Why Rebirth lost its touch

[Diamond Girls]

Compare to this remake?

I watched some gameplays and it doesn't feel right. Remake nailed it better.

[SHINRA-CORP]

It does everything remake does but adds extra on top

[PandaSav]

nah apart from being woke the combat is amazing rebirth. At least not uber level woke like AAA western garbage.

[Diamond Girls]

Well, maybe watching is different from playing I guess.

[Grimzy]

Originally posted by Diamond Girls:

Well, maybe watching is different from playing I guess.

I can guarantee you it is.

[Weltall8000]

I am really early into Rebirth. The big problem that I see at the moment, is that the more open ended gameplay draws away from the tighter plot pacing of Remake.

The game is growing on me as the systems are starting to coalesce for me, but I do foresee there being large swathes of the game where I will be totally sidetracked for hours on end. Whereas, in Remake, I'd be getting story progression.

[Ryan]

Rebirth is just trash, full stop. All those mini games it forces you to play with artificial difficulty. Pacing is so slow, I can’t think of any epic moments in this game, it just feels off.

[mdesaleah]

It’s a normal open world game.

The big issue is the story. If you hated the Nomura/Nojima twist writing of the first part, you’ll probably hate it even more in Rebirth.

[spectre199]

Rebirth does everything remake does but better. Rebirth did not lose its touch imo.

playing this on ps5 right now but I will buy this on steam and play it again the second it comes to steam.

[SHINRA-CORP]

The only thing I didnt like so far is the way Midgar looked from Kalm. They really could have done better with that I'm sure. It didnt look like a very large object far away instead it looked like a small object just over yonder

[Diamond Girls]

Originally posted by Mu:

One thing I noticed is that the game bombards you with padding very early on in Rebirth with Chadley and Open World-related mundane stuff whereas Remake's pacing is better due to it being more linear.

Reminds me of FF15's progression which is a very bad game to be compared to.

Exactly what i feel just watching the gameplay. But then again they say I need to play it to feel the real thing.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Mu:

One thing I noticed is that the game bombards you with padding very early on in Rebirth with Chadley and Open World-related mundane stuff whereas Remake's pacing is better due to it being more linear.

Reminds me of FF15's progression which is a very bad game to be compared to.

The pacing in both are off.

What happens when you take one game and try to stretch it out into 3.

Even if they kept the story accurate, they would still run into this pacing problem by splitting one game into separate games.

[Tiberius]

9.2 metacritic
9.3 opencritic
9.4 user score
Not a single mixed or even negative review

Time to snort some copium

[spectre199]

The original Final Fantasy 7 was three discs.

They did the same basically with Final Fantasy 7 remake.

This game is disc 1.
Rebirth is disc 2

and the third game when it is released will be disc 3.

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by spectre199:

The original Final Fantasy 7 was three discs.

They did the same basically with Final Fantasy 7 remake.

This game is disc 1.
Rebirth is disc 2

and the third game when it is released will be disc 3.

Not really.

The original was multiple discs due to cutscene space being too large.

But you still got the entire game in one go.

The Sequel/Remake trilogy is 3 separate games that are sold separately.

But that does mean that they have filler in order to make each part feel more complete.

It also means they’ve messed up the endings for 2/3 of them so far. Since they like ending on multi-phase final bosses. No matter how ridiculous, or how much it goes against the original scenes

[Diamond Girls]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

9.2 metacritic
9.3 opencritic
9.4 user score
Not a single mixed or even negative review

Time to snort some copium

It's not really about the score. Not even a nostalgia glasses considering I was comparing remake and rebirth. But I feel remake is more engaging than rebirth in my first impression.

I felt that when I was comparing Cloud and Tifa scene from remake where Tifa was trying to fix the sink vs the scene where Tifa got angry with Cloud for snooping her closet.

Idk, I just feel it's a bit off.

Remake: Serious and engaging
Rebirth: Load of goofiness and un-seriousness, it's like a low quality comedy show trying too hard

But then again, I haven't watched the whole gameplay with cutscenes nor played the game. It's just my initial impression but enough not for me to buy the game once released on PC. But idk, girls change her mind every time, so...