MrBean wrote:> Feeb wrote:
>> Finished platinum tonight. 199 hrs 33 minutes. On to DD2 now!
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> Wow, congrats, 199? Jesus. Worth it? I tapped out at 100 and went back to elden ring.
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Yeah totally. It’s the most satisfying plat aside from sekiro and monster hunter series. Sekiro I screwed up and had to NG 2 to compete- so it wasn’t near as hard as rebirth. Rebirth- I also spent quite a bit of idle time- used the portal for lots of it and I tend to let it set until ps5 sleeps- which is 5 hours. Probably at least 40 hours was that.
Gripes- the walking sim crap / turning gears, crawling, climbing etc are not needed at all. This game is long enough- unlike remake. The inability to skip cinematics for harder bosses is terrible. Not allowing use of items in hard mode is a bad decision- I may have used an ether through both gameplays- all of those items they spent time putting in and I spent time finding- useless except Gil fodder- which is useless too. The cheap way they made the endgame stuff difficult- requiring 10-20 minutes of effort to get a shot at what is basically a dice roll on a few bosses / challenges- that’s disrespectful of the players time imo.
Normal mode I’d give 7/10
Hard mode including sims 9/10 simply because the combat system is unbelievably deep and fun when you need to use it. Unfortunately you do not really need to use it fully until hard mode and late sims. Another terrible design decision to lock hard mode behind an entire playthrough of dozens of hours long game. FFXVI did the same- it’s absolutely better on the second playthrough. Most players will see the single run and that’s it. I can’t stress enough- if you like the battles try hard mode in remake and rebirth. For rebirth hard mode you can keep all completion and just speed run bosses mostly. Or you can do it all again.
The plethora of minigames honestly feels like a trifling inconvenience once you finish the harder battle stuff. I’d advise skip all that stuff until you see if you’re going to go through with the sims and hard mode. If not, you should absolutely hard pass on this platinum.