At the top of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Square Enix made it completely clear that no matter lay in retailer for our band of adventures could be considerably totally different from the unique sport. Now that we lastly have our fingers on the second installment within the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, we will verify that there are quite a few variations between it and the ’97 basic. From solely new fight techniques, a plethora of added minigames, and a few pretty massive character alterations, Square Enix has added loads of new options that make the most recent entry really feel contemporary.Below we cowl all the largest adjustments made to the unique Final Fantasy 7 in Rebirth. We’ll begin with the least spoiler-filled adjustments earlier than supplying you with a giant, bolded warning and digging into the juicy stuff. That stated, if you happen to’re attempting to enter the sport with as little info as doable, we suggest you give this a learn after taking part in.
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New materiaLike earlier Final Fantasy 7 entries, materia–orbs of solidified lifestream that grant the wielder distinctive powers–come in 5 totally different varieties. Green materia is most typical, and provides the consumer each offensive and defensive spells. Yellow materia accommodates extra battle instructions, purple gives stat boosts, blue augments no matter materia is hooked up to it, and pink grants the consumer the flexibility to summon gods and creatures that may assist flip the tide of battle. However, whereas this all appears acquainted, Rebirth provides a number of new materia to the combo.To give a number of examples, Fire and Ice and Lighting and Wind materia are new additions that give the consumer two spells whereas solely utilizing one materia slot. Disempowerment and Enervation each give attention to debuffs, with Disempowerment casting Debrave (Attack Down) and Defaith (Defense Down) whereas Enervation casts Deprotect and Deshell. In distinction, Fortification and Empowerment present your staff with Bravery and Faith, in addition to Protect and Shell.Additional new materia contains Subversion, Synergy, Darkside, Auto-Cast, Spare Change, Limit Siphon, Magic Pot, Bahamut Arisen, and extra. Suffice to say, there are numerous mixtures to experiment with.Synergy skillsSynergy skills are a brand new characteristic that see your social gathering members come collectively to dish out highly effective assaults or tide-changing help skills. There are a fairly spectacular variety of these, as every character has three distinctive skills they will carry out with set social gathering members. Cloud, for instance, can use the skills Ranged Blade, Melee Blade, and Counterfire. While Counterfire can be utilized solo, Ranged Blade {couples} with both Red XIII or Barrett, whereas Melee Blade requires both Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, or Cait Sith to make use of.Folio systemHowever, do not assume you need to use each Synergy potential within the sport from the very begin. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth introduces a brand new system (that’s extraordinarily harking back to Final Fantasy X’s Sphere Grid) known as Folios. Folios permit gamers to tailor their character’s fight fashion by cashing in SP (Skill Points) to unlock new strikes, stat buffs, and, after all, Synergy skills. Be warned that it is a fairly tall order to unlock each potential on a personality’s Folio, so we encourage you to look forward and set up your numerous characters’ play kinds early to make issues simpler.Weapon abilitiesIn addition, character’s weapons now have distinctive skills as nicely. Tifa, for instance, can achieve Divekick, Reverse Gale, Starshower, Chi Trap, Unfettered Fury, and True Strike from Leather Gloves, Sylph Gloves, Dragon Claws, Tiger Fangs, Crystal Gloves, and Jarngreipr respectively. By utilizing a specific weapon for a very long time, you possibly can ultimately stage it up, permitting you to make use of its particular potential no matter if that weapon is supplied.Assessing enemiesUnless you might be taking part in on the sport’s lowest/most forgiving problem, assessing your enemies and being attentive to their weaknesses is important. Whereas it was pretty straightforward to stage grind and brute-strength your approach by way of Final Fantasy 7, Rebirth does not let it slide. I like to recommend at the least one particular person in your social gathering carrying an Assess materia and utilizing it every time a sure enemy is supplying you with a tough time. Thankfully, when you scan a sure kind of enemy, you by no means should do it once more, which retains the entire course of from feeling annoying.Relationship statusesWhile it is no secret that ’97 did have a relationship gauge of kinds hidden away inside its code, it is much more express in Rebirth. In Rebirth, your relationship standing with every character is indicated by a small icon situated above their head that you may view at any time by merely urgent L1. Easy methods you possibly can enhance your relationships embody finishing a celebration member’s respective facet quests, that are indicated by their portrait proven subsequent to the search within the sport’s major menu, and by executing a Synergy Ability for the primary time collectively.Additionally, lots of Cloud’s phrases and actions will elicit some sort of response out of your social gathering members, and there’ll even be instances when he’s put able the place he should facet with one character over one other, equivalent to when the thrill-sicking Barrett and motion-sickness-prone Yuffie disagree on a sure technique of transportation. While you will not have the ability to upset a personality to the purpose of leaving, having an excellent relationship does make for higher conversation–and higher dates.Chocobo wranglingChocobos are dealt with fairly a bit otherwise in Rebirth, pun meant. Whereas Final Fantasy 7 required Cloud to equip the Attract Chocobo materia, run up and down chocobo tracks till one appeared in battle, and toss greens on the hen till all different enemies had been defeated and it joined your ranks, Rebirth duties you with finishing a small stealth puzzle. Each area within the sport has a particular, named chocobo with a singular potential that you could sneak up on and catch. To achieve this, you will should duck behind mine carts, keep away from the wandering eyes of its chocobo companions, and use rocks to hit levers and trigger distractions. It’s a enjoyable spin on an outdated system, and do not worry–you’ll nonetheless get the prospect to race all the ones you discover over on the Gold Saucer.So many facet quests, mini video games, and open-world parts Just as Final Fantasy 7 Remake made a once-seven-hour portion of the unique sport take nearer to 40 hours to finish, Rebirth provides numerous content material in its effort to show the basic title into a contemporary, open-world RPG. Naturally, numerous this comes from facet quests, a few of which inject light-hearted humor into the sport, whereas others dig deep into your social gathering member’s backstories and feelings.Rebirth additionally provides numerous exploration parts. Each of the sport’s areas has a number of distinctive areas and websites to discover, equivalent to massive Remnawave towers that grant you space intel, materia-rich Lifesprings, excavation websites, summon sanctuaries, Moogle houses (or Mogstools), and extra. And to get round these areas, you will have to catch the area’s most adept chocobo, which is a whole quest by itself. Suffice to say, you will not be missing issues to do.Lastly, Rebirth is completely packed to the brim with minigames, so this is hoping you want ’em! From the most recent card sport craze, Queen’s Blood, to a brand new model of Fort Condor that transforms your social gathering members again into their earlier, polygonal selves, you will not go lengthy with out being inspired to play, race, and compete.No extra elective social gathering membersLong gone are the times of wandering the woods in the hunt for Yuffie Kisaragi, or slinking about by way of Shinra Manor in hopes of rousing Vincent Valentine from his darkish slumber; In Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, each characters are obligatory social gathering members. While the way in which you recruit them is a bit totally different from the unique and we nonetheless cannot really play as Vincent, it looks as if that is the one massive change Rebirth makes to them.Okay, that is the purpose the place massive spoilers come into play. If you haven’t but completed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, I extremely suggest you achieve this earlier than persevering with. Like I stated, massive spoilers! I’ll be going into the character’s backstories, relationships, and the sport’s general narrative, so learn at your personal threat!Cid Highwind’s backstoryFor essentially the most half, the forged members of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth are practically an identical to their ’97 counterparts, albeit with extra pixels. However, there’s one notable exception: Cid Highwind. While we would nonetheless get the prospect to pop by Rocket Town within the remake trilogy’s remaining installment, Rocket Town, Shera, and Cid’s total backstory are noticeably absent from Rebirth. Instead, Cid is first encountered by the staff once they ship up a smoke sign in hopes {that a} pilot will discover them. Naturally, Cid is that pilot, and acts extra as a way of quick journey fairly than a real social gathering member this time round.Compared to ’97 Cid, Rebirth Cid has extra of a Han Solo-esque persona; he confesses that he does the occasional job for Shinra if the cash is correct, and appears to be primarily pushed by the need for private freedom. Additionally, Cid reveals he was shut with Aerith’s mom, which turns into the explanation that he’s so keen to assist Aerith and the remainder of the staff. Considering the controversy surrounding Cid’s unique backstory, which portrayed Cid as extraordinarily verbally abusive, it is smart that Square Enix is reevaluating his introduction.A confirmed multiverse (And a sort-of-alive-ish Aeirth?)If you performed Remake this assertion might sound a bit foolish, because the existence of parallel timelines was alluded to throughout the sport’s finale. That stated, it is good to have precise affirmation, and it is lastly given to us in Rebirth. In the sport’s remaining chapters, we uncover that Aerith is totally conscious of a number of alternate universes, in addition to the existence of a form of “prime” universe that follows the occasions of Final Fantasy 7. In each universe that isn’t following destiny’s design, an unlimited rift seems within the sky, as is the case with the dimension Biggs and Zack exist in. This turns into attention-grabbing (and regarding) when you think about the sport ends with Cloud primarily present between two dimensions concurrently, as he’s nonetheless wholly perceived by his teammates within the prime dimension however can be the only real social gathering member capable of see and work together with a model of Aerith who lived. While everybody else grieves Aerith and appears up at a transparent sky, Cloud nonetheless sees his companion–as nicely as a rising rift above.Cloud and Tifa’s relationshipIn the unique Final Fantasy 7, there have been a number of issues about Cloud and Tifa’s relationship that felt a bit… off. It was by no means fairly clear, for instance, why the pair did not sit down and focus on what occurred to them in Nibelheim or within the years following. Sure, we will assume that Tifa was stunned by Cloud’s claims, not sure of her personal recollections, and finally remained quiet to make sure her pal’s psyche remained intact, nevertheless it definitely requires numerous filling within the gaps from gamers. Thankfully, Rebirth makes issues much more clear and attention-grabbing.Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth kicks off with Cloud and Tifa being considerably suspicious of one another; Cloud does not perceive how Tifa might have survived being sliced by Sephiorth, whereas Tifa does not perceive how Cloud can vividly recount what occurred in Nibelheim, as she does not recall him being there. While their relationship is not fully tainted by mistrust, the seeds sown within the sport’s first act are reaped repeatedly all through its story and practically result in Tifa’s demise.Furthermore, the pair’s uncertainty in the direction of each other makes Aerith not confronting Cloud about Zack extra affordable as nicely. After watching Cloud battle when confronted with info he does not keep in mind, or that contradicts his personal ideas, Tifa primarily turns into a buffer between Cloud and all this unsavory info. For instance, when Cloud tells Tifa he out of the blue remembers Zack drowning throughout the pair’s remaining mission, Tifa tells Cloud to let her discuss to Aerith about it, claiming that she is nearer to her and might break it extra gently. However, we as gamers can inform she nonetheless doubts what Cloud is saying and is aware of Aerith will, too.And final however definitely not least, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lastly makes it clear that Cloud and Tifa have a deeply romantic relationship. I nonetheless haven’t gotten over their Gold Saucer date. At this level, I think I by no means will.Tifa Gets Time To ShineAnd talking of Tifa, one of many greatest variations between Rebirth and the unique is how a lot consideration and care is given to her character. While the martial arts grasp has all the time been a fan favourite character and one of many sport’s most essential figures, Rebirth offers us the prospect to actually dive into her character. Throughout its chapters, we see her deep bond with Aerith, her concern over Cloud’s deteriorating state, her grief, her confusion, and even her near-death. While I’d argue Rebirth offers extra love to simply about each character, Tifa actually will get some distinctive remedy within the sequence’ newest entry.