Kalm is a big ass and populated city but you can seamlessly go from the Region Map into the city and there is no loading screen is insanely incredible. It makes the world feels so connected.
@Sctn187 I was presently surprised to find that out, I thought maybe they used the cruise ship to act as a huge loading zone to load the rest of the game but no the entire map is connected with no loading zones, you can travel from calm to nibelheim with no loading at all
I think there is a little loading when you get on and off the bronco but it's to load in npcs mostly I think. You can even see materials to pick up from the bronco! It is absolutely the same seamless world and that blew me away
Man, I love those comparison vids! I have never played the OG, but while playing both the Remake and Rebirth, I often thought there is no way certain parts could have been in the OG too. It's amazing how massive the OG was back in the day!!
Thats why FF7 was so profound. It was massive and very ahead of its time. It's developers only limited by the hardware limitations. With this remake the devs (whom many of the original developers are on this project) are able to add just about everything they had invisioned.
I love how they just decided to expand every location and make it bigger. When I first played the OG, I would imagine different sections of the locations because sometimes (like in Junon) things just didn't connect properly with the small bits (technical limitations, yeah), so I would just start to imagine what the rest of it would look like. Rebirth did a great job of bringing those to life and actually do it better than I had in my head. A lot of the changes (like Mythril Mine and Cosmo Canyon) are also really cool and just make the world feel more organic to me. Really looking forward to the rest of the locations in Part 3 and seeing how they expand them or even add a bit to the ones we'll return to.
@@stoney2271 if you think i will prove something like that To someone on the internet than you are stupid. The OG was masterpiece and the remake did not catch the magic. The materia system is just cosmetics with no interesting comibations, the best one are decided by the developers. The bosses are hit or Miss, theres section in the game with horrible by desing (caith sith section or gongaga map and almost each minigame) the world is just boring and repetitive. Sidequest are not interesting. Best part of the music is the original themes. The ending which supose to be dramatic was just action setpiece with 10 bosses to fight. Even thi batlle system was better and more satisfying in remake than rebirth... imo it was not Worth it but I understand why ppl liked it. Im just not one of them. It look good and thats it.. From this game i demand much more ambition and greatness.
6:21 - that bar with Rude was in the original. I can't quite remember if its occupants were all bald, but I think they were. Edit: Just checked, they were all bald! Except the barkeep. They even do the same weird hand movement polishing their skulls. Rude invites you to join if you take off your "mask"
6:20 the bald bar is not entirely new. If you explore around Junon in the OG you can find Rude at a bar playing cards with several other bald NPCs and they have dialog indicating they are all part of a club
@ 4:31 it's actually an acoustic bass guitar, that's why it's so big. You can tell because there are four notches in the head of the guitar, for four strings. Hence, it's a bass.
I replayed Crisis Core after Rebirth & am currently playing through the OG. Some minor details I wouldn't have remembered that are recreated - the beach battle sequence in Costa del Sol; there is a set of missions in Crisis Core that start out identically. The area looks the same, Zack runs out and grabs the same umbrella off the ground and charges in. And the external appearance of the moogle houses are nearly exact replicas of the one in the Mog House Gold Saucer game in the OG. Such great work.
I beat CC recently and that game was such a disappointment, everything about it is just basic. It was made for a PSP and nothing else. Boring map, quests, story, missions.
@@WheeledHamster Agreed, it is a boring slog, especially after Rebirth. I pretty much ignored the missions and just ran through it for the story in ~14 hours. No way I'm 100%ing that absurd pile of garbage missions.
@@WheeledHamsterah that makes me sad to read as I do really enjoy Zack’s story and how it weaves in with the original Ff7 characters. I can understand disliking Genesis but the game has a lot of merit to it
@jaz4742While it does spoil some things, I would argue that it adds to the experience (for me anyway) to be even more curious about things. These games (Remake and Rebirth) are incredible games, but it does add something special to the experience to have played the OG. Not important to everyone of course, but for me knowing (roughly) what will happen is not an issue, especially not compared to the excitement of revisiting and reliving certain parts.
@jaz4742remake, rebirth and the untitled 3rd entry and basically sequels to the original game and whilst they have a good amount of original story beats and locations, it definitely adds to the experience if you have played the original. Also not gonna spoil anything but there are some dramatic moments that really hit home in the original that are skipped or changed.
@Flandrew The clocktower IS accessible in the original FFVII. I replayed FFVII PS1 a few weeks ago and found the entrance to it. I couldn't believe I didn't know about it after all these years!
I had no idea that the machine in t he center of Kalm was just a mako pump, I always though it was a miniature reactor, that was a cool bit of world building.
Its absolutely breathtaking if you grew up playing ff7 when the graphics were the top of the line and seeing the love and care put into every inch of this world. It's so far above and beyond anything i could have expected.
There is something charming about the prerendered graphics, but there's no denying the new one is beautiful. I'd like to see more videos comparing originals and remakes.
They went all out on this game, just a few annoying flaws thats it. Towns feel really alive, boss theme when it plays the remix battle theme when you like fight the giant snake was nostalgic and really epic.
Thank you for the comparison vid. As an avid fan that's played the OG many times. I forgot a lot of these events that happened. This is a great refresher imo. Thanks again. 😊😊
Near the end of disk two before rebirth started but haven't played in awhile Cause I need to raise chocobo for cloud and its long. also the Vincent side quest
While I DEFINITELY miss Fort Condor being a visitable location, as it’s one of my favorite locations, hopefully (like Rocket-town and Mideel missing from the map, even though you wouldn’t visit it quite yet) they are saving them for Part 3,
They are probably gonna add or expand the missing locations in Part 3. Rocket Town, Icicle Inn and the northern snowlands, Wutai, Mideel region and Fort Condor, the Ancient Forest of Frogs, not to mention all the underwater locations like Gelnika. We also have to revisit Junon and Midgar. Cid and Vincent will also become playable in the 3rd part. I wanna see how they deal with the Weapon battles, some of which were superbosses in the original. It would be intresting to see the missing summons also, Bahamut Zero, Hades and especially Knights of The Round(How will that work?). They will probably add some new summons.
As much as I like Rebirth and its absolutely amazing zones, I was a little disappointed that the Junon are wasn't a little more vast. I was so excited about leaving the mithril mine and then maybe seeing that huge cannon somewhere in the background. Was a slight bummer to have it right in front of you
I think there is a slight squishing of that continent, maybe 30 degrees around the river but, you come out of the mithril mines much further north in rebirth regardless. If you look at the OG map it's the same features comparable maybe not 1:1 but maybe a 2:1 scale combined with the party being rendered in their correct proportions. That's kind of insane when you think of it. If we get a full, 360 degree rendered sphere to traverse via airship this will be, and kind of already is the best final fantasy game yet
@@theloniuspunk383 I have to say I was pretty impressed when you get the Tiny Bronco and you can actually cross the ocean to get to the other continent. Like, I absolutely didn't expect this was going to be a thing. The zones obviously don't revolutionize open world areas, but they are pretty big and detailed, and apart from going from Corel region over to Gongaga, I was convinced that all the other areas are instanced. They really are going to make this a fully accessible world map, it seems.
My only real gripe was that some areas got closed off after certain events. I really don't care if it makes sense story wise, I'd like to go back in and look around. A place being blown up is one thing, but these areas are still there. They're so big and detailed that it feels like a waste to not let us explore them.
@@Renoistic I'm hoping so too, especially since some important stuff still happens there. I know there's chapter select but I'd rather that not be necessary.
This looks amazing! Such a beautiful game ... Idk why RUclips is only just showing me your FF uploads because i thought I had seen all your videos 😒 I love your content brah, keep up the amazing work 🙌🏽
Wait, you can see Midgar from the top of the clock tower? Sorry, it’s just that the footage you showed at that moment doesn’t show that (or at least, not that I saw.) still adore this video and all of yours, regardless 🙂
Truly amazing what they did. Just amazing, epic, location after location. I was stunned. I only wish each area didn’t have exactly the same side content and that they changed it up a bit… maybe leave some areas as more linear. But overall, amazing. 9.5/10
I don't think that's really true. It's really only the signal towers, shrines and lifesprings that repeat. The hunts , Proto Relic quests, Side missions, miningames and Queens blood matches are all unique.
When I played the game I wanted to make that kinda video but was too lazy to even try 😂 Great job, Rebirth is such an achievement in world design/remaking. I think nothin beats the sense of scale, depth of world building and overall details (visually and dialog wise) of this game this gen imo
Thanks for this but you kind of glossed over that huge ascent of Mt. Nibel, which I especially loved (more particularly, the music here and other music, which Nobuo Uematsu San was the composer for).
Really one of the most impressive fantasy worlds ever put into video game form (the Rebirth version specifically). Loved the world design element of the game.
Plenty of things I either loved and disliked about the game, but I was really looking forward to the City of Ancients. Was severely disappointed that they bloated the temple and made City of Ancients unexplorable.
If I had a nickel for every JRPG released in 2024 with a seaside resort city you can explore by Segway I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Sooo you can actually go into the ‘clock tower’ in OG although it’s not actually a ‘clock tower’ in that version. It is where you get a gun for Vincent. You can then ‘look out the window’ and you’ll appear from the outside shot, standing in the window.
I am 36 and I remember trading my cousin NBA Jam and some pogs for FF7 on PlayStation and it was my favorite game of all time. Just playing Remake and Rebirth has been an incredibly nostalgic experience. Square Enix please remake FF10 now!
Could have mentioned that the temple of ancients are in a total different locations. In ff7o, the temple is in the south, the woodland area while ff7 rebirth is in the north...
it would have been interesting if the city of the ancients was another region to explore with 4 sidequests and a few other things just to use what it is but idk if this would not be actual bloat
Just a little thing I noticed. The bald bar Rude is a part of in Rebirth is absolutely in the original, they just aren't as overt with it being a bar for bald people.
The last place I left off in this game was after the Tiny Bronco breaks down on the way to Gold Saucer to get the key to the temple, so needless to say I'm very nervous about getting to the City of the Ancients, because I'm not ready to say goodbye to Aerith but also I'm going to be very angry if she DOESN'T die.
In the original you basically go there for 5 minutes to pick up Cid and his plane and then don't actually do anything important there until Disc 2. Since they didn't want to model and design the whole place only to have the story not take place until the next game, they just have Cid meet the group in Gongaga instead and are presumably saving Rocket Town for the next game.
@@NeinDao Remake is only the opening Midgar prologue, Rebirth is from the Nibelheim flashback to the end of Disc 1 (minus Rocket Town and with a very abridged version of the City of the Ancients) The third game will presumably be Disc's 2 and 3.
As a FF7 fan ,Rebirth is what I always wanted. FF7 Remake should have been much shorter and included with FF 7 Rebirth. Hopefully they will join the two one day with a shorter prologue. Rebirth is really fabulous it feels like FF ,I love all the additions, side activities are actually fun and combat is much more improved. The world ,maps, aesthetics,graphics all of it is stunning imo. This is what FF16 should have been combat wise.
I'm a 49-year-old gamer from Japan. The evolution of technology is incredible. On a different note, it's baffling that the game isn't selling at all in Japan, and there are rumors that the final installment might not even be released. I just hope they reconsider. Not releasing the final installment might tarnish their credibility... By the way, I've just arrived in Niflheim."😊
I continuously question the wisdom of building and releasing video games that are so cluttered with filler content. I think there is a massive market opportunity for highly polished games with a decent amount of high quality content and minimal boring filler. I'm not sure that a bunch of new side quests was a good choice for a FF7 Remake.
Yeah, finding that balance between quality content and avoiding filler can be tricky. Everyone has different preferences when it comes to gaming experiences. Some enjoy the added depth of side quests, while others prefer a more streamlined story. It's all about catering to a diverse player base. Personally, I appreciate when developers focus on polishing the main storyline while still offering optional content for those who want it. Variety is key in keeping players engaged, don't you think?
Cid runs an airfare service, basically, that's how. You find an airstrip and send up a smoke signal and he'll pick you up, at least until the Tiny Bronco breaks down later on. Cid is pretty neat and I don't mind that you meet him outside of Rocket Town this time, though I do wish it was in the game, but then again most of the important stuff that happens in Rocket Town happened in Disc 2, and Rebirth basically covers the rest of Disc 1 after Midgar, which actually was about half the game since Disc 3 didn't have much on it.
Nothing happen in forgotten capital aside from aerith death and getting lunar harp minecraft style would be waste of time. It would kill the pacing on the final moments which should be the higher of highs.
I feel like the only area I didn't like was Gongaga. All the locations felt nicely fleshed out, I enjoyed the mini game variety, and the only thing that made this feel off is (again) the third part of the final chapter.
I dont care how big ff7 rebirth was, you justy doesnt just cut out rocket town. the whole town was ironic for many reasons, lead us to space (which was a very cool scene back in 97) but also because... cid, his whole life depression started there, THE REASON HE IS SO ANGRY IS BECAUSE OF THAT TOWN, and the fact that he dreamed about space, and had to wake up in "rocket town" every day and be reminded when his "wife" who he also lives with, prevented him from taking off in the rocket which shinra refused to fire up again.
I mean its all nice that the locations now feel like proper locations and not like the "city" with 3 houses or somh...BUT just the amount of "puzzles" and "minigames" that have been put there that add nothing but are suppose to give you the sense of "more content" puts me off. I don't mind good sidequest but stupid filler stuff just to "make game bigger" is annoying and deviates you from the main goal.
Rebirths a great game, but cutting CIDs story completely and then being unable to explore the city of the ancients was a big L, specially when they spent so much time designing Kalm.
Cid shows up too late in this game to have time for any real development. They're almost definitely leaving Rocket Town and his back story for Part 3. Same thing they did with Red XIII at the end of Part 1.
It’s funny seeing the entire northern areas all covered in clouds I know that area is still under development right now till they finally release part III
Having beaten the main story I'm happy with Rebirth as a whole. Some areas were just too large, Gongaga and Cosmo Canyon. The mini games were out of control. I definitely miss some of the details from the original.
I wish they had spent less energy on Kalm and Gongaga, and added more of the city of the ancients and RocketTown. They didn’t need to make the game as big as it was with all of the side quests…
Rockstar: *Removes Mexico from Red Dead Redemption 2* Square Enix: Rockstar can I copy your homework? Rockstar: Sure but not word-for-word Square Enix: *Removes Wutai from Rebirth*
The expanded areas arent so bad.... that being said, there is bloat. The forced slowdown areas, and unnecessary added sequences sometime detract from the original intent. Midgar swarmr for one, and cruise ship. Got other examples but ill save em. In remake the worst part was plate drop. What was once a mad scramble in a panic to stop an atrocity only to fail and lose EVERYONE! Turns into a 1 hour thing where we slowly walk through and manage to somehow save everyone..... shinra went from psychos who murdered a whole burough to people who just caused property damage. Major cop-out. Maybe in 20 - 30 years it'll get another remake and they'll bridge the gap between the versions .... or make it worse lol
I’m curious about what you all think of the differences. I don’t have a PS5 but I’ve been playing the OG every few years since it came out. While Rebirth definitely looks amazing, I prefer the mood that the environments conveyed in the original. What do you think?
It just felt less anime than OG. In OG there are alot of anime goofy moments that dont make sense in remake they made a bit more sense but still anime af.
I've beat 4 ff games 7 9 10 and 16 but I've beat 7 like 10 plus times and beat all weapons 7 graphicly even at its time left a lot to be desired and not to sound band wagon but it truly is the best the story the time period everything. Behind that 9 is my second fav and pumped for it's remake. I was hoping 7 would be turn based so hopefully 9 will just be enhanced graphics the remakes are good but they are not challenging at all
Actually you can access the clock tower in the original FF7. I didn't even know that until after my second time playing the game. Nothing interesting happens though, you just see Cloud's head.
Kalm is a big ass and populated city but you can seamlessly go from the Region Map into the city and there is no loading screen is insanely incredible. It makes the world feels so connected.
The entire world is interconnected with no loading once you get the tiny branco it actually is all one huge section of the world map from the original
@Sctn187 I was presently surprised to find that out, I thought maybe they used the cruise ship to act as a huge loading zone to load the rest of the game but no the entire map is connected with no loading zones, you can travel from calm to nibelheim with no loading at all
I think there is a little loading when you get on and off the bronco but it's to load in npcs mostly I think. You can even see materials to pick up from the bronco! It is absolutely the same seamless world and that blew me away
For what it's worth, we've had the technology to do that for over 20 years now. Would be pretty embarassing if they couldn't pull it off.
@@Llortnerof We've not had the technology to include this many assets in one singular loaded environment for 20 years. Quit speaking out your ass.
Man, I love those comparison vids! I have never played the OG, but while playing both the Remake and Rebirth, I often thought there is no way certain parts could have been in the OG too. It's amazing how massive the OG was back in the day!!
You would understand if you see how much disc they need to make OG FF VII.
Better go play it. Its no more than 20hrs if you play with speedup
get og played asap,its a work of art and it makes playing the new remakes better cause you get to know stuff without knowing whats coming next
Thats why FF7 was so profound. It was massive and very ahead of its time. It's developers only limited by the hardware limitations. With this remake the devs (whom many of the original developers are on this project) are able to add just about everything they had invisioned.
me too its amazing to see it! cant wait to play the og after the third and final game comes out
I love how they just decided to expand every location and make it bigger. When I first played the OG, I would imagine different sections of the locations because sometimes (like in Junon) things just didn't connect properly with the small bits (technical limitations, yeah), so I would just start to imagine what the rest of it would look like. Rebirth did a great job of bringing those to life and actually do it better than I had in my head. A lot of the changes (like Mythril Mine and Cosmo Canyon) are also really cool and just make the world feel more organic to me. Really looking forward to the rest of the locations in Part 3 and seeing how they expand them or even add a bit to the ones we'll return to.
Supposedly Wutai will be an entire continent instead of just an island, can’t wait lol
What Square has accomplished is just breathtaking, the locations are so beautiful!
Unfortunetly they made this beautyfull game extremely annoying and repetitive... still it is beautyful to look at
@@kraszoskithat’s your opinion, most OG fans enjoy it
@@stoney2271 i am OG fan and i disagree but sure i understand that i am in minority here which is kind a sad imo but whatever...
@@kraszoski it’s sad to see childhood characters brought back to life in a cinematic masterpiece?? There’s no way you’re OG😂 and that’s fine
@@stoney2271 if you think i will prove something like that To someone on the internet than you are stupid. The OG was masterpiece and the remake did not catch the magic. The materia system is just cosmetics with no interesting comibations, the best one are decided by the developers. The bosses are hit or Miss, theres section in the game with horrible by desing (caith sith section or gongaga map and almost each minigame) the world is just boring and repetitive. Sidequest are not interesting. Best part of the music is the original themes. The ending which supose to be dramatic was just action setpiece with 10 bosses to fight. Even thi batlle system was better and more satisfying in remake than rebirth... imo it was not Worth it but I understand why ppl liked it. Im just not one of them. It look good and thats it.. From this game i demand much more ambition and greatness.
6:21 - that bar with Rude was in the original. I can't quite remember if its occupants were all bald, but I think they were.
Edit: Just checked, they were all bald! Except the barkeep.
They even do the same weird hand movement polishing their skulls. Rude invites you to join if you take off your "mask"
Very cool, I never even realized that!
6:20 the bald bar is not entirely new. If you explore around Junon in the OG you can find Rude at a bar playing cards with several other bald NPCs and they have dialog indicating they are all part of a club
Fort Condor is optional in disc 1, it’s mandatory in disc 2 during the huge materia quest.
The Bald Bar was actually in the original game, it was just more obvious with the Japanese translation.
I can’t tell if you’re serious or making a Red XIII voice joke lmao
@@elic9449 they're being serious, they do the head rub n everything
@@elic9449you see rude walk into it and everything. There’s less focus in the og but u can go inside there
Could also mention that the Mythril Mine was turned into a museum in this game, showing what was done with it after it clsoed.
@ 4:31 it's actually an acoustic bass guitar, that's why it's so big. You can tell because there are four notches in the head of the guitar, for four strings. Hence, it's a bass.
I replayed Crisis Core after Rebirth & am currently playing through the OG. Some minor details I wouldn't have remembered that are recreated - the beach battle sequence in Costa del Sol; there is a set of missions in Crisis Core that start out identically. The area looks the same, Zack runs out and grabs the same umbrella off the ground and charges in. And the external appearance of the moogle houses are nearly exact replicas of the one in the Mog House Gold Saucer game in the OG. Such great work.
I beat CC recently and that game was such a disappointment, everything about it is just basic. It was made for a PSP and nothing else. Boring map, quests, story, missions.
@@WheeledHamster Agreed, it is a boring slog, especially after Rebirth. I pretty much ignored the missions and just ran through it for the story in ~14 hours. No way I'm 100%ing that absurd pile of garbage missions.
@@WheeledHamsterah that makes me sad to read as I do really enjoy Zack’s story and how it weaves in with the original Ff7 characters. I can understand disliking Genesis but the game has a lot of merit to it
Love these comparisons videos . I haven’t played the original
You've missed out get to it
@@mikeCarter-xo4us no
@jaz4742While it does spoil some things, I would argue that it adds to the experience (for me anyway) to be even more curious about things. These games (Remake and Rebirth) are incredible games, but it does add something special to the experience to have played the OG.
Not important to everyone of course, but for me knowing (roughly) what will happen is not an issue, especially not compared to the excitement of revisiting and reliving certain parts.
@jaz4742remake, rebirth and the untitled 3rd entry and basically sequels to the original game and whilst they have a good amount of original story beats and locations, it definitely adds to the experience if you have played the original.
Also not gonna spoil anything but there are some dramatic moments that really hit home in the original that are skipped or changed.
@jaz4742 original story line. Not this shitty new one
@Flandrew The clocktower IS accessible in the original FFVII. I replayed FFVII PS1 a few weeks ago and found the entrance to it. I couldn't believe I didn't know about it after all these years!
I had no idea that the machine in t he center of Kalm was just a mako pump, I always though it was a miniature reactor, that was a cool bit of world building.
Its absolutely breathtaking if you grew up playing ff7 when the graphics were the top of the line and seeing the love and care put into every inch of this world. It's so far above and beyond anything i could have expected.
There is something charming about the prerendered graphics, but there's no denying the new one is beautiful. I'd like to see more videos comparing originals and remakes.
They went all out on this game, just a few annoying flaws thats it. Towns feel really alive, boss theme when it plays the remix battle theme when you like fight the giant snake was nostalgic and really epic.
Thank you for the comparison vid. As an avid fan that's played the OG many times. I forgot a lot of these events that happened. This is a great refresher imo. Thanks again. 😊😊
It’s so wild reading comments saying, “I haven’t played the original.”
Near the end of disk two before rebirth started but haven't played in awhile
Cause I need to raise chocobo for cloud and its long. also the Vincent side quest
I didnt
Why? It didnt age well graphically. Story is fantastic, but id never go back
Well, the game IS almost 30 years old. I doubt anyone played the first Mario game either lol
@@davidthornhill6642 i did
While I DEFINITELY miss Fort Condor being a visitable location, as it’s one of my favorite locations, hopefully (like Rocket-town and Mideel missing from the map, even though you wouldn’t visit it quite yet) they are saving them for Part 3,
They are probably gonna add or expand the missing locations in Part 3. Rocket Town, Icicle Inn and the northern snowlands, Wutai, Mideel region and Fort Condor, the Ancient Forest of Frogs, not to mention all the underwater locations like Gelnika. We also have to revisit Junon and Midgar. Cid and Vincent will also become playable in the 3rd part. I wanna see how they deal with the Weapon battles, some of which were superbosses in the original. It would be intresting to see the missing summons also, Bahamut Zero, Hades and especially Knights of The Round(How will that work?). They will probably add some new summons.
I wish they would’ve opened the game up with Intergrade’s Kalm ending & allowing us to run into Kalm. For that night experience.
I don't. I wouldn't want to start the game being thrown on the map. Glad Intergrade took care of that.
As much as I like Rebirth and its absolutely amazing zones, I was a little disappointed that the Junon are wasn't a little more vast. I was so excited about leaving the mithril mine and then maybe seeing that huge cannon somewhere in the background. Was a slight bummer to have it right in front of you
I think there is a slight squishing of that continent, maybe 30 degrees around the river but, you come out of the mithril mines much further north in rebirth regardless. If you look at the OG map it's the same features comparable maybe not 1:1 but maybe a 2:1 scale combined with the party being rendered in their correct proportions. That's kind of insane when you think of it. If we get a full, 360 degree rendered sphere to traverse via airship this will be, and kind of already is the best final fantasy game yet
@@theloniuspunk383 I have to say I was pretty impressed when you get the Tiny Bronco and you can actually cross the ocean to get to the other continent. Like, I absolutely didn't expect this was going to be a thing. The zones obviously don't revolutionize open world areas, but they are pretty big and detailed, and apart from going from Corel region over to Gongaga, I was convinced that all the other areas are instanced. They really are going to make this a fully accessible world map, it seems.
Yall mfs never satisfied
I love the comparison videos. I'd like more Final Fantasy content
Rebirth is a very act of love for the classic, everything is more beautiful and bigger.
My only real gripe was that some areas got closed off after certain events. I really don't care if it makes sense story wise, I'd like to go back in and look around. A place being blown up is one thing, but these areas are still there. They're so big and detailed that it feels like a waste to not let us explore them.
Yeah let's be honest, half of us at like 8-12 years old playing the original didn't even understand half of what was going on
You will probably be able to explore them in part 3. Can't wait!
@@Renoistic
I'm hoping so too, especially since some important stuff still happens there. I know there's chapter select but I'd rather that not be necessary.
Never had an interest in FF but am always happy to enjoy a Flandrew video every Sunday :) that lady really did have a big guitar haha
I played the OG, but that was over 20 years ago! So seeing this is amazing, looked as far as I've played now before I revisit here :D
This looks amazing! Such a beautiful game ...
Idk why RUclips is only just showing me your FF uploads because i thought I had seen all your videos 😒
I love your content brah, keep up the amazing work 🙌🏽
Would be nice to have a small segment comparing soundtracks for each location
11:46 This is really random but I laughed harder than I should on this part lol.
Wait, you can see Midgar from the top of the clock tower? Sorry, it’s just that the footage you showed at that moment doesn’t show that (or at least, not that I saw.) still adore this video and all of yours, regardless 🙂
for ps1 it's almost magical to have all of these + best soundtrack for that time
Since you missed it in Corel there are some thugs that follow you and they appear in both the remake and the original game too.
I'm from Brazil, I really like your analysis, they're very cool👍🏿👍🏿
It's amazing how much was expanded, except for City of the Ancients just being a few steps away to a long ass boss fight.
Love all the places! Saucer, Cosmo, and Junon are just incredible
I'd love it if you did every mainline Final Fantasy game
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Truly amazing what they did. Just amazing, epic, location after location. I was stunned. I only wish each area didn’t have exactly the same side content and that they changed it up a bit… maybe leave some areas as more linear. But overall, amazing. 9.5/10
I don't think that's really true. It's really only the signal towers, shrines and lifesprings that repeat.
The hunts , Proto Relic quests, Side missions, miningames and Queens blood matches are all unique.
1:02 is that who the cook in Nibelheim in rebirth is based off of? because they honestly look somewhat similar
Love this video and the comparisons
Even with the scale of this game, there are no loading screens or wait times. Insane.
I love it! Since I’m still new to playing the original game as a remake version, this will make go, “how the heck I miss that though?”
4:16 This is one of my favorite jokes I’ve seen in awhile. I’ll never un-see that. I’m a simple man, apparently 😂🙂
When I played the game I wanted to make that kinda video but was too lazy to even try 😂 Great job, Rebirth is such an achievement in world design/remaking. I think nothin beats the sense of scale, depth of world building and overall details (visually and dialog wise) of this game this gen imo
Man, i can't tell you how many times I've played through and beaten the original FF7 and I've never once seen a roller-coaster, shooter mini game.
Tell me you didnt play gold saucer without telling me 😂
Was that a Singer F series sewing machine, in Cosmo Canyon?
Thanks for this but you kind of glossed over that huge ascent of Mt. Nibel, which I especially loved (more particularly, the music here and other music, which Nobuo Uematsu San was the composer for).
Really one of the most impressive fantasy worlds ever put into video game form (the Rebirth version specifically). Loved the world design element of the game.
Plenty of things I either loved and disliked about the game, but I was really looking forward to the City of Ancients. Was severely disappointed that they bloated the temple and made City of Ancients unexplorable.
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I would like to hear your thoughts on FF8 as that game has turned 25 and would be interesting to hear your thoughts
didnt they put the iconic blue tile ground in calm? is the music still there? what the
If I had a nickel for every JRPG released in 2024 with a seaside resort city you can explore by Segway I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
It’s just phenomenal bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sooo you can actually go into the ‘clock tower’ in OG although it’s not actually a ‘clock tower’ in that version. It is where you get a gun for Vincent. You can then ‘look out the window’ and you’ll appear from the outside shot, standing in the window.
it’s the shotgun right
That’s an acoustic bass brother
Can’t wait to see Wutai and Mideel.
Thx for doing this. Highly interesting.
I am 36 and I remember trading my cousin NBA Jam and some pogs for FF7 on PlayStation and it was my favorite game of all time. Just playing Remake and Rebirth has been an incredibly nostalgic experience. Square Enix please remake FF10 now!
Why? FFX is perfect the way it is. More filler won't make it any better.
If anything, they should create a remake of FFVI or FFVIII.
Could have mentioned that the temple of ancients are in a total different locations. In ff7o, the temple is in the south, the woodland area while ff7 rebirth is in the north...
I like in upper Junon there is a souvenir shop. And you can see Sister Ray model kits.
You can access the tower in Kalm by the way.
it would have been interesting if the city of the ancients was another region to explore
with 4 sidequests and a few other things just to use what it is
but idk if this would not be actual bloat
11:48 😂😂😂 when I saw this during my playthrough, I laughed so hard. Who the fuck blocks the staircase with pots?
Thank you for this video
Just a little thing I noticed. The bald bar Rude is a part of in Rebirth is absolutely in the original, they just aren't as overt with it being a bar for bald people.
Tango of Tears and The Nightmare Begins are references to music tracks in the original FF VII.
The last place I left off in this game was after the Tiny Bronco breaks down on the way to Gold Saucer to get the key to the temple, so needless to say I'm very nervous about getting to the City of the Ancients, because I'm not ready to say goodbye to Aerith but also I'm going to be very angry if she DOESN'T die.
Why is the rocket village gone? They changed the story?
In the original you basically go there for 5 minutes to pick up Cid and his plane and then don't actually do anything important there until Disc 2. Since they didn't want to model and design the whole place only to have the story not take place until the next game, they just have Cid meet the group in Gongaga instead and are presumably saving Rocket Town for the next game.
@@bob1986 oh, i did not know that this was not the full game
@@NeinDao Remake is only the opening Midgar prologue, Rebirth is from the Nibelheim flashback to the end of Disc 1 (minus Rocket Town and with a very abridged version of the City of the Ancients) The third game will presumably be Disc's 2 and 3.
Now I'm very curious about the FF6 comparison video
As a FF7 fan ,Rebirth is what I always wanted. FF7 Remake should have been much shorter and included with FF 7 Rebirth. Hopefully they will join the two one day with a shorter prologue.
Rebirth is really fabulous it feels like FF ,I love all the additions, side activities are actually fun and combat is much more improved. The world ,maps, aesthetics,graphics all of it is stunning imo.
This is what FF16 should have been combat wise.
Let's point out Shinra mansion is unexplorable 👆
I am a bit sad that speed square is no longer a roller coaster. Kalm got such a glow up though
Pretty much same. But they do give alot extra and take some stuff away in FF7R
Im pretty sure speed square was always speed square. at least thats what I remember
200++ hour, and im still stuck in brutal challenge, but its ok cz i need platinum this game with build by own my way 😁
Im at 115 hrs just beat with 64% trophies. The warding materia linked with fortification and others. Endgame defiantly harder than remake.
I'm a 49-year-old gamer from Japan. The evolution of technology is incredible. On a different note, it's baffling that the game isn't selling at all in Japan, and there are rumors that the final installment might not even be released. I just hope they reconsider. Not releasing the final installment might tarnish their credibility... By the way, I've just arrived in Niflheim."😊
I continuously question the wisdom of building and releasing video games that are so cluttered with filler content. I think there is a massive market opportunity for highly polished games with a decent amount of high quality content and minimal boring filler. I'm not sure that a bunch of new side quests was a good choice for a FF7 Remake.
Yeah, finding that balance between quality content and avoiding filler can be tricky. Everyone has different preferences when it comes to gaming experiences. Some enjoy the added depth of side quests, while others prefer a more streamlined story. It's all about catering to a diverse player base. Personally, I appreciate when developers focus on polishing the main storyline while still offering optional content for those who want it. Variety is key in keeping players engaged, don't you think?
@@ポエマーくん I think that if you try to cater to everyone, you will satisfy no one.
10:10 It was always called “Speed Square”
I'm only at Gongaga this point. If there is no rocket town how the hell we get tiny bronco and meet with Cid???
Cid runs an airfare service, basically, that's how. You find an airstrip and send up a smoke signal and he'll pick you up, at least until the Tiny Bronco breaks down later on. Cid is pretty neat and I don't mind that you meet him outside of Rocket Town this time, though I do wish it was in the game, but then again most of the important stuff that happens in Rocket Town happened in Disc 2, and Rebirth basically covers the rest of Disc 1 after Midgar, which actually was about half the game since Disc 3 didn't have much on it.
It’s disappointing how the last chapter was rushed. We don’t get bone village or the opportunity to explore the forgotten capital
We will revisit the Forgotten Capital in next game when we return with Bugenhagen, I'm sure they saved it for then.
Nothing happen in forgotten capital aside from aerith death and getting lunar harp minecraft style would be waste of time. It would kill the pacing on the final moments which should be the higher of highs.
They had to save enough for disc 3 so I'm sure we will get to. The Weapons will probably evolve to their original OG forms as well.
Aw man I don’t have my name at the end anymore :-(
Absolutely love your content though man. Thank you for your work!!
I feel like the only area I didn't like was Gongaga. All the locations felt nicely fleshed out, I enjoyed the mini game variety, and the only thing that made this feel off is (again) the third part of the final chapter.
I dont care how big ff7 rebirth was, you justy doesnt just cut out rocket town. the whole town was ironic for many reasons, lead us to space (which was a very cool scene back in 97) but also because... cid, his whole life depression started there, THE REASON HE IS SO ANGRY IS BECAUSE OF THAT TOWN, and the fact that he dreamed about space, and had to wake up in "rocket town" every day and be reminded when his "wife" who he also lives with, prevented him from taking off in the rocket which shinra refused to fire up again.
Probably saving it for Part 3 when Cid officially joins as a playable character
It will be in part 3...
I mean its all nice that the locations now feel like proper locations and not like the "city" with 3 houses or somh...BUT just the amount of "puzzles" and "minigames" that have been put there that add nothing but are suppose to give you the sense of "more content" puts me off. I don't mind good sidequest but stupid filler stuff just to "make game bigger" is annoying and deviates you from the main goal.
I dunno, the original game seemed like it had the same problem.
Rebirths a great game, but cutting CIDs story completely and then being unable to explore the city of the ancients was a big L, specially when they spent so much time designing Kalm.
Cid shows up too late in this game to have time for any real development. They're almost definitely leaving Rocket Town and his back story for Part 3. Same thing they did with Red XIII at the end of Part 1.
Man I gotta get this game 😅
Buy it!
Speed Square was always Speed Square, it was called that in OG.
It’s funny seeing the entire northern areas all covered in clouds I know that area is still under development right now till they finally release part III
Having beaten the main story I'm happy with Rebirth as a whole. Some areas were just too large, Gongaga and Cosmo Canyon. The mini games were out of control. I definitely miss some of the details from the original.
I wish they had spent less energy on Kalm and Gongaga, and added more of the city of the ancients and RocketTown. They didn’t need to make the game as big as it was with all of the side quests…
You actually can go to the clock tower in Kalm.
Who's this Bart person he keeps mentioning?
Please just came out on pc already😢
Rockstar: *Removes Mexico from Red Dead Redemption 2*
Square Enix: Rockstar can I copy your homework?
Rockstar: Sure but not word-for-word
Square Enix: *Removes Wutai from Rebirth*
Probably for part 3
part 3
they also removed Rocket Town but hopefully they'll both be in part 3
The expanded areas arent so bad.... that being said, there is bloat. The forced slowdown areas, and unnecessary added sequences sometime detract from the original intent.
Midgar swarmr for one, and cruise ship. Got other examples but ill save em.
In remake the worst part was plate drop. What was once a mad scramble in a panic to stop an atrocity only to fail and lose EVERYONE! Turns into a 1 hour thing where we slowly walk through and manage to somehow save everyone..... shinra went from psychos who murdered a whole burough to people who just caused property damage. Major cop-out.
Maybe in 20 - 30 years it'll get another remake and they'll bridge the gap between the versions .... or make it worse lol
I’m curious about what you all think of the differences. I don’t have a PS5 but I’ve been playing the OG every few years since it came out. While Rebirth definitely looks amazing, I prefer the mood that the environments conveyed in the original.
What do you think?
It just felt less anime than OG. In OG there are alot of anime goofy moments that dont make sense in remake they made a bit more sense but still anime af.
Sony really needs to do a proper multi-game remake just like this for The Legend of Dragoon.
I've beat 4 ff games 7 9 10 and 16 but I've beat 7 like 10 plus times and beat all weapons 7 graphicly even at its time left a lot to be desired and not to sound band wagon but it truly is the best the story the time period everything. Behind that 9 is my second fav and pumped for it's remake. I was hoping 7 would be turn based so hopefully 9 will just be enhanced graphics the remakes are good but they are not challenging at all
Actually you can access the clock tower in the original FF7. I didn't even know that until after my second time playing the game.
Nothing interesting happens though, you just see Cloud's head.
lol Mr. Dolphin confirmed to be the main villain hahaha