactor

as it was 1.30am and I was knackered.

All I can say is HOLY EFFING ****!

This game just keeps hitting high points, it truly is incredible.

[Tobal]

Finished Coral sidestories and i'm struggling again, i just need someone with a ruler to rap my knuckles if i look a radio tower but i need to do a bunch of them anyway just be able to activate or finish sidequests. I can see why this hasn't done well in the sales, almost feels like a different story from what happened in remake, 20-30 hours in, reaching Chapter 9 of the story and almost nothing about changing/trying change fate has appeared while the gameplay feels like the highest budget 100 games in 1 cart ever made.

[Finsbury Girl]

I think glide de chocobo has killed me.

[Tobal]

I got pretty angry at the chicken chasing sidequest/mini game... but yeah the piano stuff is pure poop, i just gave up on the chocobo song and stopped inputting directions.

My complaints in the previous post, well it seems chapter 9 onwards is where they turn the story on for forward progression. Barely touched the jungle and cosmos just decided to move the story forward and only do sidequests/queen blood rather than full on openworld sludge, i think not being allowed to finish the protorelic quests in the desert finally broke it all for me

Completed Red story stuff which you might as well call the mass-effect loyalty quest,

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felt like unneeded filler, the teen voice is awful and the AA meetings for PTDS Tifa and Aerith had me scratching my head, specially the Aerith one, just where did that come from and why did no one do anything about her coming out with the Cetra stuff, seemed pretty important to these planet cultists.

Cid was nice cameo, hoping we get him the party before game is over

Feels like now they want to keep throwing new things into the story like the Black-robe man faction, Weapons being friends and the expanded story for a new ancient race Gi and the Cetra probably being Planet Jihadist.

[Finsbury Girl]

Thankfully I managed to overcome 1,000 years of muscle memory of flying with inverted sticks to somehow beat the level 1 challenges on the first 3 trials of glide de chocobo. Fark know why they didn't give an option to invert the sticks. I wanted to smash my controller after 5 mins.

This has been the only time so far that I've been pissed off enough to stop playing.

[Tobal]

Patch notes, one update in there for just for you Fins

• Fixes to missing or incorrect characters in some parts of the game text.
• Fixes to player character bugs that occur in field areas under certain conditions.
• Fixes to Red XIII’s abilities “Supernal Fervor” and “Watcher's Spirit” in battle, as these were easily cancelled.
• Fixes to bugs occurring in battle under specific conditions that would cause enemies to freeze.
• Fixes to bugs triggered by specific conditions that affect progress through quests.
• Improvements to the frame rate and overall game stability.
• Addition of a “sharp” or “soft” option for graphical output in Performance Mode.
• Improvements to graphical quality.
• Reflected reverse camera controls while controlling a gliding sky chocobo.
• Reflected reverse camera controls in the sharpshooting minigame.
• Emphasized the path along the climbable vines in the Mythril Mine.
• Added a difficulty selection to the customization screen of the minigames Fort Condor and Gears and Gambits

I'll check the graphical options when i go back to it tonight, stopped playing for last 3 days

[Finsbury Girl]

^ Beyonce God is REAL

[Finsbury Girl]

I have progressed a wee way and am now in Nibel, having done most of Cosmo Canyon with the exception of some side quests. Some powerful moments story wise, apart from my annoyances (and I am sure there will be more) the game continues to deliver where it matters most.

[Tobal]

I'm up to ch12, 100% all the regions so far by slapping it down to easy to an just working through the open world crap, then back up to normal difficulty for the main story, seems the best compromise for me. Starting to get really disappointed with the none main story stuff, the protorelic quests since hitting Gongaga have been really lame story and gameplay wise, especially cosmo's one, but also Gonaga crap Vr missions and Nibel real patience breaking one. If you want frustrating gameplay, enjoy the box carrying to come... slow, sluggish, horrible.

And the sidequests have started to repeat the same gameplay 2 or 3 times now, 3 times now i've escorted a bloody pet now, outside of the 1, maybe 2 minutes of interparty chat at the end of the sidequests it's no worth it and the little stories and fun characters have stopped being wacky or fun.

Ch12 start gave me the do everything now message and dumped alot of new minigame updates and new sidequests everywhere, so perhaps im reaching the near the end or at least 3/4 through it? So i'm pretty sure i know where it will end now.

[Finsbury Girl]

100% Tobal. I think they have massively overcompensated with side activities due to the criticism of the first game. I didn't have the same criticisms as most people regarding Remake. I didn't mind the limited locations around Midgar and only once was I (slightly) annoyed at some of the backtracking needed.

I do actually like most of the sidequests but when they all turn into new mini-games, it gets very frustrating indeed.

As with a lot of open world games, getting the pacing right is so important, I think they've not got that balance quite right here. I say this still enjoying the game immensely but I think it is a valid criticism.

It will be very interesting to see how they solve this when the whole world essentially opens up in part 3 when you get the Highwind.

[Tobal]

I'm pretty annoyed one of the last sidequests requires me to to do 19 chocobo races (9 in bronze, 10 in silver) to unlock gold rank where the sidequest special race is, my answer to that is **** off.

Also gave up on the blood queen stuff, rank 7 card players keep pulling out 'however' cards so it's me watching for 4 or 5 extra turns after the board is full up of the cpu laying down these replacement cards, multiplying the score by double digits. I'm not invested enough to want to build a new counter deck to every single rank 7 and beyond player, so in the bin that goes.

[Tobal]

Fantastic moment in SE's infinite wisdom, in a moment i can only put up there with the original Dragon Dogmas loved one cutscene...

Just got to the gold saucer date bit... i didn't know it just goes with whoever you have the highest relationship with no option to change it, i have everyone (of the core crew, sit down Cait Sith) on max happy Blue Face, i though i'd just get to decide on... but no... knock on the door is Barrat. I'm laughing, but i'm gonna have youtube Tifa now.

[Finsbury Girl]

a date with the big man ; surely it was amazing!

[Tobal]

It was pretty goofy and bit of pep talk.

Watched all the others on youtube, surprised what they did with the others.

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Tifa is an embraced kiss
Aerith a Hug and letting go of Zack or at least not looking for Zack in Cloud anymore
Yuffie embarrassed admission of feelings, a peck on the cheek and her pulling the original 7's menu screen grin

after that was the Colosseum fight

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which disappointingly pulled all the fights from 7remake, clever use of resources i guess