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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s creators want you to embrace the stress
All of Rebirth’s little differences will keep you on your toes.
Modern reinterpretations of “classic” games isn’t a new trend, but Rebirth is unique in that it falls between a straight-up current-gen refresh like the Resident Evil remakes and complete reboots like the Tomb Raider trilogy of the 2010s. In my years of loyal service to the Final Fantasy series, I’ve kept abreast of most of FF7 ’s lore spread across multiple spinoff games that either star or feature music from one of my favorite J-rock artists. In Corel, to win the protorelic housed there, you fight waves of cactuar to rack up points; while in Junon, Cloud and the gang are returned into their polygonal forms from 1997 to play the Fort Condor tower defense mini-game.
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