615: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
It's taken nearly four years, but it's finally here: part two of Square-Enix's ambitious trilogy of Final Fantasy VII remakes. And guess what? It's HUGE! While Remake proved the viability of a modern Final Fantasy VII reimagining, Rebirth absolutely blows the doors off with an open-world take on this classic RPG. But does this chunk of the original game's disc one make a smooth transition into a 100-hour journey? On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Will Hughes, and Henry Gilbert as the crew discusses the remake that's now taken up a significant portion of their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast has a mougal mischief rating of 10. Oh, yeah. Hello everybody welcome to another episode of retronauts. I'm your host for this one Bob Mackey and this |
| 0:31.9 | week's podcast is all about Final Fantasy 7 |
| 0:34.7 | Rebirth part 2 of Square Enix's big budget remake trilogy yes it was four |
| 0:40.2 | short years ago that we assemble to discuss part one, but will we come together before |
| 0:44.8 | the year 2030 to discuss part three? Only time will decide. |
| 0:49.8 | Before I go any further, who is here with me today are final fantasy experts guest number one |
| 0:54.7 | hi I'm will Hughes I am a podcaster and a games journalist I write for the AV club |
| 1:00.4 | where I run our game section I'm also the co-host of the podcast |
| 1:04.0 | Everything to Guppy which is ostensibly about games but is mostly about |
| 1:07.2 | saying the dumbest thing I can at any given moment and I love this game I'm just |
| 1:11.4 | going to say it right now I'll fight everybody I love this game. I'm just going to say it right now. I'll fight everybody. I love this game |
| 1:14.5 | I mean Will was on our Final Fantasy 16 podcast a few months ago and I don't want to put words in your mouth |
| 1:20.3 | Will but I assume like for me playing f7 rebirth after f-16 was basically therapy |
| 1:26.6 | I I would say that that is definitely fair I think after playing a version of |
| 1:31.9 | Final Fantasy combat that was stripped to the absolute bone to the point where you can make a real strong argument. |
| 1:37.3 | It doesn't really count as an RPG anymore to play this system where they're trying to put A everything in the world into the game and B trying to make a combat system that honors |
| 1:50.5 | RPG routes while still being a really fun action game. Yeah, no that was that was a |
| 1:55.3 | palliative for my spirit. I don't want to get too into it. We have another guest on the |
| 1:58.3 | line, but just imagine an RPG where you can control other party members and there are things to do on the world map. |
| 2:04.4 | It's so innovative. I'll be referencing FF16 quite a bit because I just played it. I assume Will might be doing that as well. |
| 2:10.6 | Who was the other guest with us here today? |
| 2:12.4 | I'm being outfitted for my black robe as we doing that as well. Who was the other guest with us here today? |
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