It’s funny to see this opinion as I loved Remake and hated Rebirth (quit after about 10 hours). I never played the originals, so my perspective is different, but Remake was nice and streamlined but I felt like Rebirth, in contrast, was a bloated open world slog.
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Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I had major problems with Remake myself, mostly stemming from punishing encounter design and them padding out a 6+ hour section into a full game. The catwalk lights, the lab, and other stuff obliterated the pacing, and it was painfully obvious how much better the dungeon design based on the original content was when compared to the new stuff.
The good news is, in Rebirth, that 1:1 remake feeling is front and center if you want it, instead supplemented this time by optional content. I felt like I had much more room to put together materia builds, and it has one of the best video game soundtracks I’ve ever heard. I’d be over the moon if they did a version of Final Fantasy VI that felt like most of Rebirth did.
Except for the limit breaks. Why they didn’t give those full target tracking and allowed them to whiff is an outright bizarre design decision (along with the constant splitting of the party).
relic_@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If it makes any difference, I don’t have major compulsions/FOMO to do open world content. I even regret doing as much of the Enemy Skill farming as I did. So it felt well and truly optional to me. I set most of it aside.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The moment I learned the whole party gets AP for grinding materia in rebirth I was a happy gremlin.
firewallfail@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The party changes were the most frustrating part for me, you never knew how long it would be or if anything major was going to happen so it was a toss up on whether it was worth spending the 5-10 minutes swapping gear around to maintain a balanced party. The entire game I was excited for the next one right until I finished and my first though was, “thank fuck I don’t have to rework my gear again”.