re: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will take around 100 hours to play through

From what I have seen it’s a step up.

I haven’t played it yet as I opted to buy and play crisis core for the lore. Been great so far.

But from what I have seen from the demo and what’s been talked about the demo….the graphics are improved.

How long is Crisus Core? What’s it look like and how’s it play?

Crisis Core Reunion (the remastered version that’s altered a bit story wise from the OG PSP game to bring it in line with remake) plays orders of magnitudes better than the original game on a handheld system. The entire combat system got overhauled to some degree or another to accommodate console controllers. It’s visual style was also brought in line with remake. Crisis core was never a game anyone really played for the gameplay or combat though it is 100% a story game even more so than most final fantasy and anyone invested in the remake trilogy it is really kind of required “reading” if you will at this point. That’s not just my interpretation SQE themselves have made it clear. As far as how long it is that’s completely dependent on the player. Like most handheld games for the pre switch era there’s a ton of time sink stuff you can choose to do in the form of missions and these are done at save points to obtain a massive variety of things from summons, to items, to gear, to story exposition. None of them are really necessary though relative to how good you are at the game and how much help you need through those mission rewards. Crisis core isn’t the easiest FF game by any standard. I’d say for the average person who doesn’t really want or need to 100% every side quest or mission but wants to do the ones that give the rewards they need or want + the main quest you’re looking at roughly 20-25 hours. If you want to 100% the game 40+.

I like the game a lot for various reasons. It’s one of the only FF games I’ve ever seen without an easy mode only normal and hard and hard is actually really fricking hard. It s got the same baseline materia system as FF7 but kind of builds out differently from that foundation and eventually you’re allowed to combine and create you’re own materia based on what you want and what’s most beneficial to how you play. It’s most recognizable element the DMW slot machine esque that constantly runs in the top left as long as you have SP (a resource in the game called soldier points) is very controversial. People either hate it or love it. Imo it’s pretty great and a novel take at implementing gameplay and story together as it operates off Zach’s memories and confidants he meets along his journey. Many people don’t like it though and I get why it. It combines your limit break, summons, even when you level up into a somewhat chance based random slot machine although it’s not entirely pure random chance as it might seem initially.

I’m a big Souls fan. Would you compare it to that?

Thanks. I’m in chapter 11 of Remake and don’t really care for the combat to be honest. I feel like “dodging” doesn’t really work.

Also I HATE when you cast a spell and the enemy hits you before yet it still takes MP even though the spell didn’t get cast

It’s only real similitude to FromSoft is it’s a 3rd person action game. The feel and difficulty are both almost entirely different.

The combat is a lot better and more fun in the remaster for consoles. It was pretty shitty on PSP with way less buttons and a much worse layout. The DMW is fine most people don’t understand it. It’s not really near as random as it seems.

Have tickets to see Advent Children tonight. Is it worth seeing in terms of something we should know before Rebirth? I know it takes place a few years after OG (already played) but is interesting that they decided to put it in theaters with “new” info and footage for the new game. Could also just be a cash grab to capitalize and they don’t care at which order new players consume the storyline.

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Have tickets to see Advent Children tonight. Is it worth seeing in terms of something we should know before Rebirth? I know it takes place a few years after OG (already played) but is interesting that they decided to put it in theaters with “new” info and footage for the new game. Could also just be a cash grab to capitalize and they don’t care at which order new players consume the storyline

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Def a way to get some quick $$.

Wife and I watched it again last week and we enjoy it but it’s always just a meh part of the story.

Doesn’t surprise me they are putting new stuff or tying it in to the trilogy so I’d def give it a watch…I’d maybe even read up on Dirge of Cerberus if you haven’t played. They seem to be trying in everything.

Ive never seen it before but wasn’t sure If it was worth going to see it in theaters for the extra stuff included or just renting it for story alone.