Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"Looking back, it can be a bit hard to believe that it has only been four years since Square Enix took their signature RPG and built it from the ground up to the surprise of all of their fans with Final Fantasy VII Remake nearly twenty five years after the original release. This might be helped a bit by the fact that a year later the company went on to release a brand new story focusing on entirely on Yuffie in the form of Intergrade but nonetheless this classic RPG saw itself given a number of brand new changes that many fans welcomed with open arms despite the many small but significant changes the company made to its plot. Now here we are again, continuing Cloud and the party’s adventure four years later in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth in what is likely the most expansive Final Fantasy game yet, featuring an open world packed with content and a storyline that is both familiar and new, written in such a manner that longtime fans will be eager to see it through its lengthy runtime even with some convolution along the way."
Digital Foundry writes: "Based on footage seen here, we're looking at a 60fps presentation that's a huge improvement over the standard PS5 *and* irons out its performance drops. And in some respects, the footage suggests that Pro at 60fps even has advantages over the base machine in its 30fps quality mode."
Sold. This is why I waited. I stopped on chapter 4 cause I had a feeling the Pro would boost this. PSSR is doing the damn thing here in its initial outing. This is really an indictment on AMD tbh because they have not keeps up with Nvidia's DLSS at all. PSSR is not as good as the latest DLSS yet, but in its first iteration it is worlds ahead of FSR. Kinda odd to be having Microsoft and Sony invent their own solutions.
That's impressive on Performance mode for badly optimized game by a developer who clearly doesn't care because their games don't meet their "expectations"... But that's is still a badly optimized game by a lazy developer who never bothered to use FSR in performance mode to fix the image Quality
And not all developers are like that making bad ports and let the 900$ hardware brute force it in performance mode.... That among very few games are outliers
This is actually a significant improvement over the base model. This is the type of demonstration/presentation Sony should be giving to sell their new console.
Edit: Needs to be watched on a proper 4K screen to fully appreciate. Phones do not give the improvements the justice deserved.
Square Enix recently released Final Fantasy XVI and FF7 Rebirth. However, the sales of these games did not meet their expectations.
look, go multiplat.
but i doubt its gonna be such a game changer in the future.
u cant release any of your never games on the switch cause of the lower power (and the additional work for handheld mode amd making your games actuallyrun on it), switch 2 will have the same issue for most of them.
xbox releases wont give u the numbers ur missing either.
and your pc releases are always so messy.
Tbh I never completed either got bored half way through each game overhyped imo
I knew it all along. I really disliked and was soo bored of FF16 and Rebirth is a good game but it's an overstuffed turkey plagued with unnecessary sections with convoluted anime nonsense story.
The ending to Square Enix's action role-playing game, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, was intentionally kept confusing.
I think the ambiguous and confusing (temporarily at least) nature of the ending, already betrayed the emotion of the original
Feels like a get out of jail free card to me to justify it
The iconic scene just didn’t have any emotional weight to it compared to the original
Sometimes less is more
Also I liked the fact the original Jenova fight played Aeriths theme which felt more personal.
If the story is going to be the same as the original they shouldn't have constantly teased the possibility of otherwise the whole damn time. What an obnoxious and pointless way to try to build intrigue.
Didn't even finish rebirth. I got so bored with it about 75% thru I just quit playing. The original was my first RPG on PS1 back in the day and I really wish they would've kept the turn based system instead of the chaos action system they implemented