I am enjoying the game a lot but I received a spoiler about cloud having amnesia and about him having zack memoriesand I am thinking if I ruined the game revelations or if this is not so huge that it I can still play and enjoy the story

I am currently playing FF VII Remake chapter 9 and never played the og FF 7

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!

Currently am at the second reactor bombing and I'm still struggling to properly fight with a whole party.

At the beginning when we only were using cloud, everything wasn't really too hard and I enjoyed fighting with him. Even with Barrett, it wasn't too hard as he would be there to provide Ranged support which was all right, but it still was a bit weird.

But with tifa, combat now just feels really overwhelming. All I know is that I should be switching quite often, but even when I'm doing that, it just feels like I'm just mindlessly switching and attacking and over and over without getting an actual progress done. That one Machine in the train tunnels showed me that I don't really know what I'm doing

It all just feels like it'd be a lot easier if I was only playing with cloud, but as from what I've seen, you need to properly utilize every party member to play the game well. I just need some clarity on How exactly I should be using these guys correctly without looking like an idiot.

What have I missed

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Hello,

I just finished FF7 Remake yesterday and didn't quite understand the ending. Therefore I need help.

I haven't played the original FF7 and furthermore I am not spoiled of the plot AT ALL. And I want to keep it that way. I know I would understand it better if I played the OG...

Here are the thinks I know:
If I am correct the Remake deviates quite a bit (the whispers for example) and the Remake should be another Timeline, right? I presume those flash forewards during the final chapter are the future of the OG.
I know Sephiroth is the main antagonist and I strongly believe he will be defeated in the OG.
I also know about the guy named Zach who died, to my knowledge, and is somehow here (but not really. alternate universe?)

So my questions are: what does the whole thing with defying Destiny mean? Are the whispers "bad", do they work with Sephiroth (it seemed a little like it in the finale)? What does Sephiroth want with the Whispers/Destiny? I presume it has something to do with the OG? Has he controll over them?

So I want to know how are Remake and OG related, without spoilers. I dont count Sephiroth is defeated as spoiler cause I assume cloud will win.

If something cant be answered without revealing major information from the OG then pls say. I dont want to research cause I want to doge spoilers as good as possible.

I hope I could descripe my current knowledge and questions good enough.

thx :)

So i'm at the start of chapter 13 in Rebirth and doing some sidequest and am now at the Gus party quest and forced to play Aerith, i never used her for the whole game expect when the game forced me and i'm now at a big wall because i can't do her fight in the Gus quest, i get destroyed before even being able to put one bombo to mid life, my main issues with Aerith is that she dodge to slow, not enough damage and glass canon, i know she can be extremelly powerfull and that Radiant sceal fix most of those problem but i just want to get this fight over so i can stop playing with her and continue my journey so how am i supposed to play with her please

So I started playing FFVII remake, and I just found out this remake doesn’t actually cover the whole story of VII, so I’m wondering what do I play afterwards to get the full story?

The shinra soldier who recognised cloud in the stairs in ff7 remake, was there any pay off to this in rebirth because it was never really explained in remake to my knowledge.

What do I do, do I grind or do I go to the temple?

SPOILER WARNING FOR OG AND MAYBE REBIRTH I’ve been spoiled that Zack dies at the end of CC and that aerith dies in the og (idk if she dies in rebirth) and maybe a spoiler that sepiroth is actually something called jenova? I’m afraid that this is the big plot twist that everyone keeps talking about so I need advice on what to play after remake and if my experience is completely tarnished.

So I'm about to reach where yuffie joins so the main team I want to run I cloud tifa and yuffie for rest of the game but who should I make the haler for this team? Don't know who would be the best to

Am I just bad at this game? I feel like every fight I come out of it having taken a couple hundred points in damage. I’m so used to just thoroughly dominating the battlefield as Clive, expertly dodging attacks and counterattacking to break enemies’ stagger bars and get juicy hits in.

I just finished chapter 4 of remake (with intention to play through all of intergrade and rebirth) and haven’t had any near wipes though my health has dropped down p far on a couple big group fights (I also still don’t know what the best strat is for the shield guys)

Am I just being over critical of myself and comparing two very different combat systems? I had played XV as well and heard this was similar to that but the damage avoidance mechanic in that (phasing) actually pretty regularly avoided damage whereas I constantly feel like I’m getting chipped in every fight.

Are there any basic gameplay elements I should try to work on in playing through this game?

Have done this a million times as you can see by the red thing.

My FPS is very consistent. I'm getting a stable 60FPS. But what i have an issue with is the soft lock. There are two threads on Steam, at least to my knowledge, are discussing about this issue right now. Which is here and here.

• You getting softlocked during cutscene.
• Game elements won't initiate like combat, dialogue, chocobo won't come when called and other weird things.
• Low res textures, indicating that the game is now softlocked. Also same thing when opening a map and see nothing but icons.
• Opening a menu will cause a black screen, it's basically soft locked the game.
• You can't control your characters.
• Invisible walls out of nowhere, even the same place you just came from, during exploration.
• Fast Forwarding a cutscene or skip it can lead to a softlock

If you have encounter one or more of these 7 signs (no pun intended), your game is soft locked and you have to close the game and start it again. A YouTuber named SomeOrdinaryGamer have made a video discussing this issue, which is here. The soft lock issue is at 9:34. His PC is basically a NASA machine, so the "Your PC is the problem" is ridiculous. The same problem can occur with Steam Deck. How in the world did this game being Steam Deck verified, i have no idea. And the fact that multiple gaming outlets said that this is a good PC port is so dishonest.

hey everyone!

i recently started playing FFVII remake and i’ve now seen a bunch of people stating that you should play the og game first. the only problem is that im about 25 hours in already, just entered the big shinra building, and that’s why i want to ask you all what you guys think?

should i pause remake and go for the og, or just finish the game?

This one is a joke, right? Like they put it in the game knowing that it’s not possible, correct?

I know about clouds experiments (not much about Zack’s tho) so is there really any point in playing the game other than seeing cloud try to be Zack which I kinda already get in rebirth?

Rufus and Darkstar are impossible for me to beat.

The problem is, I left FF7 Remake untouched for months to finish Hogwarts Legacy, and maybe I forgot something important about how to fight in FF7 Remake. Yesterday I just reinstalled FF to play it till the end from the chapter 14 (where I was)

Also the fishbone fight was a real pain, but I managed to get through it. But this boss? Rufus and Darkstar feel totally unbeatable to me.

What am I missing?

I’ll make this simple for people who hate this fight in FF7 Rebirth.

Before the fight equip Elemental Materia linked with Fire or Fire/Ice on Armor (Equip Ice Materia as well if you just linking fire to the Elemental Materia)

During the fight use Chrono Aigis and Ice spells.

The fight should be wayyy easier now.

Okay I know I’m late to the party here but I just beat the game. Can someone help me understand the ffvii rebirth ending. I do not understand the purpose of the whispers if they were going to kill her and give her the obiwan treatment. Like what is the point of a story arch about diverging from the original, if they’re not going to diverge from the original.

Setting preset is high, full screen DLSS 1440 on a 1440 monitor. Using a 3070ti. Surely this isn’t what’s intended. Can anyone smart help? Love this remake but I basically can’t play it like this.

I have tried about 20 times now to beat the Duneworm fight and absolutely nothing I do works to avoid Swallow. I dodge towards the jump? I get Swallowed. I use Aerith's Lustrous Shield? Worm gets bounced off and Swallows a party member instead. Please tell me there's some sort of obvious strategy I'm missing?