Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s Minigames Weren’t Just For Variety

Remaining Fantasy VII Remake’s third and ultimate entry remains to be years away, however Sq. Enix is actively creating no matter comes after 2024’s Rebirth. The sequel was notoriously minigame heavy, and whereas the Remake trilogy already felt prefer it was straining to make three games out of one, Rebirth’s reliance on minigames to pad the size actually pushed issues previous the restrict. Aside from its divisive ending, it’s in all probability probably the most extensively derided a part of the sport, however it doesn’t sound like this criticism has deterred Sq. from this method.

In an interview with GamerBraves, Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi was requested about Rebirth’s inclusion of heaps of minigames, with interviewer Sean Lim noting that some gamers felt the onslaught interrupted the sport’s pacing. Hamaguchi mentioned that the staff’s intention was to not solely shake up what the participant was doing all through Rebirth’s prolonged runtime, but in addition pay homage to the unique Remaining Fantasy VII, which had its justifiable share of minigames as properly.

So, that’s not a singular drawback for Remaining Fantasy VII Rebirth solely. Quite a lot of video games, except for the primary theme and important story development, even have the aspect video games and the minigames constructed into them. So, we don’t suppose we’re distinctive in that facet. So if you’re enjoying the sport and also you’re going via the primary story development, in addition to the meant sport design, you are likely to fall into this lure of getting the identical tempo. So, you are likely to get bored enjoying it. To type of fight this and hold that contemporary feeling of going via the sport, that’s why we launched these minigames, to type of add a variety of expertise as you’re enjoying the sport, to maintain up the nice rhythm, so to say. So we perceive if you introduce these completely different aspects, some folks would play it and actually take pleasure in it, however some folks would quite simply get on with the primary story. So it’s type of a calculated transfer on our half to incorporate all these completely different aspects of the sport. Whether or not it’s the quantity of minigames or the pacing [with which] we introduce them, so on the creator aspect, it’s type of one thing we have now taken under consideration once we do the sport design.

So the unique Remaining Fantasy VII additionally had a number of minigames, and it was very well-known for that. So, when [we] had been entrusted with doing the remake, [we] type of wished to maintain that spirit of the range of play inside the title, so that folks can have a number of completely different experiences the identical manner they did with Remaining Fantasy VII.

I can respect desirous to be true to the unique RPG’s minigames, however Rebirth’s apparent use of it as filler goes far past reimagining. It might be useful if every diversion was good, however they diverse from the nice as hell Queen’s Blood card game to the notorious Cait Sith box throwing segment. Strolling via Rebirth’s open world was like attempting to cross a minefield the place probably the most obnoxious, unskippable landmines had been ready for you in the event you stepped within the mistaken route.

Hamaguchi doesn’t say if it will persist into the subsequent Remaining Fantasy VII Remake sport, however he has mentioned elsewhere that the third sport will be more concise, so hopefully which means  the minigames get dialed down a bit within the ultimate chapter. Or let Sephiroth strike me down.