Arthur Daniel Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Review

Story: The game ruins many iconic scenes. Especially the iconic Dyne and Aerith scene. Also the tonality doesn't capture the melancholic mood of the original at all. It feels like a comedy game. Almost none of the questions from the FF7 remake are answered or at least continued here. You don't really learn anything new except that there are now several timelines, which means that the death of characters really doesn't mean anything anymore. Content: The game is filled with content that wastes your time in the worst way possible. Finding cats, escorting dogs, luring chickens, picking flowers, activating towers, hunting moogles, catching chocobos, crafting pointless stuff, chasing black robes at walking speed. On top of that, everything is packed into the Ubisoft checklist and you're constantly being texted at by Chadley (you can't even skip it). The game is also filled with redundant mini-games that are no fun. Except from Queens Blood and Chocobo Racing. There are no dungeons or puzzles. It's possibly the worst open world game I've ever played. Tech: The 4K mode is very washed out. The game in general suffers from massive pop-ins. Music and dialog constantly changes between too loud or too quiet. You can definitely feel that the developers should have taken another six months to polish the game. Music: Unfortunately, many songs start with the nostalgic notes, but then turn into something completely different, which mostly plods along relatively irrelevantly. Combat: Well, it's fine but there are better ones within games that don't waste your time as much. After I thought FF7 Remake was really good at first, this trilogy turns out to be a prime example of a cash grab of the worst kind. It joins the ranks of disappointments like FF13, FF15 and FF16. As a longtime FF hardcore fan, I wish it were different. But unfortunately that's the way it is. It is a crossover of KH and Ubisoft. Maybe the worst Ubisoft that have been done by someone else than ubisoft. Final Fantasy is laying its RPG legacy to rest, while new studios such as FromSoftware, CD Red Project, Capcom, Atlus, Lariat and Sandfall Interactive are taking up the baton. Sad but true.