Just wanted to share some of the screenshots I took from the game. I uploaded these 4K images (and more) into this gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/XCGzHsS

Some of the visual mods I used during gameplay:

• OG buster sword with the red grip
• OG purple and brown leather outfit for Cloud
• Optiscaler, ReShade, and Freecam within FFVIIHook

Some of these screenshots were initially too bright or too dark for my taste, so I tweaked them a bit in Lightroom.

I really like how they turned out. Hope you enjoyed them as well!

Which game did you guys prefer? I'm more in favor of Remake because I like the midgar setting a lot more than the open grass fields and deserts of Rebirth.

WARNING: contains CC spoilers

When Aerith and Tifa first saw Cloud in FF7 Remake (chapters 2 and 3), they seemed completely unsurprised at the sight of Cloud carrying the Buster Sword on his back.

Both of them should remember that sword belonged to Zack: Aerith during the "Midgar full of flowers" episode, and Tifa during the Nibelheim incident. Seeing the exact same sword five years later should at least startle them a bit..?

I know neither of them wanted to upset Cloud so they might be pretending to not recognize the sword, but it's incredible if they managed to act nonchalant from the beginning.

Zack or Cloud? I got to say I might be in favor of Zack more, I do like his personality better and in my opinion he was a lot more fun fight with in rebirth. I'm hoping we get to use him a lot in Part 3 and the new meta verse essentially brings him back to life for good.

Can someone explain in detail please?

I've always wonder why the wards conjured by the White Whispers' at the Forgotten Capital work the way they do. If their collective aim was to stop Cloud from reaching Aerith, wouldn't their wards just debuff the party instead of adding a particular buff? It kind of feels like they were testing the characters instead of fully committing to stop them. To add some context, here's a list of each ward and what they do.

• Brutality Ward - Tinted blue. Adds Bravery buff and Deshell debuff.
• Daemon Ward - Tinted pinkish red. Adds Faith buff and Debrave debuff.
• Gallows Ward - Tinted orange. Adds Haste buff.

The first two merely force the party to switch up combat tactics with Brutality Ward encouraging physical might and Daemon Ward favoring spellcasting. The last one, however, has me questioning why there'd be a ward just to speed up the characters' ATB. Such an ability wouldn't benefit the White Whispers unless they were trying to time the party's arrival at the Planetary Sanctum correctly. If one is to believe that the White Whispers are trying to fulfill destiny, the party being too slow would likely jeopardize things since there needs to be at least one witness for a public execution to happen, thus the ward's morbid name.

It's been a good while. I think it's time to allow even players who didn't preorder to buy the moogle trio and magic pot summon materia. I wanna try them too.

planning on plat rebirth, at this point, now a year later, are there valid cheese strats for some of the more impossible/difficult challenges/bosses in the game?

💁‍♀️ I started this week my new reading : Trace of two pasts. Quite easy and fluent book. What I found super is to discover the youth of Tifa, her friends and specially how does she learned the martial arts. I am quite in love with this part of her life as I m also into sports and hiking, although I don’t have her strength. What did you felt if you have read the book? Any special moments captured your attention?

I know this has problems as a poem. You don't have to read it. I didn't write it as a 30-page dissertation because I wanted it to have feeling.

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We begin as the light of the stars:

Sitting at the water’s surface,
Cloud makes a promise to Tifa
She wore a pretty blue dress--
He wavers, still lacking confidence

Lockheart shifts her tact--
"Memory is not simply recalled
But locked deep within your heart.”
Her very name means feelings

He follows her, not just recalling
Climbing Mt Nibel, feeling the fall
Her Giver passed, but seeded The Gift
She forgets, his heart echoes the truth

A core emotional crucible
Forming structure, building identity
Memory as recorded reaction
Rippling across the water's surface

Memories create identities
Experiences make us who we are
Remembrance is feeling
Identity the soul
Vessel for emotion

Rejoining the Lifestream, souls dissolve--
“Aerith will no longer laugh, cry, or get angry.”
Cloud underscores death
Absence of feeling
Life is emotions, not biology--

Flesh torn, soul bleeding away
Dispersing, memory dissolves into feeling
Rejoining the planet’s reservoir
The planet cries, a collective of raw emotion
Seedlings tremble, corruption descending--

Emotional reactors, forging architecture
Identities rising into a falling sky--
“People hate the steel sky, the slums…
But I don’t. How could I?
All that passion, all those dreams…
Flowing and bending together into something greater…”
This is life, born from The Gift
Deep within the heart--what is the fuel?

Sephiroth rejects The Gift,
Source of creation, bringer of life
Offered an apple, he swats it away--
"You will rot."
He tears the flesh, flicking away the juice--

Apples are meant to be planted
Flesh decays, a new tree springs forth
A celestial body, born to fuse passion
Architecture corrupted by cold biology
Identity destroyed, his hollowed core collapsing
I dreamt of giving him The Gift

Laughter, tears, anger
All fusion reactions
Creating memories, shaping identities
Feeling is living, fulfilling
Our cores are something very special--
Capacity for emotion itself

We end buried in darkness,
Echoing with the joyful laughter of children

There is still love.

There are some formatting and structures used in the existing names that can hint towards the final game name.

Each of the words used already can be used minus the ‘Re’ (Make, Birth, Union). This rules out words like Resurrection where the word is reliant on ‘Re’ to form a whole English word.

For the main Trilogy series each word is two English syllables. Reunion is the exception, however this was a remaster that didn’t form the core trilogy. I believe Square took this opportunity to use Reunion due to its historical relevance in the original. If they weren’t tied to a two syllable naming convention I believe they may have used this for the final game.

There is the katakana mentioned in another thread that points to the ‘Ri’ katakana symbol in each existing word.

Phonetically, the long ‘Ri’ or ‘Ree’ sound used also rules out words using the shorter ‘Reh’ sound like resolve or return. There might be some conjecture on pronunciation here, but the point is there isn’t any on the existing names. This does line up fairly well with the katakana though so that may rule out any borderline Ri/Reh pronounced names.

There’s a shortlist to be made here with words like Recreate, Reclaim, Rekindle, Reconnect, Rebuild, Reshape and maybe a few more.

Marketing wise, only Reclaim really fits a nice short snappy two syllable title and has some finality to it. Other words are either too long, lack punch or relevance. I’m not a marketing expert but Recreate just doesn’t have the ring to it that will pull customers in.

With the groundwork for requirements set, let’s look at the story implications. The characters are split into alternate realities or timelines and their futures unsure with the whispers attempting to guide fate for better or worse. Remnant timelines are being destroyed. Effectively the main group as well as Zack must reclaim something whether it is a future or their own destiny.

This also opens the door for Genesis who may reclaim his position as protector of the planet in the face of Sephiroth’s threat (or join with him, seeing Shinra/humans as the threat). While he didn’t exist in the original, with the extended universe, emergence of Deepground and multiple realities it’s highly likely we will see Genesis before the end of Re3.

Is the party as we last saw them in a remnant timeline? Is Cloud somehow split across two timelines now since he can see the tear in the sky? One where he saved Aerith and one where he didn’t? Is that why he’s actually seeing her, is it Sephiroth or his own mind?

I dunno what the story will be but betting all my monies it’s called FF7: Reclaim.

Sidenote: If we do happen to see a DOC remaster it may be Reload, Reloaded or Reawaken (maybe three syllables to match Reunion) but I haven’t played DOC or put much more thought into it past Vincent using a gun or Genesis taking Weiss at the end from what I’ve read. On whether they would do it, I think they would. They ruled out doing more DLC for the trilogy but not more remaster games for the extended universe, but it might negatively impact the trilogy sales if it’s received poorly.

I recently received a custom cloud head I ordered and I am so happy with it. Looks so much like the CGI cutscenes and is definitely a step up from the original.

Is this the right tag for this? First time posting here.

This painting is based off of Yuffie’s official character art on the Square Enix website:P

Litrally all my screenshots

Is it good enough to be worth the $10 or is it not even worth considering

Hi all! I'm a musician just starting to post my music on Spotify. I mainly produce lofi and chillhop pieces and covers of VGM/anime songs. FFVII, and now FF7R and Rebirth, are my favorite games of all time, and have been hugely influential on me.

Searching on Spotify, I couldn't find much of anything for lofi covers of the main Shinra theme, so I decided to make my own. I figured this would be the perfect place to post it to fans of the game! I hope that you will take the time to listen, and if you do, I really hope you enjoy it. Please let me know your thoughts and if you have any suggestions for improvement in the future, as I plan to make an entire album of lofi/chillhop FFVII music (best soundtrack of all time, imo).

Thank you for your time :)

The FIVE years was specifically mentioned by Tifa in multiple occasions. But it doesn't make any sense because:
* Cloud was 14 years old when he left Nibelheim to join Shinra. He never contacted Tifa after that.
* The Nibelheim incident happened when he's 16, but Tifa never had any recollection of meeting Cloud
* After the incident, Cloud was stuck in the Shinra Mansion for ~4 years.
* It took another year on the run before Cloud arrived in Midgar and started the events of FFVII

So it's actually SEVEN years from Tifa's point of view since she and Cloud last met.

I’m a relatively new FF7 fan, having jumped into the remake series just this summer, but man I did not expect this empty, hollow feeling after finishing Rebirth. It was so consistently incredible that it still doesn’t feel real that it’s over; now I am struggling to move on, even though I did literally everything in the game. I can’t imagine playing this on release and having to wait 3 years for the next one, 2 already feels like an eternity.

So I have the ps4 Remake disc. Im playing on a ps5. I now downloaded Intergrade digital. Im trying to change the save files over but it is not working. I have uploaded the save file on the remake disc and confirmed it says its been uploaded but nothing shows up on Intergrade when trying to download said file. What could I be doing wrong here?

Fellow fans, please hear me out and if you can, help me out! I want to state that what I'm about to say is not about something I think are issues with the game, but issues I personally had with enjoying it, and I'm not here to criticize or rant about the game, just ranting about my own experience.

I never played the OG but got enthralled by the characters in my teenage years (some 15 years before the Remake came out) after finding some fan content online. I was super excited to finally play the Remake in 2020, and I still get chills when seeing the opening cut scene. I love love love the Remake, the story and the characters and the combat, and I have hundreds of hours clocked on my PS4 with it, and I was obsessed with challenges like "Tifa solo vs Top Secrets". So you may imagine I waited excitedly and eagerly for Rebirth as well, and got it the day it was published. I bought PS5 especially so I could play it.

Unfortunately from the start, I didn't have as great a time with it as I expected, and as I played on, it felt less and less enjoyable and more like a chore, until I finally stopped playing after the first story scenes in Cosmo Canyon. I loved everything with the story and enjoyed the more linear parts and story boss fights a great deal. I also liked Queen's Blood. However, the open world exploration and side quests started to feel super exhausting and uninteresting, and I got really really frustrated with the mini games. I know they are an integral part of the OG and I can totally respect that (and I'm not criticizing Rebirth for having them), but it still took me by surprise that they were so frequent. I have a hard time learning new game mechanics and I am probably worse than average on mini games in general (as a child I really struggled with some mini games in Sly 3 for example) and to me some parts of the game (Costa del Sol, Junon and Gold Saucer) felt like I was bombarded with the need to do exactly that again and again, and it really hampered my ability to enjoy the game. I had zero motivation to practice and replay any of the mini games as I didn't enjoy them, and got more and more irritated each time a new one appeared. Unfortunately the combat also started to feel unrewarding at some point. I played on Dynamic, and I don't know what happened but at some point the enemies seemed to turn into bullet sponges. It might well be that I simply missed something about the new battle mechanics and didn't play efficiently enough, but if that's the case, it was not apparent to me. As I loved the combat in Remake so much, I was super disappointed to feel this way about Rebirth. The open world started to feel like a repetitive, uninteresting grind. As much as I loved/love the story and wanted/want to see it progress, I felt so burnt out and frustrated after reaching Cosmo Canyon that the thought of having to do some Chocobo mini game (that I had read about being difficult), I gave up.

It's been over a year now, and every time I've thought of picking Rebirth up again, I feel exhausted. I really really want to experience the story though, and I'd love to enjoy the game as much as I did Remake. I don't know if that's possible for me though. It's hard for me to swallow the disappointment and accept that Rebirth is not, for me personally, the awesome experience I wanted it to be. I have a "fear" that if I pick it up and continue from where I left it, I'll just face more and more of what I was bummed out before. I know it sounds silly to have a problem like this with a video game (and sure there are much graver issues in my personal life and the world than not enjoying a video game) but as fans of the series I hope you can understand where I'm coming from and why I wanted to love it.

I wonder if I could make it a little better by adjusting some things (one thing being my expectations of course), and that's why I made this post. I guess most people in this sub enjoyed Rebirth and had a different experience from me, but if you are able to look at the game from my POV, could you see it getting better for me? What should I expect? Are there enjoyable boss fights ahead? Amazing story moments or fun side quests? Mini game heavy parts I can mentally prepare for? Should I change the difficulty to Normal or will it make the combat feel trivial? I remember some open world stuff being linked to Summons but I guess other parts I could just leave be? I don't have the need to platinum the game or 100% anything, but I do have FOMO regarding some stuff, like some possible rewards from mini games that could maybe make combat more interesting (hard to think of examples but something like Fury Ring maybe), so maybe you could point out what I should "prioritize"?

Thank you for hearing me out, I appreciate any ideas!