Summary

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthconsumed my lifespan for about a month , serve as the grand , overwrought , and still uncompleted conclusion to a consecrated running play through the originalFF7andFF7 Remakethat I started in January this year . It ’s an exceptionally foresighted biz , fill to the brim with both great bespoke content and a average share of more generic tasks break up throughout its populace . expend countless hours on a account ’s middle chapter can find like a major fourth dimension sink , one that ’s tiring in its worst moments but thrilling in its better 1 .

Binging games has a way of bring in them worm late into your head , a concept that might be best exemplified by the so - called " Tetris outcome , " where an avid player starts to represent the parameters of a plot onto their mind or the world itself , even when the secret plan is box up on the ledge . WithFF7 Rebirth , I was n’t fall upon by any effigy of swinging oversized swords or cast materia in my day - to - daylight - life . But I did get something unexpected out of it , and that could very well last me a tidy sum long than even the game itself did .

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth divides up its chronicle into chapters , and it ’s probably not the numeral that return FF7 Remake fans would await .

Tifa looking hopeful in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in front of the Costa del Sol beachfront scenery.

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FF7 Rebirth’s Piano Minigame Sunk Its Claws Into Me

A Mostly Optional Rhythm Game Had A Big Impact

Among the many minigames boast inFF7 Rebirth , one of the most decided — and divisive — has to be the pianissimo . It ’s a amazingly robust rhythm method game , at least as far as the kind that are pose in as side content tend to go , assign musical note to directions on the analog sticks and delivering increasingly complex rhythm method assheet euphony is unbarred throughout the level . It ’s a joy for some players and frustrative for others , peculiarly when it comes to getting high rank . I count myself a sports fan , even if I struggled while nabbing an A on some tracks .

FF7 Rebirth tender a lot to do in Costa del Sol , but although all can be entertaining , some activities end up being a fortune more memorable than others .

FF7 Rebirth ’s forte-piano minigame is n’t really anything like really playing the piano , and although it ’s a good bit simpler than the real matter , that can also make it harder . The rhythm is always arrange to check decently with the beat , but the ways in which it ’s sometimes streamline from the notes really being played at times fuddle me off . My experience with melodic instrument is more thorough than my time spent with rhythm games , especially when it comes to the piano , which I played throughout most of my childhood and most of my adolescence .

FF7 Rebirth protagonist Cloud looking directly at the camera in Gongaga.

Muting the pianissimo minigame might in reality stop up making it easy for some player , although omit out on the music is definitely a disgrace .

The thing is , I had n’t touch the forte-piano in a tenacious metre , not out of any conscious movement but as the result of an indifferent relapse . I ’ve always make out the instrument , but there was in spades a menstruation where much of my experience with it was more in line with homework than personal initiative . By the end of high schooltime , improving my skills had largely taken a backburner to other activity , and when I went off to college , it largely exited my sprightliness whole .

I ’d been wanting to clean it back up for years , and I ’m fortunate enough to have a piano ( technically , my sister ’s , but she make a motion across the land , and the piano did n’t ) . It was just horribly , unthinkably out of tune , and the creep toward that land during my college yr is what eventually took it from something I might only play when home for Christmas to something that I could n’t reasonably take on at all . Although the problem could be fixed in an good afternoon by someone with the needed skills , I just never got around to take it done .

Tifa playing a grand piano in an FF7 Rebirth minigame.

FF7 Rebirth Helped Me Return To The Piano

Nobuo Uematsu’s Music Might Just Be That Good

Playing the piano inFF7 Rebirthmight be nothing like the actual matter , but it go it in my head again . Nobuo Uematsu ’s classicFF7compositionsmake for some beautiful pianoforte tracks , and even if I was n’t sitting down to work them myself , I was sitting Cloud or Tifa down to do it . I was thinking about the pianoforte more than I had been for a long time .

Aerith ’s Theme can be a bit trickier than Tifa ’s , even if the melody seems simple enough .

I ca n’t say definitively thatFF7 Rebirthis the one thing that propel me to get my piano tuned . It ’s been rub at me more recently , and I consider it would have happened finally , regardless . But what I can say is that I got it tuned the same calendar month that I was spending the relief of my fourth dimension onFF7 Rebirth , andthe first unexampled flat solid music I picked up was aFinal Fantasysongbookwith some of the same tunes that show up in the game .

Aerith in a swimsuit in front of Cloud and Barrett in beachwear in FF7 Rebirth.

FF7 Rebirth is an special paying back to the world of Gaia that lean hard into its star - studded memorable cast and a classic - but - reimagined news report ,

I’m Glad FF7 Rebirth Is As Overstuffed As It Is

The Piano Minigame Doesn’t Need To Exist, But It’s So Cool That It Does

Getting back into the swing of it has been hard , and I was never anything approaching a virtuoso . If you ’re stick out back in after a prospicient lapse , Aerith ’s report can be a bit crafty than Tifa ’s , even if the melody seems dewy-eyed enough . I ’ve been playing day by day now for a couple months , though , and so much has add up back to me . It ’s more a operation of reawaken relapse skills than fully relearn them , and I ’ve reached the stop whereFF7 Rebirth ’s piano aficionado Dorian would be impressed .

I do have to lead my apology to Dorian regarding the piano minigame itself , as I do n’t think I ’ll be pass to rear all of my A ranks to mavin . I ’m well-chosen enough with the one I bewilder on " On Our Way , " and I ’d much rather drop my time on the real pianissimo in position of the relaxation . He ’ll survive , and I can still enjoy my shining Piano Virtuoso trophy without wax to that level of flawlessness .

One background consequence that you might never find in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a testament to the game ’s attention to detail as a whole .

Aerith scoring an A rank on a piano track in FF7 Rebirth.

I ’m in the camp thatFF7 Rebirthmaking some challenges play out through minigames rather than armed combat is a nerveless thing overall , and I had a raft more playfulness securing top social status in shooting drift andtaking down the champions of Queen ’s Bloodthan I did with some of the tough optional fights . I do get that it ’s not for everyone . But I ’m especially glad thatFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthincluded something that serve add me back to the forte-piano , and I ’d love to think that the game rekindle lost passions for some other players as well .

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