FF7 Rebirth on PC (Destiny)

by marmot 1333 , Thursday, April 03, 2025, 16:26 (17 hours, 36 minutes ago) @ cheapLEY

I wish I loved this game.

I loved Remake and Intermission so much. I love parts of Rebirth. The story (at least so far) is really compelling. I love the writing and the characters and the tone and vibes so much. It's all so ridiculous but so earnest it just works. The combat is fun. The mini games are all great (especially playing the piano).

The open world sucks all the life out of the game. I got to Gongaga and just called it quits. It's so absolutely annoying and adds nothing of value to the rest of the game. It's just a chore. Cody keeps telling me to get back to playing it, but just thinking about spending another second in that god forsaken open world makes me want to pull my hair out. It's a shame the one blemish on the game is so annoying that it might genuinely prevent me from completing a pretty incredible experience otherwise.

I agree with Cody. The open world stuff is optional. I chose to do most of it because I enjoy the game world.

The one thing that is worth doing in the open-world is the protorelic stuff. Sometimes the quests part is a chore but the story/cinematic parts are quite interesting and well done. I found myself getting invested in that storyline.

Some of the other random side quests have interesting story components too, but you don't really know before you start them. As far as the intel challenges and all that, I imagine you can skip them and have a game that you enjoy more.

I think most of the minigames are pretty good. I dislike the piano challenges for the music. For a freeplay interactive piano in a video game, it's great. But I find the control scheme incredibly frustrating when trying to do the challenges.

I may have enjoyed the combat more in Remake. The consensus seems to be that this one is faster but it makes the slow characters harder to use. From watching videos, I thought the synergy abilities were going to be a much larger part of combat than they are.