Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 10 Things Wish I Knew Before Starting

Final Fantasy 7 rebirth is finally here and we know you're champing at the bit to play it however before you get started we wanted to impart onto you some wisdom before you ventured into junon Costa Del and the Myriad of other locals featured in the game so without further Ado here are 10 things we wish we knew before playing Final Fantasy 7 [Music] rebirth our first suggest Su is one that is hopefully made Irrelevant in a future patch if it hasn't been fixed already the sound mixing in rebirth is frankly quite horrible with the music in particular fluctuating wildly probably mutated look at Mr Know It All okay that out to do it mission accomplished and my reward secured everyone on the team who has played the game during the review period has said this was an issue for them so we really hope Square does a address this but until then we recommend you go into the audio settings and lower the music I set mine to 7 and found that to be a much better experience although it's still not perfect it's also probably for the best you play with subtitles so you don't miss out on any dialogue we have a full video of tips just on the combat done by Max the guy who does our excellent Zelda videos he's really good at it so definitely go give that a watch after you're done with this video but in the meantime Max gave a really good tip for this video and that is to change a setting for combo targeting by default it is set to fixed and what that means is once you start attacking an enemy you are locked onto them until the combo is finished and can't switch to another enemy unless you break the combo by Dodge rolling by switching combo targeting to free this allows you to switch targets whenever you want we find this added flexibility makes a huge difference when dealing with lots of foes at once so give it a try and see if you like it while you are in the options menu I also recommend messing with the camera distance in battle there are three levels that it can be set to I don't think the camera default is bad by any means but who knows you might just prefer seeing more of the battlefield particularly during battles with lots of enemies okay that was a lot of menus so let's get out of those and back into the game in fact one of my biggest tips would be to learn and set your shortcuts so you are spending less time on menus ironically this requires spending more time in menus up front under combat settings you can set three party teams loadouts and then while exploring open the command menu and press L1 and R1 to swap between them on the fly back in combat settings you can also set shortcuts for abilities spells items and even limit breaks for each character you have four programmable shortcuts and some characters like cloud and Tifa have an additional four shortcuts you can set while in the air you pull up these shortcuts by holding L1 but guess what if you tap L2 or R2 while holding L1 you'll switch over to your party member shortcuts letting you activate them while still controlling a different character this is really useful if you want to avoid using tactical mode as much as possible and play Combat in real time these next tips are all quality of life menu and battle options that were in remake but were really easy to miss in that game and wouldn't you know it they are easy to Mish here as well so let's go over them the assess material is by far the most important material in the game and you should always have at least one equipped on your party at all times that's because assess is how you see the enemy's weaknesses but even more important what pressures them this knowledge is critical to winning combat unless you want to do it the slow and painful way aggressive espe but remembering these details for every enemy is unlikely and having to redo a each time you want to see that info screen is annoying right at least that's what I thought until I realized you can press the touchpad to pull up the info screen for an enemy at any time if you have already assessed them the game tells you this only once and I'm embarrassed it took me so long to notice it so let my pain be your gain while in the material and Equipment screen press the touchpad to open the set for all menu this shows the material slots for all characters at once and lets you easily swap the between each other it's a huge timesaver one of the main ways you explore in rebirth is by riding Chocobo at first they might feel a little unwieldly so here are a few tricks to better control your Feathered Friends so you don't end up crashing into a wall there are two main ways to run with the Chocobo there's pressing down with L3 once to trot and once more for a full- speed Sprint the other way is by holding R2 to manually speed up the Chocobo and slow it down by letting go generally longer distances the L3 method is best but for smaller technical areas R2 gives better control while turning left or right pressing and holding the circle button will make the Chocobo drift quickly in either direction this can be nice to make sharp turns but depending on the terrain can be quite unwieldly Max came up with an unorthodox method we'll refer to as the kick technique by releasing the stick then pressing in the direction you want and kicking at the same time you can make the Chocobo stop and instantly turn in the direction you'd like this looks strange but for how much Chocobo riding you'll do in tight spaces this is extremely useful especially since you also retain your momentum and keep sprinting when dismounting you're also able to choose which side to Dismount by simply holding the left stick in that direction in situations when there's no room to maneuver and your bird friend is taking up all the space this can save a lot of headache there is also a subtle but significant advantage while riding Chocobo for material gathering in rebirth you're going to be picking up lots of materials off the ground and it's kind of annoying to have to manually pick them up one at a time well if you're riding on Chocobo back you only have to press triangle once and you gather all the materials in one area much more efficient you can also kick boxes with the square button but also anything destructible like these boxes can just be sprinted through to pick up any goodies rebirth is loaded with maybe the most mini games I've ever seen the team at square enx is giving the folks behind like a dragon a run for their money keeping track of them all can be a bit difficult but there is a way to view your various accomplishments through the game in chapter 7 you can start the quest The Saga of the Seaside Inn for everyone's favorite tastan Johnny you actually won't be able to finish the quest until chapter 9 I won't spoil the details of this Quest as it's quite funny and worth experiencing on your own but completing it will reward you with Johnny's Treasure Trove this is a collection of trophies figurines and other Curiosities you earn from completing the high highest rank in minii games buying items at the golden saucer and other miscellaneous tasks you do throughout the game there are 88 in all to earn which is no small feat none of us here at Gamespot have collected everything yet which means we don't know what is inside Johnny's secret chest but I'm sure you completionists out there will unlock it in no time speaking of mini gamees rebirths crowning achievement is without a doubt Queen's blood an excellent fast-paced card game You'll Play throughout your journey across Gaia according to rebirths co-director naoki hamaguchi they had a team dedicated just to working on Queen's blood and they spent a whole year developing it it really shows in the level of depth and strategy available this was one of the many interesting things discussed in our interview with hamaguchi that tamore and Lucy did so go check out that if you're interested but back to Queen's blood if you're someone who loves playing card games but doesn't really enjoy the process of building a deck good news the game does have the option to use pre-built decks as you earn and buy more cards more decks become available and some of these are really good one of my favorites is for the greater good a deck that's based around destroying your own cards to activate abilities on other cards and boost them it's a really powerful and super fun deck to play with as a test I tried playing against opponents only using the pre-builts available to you at that point in the game and yes you can achieve Victory this way meaning it is possible to play Queen's blood without ever building a deck of your own although it might get a little rough in some spots pre-built decks are also a good learning tool for teaching you the different styles of cards and how they work together and then you can modify these decks if you wish once you're more comfortable and that is going to do it for this video hopefully you found these little tips helpful remember to check out Max's combat guide if you want more in-depth tips on that as well as our interview with codirector Nuki hamaguchi but that's not all we released a bunch of content leading up to the release of Final Fantasy 7 rebirth including a full story recap of ff7 remake and an explainer on just who the hell is Zach fair and we're going to have a ton of content rolling out after the release of the game as well so for everything Final Fantasy make sure to stay tuned right here to Gamespot in my b hey

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Length: 9min 33sec (573 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 29 2024