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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthis a gargantuan role-playing game. In fact, it can be a little bit intimidating in that regard - especially if you aren’t sure about some of the fundamentals, like whether it’s a good starting point for the Final Fantasy 7 saga, or if the game is even the right fit for your interests.
Here’s what you ought to know before going into FF7 Rebirth, including some common content inquiries and an in-depth primer on the various purchasable editions to help you decide whether you want to shell out some extra gil for the premium package.
Which Version Of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Should You Buy?
As is tradition these days,there are several editions of Final Fantasy 7 to choose betweenif you decide to grab the game. Whether the increasing costs are worth the increasingcostsis up to you!
Purchasing the Standard Edition via the PlayStation Store should let you picka two-pack that includes Remake for the same price.Not a bad deal.
So, yes. $349.99 for that FF7 Rebirth Collector’s Edition. It’s quite a pretty penny, but that statueistempting.
Will Your Save Data From Remake Transfer Over To Rebirth?
Save data transfers from Remaketo FF7 Rebirth, but it’s not a full-blown transfer as one might imagine after playing games such as the Mass Effect trilogy. Rather,your save data from both Remake and its DLC, InterMISSION,will award you a powerful item.
Namely,RamuhMateria from Remake, andLeviathanMateria from Intermission. They’re free and fun incentives to have played the first part of Square Enix’s sprawling trilogy, thoughwe really do recommend playing Remake firstregardless.
Should You Catch Up On Tie-In Media Before Playing Rebirth?
This one’s a big enough question thatwe actually havean entire articleon it.But if you don’t have time to sift through a full-blown feature, the short answer isit isn’t mandatory, but some of it can be helpful.
The biggest example of this isCrisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, the 2022 remaster of the acclaimed PSP tale of Zack Fair. If you haven’t played the original Final Fantasy 7,you won’t know who Zack is at all, and if you haven’t played Crisis Core,you won’t know nearly enough.
Rebirth (and Remake before it) clearly seem to assume that players will befamiliar with Zack before playing, which is arguably a bit of a gamble. Crisis Core can get you up to speed there, or at least a story summary online.
How Much Of The Original FF7 Story Does Rebirth Cover?
When it was revealed that Final Fantasy 7 Remake would only cover the PlayStation FF7’s story up to the end of the party’s adventures in Midgar, there was some doubt whether such a relatively short stretch of the plot there would be enough.
Opinions vary, butmany agree the expansion was handled well. That said, this meantRebirth and the eventual third chapter would need to cover a lot of ground, literally and figuratively.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth coversthe party’s stay in Kalm and Cloud’s flashback sequence up to the Forgotten Capital, AKA the City of the Ancients. In other words,Rebirth includes the rest of FF7’s first disc.
This might sound like there’s too much left on the table for Part 3, but FF7’s third disc contained only its final dungeon, and its second disc was a bit shorter than the first!
