The Helldivers servers have been jammed for the last three days. 400,000+ players online. Used the opportunity to break out Final Fantasy Crisis Core for the first time to get ready for Rebirth. Wish I had played sooner. Really filling in the backstory to FFVII. Never knew much about Zack before but he was pretty important to the story of FFVII. The story about how he gets the Buster Sword passed down to him from Angeal, knowing it will eventually get passed on again and become the iconic symbol of FFVII. Meeting Aerith and a young Shinra soldier named Cloud.
Combat is excellent, story is excellent, graphics are good for a PSP upgrade, but what I do hate is all those damn filler missions from the save icon. I guess I can't complain because they are optional and are mostly there to just help you build you character and materia. I've done just over 35% of them now and am like, enough already. But I'm only in Chapter 4 of 11 so I will probably just keep doing them to ensure I'm strong enough to finish the game.
Not a big fan of the Limit Break system in this one either as it basically happens at random. You have that literal lottery system rolling through every battle and depending on what it lands on you get random character buffs and literally have to rely on that lottery to get access to your Limit Breaks, which are also random. Ugh. Can see why they scrapped that in the future games.
Also getting to know a Sephiroth who is still currently a good guy and not insane is very interesting.
Nomura said on X that they've started development on the final part of the FFVII Remake trilogy, but that it likely won't see the light of day until 2026 or later. The trilogy started on PS4 and could literally end on the PS6.
Info drop for Rebirth.
Main story is 40 hours
Full completion with side content will push it to 100 hours
Nomura won’t confirm or deny whether the story takes place in an alternate reality
Zack’s storyline is completely original
Story has many surprises and mysteries that unfold following the original
Gold Saucer date has same and opposite sex romance options
Gold Saucer has 7 areas
New characters will be introduced alongside longtime original ones
Vincent’s gameplay in Rebirth will be similar to Red XIII, and will be fully playable in the 3rd game
Vincent and Yuffie’s storylines will be fully incorporated into the main story giving further depth and connections to other characters
The game is 150GB in size, split into two discs on PS5
The story events culminates at the Forgotten Capital
All areas will be included, b hit the events leading to that ending won’t necessarily follow the same order
Wutai won’t be in the game, and is saved for the 3rd game
Players with Remake saves receive unknown summon materia when they start Rebirth
Mini-games have been expanded: In one of the. Cloud collects soldiers and arrange them in Rufus Shinra's inauguration parade for different results
Chocobos expand world exploration with different breeds unique to each region, each with their own ability like climbing or flying..etc
Playable Sephiroth flashbacks
Character-specific skill trees and lots of customizations
New Materia and synergy abilities
Many Summons including Alexander, Odin.etc) with side quests based on some summons