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TFW when you've been playing this game for 26 years, and you just now realize that the Corel theme is a tone shift of Barret's Theme.

Back home so I got to give the last brutal challenge a go. O wow. This is one is nuts. Took me most of the day just to see the last fight- which is a totally unique fight and takes like 10 minutes plus of perfection to reach. My god it’s cheesey / cheap. I’m going to need some help with strategy here- it seems like he strings ultimate attacks and the only way to win is to stun lock or something. I didn’t come this far to quit- but it’s definitely a morale crusher.

Feeb wrote:

I was afraid for something like this. Thanks for confirming

They should've called Final Fantasy VII: rebirth, "insert something witty referencing how it's all mini-games."

They could make a Mario party-style game standalone just with all these mini-games.

I would have sat this one out and waited for the 3rd game in this series if I had known, but here we are

How else can you artificially inflate playtime? Mini games!

Got passed all simulator challenges except the final two legendary ones. Haven’t tried them yet but I’m seeing the one with Zack is the platinum killer. I’m gonna try them tomorrow.

I normally am not a graphics snob, but I had to tap out of Rebirth. Lots of pop-in, bizarre lighting, super fuzzy/pixelated textures in performance mode and a baffling lack of motion blur in graphics mode (moving the camera felt like a slide-show). It's kind of shocking after how good Remake looked even on a base PS4.

I'm not tapping out, but yeah, it's baffling that this game doesn't look as good as it's predecessor.

That, the general fuzziness, and how close the camera was just hurt my eyes. It felt like I had astigmatism or something. I tried to play through it, but I I couldn't adapt to it. I was really looking forward to it, too. Maybe the eventual PC release will correct it.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Intermediate for PlayStation 5 Pro + Alpha

Final Fantasy ReSolution

MrBean wrote:

I just got to this part. Made it through a few rooms and thought, "Well, that wasn't so bad."

And then I got to the room with the teal boxes.

Can confirm the simulator challenge “the bonds of friendship” is the most difficult thing ever in final fantasy. I’m so close to beating it. Terrible luck on the last round keeps killing me. Literally crap I have never seen in over 50 fights against Odin…

Your nuts Feeb. I want to go back and do everything but does the time investment pay off? I'm guessing no. I'm still in the post game itch of what next. I think I'm gonna go play Elden Ring again!

MrBean wrote:

Honestly it’s fun. A challenge to work on. It’s the closest thing to sekiro NG2+ last boss I’ve played. I notice myself steadily improving each run. So it’s not unfair just really highly tuned. For me, that’s the whole point- something that challenges me and feels like an achievement. Sure I could play 4-5 other games front to back but that feeling of accomplishment is rare for me.

Just like remake- the last few battles really let the complexity of the combat systems shine. The materia and individual characters / accessories provide for so many ways to work through it. It’s a bit too overtuned for mainstream (for a trophy) but it’s really brilliant.

I did it. Almost got screwed again but my experience got me out of a big mess. Now just gotta wrap up hard mode for the plat. Rough.

The last legendary challenge was not too bad after all the practice I had. Basically solo’d it and let sephiroth tag along. Hard mode is pretty much a victory lap compared to those. I’m ready for some dragons dogma now.

Don’t know if y’all noticed in FF7:Rebirth but in the graphics settings there’s now Performance - Sharp & Performance - cha cha real Smooth

I’ve had no issues with the graphics. Looks and plays well. I’m not even sure what it’s set on.

EclipseLion wrote:

I honestly couldn't tell a difference from the pre-patch performance mode.

The last chapter gauntlet is insane on hard mode. That final round was so intense. Some of these boss moves are just plain unfair. You have to plan a whole build / run just to survive a 5 second sequence. Now I just need a few more hard mode chapters and it’s over. This crap just keeps on coming. And whoever decided you can’t skip all the cutscenes during the boss retries- You’re a cuntface butt-hole.

Finished platinum tonight. 199 hrs 33 minutes. On to DD2 now!

Feeb wrote:

Wow, congrats, 199? Jesus. Worth it? I tapped out at 100 and went back to elden ring.

That last fight in Chapter 12 was brutal...

Renaissance2K wrote:

I finally equipped wind materia and used aerogas to hit both of them. You can get those spells pretty crazy with magic up, efficiency up, magnify, hp and or mp absorbs. Once you can craft genji gloves in hard mode- they unlock the damage cap. I’ve seen 56k from my Aerogas on weak and staggered enemies.

MrBean wrote:

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.

Latest patch nerfs MP recovery between combat sim rounds from 50-30%. No idea why they think that needs to happen.

Neat.

Number of times I've thought to myself "I have too much MP:"

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The MPs get eaten up pretty quickly without materia. Barrett is almost useless with magic.

Roll credits! 57 hours, 22 minutes

Anyone on that FFXVI DLC yet?

I got really bored on Chapter 10 of Rebirth and stopped playing. Haven't played in nearly a month.

Completed my FF arcade collection!

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Feeb wrote:

I plan on getting it sometime in the second half of May. Just too busy to add that to FF7Rebirth, FF14, Theatrhythm, school, and work.

Those are awesome @Chocobo!

MrBean wrote:
Yeah, they really are. Can I have one? 😅😂 (I know there's like zero chance)

I started up Final Fantasy 16. Still not crazy about the performance, but at least it doesn't have the bizarre lighting problems that Rebirth has (I don't know why Squaresoft can't optimize games this generation). The game is fun enough, but I do worry about how simple the battle system is. I also feel like they went a little overboard trying to make this a "mature" entry.

Finished the Rising Tide DLC. It’s good stuff. The eikon fight is one of the most fun yet and the music is, once again- great. It is way too short for the price however. If this would have been two new zones or a whole new continent with two eikon fights- great. As it stands I really enjoyed it but it was maybe 1/2 day worth of content. Wait for the complete / goty edition to hit the bargain bins.

Haven't touched XVI since release and binged it in the first couple weeks. Be fun to go back if the DLC is worth it. May check it out after this latest Elden Ring playthrough as I'm not sure where to go after this.

MrBean wrote:

If you haven’t done either DLC it’s about a full day of stuff. There are also trophies for final fantasy difficulty - so you could start a new playthrough. Skipping story it zips by.