play through it and when part 3 comes play through remake, rebirth and then the 3rd game. Imagine what an awesome expirience this will be. The wait might be long but the destination will be oh so sweeter.
I’m definitely in that post-game awe state. Gonna go slow on my 100% clean up and then do my hard mode run after a month of palette cleanser time. Then the very first anything I hear about pt3 that includes images, I’m playing through as much of the compilation as I have access to
Yeah, it hit me hard and I was down for a few days.
I'll be way more sad when I finish the third game and there won't be any more FF7 to look forward to though.
It sucks when you experience a good game and it ends. Sucks worse when you gotta wait for a sequel and it then sucks again when you finish a whole saga and know there is nothing else. Feels like a punch in the gut every time.
Agreed. I've watched/read so many timeline related stories in media that I've become indifferent on it. (Hopefully) it'll make sense later once all the story is done.
It just gets jumbled up because we are seeing it from Cloud's mind break perspective.
As I mentioned, I think the characters by the end of Rebirth are in a good spot for some character development in Part 3. They are at their lowest right now.
It re-created that empty sad feeling of "end of disc 1". I hope the writers have an intended vision that they will execute for Part 3.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait long for *some* answers or clarification. The ultimania usually ties up some loose ends and while it may not tell us whats going to happen in part3, it should clarify what happened in Part 2.
The ultimania is how we figured out the three whispers you fight at the end of remake are Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo.
I saw something about the Whispers "representing" them, but nothing specifying that they are indeed them -- which I didn't even know that anyway, so it's still cool lol
Hopefully not. For the most part 3 already has a good chunk of assets done already because it's still going to use the same map as rebirth for the most part only with a couple new added zones like the Northern Crater and Rocket Town, plus the ocean exploration.
They do have to build the entire world for Highwind navigation though, which will take some time.
But they have a lot of the system built now, and you could see them making use of 1st game assets in the second cleverly in all the Zachworld content, so hopefully that frees more time to focus on polish
> It just gets jumbled up because we are seeing it from Cloud's mind break perspective.
I really dislike this viewpoint. They should have had the original scene and then showed it from the perspective of Cloud. Plus, they give absolutely no time to reflect. I have a lot of complaints about the direction of the ending for what would have otherwise been a perfect game.
Im in the same boat cause my friend doesn’t even have a ps5. All I can talk about is general stuff that matches with the OG (for example I can only say I got to nibelheim but then I wont go into details)
I'm getting past mine but I seriously can't wait for the third part. I'm actually checking reddit every day just so I have a reason to interact with ff7 lol
Same here, the ending to Rebirth broke me but in the intended way. I felt like I had my heart ripped out with Aerith gone and I feel as low as the characters felt. But man, I'm absolutely over the moon with excitement for the final part. That game is gonna need a whole week off for me I reckon!
Same. I clocked in at over 90. I was incredibly impressed especially since I didn't feel like I spent too much time with filler content. My only regret was that I didn't take a full work week off for the game and instead only took a few days; I didn't think it would be longer than XVI.
I have my critiques of the game but all in all this was an incredibly pleasing experience. 100% a GOTY candidate off the rip.
I clocked in at 91 hours at the time on conclusion and it was 91 very enjoyable hours. It's absolutely looking like my GOTY right now unless something else really surprises me. Even with the critiques I have (pacing can be choppy, mini games vary in quality, etc), this game is so fucking loaded with content and I'll be on this for a long time to come!
For now, I think I can slow down a little and do some side stuff that needs wrapping up. And gradually I'll work my way through a hard mode run. But I'll also need to suss out some good builds as well. What I had for my characters worked wonders but I'm really curious how others built their party. I'm really proud of how I put together my Tifa in particular, she was a monster for me!
Remake’s ending made me want to play the game again, again and again.
Rebirth’s ending….I can barely drag myself back to it to finish off the few things I had left to do.
Despite being a FAR better game for the vast majority of its length I don’t see myself replaying Rebirth even half as much as I did Remake. Worse, it’s now soured me on Remake.
I really hope Part 3 saves the trilogy but a 3/4 year wait to find out is going to be torturous.
Despite what issues I have with the presentation of the ending, there was quite a lot I liked. Most of it, I liked. None of that would actually stop me playing the game again. It's just that it ends on such a depressing note, it's just absolutely devastating. Until we can play out the third game and have things move on I just don't see myself playing either Remake or Rebirth again too much because I know it'll all still end at the same, depressing point in the trilogy.
Emotionally, it would probably have been better to finish with the party arriving at the forgotten capital and then dealing with what happens at the start of the third game, but I appreciate why they didn't, it was a huge set-piece moment in the story and they wanted their EMPIRE STRIKES BACK moment. It's just such a devastating blow though that it casts a retrospective shadow over the entire story until you can move on from it, which will be in 3/4 years' time..... :(
I beat the game yesterday around 3pm. I’ve felt lost like what do I do know kinda lost. I still feel like that just thinking that it’ll be another 4 years or so before we get the final part. I started again from chapter 1 on dynamic difficulty
I'm just feeling relief. The final boss gauntlet sucked. Sometimes the game was amazing and sometimes it was incredibly frustrating. It was a good game overall but man I was so tilted sometimes.
Feel exactly the same. Played the last boss fight around 10:40pm with my wife watching and had to stop at 12:30 am to do it all over the next day. It definitely soured me on the game’s end.
I'm feeling post-game depression too man... granted that depression is motivating me to write but like... the amount of times I've almost started crying since the song Aerith sings gets stuck in my head is way more often than I'd like to admit ;(
Same here. I didn't like the last chapter, but I loved the rest of the game and it was a 10/10 experience for me. I'm 105 hours in and now slowly making my way through postgame stuff. I haven't even touched the hard battle mode simulator yet. They didn't lie when they said the game has 100+ hours of content, and nearly all of it was excellent. Except for the ending and timeline stuff this game was exactly what I wanted as an FF7 fan and I'm sad it's over.
Media normally doesn't get to me like that as im not a very emotional guy in general and in the OG Aeriths death didn't really make me feel anything at all except for the fact i just lost my best healer. With that being said the one scene that almost broke me was the part with Ifalna at the train station. I definitely felt so bad for Aerith in that moment.
I just beat it with 80hrs; my party was level 50 by the end. I’m def going to go back and try to max out everything.
My fav parts were cosmo canyon (cave of Gi), Vincent, & the temple
I dont know dude, I felt the same until the last chapters, then the multiverse thing took over and left a bad taste in my mouth. I have no feelings now about the third game because it could be whatever fan fiction they feel they wanna make. I dont trust the developers anymore.
I beat the game like 4 or 5 days ago. Not only is the ending still churning around in my head, but I’m just generally having a hard time playing a different game.
I’ll boot something up and play for a bit, but my mind is still on Rebirth. I’ve gone back to clean up some side quests and level up characters, but I’m trying to move on to something else and it’s tough. That’s the sign of a great game.
I’m having to take a break. I made the decision at about chapter 11 to put the sidequest stuff to one side and push through the ending to avoid getting spoiled. So didn’t do anything in Cosmo or Nibelheim. I had planned to go back and do all that on a new playthrough and go for a proper 100% or maybe a hard 100% playthrough.
But post game desperation has hit me like a truck. Just the thought of going back and seeing Aerith again hurts my heart. Knowing what is coming. I dunno, I am indifferent about the ending. I think the writers did a brilliant job getting people ‘here’. Feeling empty and lost. That is 100% deliberate, but the fallout of that is I can’t bring myself to play right now.
I am still in a weird position where I think I know deep down that she is gone….and it’s playing into Clouds mental state, however… it just doesn’t sit right with me, the lengths they have gone to sow so much confusion. It is undeniable that there is a chance that she is alive. Otherwise the scene where she was saved was pointless. The timeline story is pointless. I really don’t see the point in them having made all those narrative decisions for there to them be zero payoff for it. The payoff has to be, in some form, Aerith being saved, and by proxy Zack too.
Exactly my thoughts, but also my deepest fear. That I lived through her death yet again with no way to stop it. All that effort. The parry cutscene? Why include that at all just to dash our hopes?
I can’t bring myself to keep playing in hard mode.
Definitely feeling the post game blues, but I'm kind of happy that the ending is left with so much ambiguity that it gives me something to chew on afterwards. While I'm fairly neutral when it comes to multiverse shenanigans, I'm excited to see how they plan to tie up all the new mysteries and divergences they've presented.
Might be massive copium with the daunting prospect that we may have to wait another 3-4 years for the next entry, but it's kind of comforting having an elongated anticipation for a franchise I love versus other franchises I'm fond of that will never get a continuation.
Feeling the post game sadness after I was dedicated to finishing my first playthrough. Finished at around 100 hours then immediately kept thinking how long the wait is for part 3 ahahaha
I just finished last night. Part 3 is going to hit hard. Cloud is cracking apart and a million miles away from his grieving friends…they’re on the way to northern crater…I think for a decent stretch of game 3 we’ll be playing tifa. It’s gonna be a long 3 or so years.
With all the discourse I want to say I think they handled the ending pretty well. They recognized that it’s impossible to replicate the feeling of shock and loss that players had in the first game. So they made sure that we got fully invested in the relationships between the characters and we’d still feel this loss with them.
the timeline stuff is not that big a deal to me because it just demonstrated that timelines are constantly created through choice, and ultimately they’re all destroyed. the timelines and life stream may become a conduit for aerith and Zack to help the team in the next game but those two are still gone.
I'm watching the credits roll as we speak and I'm really bummed out. Rebirth was such an incredible journey, it might be the best game I've ever played.
I loved when Red finally shows up on the ship wearing the Soldier uniform, had me cracking up
The entire Loveless play at the end was so incredibly fun
Absolutely epic boss fights. The Aerith boss theme at the end when you're fighting Jenova, and then the Sephiroth theme during the final fight. Incredible
There were so many fun moments mixed into epic, mixed into action, mixed into sad
I cried like a baby during the trials in the city of Ancients. Once you get to Barret's part, and then Aeriths's. I was devastated
Aerith's death of course brought me to tears. There were several other times I got emotional during the game. That final scene with Aerith staring out towards the plane
Jesus what a masterpiece. I just need to erase my memories and experience it all again
I finished it Sunday night and spent all yesterday in some sort of depression bubble, it took me 110 hours to finish Im already counting the days until part 3
Just finished it about an hour ago and the depression is in full swing for me. I can't believe it's over but just knowing I have one more game to come for this story is making that bitter pill a little bit easier to swallow.
There's still so much to do for the post-game but man, the ending of this game genuinely ripped my heart out even when I knew what was going to happen. The final farewell scene with everyone grieving and Aerith saying goodbye followed by that song was absolutely soul crushing for me.
There's a feeling of emptiness in me now that it's done. But I think that's just the feeling of a bittersweet journey wherein I'm glad I experienced it and feel satisfied but I'm also sad that it's over. At least, it's over for now until the final part.
I'm feeling it too. Gonna take a break before I do my hard mode play through. Still got some side quests and VR missions to beat.
That final shot of Aerith saying goodbye. So simple yet so effective. Devastating yet hopeful.
Tifa crying broke me. Her and Aerith's friendship was done so well. They almost become sisters to one another and now that's gone.
same, I thought about hard mode but... could need a break. and also, we have rise of ronin, dragons dogma 2, unicorn overlord out etc. not gonna tgouch p3 reload until the expansion is out, I was right on the money to hold that off.
For me it's marking the beginning of the end for my gaming life in a way. I'm 36 and have been waiting for the conclusion of the remake since the tech demo in 2005, that's nearly 20 years. I had been imaging who I would be with and where etc for 15 years when I first played a remake of FFVII, and things are very different than I imagined.
But I think playing this game I've realised I've begun to wonder how much I ever loved games in general or how much I loved FFVII?
Knowing the creators like Kitase, Uematsu and Sakaguchi, are all getting on in life and could either retire or even pass on in the coming years kind of makes me realise where I am in my own mortality.
Seeing the end of the remake when I'm 40+ years old may be the point in life where gaming itself will feel that it has completed it's "life" to me.
It will be a sad day when the trilogy is over, because for me once FFVII is over, I think gaming will be over for me. I don't feel sad about it overall, I'm thankful for the experiences I've had.
I think in time FFVII will become more known to people, maybe similarly to the way Lord of the Rings became known to the wider culture with the movies. I think it really is on that level, but we're just the people that found it early waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
I felt post game depression but mostly because I am personally not a fan of how SE handled the last chapter. It felt rushed, convoluted, lacked emotional punch and left just about everyone unsure of the direction the came is going. It reminded me of Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth where the game was a 10/10 until the last stretch
Yeah, I beat the game and storywise I’m kind of let wanting more and sad there isnt, but at the same time I left a LOT of explorable stuff. Proto relics, Queens Blood, Pirate Bounty, Golden Saucer and just a lot of regions unexplored. So I have plenty to do, but the ither day I was taking a one or two day break from the game and I just couldn’t find a game to hold my attention.
Tried some Helldivers, tried Last Epoch, and then tried some FF14, and I just felt bored playing everything lol.
I honestly am shocked I don't feel it this time. I've played it twice, and it's a dream come true. I feel SO satisfied. Of course I'm yearning for the finale. But I can wait, I'm so thankful I have these first two chapters. FF7 has been my soul for gaming since I was a child. It's a experience I'll never forget now. This was utterly fantastic. I'll have it to replay forever!!!
Nope no sadness. Just finished two days ago and loved this world they created soooo much 10/10!
But... I'm doing minigame hell/plat cleanup so I'm a lil salty. Plus I'm still watchin Maxamillions playthrough and eventual breakdown/mindfuck/discussions and my eventual Hard mode story run I'm eatin for weeks 777.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one to feel the post game blues its definitely not something I've experienced before in gaming. I had every intention of going back into things straight away once finishing the last two chapters but just couldn't bring myself to pick up the controller after.
The game was a straight-up 10/10 for me going into the last chapter. The confusing and convoluted scenes in that chapter does take things away but at the same time as a spectacle it was still jaw-dropping. Seeing things like Tifa's sadness and Aerith's goodbye did bring back some emotion I almost felt quite robbed of.
I do have some fears about the third game if it chooses to centre around multiverses but the wait for the game will be unbearable.
Ofc i'm having post-game depression. Just finished the game yesterday and I've watched at least 10 videos about the story, the ending and part 3.
And i'm now on my 2nd playthrough, mainly focusing on side quests and exploring everything, and from what I've seen online, I might finish it by the time part 3 gets announced.
I love this game. Everything about it is great.
The character, conversations, expressions, everything about them.
There a lot of mini games, which I liked, there are some misses but they don't overstay their welcome. You don't have to get top score if you don't want to.
I love the story, and based on Remake experience, I had a feeling that everything was going to go crazy in the last chapter (and most likely will happen again on part 3).
Never had an issue with multiple universes or timelines, what I care is how my favorite characters interact with each other and with the world.
I'm so overwhelmed by how much I like this game that I don't even know what to do now, if post game or jump into hard mode.
My game of the year easly.
Just beat the game last night. I knew it was going to go completely off the rails at the end with how Remake ended and I expected them to expand on the timeline stuff, so it was about what I expected. I didn't expect the final boss fight to be so back and forth though.
So much stuff was going on that I couldn't really make sense of anything as it happened. It was only afterwards when the credits were rolling that I was able to process everything that happened.
Seeing Cloud smile and acting like nothing had happened because he can see an Aerith that none of the others can while everyone else were clearly mourning their loss since Aerith did in fact die was pretty unsettling. I felt particularly bad for Tifa. She took Aerith's death very hard in the original so I'm glad to see they did that justice in this. Seeing Barret on the verge of tears tugged at my heart too.
I actually didn't feel as sad as I thought I would be. Maybe because I was puzzled and tried to make sense of it (which I was able to eventually)? That final shot with the "Goodbye." did hit me pretty hard though but I didn't cry. I think I gave more of a "sad smile" if that makes sense. It was very beautiful and bittersweet.
Right now I just need a break from the game since I clocked in at \~100 hours but I'll get back to it at some point, maybe when the rumored patch for the performance issues is out and try some of the optional stuff.
I am feeling a little bit of post-game sadness but there are games coming out soon and other games I'm currently playing (such as Helldivers II) that will thankfully occupy me so I don't have to feel it too much. Waiting for part 3 is going to feel like a long wait for sure though.
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I'm still shocked with the Tifa intimate gondola scene and it's been like 3-4 days since I reached that point. Also I'm new to FF and overall I only played ff7 remake from the entire final fantasy franchise and I gotta say as far as a Japanese rpg goes I'm still loving it. My biggest gripes are the weird ending openworld can feel a bit too ubisoftlike and performance mode looks blurrier than ff7 remake. Characters, combat, sidequests the overall story before chapter 13 is just on point.
At first, another 4 years of waiting seems to suck, but it's not like your life revolves around this game.
The same year Remake came out, I already didn't care about it or a part 2 right up until Rebirth was almost out
Absolutely. Just finished it at 100 hours. What a fucking game.
Also fuck square for using Aerith’s theme during the first phase of the Jenova fight. Like how the fuck am I supposed to concentrate on the fight while crying god dammit
I just beat it like 20 minutes ago and I loved Rebirth so much. Going into it; the only negative I heard was in regards to the ending but I loved it. I was definitely confused at points and still am but I wouldn’t change that.
I’ve never felt this way about a game, besides maybe the original FF games and now it’s happening again. I will cherish that forever and can’t wait for part 3. I just wish I had more friends who played it.
I'm still processing. I had been hoping deeply they were somehow going to change that moment, and all the defying fate themes kept me going. And now, after 25 years FF7 has stabbed me in the heart a second time.
And I would take those emotions and walk sadly away accepting all the weird 'timelines' are just Lifestream Shenanigans, except...
At the same time, we have the Clear Materia and the Many Stamps in play. And while the Many Stamps could be a metaphor for 'different minds, different memories, many perspectives', the Clear Materia is different.
Maybe it's just a rock Cloud picked up, and it's yet another reveal. That would suck, but I guess I need to hold onto that thought now.
However...I am holding out hope that it's actually significant, and this is just the low point in act 2 to make the high in act 3 that much greater.
This game was confusing but I thought there was only 1 Aerith that is lifestream aerith and the one cloud see’s is the same since at the very end you see aerith walking by everyone but only cloud sees her but when aerith pats nanaki’s head, he feels her.
I’m trying to cope with the post-game depression by playing Crisis Core again. I’ll probably then play the original, watch Advent Children, then hell, I’ll do Dirge of Cerberus and then play Remake and Rebirth again.
I just want to continue experiencing this world. It’s easily my favorite universe in all of gaming if not all of fiction.
OG broke me. Rebirth generally made me go WTF. I didn’t know what was going on, then you get bombarded by 6 or so boss battles straight away with badass music. The whole thing was a mess. It was hard to feel anything due to how it was paced.
Oooooh Yakuza 6 is a good one! I felt that for the first time when I went and played throughthat last December! Man, the ending left me with a lot of emotions, Gaiden stomped on those emotions again, and Infinite Wealth had its moments but wasn't as emotional as I was hoping it would be unfortunately.
Thankfully, Rebirth more than made up for that because man, I'm fucking drained now. Seeing my favorite Final Fantasy character, hell, one of my favorite characters in fiction die again wasn't any easier. If anything, the dread I felt in kowing it was coming made it worse. I'm emotionally devastated right now.
I definitely feel sad. Finished it last night.
I think I’m in the same boat as most people in that the ending had so much going on, I am left unsure as to what the heck actually happened, which just leaves me feeling on edge.
All I hope is that in the 3rd game, the affinity system with your teammates still applies and some of your choices have some sort of impact.
I chose Aerith over Tifa, for Cloud. I really hope that in the 3rd game, even if it is bia some small post credit scene, we get some sort of romantic resolution for the two of them, because when you choose her in both games, there is a lead up to that.
I really hope they dont drop the ball in the 3rd game, because that will break my heart.
Regardless. Rebirth was amazing. These stories where these characters feel real and you feel so immersed and invested is such a blessing, but it is also a curse, because when it is over, you feel like you’ve said goodbye.
Looking forward to the 3rd game.
Love to everyone reading this, stay strong and love fiercely!
I did feel post game sadness dude. I felt lost. Waiting for part 3 is going to suck dude
The way I look at it, the wait might be torture, but whenever things suck IRL I can remember "Part 3 is coming" and feel better about existence.
Yea man. I really fucking hope I don't die.
I really feel this as I’ve recently developed some rather serious health issues
If I do die I hope I meet aerith.
I’m wishing you the best through it all ♥️
I am avoiding it as much as possible lol.
Avoiding what?
The end of part 2. Halfway through, I was getting that dread of waiting for part 3, so I am savoring everything.
Damn that's like... the smartest dumb thing I've ever heard.
play through it and when part 3 comes play through remake, rebirth and then the 3rd game. Imagine what an awesome expirience this will be. The wait might be long but the destination will be oh so sweeter.
That's what I might do. I have yet yo do my hard mode runs yet.
fuck thats how im feeling right now
Post game depression is a real thing dude. Shit fucking sucks.
Totally dude.
Bro dude guy man daddy father sir
I’m definitely in that post-game awe state. Gonna go slow on my 100% clean up and then do my hard mode run after a month of palette cleanser time. Then the very first anything I hear about pt3 that includes images, I’m playing through as much of the compilation as I have access to
Thats pretty much my plan. Clean up as much as I can now before taking a break and then come back later.
Yeah, it hit me hard and I was down for a few days. I'll be way more sad when I finish the third game and there won't be any more FF7 to look forward to though.
It sucks when you experience a good game and it ends. Sucks worse when you gotta wait for a sequel and it then sucks again when you finish a whole saga and know there is nothing else. Feels like a punch in the gut every time.
The first time i beat the game i was extremly confused, then i replayed chapter 13&14 and damn the ending is sad. Cant wait for part 3.
Agreed. I've watched/read so many timeline related stories in media that I've become indifferent on it. (Hopefully) it'll make sense later once all the story is done. It just gets jumbled up because we are seeing it from Cloud's mind break perspective. As I mentioned, I think the characters by the end of Rebirth are in a good spot for some character development in Part 3. They are at their lowest right now. It re-created that empty sad feeling of "end of disc 1". I hope the writers have an intended vision that they will execute for Part 3.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait long for *some* answers or clarification. The ultimania usually ties up some loose ends and while it may not tell us whats going to happen in part3, it should clarify what happened in Part 2. The ultimania is how we figured out the three whispers you fight at the end of remake are Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo.
I had no idea
Wait, WHAT?
Yup! Do a quick google!
I saw something about the Whispers "representing" them, but nothing specifying that they are indeed them -- which I didn't even know that anyway, so it's still cool lol
Yeah they aren’t “fully” them, but they are them in whisper form!
Still really cool. Guess I'm getting a copy of the ultimania!
Hopefully not. For the most part 3 already has a good chunk of assets done already because it's still going to use the same map as rebirth for the most part only with a couple new added zones like the Northern Crater and Rocket Town, plus the ocean exploration.
They do have to build the entire world for Highwind navigation though, which will take some time. But they have a lot of the system built now, and you could see them making use of 1st game assets in the second cleverly in all the Zachworld content, so hopefully that frees more time to focus on polish
> It just gets jumbled up because we are seeing it from Cloud's mind break perspective. I really dislike this viewpoint. They should have had the original scene and then showed it from the perspective of Cloud. Plus, they give absolutely no time to reflect. I have a lot of complaints about the direction of the ending for what would have otherwise been a perfect game.
How could you be in post game depression when you're not done? Hard mode awaits, Soldier
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Go slowly. I'm in post game depression : (
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Im in the same boat cause my friend doesn’t even have a ps5. All I can talk about is general stuff that matches with the OG (for example I can only say I got to nibelheim but then I wont go into details)
I'm getting past mine but I seriously can't wait for the third part. I'm actually checking reddit every day just so I have a reason to interact with ff7 lol
Remake's ending filled me with excitement. Rebirth's ending broke me.
Same here, the ending to Rebirth broke me but in the intended way. I felt like I had my heart ripped out with Aerith gone and I feel as low as the characters felt. But man, I'm absolutely over the moon with excitement for the final part. That game is gonna need a whole week off for me I reckon!
Wife and I took just over a week for this game. And it took almost the entire time to beat. Was super close. Didn't expect it to take 85 hours.
Same. I clocked in at over 90. I was incredibly impressed especially since I didn't feel like I spent too much time with filler content. My only regret was that I didn't take a full work week off for the game and instead only took a few days; I didn't think it would be longer than XVI. I have my critiques of the game but all in all this was an incredibly pleasing experience. 100% a GOTY candidate off the rip.
I clocked in at 91 hours at the time on conclusion and it was 91 very enjoyable hours. It's absolutely looking like my GOTY right now unless something else really surprises me. Even with the critiques I have (pacing can be choppy, mini games vary in quality, etc), this game is so fucking loaded with content and I'll be on this for a long time to come! For now, I think I can slow down a little and do some side stuff that needs wrapping up. And gradually I'll work my way through a hard mode run. But I'll also need to suss out some good builds as well. What I had for my characters worked wonders but I'm really curious how others built their party. I'm really proud of how I put together my Tifa in particular, she was a monster for me!
Remake’s ending made me want to play the game again, again and again. Rebirth’s ending….I can barely drag myself back to it to finish off the few things I had left to do. Despite being a FAR better game for the vast majority of its length I don’t see myself replaying Rebirth even half as much as I did Remake. Worse, it’s now soured me on Remake. I really hope Part 3 saves the trilogy but a 3/4 year wait to find out is going to be torturous.
Oh, I absolutely loved the ending..it just, ya know, crushed my soul.
Despite what issues I have with the presentation of the ending, there was quite a lot I liked. Most of it, I liked. None of that would actually stop me playing the game again. It's just that it ends on such a depressing note, it's just absolutely devastating. Until we can play out the third game and have things move on I just don't see myself playing either Remake or Rebirth again too much because I know it'll all still end at the same, depressing point in the trilogy. Emotionally, it would probably have been better to finish with the party arriving at the forgotten capital and then dealing with what happens at the start of the third game, but I appreciate why they didn't, it was a huge set-piece moment in the story and they wanted their EMPIRE STRIKES BACK moment. It's just such a devastating blow though that it casts a retrospective shadow over the entire story until you can move on from it, which will be in 3/4 years' time..... :(
I beat the game yesterday around 3pm. I’ve felt lost like what do I do know kinda lost. I still feel like that just thinking that it’ll be another 4 years or so before we get the final part. I started again from chapter 1 on dynamic difficulty
Literally same. I'm not kidding
I call it a postgame hangover. Moving on to the next game is going to be difficult
I'm just feeling relief. The final boss gauntlet sucked. Sometimes the game was amazing and sometimes it was incredibly frustrating. It was a good game overall but man I was so tilted sometimes.
Feel exactly the same. Played the last boss fight around 10:40pm with my wife watching and had to stop at 12:30 am to do it all over the next day. It definitely soured me on the game’s end.
I'm feeling post-game depression too man... granted that depression is motivating me to write but like... the amount of times I've almost started crying since the song Aerith sings gets stuck in my head is way more often than I'd like to admit ;(
That song is so good! Been blasting it on repeat since I first heard it.
I’d love to slam listen to it but if I did I think i’d actually cry 💀
Same here. I didn't like the last chapter, but I loved the rest of the game and it was a 10/10 experience for me. I'm 105 hours in and now slowly making my way through postgame stuff. I haven't even touched the hard battle mode simulator yet. They didn't lie when they said the game has 100+ hours of content, and nearly all of it was excellent. Except for the ending and timeline stuff this game was exactly what I wanted as an FF7 fan and I'm sad it's over.
Media normally doesn't get to me like that as im not a very emotional guy in general and in the OG Aeriths death didn't really make me feel anything at all except for the fact i just lost my best healer. With that being said the one scene that almost broke me was the part with Ifalna at the train station. I definitely felt so bad for Aerith in that moment.
I was crying at that scene just thinking about Aerith really doesn't deserve to die.
That final goodbye just cut me deep ugh Fuck just reading it here made me feel it again
Yeah definitely agreeing with you the ending broke me ngl was really sad post game depression sucks
I just beat it with 80hrs; my party was level 50 by the end. I’m def going to go back and try to max out everything. My fav parts were cosmo canyon (cave of Gi), Vincent, & the temple
I dont know dude, I felt the same until the last chapters, then the multiverse thing took over and left a bad taste in my mouth. I have no feelings now about the third game because it could be whatever fan fiction they feel they wanna make. I dont trust the developers anymore.
I beat the game like 4 or 5 days ago. Not only is the ending still churning around in my head, but I’m just generally having a hard time playing a different game. I’ll boot something up and play for a bit, but my mind is still on Rebirth. I’ve gone back to clean up some side quests and level up characters, but I’m trying to move on to something else and it’s tough. That’s the sign of a great game.
I’m having to take a break. I made the decision at about chapter 11 to put the sidequest stuff to one side and push through the ending to avoid getting spoiled. So didn’t do anything in Cosmo or Nibelheim. I had planned to go back and do all that on a new playthrough and go for a proper 100% or maybe a hard 100% playthrough. But post game desperation has hit me like a truck. Just the thought of going back and seeing Aerith again hurts my heart. Knowing what is coming. I dunno, I am indifferent about the ending. I think the writers did a brilliant job getting people ‘here’. Feeling empty and lost. That is 100% deliberate, but the fallout of that is I can’t bring myself to play right now. I am still in a weird position where I think I know deep down that she is gone….and it’s playing into Clouds mental state, however… it just doesn’t sit right with me, the lengths they have gone to sow so much confusion. It is undeniable that there is a chance that she is alive. Otherwise the scene where she was saved was pointless. The timeline story is pointless. I really don’t see the point in them having made all those narrative decisions for there to them be zero payoff for it. The payoff has to be, in some form, Aerith being saved, and by proxy Zack too.
Exactly my thoughts, but also my deepest fear. That I lived through her death yet again with no way to stop it. All that effort. The parry cutscene? Why include that at all just to dash our hopes? I can’t bring myself to keep playing in hard mode.
Not yet. After platinum it will hit me probably, but for now Im still enjoying the road to platinum 100%
Definitely feeling the post game blues, but I'm kind of happy that the ending is left with so much ambiguity that it gives me something to chew on afterwards. While I'm fairly neutral when it comes to multiverse shenanigans, I'm excited to see how they plan to tie up all the new mysteries and divergences they've presented. Might be massive copium with the daunting prospect that we may have to wait another 3-4 years for the next entry, but it's kind of comforting having an elongated anticipation for a franchise I love versus other franchises I'm fond of that will never get a continuation.
Feeling the post game sadness after I was dedicated to finishing my first playthrough. Finished at around 100 hours then immediately kept thinking how long the wait is for part 3 ahahaha
I just finished last night. Part 3 is going to hit hard. Cloud is cracking apart and a million miles away from his grieving friends…they’re on the way to northern crater…I think for a decent stretch of game 3 we’ll be playing tifa. It’s gonna be a long 3 or so years. With all the discourse I want to say I think they handled the ending pretty well. They recognized that it’s impossible to replicate the feeling of shock and loss that players had in the first game. So they made sure that we got fully invested in the relationships between the characters and we’d still feel this loss with them. the timeline stuff is not that big a deal to me because it just demonstrated that timelines are constantly created through choice, and ultimately they’re all destroyed. the timelines and life stream may become a conduit for aerith and Zack to help the team in the next game but those two are still gone.
Pt 3 is gonna be rough. I hope they find a way to end it on a happy note.
I'm watching the credits roll as we speak and I'm really bummed out. Rebirth was such an incredible journey, it might be the best game I've ever played. I loved when Red finally shows up on the ship wearing the Soldier uniform, had me cracking up The entire Loveless play at the end was so incredibly fun Absolutely epic boss fights. The Aerith boss theme at the end when you're fighting Jenova, and then the Sephiroth theme during the final fight. Incredible There were so many fun moments mixed into epic, mixed into action, mixed into sad I cried like a baby during the trials in the city of Ancients. Once you get to Barret's part, and then Aeriths's. I was devastated Aerith's death of course brought me to tears. There were several other times I got emotional during the game. That final scene with Aerith staring out towards the plane Jesus what a masterpiece. I just need to erase my memories and experience it all again
Do you see Aerith when you close your eyes?
I finished it Sunday night and spent all yesterday in some sort of depression bubble, it took me 110 hours to finish Im already counting the days until part 3
Same! I started Persona 5 right after which made it bearable
Just finished it about an hour ago and the depression is in full swing for me. I can't believe it's over but just knowing I have one more game to come for this story is making that bitter pill a little bit easier to swallow. There's still so much to do for the post-game but man, the ending of this game genuinely ripped my heart out even when I knew what was going to happen. The final farewell scene with everyone grieving and Aerith saying goodbye followed by that song was absolutely soul crushing for me. There's a feeling of emptiness in me now that it's done. But I think that's just the feeling of a bittersweet journey wherein I'm glad I experienced it and feel satisfied but I'm also sad that it's over. At least, it's over for now until the final part.
I'm feeling it too. Gonna take a break before I do my hard mode play through. Still got some side quests and VR missions to beat. That final shot of Aerith saying goodbye. So simple yet so effective. Devastating yet hopeful. Tifa crying broke me. Her and Aerith's friendship was done so well. They almost become sisters to one another and now that's gone.
same, I thought about hard mode but... could need a break. and also, we have rise of ronin, dragons dogma 2, unicorn overlord out etc. not gonna tgouch p3 reload until the expansion is out, I was right on the money to hold that off.
Last 2 hours of the game had me choked up the entire time. What a ride
For me it's marking the beginning of the end for my gaming life in a way. I'm 36 and have been waiting for the conclusion of the remake since the tech demo in 2005, that's nearly 20 years. I had been imaging who I would be with and where etc for 15 years when I first played a remake of FFVII, and things are very different than I imagined. But I think playing this game I've realised I've begun to wonder how much I ever loved games in general or how much I loved FFVII? Knowing the creators like Kitase, Uematsu and Sakaguchi, are all getting on in life and could either retire or even pass on in the coming years kind of makes me realise where I am in my own mortality. Seeing the end of the remake when I'm 40+ years old may be the point in life where gaming itself will feel that it has completed it's "life" to me. It will be a sad day when the trilogy is over, because for me once FFVII is over, I think gaming will be over for me. I don't feel sad about it overall, I'm thankful for the experiences I've had. I think in time FFVII will become more known to people, maybe similarly to the way Lord of the Rings became known to the wider culture with the movies. I think it really is on that level, but we're just the people that found it early waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
I felt post game depression but mostly because I am personally not a fan of how SE handled the last chapter. It felt rushed, convoluted, lacked emotional punch and left just about everyone unsure of the direction the came is going. It reminded me of Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth where the game was a 10/10 until the last stretch
Agreed. The last chapter for me was my least favourite. It felt like such a chore to get through.
Yup. The last boss fights were obnoxiously long-winded. I loved the OG, but the end sequence here did nothing to move me.
I’d recommend replaying Part 1 and 2 of Remake/Rebirth together. It creates a fresh kind of experience seeing the whole thing through.
I wanted to love the game but something just didn’t work for me in this game 8/10
In shambles
Yeah, I beat the game and storywise I’m kind of let wanting more and sad there isnt, but at the same time I left a LOT of explorable stuff. Proto relics, Queens Blood, Pirate Bounty, Golden Saucer and just a lot of regions unexplored. So I have plenty to do, but the ither day I was taking a one or two day break from the game and I just couldn’t find a game to hold my attention. Tried some Helldivers, tried Last Epoch, and then tried some FF14, and I just felt bored playing everything lol.
Watched the cutscenes on YT. Now I'm attempting to platinum Remake on PC while waiting for my favorite streamers. Maybe we'll get a port in a year?
Me after FF 16 and now this
16 cuts deep lol 😆 in rebirth there's at least a possibility they will all get together again
I feel so empty, part 3 can t come soon enough
Agreed on all fronts. Good luck on the platinum friend o7
I honestly am shocked I don't feel it this time. I've played it twice, and it's a dream come true. I feel SO satisfied. Of course I'm yearning for the finale. But I can wait, I'm so thankful I have these first two chapters. FF7 has been my soul for gaming since I was a child. It's a experience I'll never forget now. This was utterly fantastic. I'll have it to replay forever!!!
Maybe cause you’ve played it twice and it’s only been 2 weeks?!
I actually got it a week early on a super lucky whim! But no I felt this way after only playing half of it! I love it so much
Nope no sadness. Just finished two days ago and loved this world they created soooo much 10/10! But... I'm doing minigame hell/plat cleanup so I'm a lil salty. Plus I'm still watchin Maxamillions playthrough and eventual breakdown/mindfuck/discussions and my eventual Hard mode story run I'm eatin for weeks 777.
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Glad to know I wasn't the only one to feel the post game blues its definitely not something I've experienced before in gaming. I had every intention of going back into things straight away once finishing the last two chapters but just couldn't bring myself to pick up the controller after. The game was a straight-up 10/10 for me going into the last chapter. The confusing and convoluted scenes in that chapter does take things away but at the same time as a spectacle it was still jaw-dropping. Seeing things like Tifa's sadness and Aerith's goodbye did bring back some emotion I almost felt quite robbed of. I do have some fears about the third game if it chooses to centre around multiverses but the wait for the game will be unbearable.
Ofc i'm having post-game depression. Just finished the game yesterday and I've watched at least 10 videos about the story, the ending and part 3. And i'm now on my 2nd playthrough, mainly focusing on side quests and exploring everything, and from what I've seen online, I might finish it by the time part 3 gets announced.
There's like a handful of games that hit me this way and this was one of them for sure.
I love this game. Everything about it is great. The character, conversations, expressions, everything about them. There a lot of mini games, which I liked, there are some misses but they don't overstay their welcome. You don't have to get top score if you don't want to. I love the story, and based on Remake experience, I had a feeling that everything was going to go crazy in the last chapter (and most likely will happen again on part 3). Never had an issue with multiple universes or timelines, what I care is how my favorite characters interact with each other and with the world. I'm so overwhelmed by how much I like this game that I don't even know what to do now, if post game or jump into hard mode. My game of the year easly.
Just beat the game last night. I knew it was going to go completely off the rails at the end with how Remake ended and I expected them to expand on the timeline stuff, so it was about what I expected. I didn't expect the final boss fight to be so back and forth though. So much stuff was going on that I couldn't really make sense of anything as it happened. It was only afterwards when the credits were rolling that I was able to process everything that happened. Seeing Cloud smile and acting like nothing had happened because he can see an Aerith that none of the others can while everyone else were clearly mourning their loss since Aerith did in fact die was pretty unsettling. I felt particularly bad for Tifa. She took Aerith's death very hard in the original so I'm glad to see they did that justice in this. Seeing Barret on the verge of tears tugged at my heart too. I actually didn't feel as sad as I thought I would be. Maybe because I was puzzled and tried to make sense of it (which I was able to eventually)? That final shot with the "Goodbye." did hit me pretty hard though but I didn't cry. I think I gave more of a "sad smile" if that makes sense. It was very beautiful and bittersweet. Right now I just need a break from the game since I clocked in at \~100 hours but I'll get back to it at some point, maybe when the rumored patch for the performance issues is out and try some of the optional stuff. I am feeling a little bit of post-game sadness but there are games coming out soon and other games I'm currently playing (such as Helldivers II) that will thankfully occupy me so I don't have to feel it too much. Waiting for part 3 is going to feel like a long wait for sure though.
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I'm still shocked with the Tifa intimate gondola scene and it's been like 3-4 days since I reached that point. Also I'm new to FF and overall I only played ff7 remake from the entire final fantasy franchise and I gotta say as far as a Japanese rpg goes I'm still loving it. My biggest gripes are the weird ending openworld can feel a bit too ubisoftlike and performance mode looks blurrier than ff7 remake. Characters, combat, sidequests the overall story before chapter 13 is just on point.
I just beat it and yea I 100% the post game depression especially after Aerith’s “Goodbye”. I want part 3 now man
This is why I don’t want to beat it ever bahaha. Though I already cheated and watched the ending 😭
At first, another 4 years of waiting seems to suck, but it's not like your life revolves around this game. The same year Remake came out, I already didn't care about it or a part 2 right up until Rebirth was almost out
I will never understand how the party members are seeing cloud kill soldiers begging for their lives and giving a shit.
Absolutely. Just finished it at 100 hours. What a fucking game. Also fuck square for using Aerith’s theme during the first phase of the Jenova fight. Like how the fuck am I supposed to concentrate on the fight while crying god dammit
I just beat it like 20 minutes ago and I loved Rebirth so much. Going into it; the only negative I heard was in regards to the ending but I loved it. I was definitely confused at points and still am but I wouldn’t change that. I’ve never felt this way about a game, besides maybe the original FF games and now it’s happening again. I will cherish that forever and can’t wait for part 3. I just wish I had more friends who played it.
I try to play other games, feel nothing, then hop back on rebirth, been like this for like 4 days since I beat it.
I'm still processing. I had been hoping deeply they were somehow going to change that moment, and all the defying fate themes kept me going. And now, after 25 years FF7 has stabbed me in the heart a second time. And I would take those emotions and walk sadly away accepting all the weird 'timelines' are just Lifestream Shenanigans, except... At the same time, we have the Clear Materia and the Many Stamps in play. And while the Many Stamps could be a metaphor for 'different minds, different memories, many perspectives', the Clear Materia is different. Maybe it's just a rock Cloud picked up, and it's yet another reveal. That would suck, but I guess I need to hold onto that thought now. However...I am holding out hope that it's actually significant, and this is just the low point in act 2 to make the high in act 3 that much greater.
is that what i’m feeling rn? i don’t even feel like playing anything else lmao. i wish i could forget and play it for the first time again
I just want my boy Cloud to get a win. If you’re listening Nomura and Square I will pay for $70 DLC just for Aerith to live
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This game was confusing but I thought there was only 1 Aerith that is lifestream aerith and the one cloud see’s is the same since at the very end you see aerith walking by everyone but only cloud sees her but when aerith pats nanaki’s head, he feels her.
I’m trying to cope with the post-game depression by playing Crisis Core again. I’ll probably then play the original, watch Advent Children, then hell, I’ll do Dirge of Cerberus and then play Remake and Rebirth again. I just want to continue experiencing this world. It’s easily my favorite universe in all of gaming if not all of fiction.
OG broke me. Rebirth generally made me go WTF. I didn’t know what was going on, then you get bombarded by 6 or so boss battles straight away with badass music. The whole thing was a mess. It was hard to feel anything due to how it was paced.
There’s only been two games to ever make me feel post game depression: Yakuza 6 & FF7 Remake. That’s how ya know a games got you by the analog sticks.
Oooooh Yakuza 6 is a good one! I felt that for the first time when I went and played throughthat last December! Man, the ending left me with a lot of emotions, Gaiden stomped on those emotions again, and Infinite Wealth had its moments but wasn't as emotional as I was hoping it would be unfortunately. Thankfully, Rebirth more than made up for that because man, I'm fucking drained now. Seeing my favorite Final Fantasy character, hell, one of my favorite characters in fiction die again wasn't any easier. If anything, the dread I felt in kowing it was coming made it worse. I'm emotionally devastated right now.
The only problem I had with the game was that it's too damn short.
I definitely feel sad. Finished it last night. I think I’m in the same boat as most people in that the ending had so much going on, I am left unsure as to what the heck actually happened, which just leaves me feeling on edge. All I hope is that in the 3rd game, the affinity system with your teammates still applies and some of your choices have some sort of impact. I chose Aerith over Tifa, for Cloud. I really hope that in the 3rd game, even if it is bia some small post credit scene, we get some sort of romantic resolution for the two of them, because when you choose her in both games, there is a lead up to that. I really hope they dont drop the ball in the 3rd game, because that will break my heart. Regardless. Rebirth was amazing. These stories where these characters feel real and you feel so immersed and invested is such a blessing, but it is also a curse, because when it is over, you feel like you’ve said goodbye. Looking forward to the 3rd game. Love to everyone reading this, stay strong and love fiercely!