Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?

Absolutely outstanding game that expands and improves on its predecessor in every way. With all due respect to Elden Ring and BG3 (not really my genres of choice), this is my game of the generation so far.

It's good but not as good as the first entry.

Many of those that have played the game have already agree on that fact.

That sentiment also reflects on the disappointing game sales in comparison.

Had to go for 8 myself.

After 60 hours, it feels not much general story, and you were correct with the padding; though a good chunk of it does allow better character development.

It's just all the mini games that can become a bit overwhelming; but plugging through it all, aiming for 100% region completion as I can.

10, outstanding. I have been having nothing but fun with it since I started. Can't wait to finish it and look forward to part 3.

At least from my perspective, I've seen a lot of people absolutely love the game's opening 10-20 hours or so. And I can understand that — there are some amazing moments.

But the game's pacing gets absolutely destroyed about halfway through, and I think that's when some players will start to lose patience. If you can push through it, there are even more amazing moments to come, but it'll be interesting to see how fans feel about the game once they've completed the whole thing.

6.5. Great new combat mechanics and great story, ruined by bloated mini-game trash and the open world map that was so poorly designed that your EX soldier still can't jump or climb anywhere in 2024. So much so that he had to walk around the cliff to find a different route just to go to a tower that was literally a jump away for any normal human.

And whomever designed Gongaga Jungle needs to die in a fire.

What an embarrassing and lazy attempts at an open world when games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist.

Im actually not really enjoying it as much as I thought I would which makes me sad, im about 30ish hours in and Its starting to feel like such a chore. When its good its great! But theres just too much bloat for me atm.

@PaperAlien yeah the burnout rate is real. I'm just powering through the main story right now and if this is how they're approaching the third game, I'm gonna skip it and just watch the events on Youtube.

Square is absolutely regressing with Rebirth.

@Shepherd_Tallon I think Rebirth is similar to Remake in that once you beat the game, you open up Chapter Selection and can go back and do/find stuff you missed. Not sure about NG+ though.

9/10 from me. Only on Chapter 6 and its been fantastic so far.

Chapter 6, I am loving every second, it’s up there with a 9-10, clearing almost everything just because it’s a delight to do it.

I love this kind of structure (way more than the first game) but of course I hope the story bits won’t be disappointing at the end of things

I'm 8-9 hours in. Just completed most of the open world stuff in the first area. There is a bit too much focus on open world nonsense without the puzzle aspects from games like Horizon to make it interesting. I do not like how often Chadley speaks.

Not much to say about combat as Remake was already great in that area. Enemies are a lot tougher this time though.

But at the same time it reminds of GOWR, BG3 in the best way where it feels like a hangout game with characters you genuinely care for. Not too fond of how often the women do that stupid bending towards the camera to look kawaii nonsense though.

So early impressions are 8.5/10. Maybe when the story kicks in it will go higher if the open world stuff grates it will go lower.

I've said it elsewhere, but I cannot be objective with this game. Eleventy billion stars/10. Nostalgia is a factor and I don't care. The combat is super addicting, and getting wrecked can be fun because I'm finding all these cool Backline Synergies. I'm at 57%, completely cleared 2 of the 4 regions I've unlocked, and I WANT MOAR.

To be fair, I also LOVE AND ADORE AC: Odyssey as well, so I'm a bit of a weird one.

Easy 10/10. I'd give it an 11 if I could. Yes I'm bias, yes I'm a fanboy, no I don't care. This lived up to all my expectations and the only real criticism I have is that there are way too many mini games.

Square is knocking it out of the park with this remake and I can't wait for part 3.

@ShogunRok So do you recommend mainlining the story or the does the story have the pacing issues itself?

I'm on Chapter 8 and I've loved every second of it other than that blasted crunch mini-game! I don't mind the open world myself but I've always enjoyed that loop of gameplay.

Also I'm playing it as someone who never played the original FF7 (yet. I plan to play it after the 3rd and final entry in the Remake series) so it's not even nostalgia or anything. It's just a really excellent RPG. The combat mechanics are simply best in class as far as action RPGs go.

@breakneck The story itself has pacing issues, sadly, but they won't seem anywhere near as bad if you're mainlining the game.

As someone who came fairly close to 100% completing this game when I reviewed it, I would highly recommend ignoring anything that tests your patience and just continue with the main story.

Bloat / padding is easily the game's biggest issue, but thankfully, most of it is optional.

@Shepherd_Tallon @ceedj I am not even a FF7 hardcore fan but this went above and beyond my (kinda high to be honest) expectations and kind of retroactively made my consideration of P3R really sink. What a remake, what a game!

9/10 it’s well made, combat is good, all units have good roles and differences.

Personally had no issues with pacing or graphics etc.

It has to be the same person giving 1 every time yes? Somewhere on this site is an account with a game collection of tons of 1 star games. If it could be found I'd be curious if anything isn't a 1.

10. No objectivity here, Im loving the game for what it is AND what it means to me.
For a gamer who looks in every corner and isnt in a rush, pacing simply wont bother me, its almost traditional for most jrpgs and Im all for it 😅

I'm on chapter 5 and I'm hovering over a 10 rn but slightly hesitating to give it that mainly cause the story isn't gripping me nearly as much as it did in Remake or the original

But other than that, it's been so much better than Remake in nearly every way. Character moments have been a plenty and they're fun to watch. I usually hate remade music like Xenoblade 1s remastered soundtrack, but every piece here is familiar yet adds to it in a way that stands with the original music. And the world is so janky but fun to explore. Awkwardly jumping around cliffs took a bit to get used to but after awhile its just natural. And it helps that theres plenty to do and see. And seeing that only .6% of people have gotten the trophy for getting the stagger meter to 300% shows me people still don't actually understand the combat and are just button mashing their way through lol

I also have yet to feel the pacing being off or the side quests being awful. In fact the side quests while certainly not Witcher 3 standards have been fun to do and give the party even more little interactions that just brings you closer to them. I'm hoping the game keeps it up. Cause I'm just having an amazing time with it so far

@Shepherd_Tallon Even the parts I find frustrating, I can't help but admire the care put into those parts of it. The frogs! Aerith's has a bow, Red's "tail" glows and Cloud has a mini-buster sword on his back.

Ester! She is adorable! The Johnny side quest had me in stiches! Cloud's "battle portrait" in a certain Queen's Blood tournament match is one of the funniest things I've seen in the game, and lasts all of two seconds. I could go on, but you get it.

Notice how it's only those that are not even halfway through the game ("I just hit Golden Saucer, OMG~!") that gave this game a high score.

S/O to those who always vote abysmal. Crazy dedication. Lol.

It’s just an amazing game

@Player_1_Ready Your last statement doesn't make sense, one needs to buy and play the game first before they can know if it is better or worse than the first one.

Unless they watch a stream, spoil themself on social media etc. ofc

I'm not sure how far I'm from the end after 42 or so hours (just reached chapter 9, haven't looked at the trophy list)

Right now it's an easy 9/10 for me. The story is great, love what they're doing with the party members and gameplay is stupid fun. But the side quests range from neat to bland, heavily skewing towards the latter, imo. Like, the minigames themselves are somehow more substantial and interesting than pretty much any of the quests I've done so far - and I completed all the areas up until where I'm at 😅

It's absolutely not something that "ruins" the overall experience for me, far from it, but it's a big-ish flaw nonetheless to me.

Outstanding. Every little detail is phenomenal in this game. I'm only on chapter 7 with 24 hours in but it's so immersive.

Currently on 83 hours done a lot of the mini games, queens blood and like 63/88 for Johnny, continuing till the end now currently playing and on chapter 13. I’ll give it a 9/10 some controls are terrible looking at that cait sith section in a certain chapter 💀 loving the game though

9/10 for me. It’s absolutely phenomenal despite the carry over of Remake’s jank.

I'm giving it a 10/10, Phenomenal game and a huge step up from the previous entry (FF7 Remake), the best JRPG so far this gen... easily.

Have to laugh at those voting Abysmal 😂.

@Player_1_Ready it’s not as good as Remake? Personally, I think Rebirth trumps it in every way and I can see a lot of people here probably feel the same. The amount of effort that went into this game and creating the world makes Remake look like a glorified tutorial/demo.

I absolutely adore it. The characters and the banter between them are so good, it's been an absolute joy to play through. The gameplay is great too, building off the already great foundation from Remake and I've enjoyed all the mini-games. The only slight is some of the lighting and texturing but the art style itself is gorgeous which makes up for it. After I finish it I'm going to replay it. Looking forward to the final part in a few years and if Square are willing to revisit 6 or other older FF games in the series and put the same amount of care in remaking them, I would love it!

The combat and music are Godtier. I'm 90 hours in and haven't even finished the story. It's in my top 5 available PS5 games.

Waiting to play it still. I really wish I would've tried the demo on my 1080p tv as well, instead of only the 4k, to see if performance mode looked better on it, but oh well.

Waited until the end of last year to play Remake, which I absolutely loved, and I'm fine waiting years to play Rebirth. It's awesome to see that a lot of people really love it though! 🤘

About 35 hours in. 8/10.

The open-world aspects of the game, while engaging in the first area, tend to drag the pacing down later on. The main story missions start to build up tension that you want to focus and build on, but then you get spat out into an open-world area that has you completely ignore the main story for a few hours.

Overall it's a great game, I just wish it stopped trying to remind me of certain Ubisoft games...

Currently on Chapter 12 with most of the secondary stuff done. It's an easy 9/10 for me, and a massive improvement over Remake in just about every way.

On chapter 9 and absolute loving it. People mentioning bloat must have not played AC Valhalla or FF16 lol. Unless the end completely ruins it I'm stuck at 9-10/10. Doing everything in every area and somehow not bored 47 hours in

I would say a 9 or 9.5/10 overall since this game is much better than Remake in many ways. The gameplay and OST are fantastic and I liked the cast a lot more in Rebirth. The world design is very good unlike in Remake where there wasn't much to explore. The side quests were also fun to do compared to Remake. One thing I do wish that is in Part 3 is a loadout system for materia so that we can change around materia suited to specific scenarios.

Did not play it yet, but people giving it a 1, I would love to hear their arguments to do so.

@Player_1_Ready What? It's an upgrade to remake in almost every way and the majority of reviews say as much. You saying that the majority of people say otherwise is pure misinformation

9 for me, loved it the start then I came to Gongaga, holy hell worst map ever designed, but then went through cosmo and nibel restored some faith, but piano can go jump out a window...

It was everything I wanted from this game. Amazing stuff.

Straight to my GoT.

Just got to Costa Del Sol and I'm loving it so far. I've given it a 9 at this point.

I'd rate it 9/10 after 48 hours of gametime, the very obnoxious minigames are the reason I can't give it a 10

I'd personally give it a 9. I'm loving the combat and the retelling of the story and new mini games make it a worth while buy. I think the side quests are a bit of a chore though, they get kinda repetitive but it's a very tiny nitpick

Loving every second. Game of a lifetime for me! Don't understand the sidequest complaints, they've been very varied and fun so far and most of the mini games have been great too.

Definitely going for the platinum and can't wait for part 3.

I didn’t think I am being to over the top when I say I was born to play this game…I feel so sorry for all the people who will never have the opportunity to experience this masterpiece of storytelling….too much Kupo?

Bounced off FF7R twice, once when it first came out, again after seeing rave reviews for Rebirth. First time I got to 'visit three identical rooms to divert components for the Airbuster boss'. This time 'do three separate mechanical hand puzzles while following a long ass boring tunnel' was the final straw. It sure is pretty, but gameplay is a slog. Thinking I will trade them both in toward Unicorn Overlord.

I think it's an 8 for me. I've put in nearly 30 hours, but I'm only nearing the end of Chapter 6.

There are a few things that have really stood out so far.

1. Chadley is ruining the game. I can't believe they included him in Chapter 5 too. It's like a bad joke. He's a rubbish character that has been heavily overused. He has more dialogue in the game than the main characters. It's one thing to have him destroy all the region exploration with his pop up chit chats every 5 minutes, but putting him in the actual story? That's a shockingly bad decision. Imagine if SE spent 10% of the time on Chadley and then put some proper hours developing the actual characters in the game more. You can spot it a mile off... sometimes Barett has something to say that's spot on and delivered perfectly - I smile - but then another time he will say something completely out of character and in a stupid way.

2. The world exploration is really poor... but it does look nice. None of it makes much sense. The lore is weak, which is frustrating because FF7 has an amazing world. In fact, FF7 is so good and so popular you'd think SE could have found someone that can actually write properly for them and add some amazing depth to the lore. But no... we have all sorts of nonsensical nonsense clearly written by devs that cannot write. Some of it is good. Not enough of it though.

3. Inconsistency. Kalm versus Costa del Sol pretty much sums this one up. It's like they forgot to go back and add some stuff.

4. The game looks absolutely fine. I actually can't believe people moaned about this when there's plenty else that is genuinely poor!

5. Junon is excellent and Costa Del Sol is very good too.

Cosmo Canyon and Gold Saucer are still to come and I'm confident those will be great too.

I think it's a shame that they haven't hit many highs with the extra storylines and lore. There is so much untapped potential.

Voted 10 - Outstanding. Because it is. But I agree with the amount the mini games can get in the way but it's a good way of delivering the grind of the original. I remember for days on end at level 19 just running around in circles for the random battles to reach level 20 before I wanted to move on with the story, to make it easier. This is no different.

I love the game, in spite of annoying things like Chadley won't get out of my hair. He won't stop me from attempting to 100% the game, but it's what prevents a 10/10 for me. 9/10 so far because all the extra side content that are just random Chadley encyclopedia filling chores. It's such a lazy way to introduce lore, and a wasted opportunity for Barret or Red dialogue. Please have Sephiroth dispose of Chadley.

I can't get enough of queen's blood, but I understand if someone doesn't like it and basically feel like they have to pass up too much content they don't enjoy. I think that's probably the point though... If it's not your style, then it's not your style. It feels really aligned to FF and even reminds me of triple triad from ff8, and I'm here for it.

i'm on the other side the first game was great , but i find this better because its more of an open world. as some one who played the original game , while i didn't 100% it , i did a lot , getting all the summons , breading all the chocobos , finding all the enemy skill magic. to be its between 9-10 , not quite a 10 but better then 9 , so 9.5.

@Jayslow except it doesn't lol. Crams the game with mini games and other distractions that detract from the main scenario and main game loop so much that you spend 50+ hours performing mindless tasks instead of being on this great journey.

It falls short in a few progression systems compared to remake. Weapons in particular, which was straight forward and had more player involvement.

The changes to certain plot points did little to improve ff7 compared to remake which elevated them to new heights. The midgarzormer, being one of the bigger cases. The race to find sephiroth is watered down significantly because cases like that. Same applies to the many fights with the turks, in places like the mythril mines.

I honestly don't even know where to start with corneo v dio matches. Just bad.

Then there is the new story elements and the hand wavey, visually noisy, and completely nonsensical ending and reasoning for what is going on. Multiveses should have nothing to do with anything ever. No matter how minor. It was nonsensical and retconned the meaning of reunion. Remake left you with questions, good ones, and things to look forward too. The quality of what was done for rebirth was just an absolute train wreck.

The final battle just doesn't live up to remake. Merely apes what was done before, gives me very little hope for the final act of what will likely be called ff7 reunion. 7 seconds till the end also wasn't really answered. Zack was answered in the lamest way possible.

Not to say rebirth was all bad. They answered some key questions. Remake across the board was a better game. Coming from the better part of the game that inspired it. Rebirth failed to really surpass the section of the original it covered. It did great things with the gi, cisnea, and rendering out a nice huge open spaces. Then it turns around, cuts rocket Town, de-emphasizes sephiroth, and pulls a sixth sense (old movie reference) on us.

I feel like ff16 just laid this game out.

I’m not even done with it yet and it’s my fav game in the past year easily. So fun

Dear me the comments here rating it down because of minigames. The minigames you can skip or spend 1 minute out of 80 hours doing. Amazing

The game is bloated with pointless side quests, it feels more like a chadley simulator than next chapter of fantastic orginal, graphics is last gen at best, boss fights are decent and story is OK but for me is ruined by the lack of ideas, it seems rushed for a money grab. Yes things are skippable but I paid 70 quid for a 4 hour story at best. They skipped the best parts from the original from chocobo breeding, the next chapter will have the Ruby weapon and emarald weapons skipped and certain important stroy lines will be skipped so disappointed. Did we really need a remake or should it be a remaster. It's a poor imitation of one of the first and best games I ever played and holds a great memory in my heart and distracted me from a very bad part of my life.

@NotSoCryptic couldn't agree more

Nowhere near as good as Remake. Fort Condor and Chadley ruined it for me.

I'm in Junon and I'd give it a 6 so far, visually it's excellent, combat's tougher (good), the main characters are all still engaging. Too much Chadley, girl Chadley (I forget her name) doesn't shut up, NPC's are annoying, the jumping about isn't fluid at all, the Moogles are nightmare fuel and there's faaaar too much bloated rubbish to do (I had to hunt down three pieces of wood to get a guy out of bed, gtfo with that *****). I think I'll just ignore most of the rubbish extra stuff and crack on with the story from here and hopefully it gets better 🤞🏻

Did Ubisoft co-produce this?
So many terrible and pointless side quests, and other useless bloat. The first 10-20 hours was fun, but after that...

They should have kept it at 30-40 hours. There's just not enough story in here.

I think I'm done with Final Fantasy.
It's just not the same franchise I grew up with, during 90:s.

I'll give it a 6, because I had fun in the early part of the game.

The abysmal voters are Xbox owners i guess.

@Giggleshot the different is AC series gives you the freedom of movement in their open world games and that's why it works.

Square Enix lazy and horribly designed open world restricts your movements every single time with arbitrary invisible walls and single points of climbing. Hell the stupid EX soldier still can't jump in 2024. It's an "open world" designed with single player restricted map movements because they can't do open world right and it's just frustrating how much it turned this otherwise great series into garbage.

FF7 never need any of these. Just give us the great series we loved back then and focus on that. Remake got it right, but Rebirth is what happened when they lost sight on what made the series great in the first place.

But lesson learned, I'll skip the next game and just watch the new ending from YouTube or something because Square clearly has lost their passion for storytelling with Rebirth and trading it for bloated trash in the name of money.

@TommyNL
So if you don't like a Sony exclusive, then you're just a Xbox fanboy?
Grow up.

@Steel76 oh oh someone has apparently stepped on their toes. You apparently don't know the concept of sarcasm.

A good 8 for me! While I think the overall story is great, I agree there is a little too much padding. So much stuff that is completely irrelevant. I cannot bring myself to go around collecting every little thing. But the story I love, which is why I was there. I just wish.. 1. They wouldnt lock summons behind chadley. Hide them in unique places (making us work to find them) just like the original. And 2.while I love Vincent and Cid, maybe it would have been better to delay their involvement. Seemed a bit strange them hovering in the background. Could have introduced them but not have them accompanying the story.

@SuperSilverback I complained of bloat, and I platted 16; didn't like valhalla 🤣

Bias is strong for me. 100/10. Lol. The music. Is remixed amazingly. Finding the little nooks with the mako clusters hearing that OGFF7 intro music. Simply amazing for me. The region design can frustrate occasionally but at the same time it feels real with the giant rock formations and random streams and lakes. I'm about 15 hours in. Need to head to Junon.

@Nyne11Tyme I pre-ordered the soundtrack from the SE website. Genuinely more excited for that to arrive next month than I am playing the game. It's comfortably the greatest gaming soundtrack of all time. Nothing comes close.

@Player_1_Ready lol, what? Did you even play the game yourself or did you just read some early opinions?

This game is far better than Remake in almost every way. (Except a few graphical situations due to the world being more open rather than a corridor... but who cares?? It's still one of the prettiest games on the PS5)

I have not finished the game yet but I am close (chapter 13)

Perhaps they could have had less mini games in the game.
however having a lot of mini games was actually a thing with the original Final Fantasy VII, so they are being somewhat faithful to the original material in a way.

And yeah I get that this game has a brighter tone than Remake, But I feel like that's a good thing. It was the same in the original FFVII. I remember when I first left Midgar in the original.. It was an uplifting feeling to see that the world was more than just Midgar and slums and that there was some beauty in it as well.

When it comes to actual gameplay mechanics I feel like Rebirth is just an improved/upgraded version of the system in Remake.

I wish it wasn't an action based combat system (since I am a sort of purist when it comes to Final Fantasy.)
But at least it's a very good system that borrows from Final Fantasy VII.

This is a very very good game, but because it's a Final Fantasy game, we tend to judge it harder than we should, because we're all expecting the highest quality, because it's Final Fantasy..

For me, this could be the best Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy X, (not including Final Fantasy XIV since it's an MMoRPG)

I appreciate a bit of help with Rebirth, as I cannot find a straight answer. I'm currently replaying Remake in hard mode, and still haven't played the DLC and Crisis Core. Seeing Zack having a role in Rebirth, is it essential to play the DLC and Crisis Core? I launched Rebirth and closed it after 2 minutes, as I thought I'm missing something from the new story. Have played original like 10 times since '97, but I want to experience this as new, and I feel playing them before Rebirth is essential somehow.

eh... would have bought it day 1 but they took too long. Now I'm busy saving Managed Democracy and spreading Freedom so this one can wait until it is 50% off. And, yes, my favorite ps1 game was FF VII, and I have preordered the remake. They took too long to come out with episode 2.

Didn't play because I don't like what they're doing with the story/10

Don't do it often, but i'm giving this a 10.
The game feels absolutely perfect and i loved every second of it, still working on the last few achievements for the platinum, which is also properly hard.
The music is gorgeous, the story stays mostly true but i do love the additions they made on it. The game looks beautiful too.

I think there is a LOT of sidecontent for those of us who enjoy it, but they also made it so people who don't want to can skip the most of it.
If you do however enjoy it, apart from 1 or 2 minigames the quality of that is also really good.

I finished this game a few days and I can say, without conviction, it's a 10 out of 10. Everything is damn near perfect. The characters are livelier than ever. Even Cait Sith has been drastically improved. The graphics (even in UE4) are utterly gorgeous. The world feels lived in. The combat is a thing of beauty. I don't really have a bad thing to say about it. Maybe the moogle mini games could have been dropped.

@savarunl I think the side content is intentional to really increase the bond between the characters and specifically the player with the characters. I think, there is the understanding going into the game, that most everyone knows about what is going to happen at the game's climax. So Square Enix devised a new way for that event to be impactful by making us spend countless hours with these characters to increase that bond.