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Get ready to see the latest chapter of the Final Fantasy VII remake, in PlayStation's upcoming State of Play livestream. The event will offer a new look at Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, showcasing gameplay and details new to the second part of the remake series. There will also be an incoming demo, likely set to go live after the event, which kicks off today, at 3:30pm PT/ 11:30pm GMT. Tune in and watch it on PlayStation's official YouTube channel, or catch up with our recap that'll go live following the stream.

We get two trailers back to back to start things off, which mostly show cinematics, interspersed with a handful of gameplay aspects, including minigames.

Next, The Grasslands, the Junon Region, the Corel Region, and the Gongaga Region, the Cosmo Canyon, the Nibel Region, the Meridian Ocean, and more, are all available areas to explore within Rebirth.

There are sanctuaries that have bosses. You can also complete sidequests and sidestories, which build upon character development from the original game. There are also unique sidestories, with quests wholly new to Rebirth.

The development team says they've put great effort into making the main cast feel like a tight knit group of friends, and giving them characterization.

There's both a performance and graphics mode, depending on what you prefer.

Each of your party members have different ways of interacting with the world, including both puzzles and exploration.

You get dialogue options that affect how the party reacts to Cloud and how they feel about him. You can take certain characters on special event outings.

Folios are new to this game, giving you attacks that are based on party composition. There's more strategy to the action combat this time around.

You can grab a demo of the game on PS5 starting today.

 

[RedColoredStars]

Looks amazing to me. Will be quite a while until I get to it though.

 

[Missing Number]

damnit... gonna need to buy a ps5 now....

though seeing that synergy.... makes me wish this team would work on Chrono Trigger cuz those are straight up dual-techs

or FF6.... when they are finally done with 7, bring it back to 6

 

[osaka35]

I think it's more of a sequel series, rather than a remake, but i guess it's close enough so far. Wonder how much they'll diverge from the original.

 

[DJPlace]

odd i thought this was going be on PS4 has sony promised but i might be wrong.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Will this do a Mass Effect thing, importing save data from the first Remake? Like, it'd be pretty shitty for all the grinding people did for levels and equipment and magic and stuff to be zeroed out in this 'second part', when it's supposed to be a direct continuation.

 

[Naster]

Ain’t gonna buy it, “remake” was a disappointment

 

[subcon959]

It looks great, especially all those varied locations. I wonder if there will still be a huge day one update even though it comes on 2 discs.

Anyone played the demo yet? It's fairly chunky at 48GB.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

it's a remake of the remake? What is the technical name for that? Final Fantasy VII Let's go Pikachu?

 

[thunderboy17]

it's a remake of the remake? What is the technical name for that? Final Fantasy VII Let's go Pikachu?

not exactly. spoiler for FF7 Remake:

Spoiler

It's a stealth sequel of the original game. Another timeline. Mostly the same happens just with added plot stuff. until the end, where things become explicitly different. "Remake" in this case refers to literally "remaking" the events. Rebirth is the continuation of this new timeline.

 

[RedColoredStars]

I think it's more of a sequel series, rather than a remake

No

it's a remake of the remake?

And no

 

[Micolash]

odd i thought this was going be on PS4 has sony promised but i might be wrong.

same.. but seeing as how long this took to develop, not surprised.. the PS4 is almost EOL if it isn't already.

 

[Plazorn]

I don’t know… I think it looks promising? I am just hoping that the open world is well built,

 

[AndorfRequissa]

Will this do a Mass Effect thing, importing save data from the first Remake? Like, it'd be pretty shitty for all the grinding people did for levels and equipment and magic and stuff to be zeroed out in this 'second part', when it's supposed to be a direct continuation.

thats exactly how i felt when i played zelda tears of a kingdom. i grinded botw out and didnt feel like repeating the grind so it was the first zelda i cheated on before i beat it. unless they do something 100% different which u dont expect in a series remake like this they should bring over things from a previous save or give u benefits for the extra grinders who played the first one hardcore.

me personally this one of the reasons i am not playing this remake until its completed. ive said it on here probably 20x but its idiotic to me to play this game and then wait a couple years to finish it. ill just wait until they have released the last ff7 remake and then ill grind out all of them. and ill know if its worth it by then to do extra in the first game before moving to the second etc.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

I'm gonna call now the subtitle of the next game of the remake series. It will be "Reunion".

 

[osaka35]

No



And no

Yes. I didn't complety get it first time through, but this is a different game than ff7, in plot and genre. The name "remake" is a bit cheeky

Will this do a Mass Effect thing, importing save data from the first Remake? Like, it'd be pretty shitty for all the grinding people did for levels and equipment and magic and stuff to be zeroed out in this 'second part', when it's supposed to be a direct continuation.

Nope, no save import. Everyone starts a new save. Too hard for them work out the difficulty curve i guess with so many different levels? But will be getting "something" in the new game if you do have a save, apparently.

If you play the demo, nothing carries over. But you do get two rando items for having played the demo at all.

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/0...tails-as-new-trailer-debuts-at-state-of-play/

Hamaguchi: We have announced that the Final Fantasy VII remake project will be a trilogy and that each entry will be a standalone game in its own right. Because of this, each game’s balancing is done independently and a player’s levels and abilities will not carry over from one game to the next. However, we have created some special bonuses for fans who played the previous game, allowing them to start with a little something extra.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Yes. I didn't complety get it first time through, but this is a different game than ff7, in plot and genre. The name "remake" is a bit cheeky


Nope, no save import. Everyone starts a new save. Too hard for them work out the difficulty curve i guess with so many different levels? But will be getting "something" in the new game if you do have a save, apparently.

If you play the demo, nothing carries over. But you do get two rando items for having played the demo at all.

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/0...tails-as-new-trailer-debuts-at-state-of-play/

Well, so much for it being a continuous, immersive adventure; that certainly didn't happen with the original FF7, even when you had to change physical discs.
Utter fail, I'd call that.

With proper sequels (like, say, FF4 and FF4: The After Years, or 10 and 10-2, or Bravely Default and Bravely Second), there's at least the passage of time and a new cast to justify the complete reset; this FF7 trilogy is supposed to be just one adventure split into three parts, so I don't get the reset.
Like, what? Does it do the Metroid thing by having all the characters' levels and abilities and items taken from them by Sephiroth or Emerald Weapon or something? Or is the party lazy enough to get fat and lose it all that way? There's gotta be some in-game explanation, surely.

 

[switchhunter666]

Snip

 

[thunderboy17]

I'm gonna call now the subtitle of the next game of the remake series. It will be "Reunion".

it would be cool, but they already used the subtitle for the crisis core remaster

 

[eriol33]

I forgot this game is going to be released end of month and I decided to have a vacation in Paris instead