“an amazing adventure”
Stunning, Fun, Huge, and so much more. This game can be described with so many words, and I would, but I dont like to waste your time so, Hi my name is phant0m and these are my thoughts on… Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Stunning Looks
The games graphics are amazing, I personally used performance mode and can easily describe it as smooth but a little blurry. Nevertheless the game still looked wonderful, the diverse map of FF7 Rebirth is one of the greatest i’ve ever seen, colorful tropical areas are well detailed and full of life, theme park areas are vast and fun to explore, and the outdoors are flush with plants galore. It truly does feel like i’m in another world. A wonderful world that can be cute, dark, or vibrant. Furthermore Character designs are stupendous. Every character has awesome details around their body or face, and the well animated cutscenes make you feel the characters emotions through facial animations or great body language.
Combat
I have mixed feelings on the combat of this game, although its fun at times the simplicity of the enemies doesn’t excite me, they usually only have a few moves and if it wasn’t for the diversity of enemies themselves id be finding myself bored and tired. But the difficulties do a good job of balancing the game, when on normal you feel some difficulty for rushing the game and if you’re on easy you’ll pass through the game mostly for the story, and if you’re on the endgame hard difficulty you will struggle a bit if you’re a casual gamer.
Gameplay
Besides combat you can expect to find many fun experiences, from minigames to card games and side missions. Everything feels so fleshed out, without spoiling, there is probably an activity for any type of person in this game; They are super different and holds the top spot for some of my favorite minigames of all time. You can also build relationships with your companions over small conversations and side quests which are super funny and outrageous, I wont say all of them are good, but only a small amount of them are tedious, while the others do a good job of letting you know more about your own if not other characters, even small ones from the previous game.
Story
The story here is huge, and sadly with its big size it falls a bit short; especially near the end, but in this huge story there were also such amazing moments. Final fantasy knows how to write a character driven story and your connection to these characters enhances the plot. I at most times found myself crying because I understood their motivations, fears and hopes; the emotions especially went heavy for the character Barret who I ended up caring for the most. His excellent dialogue that can range from funny too deep and emotional was seriously such a step up from ff7 remakes one sided version of the character. Everyone else also gets a significant boost in their arcs except for characters like aerith which makes sense for the theme of her character.
Characters
Speaking of characters, they truly are the center piece of this game! Well written, designed and performed. The performance of these characters are well done and purposeful, although cloud comes off a bit bland, I think we all know they made it that way on purpose, yet it disappoints me at many corners since his emotional moments in the game truly stand out and I could use a bit more emotional cloud in my life.
Music
But the music had me emotional at nearly all times, the games music deserves several awards because it is beautiful, fun tunes pop out in your face for more energetic and scenic moments, sad moments get filled with sorrowful and at times suspenseful music and I wouldn’t want it any other way. There’s not only great music but there’s a ton of it! I’ve even added several tracks to my own playlist because it’s so good! The boss battle music is especially amazing, I don’t think I could think of much better tracks out there.
Performance
The game ran awesomely on the ps5 storage! Sadly on my extended ssd the game tended to freeze a lot but I believe it was my own fault for not owning a faster ssd but I haven’t ran into issues with any other game like that. But once I did the transition it ran fine. Only a few stutters and frame drops over the course of 40 hours. The only other issue I can name is that the game looked a bit blurry but they recently added an update that allows a sharp performance mode to show it off clearly!
Verdict
Anyways if you’re wondering. I do recommend this game, it’s exciting, new and a breath of fresh air for gamers who want character focused storytelling and gameplay. I give this game a 9/10 the only drawbacks are the scattered and confusing ending. Those were my thoughts on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth! Thx For Reading! Keep doing great things! Your good at them. Bye 🙂
