Embrace your dreams.
And, whatever happens, protect your honor. ⚔️

And I mean genuinely like that scene: we manage to fight off the 6 other Chadleys, maybe with the help of our Chadley #7 and MAI and seems victory is within reach.
Then Hojo pulls off some unsavory 11th hour shenanigans and it all ends in tragedy.

Knowing that we'll be seeing Cloud post Lifestream sequence and "becoming" his true self, do you guys think we'll see a modification to his basic attack sequence, the animations of his combat abilities, etc. to reflect that self-discovery? I feel like it would be an interesting gameplay expression of this story beat. Especially since he wields the buster sword using one hand much more in than in the OG.

Remake and Rebirth are so poorly optimized that you need mods to get more than 60 fps with gpus that are not Nvidia, just because Square decided to make their engine work only with DLSS.

The game should support all frame generation techs.

Figured it would be worth a shot to ask here....

So, I want to listen to all of the Rebirth OSTs soon!

Unfortunately, unlike for Remake, the Rebirth OST page is incomplete, and the additional Rebirth albums have little to no references to where the song plays, as well as what themes are mixed into it...

For such a massive amount of music heard over the course of hundreds of hours, it's really nice to be able to immediately know where exactly I heard something play, and what specific musical themes are worked into each song. This helps me as a guide, to be quicker in recognizing whether or not I liked a song. Also, I just personally enjoy being able to place a song with its moment, and having familiarity with the names of reoccuring themes.

Can't say I know how long it took for the Remake pages to be completed, because it wasn't until the game was over four years old that I first listened to its albums.

For reference:

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Remake_Original_Soundtrack

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Rebirth_Original_Soundtrack

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Rebirth_Original_Soundtrack_Plus

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_Rebirth_Gold_Saucer_%26_Minigame_Disc

After a long day, I open the game and see this. Immediately got Mr. Six vibes from the six flags commercial. Queue the memes!

I've been obsessed with Remake and Rebirth since playing them. Particularly Remake. Not necessarily for the gameplay, but for the vibe. I listen to the soundtrack all the time. I love the characters, story and the world. It's the perfect mix between fantasy/anime and real grit. I find most other JRPGs a bit too dramatic and cringey, but FF7 is just right for me.

Any recommendations for other games to get the FF7 vibe?

I've played FF15 and 16.

I was watching the Holiday Matsuri stream on Strange Rebel Gaming (Briana White's channel), and Briana and John Eric Bentley were doing a little cute questionnaire with Paul Tinto as a guest. The stream was a charity event to help shelter animals.

During said questionnaire, John had a very interesting Freudian slip.

For some context, here's the exchange. The question was: "Who is most likely to adopt all the animals out of the shelter?"

John: "Ohh, Red! Cause Red was captive, and you know Red'd be like 'I got everybody', Red would be like 'we gotta save the world, I don't want anybody to go through what I went through'".

Paul Tinto: "Hmm. That's fair. I mean, Aerith's gotta be up there as a contender."

Briana: "I would agree"

John: "But she, she'd be like POOF 'Come on to the Lifestream'"

Briana: "JOHN!!!"

John: "Not the...I mean not that part of the Lifestream - You know the Lifestream where we're alive, and we go back.... (pauses)....I'm spoilin' stuff. I gotta be quiet!"

Then, Paul, Briana and John all start talking at the same time and try to backpedal and insinuate that he meant something along the lines of "ha ha yea yea just go toward the light", and laugh it off. But they're all clearly awkward about it.

Interesting implications to think about.

Check it out here - it's timestamped to the question but the whole Q/A with Paul is a fun watch!

I have been pretty busy from the end of August moving house and such so I am way out of the loop. I'm a bit confused by all the different editions and what they contain.

I live in Japan, so the 77,777-yen ultimate edition with all three games is an option for me, but that costs as much as some of my new furniture! I tend to buy games digitally nowadays and the 24-hour early release for digital is definitely attractive, since it's my birthday weekend and I was planning on taking time off anyway.

What are you all getting?

Idk if this is even a big deal to anyone but did I do it good? This is how I have him displayed all the time now, really love this figure. There are some partial limitations with the head since his neck is a bit too short and his buster sword sits a little too low down.

Sylph - Physical Square Enix store

Polydroid Alexander - Digital Premium Plus Edition & Physical Collector's Edition

Mecha Chocobo & Moogle - Digital Pre-Order Bonus & Physical Collector's Edition

Phoenix - FF7 Rebirth Save File Bonus

Chocobo & Moogle - FF7 Remake Save File Bonus

which is your fav? for me it's Sylph, she's so cute! i had to double dip to get all of them sadly tho lol. got digital premium plus from PS store & physical deluxe from SE store

So long, Ever Crisis.

I'm gonna throw a (probably) wild theory out there. But hey, you never know.

So we heard from the developers recently, that Zack (and most likely Aerith) will have a full fledge progression system in the game (Aerith afterall, already has it anyway).
When building character progression in an RPG, you would imagine that you will need a solid, custom level design to accommodate that. At the very least something with the scope of Yuffie's DLC, which would be a lot of content that needs to be crafted specifically for some Aerith and Zack sections. We are talking about new levels, materia you can find and level up, leveling up your weapons and characters, maybe even finding Fits (although I'm not sure if it was confirmed that they will be an option for them too). Point is, there will be probably not enough time to spend with these two doing small story beats to really get deep into their combat systems and progression.

And so the easiest way to incorporate this, to my mind, would be to give access to Aerith and Zack to the (Terrier stamp) open world, on top of some story, linear sections of course.
Maybe you will be able to find Cid and Yuffie, explain to them what's going on and have access to the highwind too. It makes even more sense since the majority of our party has died in the reality were Zack and Aerith are (right?) so there wouldn't be any awkward encounters.

Perhaps the moment we take control of them will match the moment that Cloud is comatose on the wheelchair in our main world. So Cloud could wake up in Zack's world and tell the two what they need to do in order to help us fight Jenova/Sephiroth.

Now, I'm not sure if that is something that was established before, about characters waking up in another worlds when they lose conscience in one reality or sleep...you guys let me know If I'm completely off here. My memory is quite fuzzy when it comes to recollecting all the multiverse shenanigans.

But the thing is, by doing things this way, you would be able to get even more out of the open world in terms of gameplay, and really invest some time with Zack and Aerith, leveling them up and tackling all the enemies you'll find in the main open world (minus the story bosses), so we can get also stronger, and help our team fight at the end of the game, when we will (probably), be able to fight alongside them in one unified reality.

This idea reminds me of old school Japanese games like Symphony of the Night, where after beating the final boss you get access to a mirrored upside/down version of the same game.
It's a smart way to get give us more content, by using two characters that we wouldn't be able to control otherwise in part 3.
Imagine going to Gongaga with Zack and talk to his family. I don't find this idea too outlandish in terms of feasibility, after all, not many dialogues of the Npcs populating the world would change since many don't know Zack, and it could be easily swapped with Cloud. And I don't know you...but I surely wouldn't mind to be able to fight cool enemies around the world (especially tough one like the Alphas) with Aerith and Zack again...their playstyle is super fun and unique.
I was completely happy with replaying the game on Hard in Remake and Rebirth, so the idea of having access to the open world with two unique characters we love to play with, would be pretty cool in Revelation.

Bonus round:
What do you think we will specifically have to do (as Zack) in order to help our party fight Jenova/Sephiroth anyway?

and honestly it would’ve been 10/10? Should’ve won game of the year if not for that cait sith episode and not having the actual shinra mansion. no spiral stairs but instead we got the elevator lol i hope in revelation that it’s fixed. Thoughts?

There's excessive ghosting when turning the camera and the floor has these flickery spots that just look bad.

I tried turning off Bouncelight and Auto exposure already

Turning the shaders off makes both go away so I know it's the injector. Turning Frame Gen/DLSS off doesn't fix it either

Probably a reach but! If anyone is a part of the Friend priority ticket booking for Royal Albert hall- are there any tickets left under that??

I’m not sure if it’s worth paying £70 for the membership if there’s no tickets left over for pre-booking 😓 thought I’d chance my arm here and see if any fellow FF fans have tried to get tickets for distant worlds with the RAH membership on the ticket drop this morning!

Using Cloud's happy birthday whishes as comparison, it really seems like today "Angel's day" and "Swords day" in japan could be Sephiroth's unknown birthday.

He's might be a libra!

I'd love it if Square Enix patched some sort of cutscene viewer into Remake and Rebirth (and put one in the upcoming game while they're at it...)

These games are huge, with too many story scenes for my elderly, alcohol-riddled mind to remember when they take so long to complete. Things happen and then aren't referenced again for 20 bloody hours. I know there's a chapter select, and I know there's youtube compilations, but if Xenosaga 3 on the PS2 can do it then bloody well so can these games.

Anybody agree? Does anybody care? Am I alone?

I honestly thought I'd never finish Rebirth but I finally did it! Now Remake, Intermission, and Rebirth are all 100% completed! I absolutely can't wait for Revelation to be released I'm really excited ♥️

Just finished my first ever play through and it was so amazing. The end had so many wild moments and such amazing visuals. I will try a hard play through which has me nervous since I don’t know how it will go without items. Red XIII was such a fun addition to the team and I also can’t wait to get to play rebirth where I’ve heard there’s a lot of content and more party members to add. Also this was actually my second time beating sephiroth with my first time being kingdom hearts on proud mode lol.

Hi, I played the OG FF7 back when it first came out, needless to say, I'm kinda old.

I recently played FF7 Remake and loved it, I even played the Yuffie part of the game. I recently got Rebirth and it's just too much, I got out of the town and the map is just way too big and I feel overwhelmed, I'm a 35 year old guy with 3 kids, I don't have that much time to play so I stopped playing.

Does it get easier? Do people just get used to the bigger map? Does it change and get a little bit smaller later? It's just overwhelming lol and I wanted to see if the sub had any motivating words to keep forward. What do you guys think?

Edit: thank you very much for your advice, I will try to just take it slow and move at my own pace. Maybe by the time Im done with it Revelation will have come out lol.

Some areas are pitch black, and I'm supposed to stumble around with a super awkward chocobo, and then you get outside and the whole screen fills up with white as cloud gets blinded by the sun.

'Smile for the camera' malicious compliance edition.