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I'm going to lose hours playing cards in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth


The grasslands lay out before me, the greens and blues seemingly luminous compared to the polluted, labyrinthine city o…

I played against a man who wouldn't stop crying (apparently this made him stronger); a woman who barricaded herself behind cardboard boxes; and, bizarrely, a ventriloquist child who spoke like she smoked five packets of cigarettes a day. Yes, there may be an evil corporation sucking the very life out of the planet and a crazed war hero on the loose, but there's always time to pause in the street and play a quick card game with a random kid. I also visited the bookstore to read a folio, which took me to the game's customisation skill trees - it's here you'll unlock abilities and attributes in a similar fashion to Final Fantasy 10's Sphere Grid.

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