As someone who, admittedly, isn’t great at committing to long video games because I’m either easily distracted or too busy with work, I wasn’t sure how I’d get on with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. But as a lifelong Final Fantasy fan, I knew I’d have to try. And, spoiler alert, I am so, so glad I did. I couldn’t put it down. This review headline might seem a little strong, but it is genuinely the best video game ever made – or the best video game I’ve ever played, at least. But I’ve played a lot of games, and none of them really come close.
The story picks up right around where Final Fantasy VII Remake left off, with Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret, and Red XIII escaping Midgar to the sanctity of Kalm, a village in the Grasslands. It’s there where he begins to fill his team in on what happened in Nibelheim five years prior and the events that led to Sephiroth becoming the ultimate evil. FF7 Rebirth doesn’t mess around, making you reach for the tissues just an hour or so into the story, and it doesn’t really let up throughout its 80-ish hours of the main campaign.
