Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth has ’huge’ world and 100 hours of gameplay

december 20, 2023

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Image of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Picture: Game Informer) — Wander the ‘big’ world… with a canine? (Image: Recreation Informer)

A brand new take a look at Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth offers a clearer image of how its exploration will work and what new content material shall be added.

The second a part of Sq. Enix’s Ultimate Fantasy 7 remake is edging nearer to its launch date on February 29, and a brand new preview clarifies various points followers have been asking about, by way of precisely the way it will replace the PS1 authentic.

Ultimate Fantasy 7 Remake was nicely acquired when it was launched in 2020 and like that sport Rebirth shall be a PlayStation 5 unique at launch, nevertheless it’s been unclear how a lot it is going to diverge from the unique, given how Remake ended.

In line with a brand new preview in Recreation Informer, Rebirth could have a ‘huge’ world, with sufficient aspect quest missions that it might final for 100 hours or extra.

Director Naoki Hamaguchi means that the principle storyline will final round 40 hours, with aspect content material making up about 80% of the exploration-based content material.

‘A part of our sport design that we took on for Rebirth is that in the principle storyline, you’ll be saving Yuffie and Below Junon,’ Hamaguchi advised Recreation Informer.

‘Listening to the tales of the anti-Shinra folks dwelling in Below Junon, you possibly can then really feel like, ‘What about this Crow’s Nest space that I’m listening to about? Possibly I wish to go over there and discover and go right into a aspect journey alone to avoid wasting folks.’ We wish the participant to have the ability to make these completely different adventures and go on their very own journeys in keeping with their pursuits.’

The city of Crow’s Nest was not within the PS1 model, so though Rebirth has a variety of floor to make up – since Remake coated a lot lower than a 3rd of the unique’s story – it apparently nonetheless has time to be including additional content material on high.

This consists of various new mini-games, together with a rhythm motion sport the place Cloud collects sheets of piano music and a brand new card sport which you’ll play at varied bars.

Regardless of the seemingly inconceivable activity earlier than it, Remake labored out much better than might dared to hope. That bodes nicely for Rebirth, though the principle concern for a lot of is how far it is going to go off-the-rails by way of its story and its meta references in the direction of altering the plot of the unique sport.

That’s not one thing that’s actually talked about within the new preview and it’s going to be fascinating to see in the event that they get the stability proper within the new sport.