Square confirmed that Final Fantasy XVI was played mostly by new players. The numbering system isn't an obstacle to the sells. It actually makes the games sell more. Numbered FFs always sell more than the FFs with undertitles. The reason why the games don't sell as much as they used to is because old fans don't like the new direction Square is going with the franchise and decided not to support tge games. But numbered FFs can still sell well.
Thats bc old fans think ff is turn based when its not. Very few FF are turn-based and even 15 still had atb Im 38. I still like the newer FF. Except 16...
Man, speaking of the marketing, I was SO PERPLEXED by how they chose to use the Game Awards slot last year. That was an event watched by 118 million people and what did they do? A live performance of No Promises -- a kinda sappy, even if good, song that doesn't really mean anything to anyone that isn't super into the game with a whole bunch of out-of-context cutscenes that also don't mean anything to anyone who doesn't care about the game already. There wasn't an ounce of gameplay at the damn Game Awards. Put that stuff on your own UA-cam where fans will find it, but use THE GAME AWARDS for the average gamer. They even had the FINAL headline trailer at Summer Games Fest and once again, it was mostly just the characters running around the different world areas with only a LITTLE bit of combat that didn't happen until a full two minutes into the trailer. Hype for us, but not these more general audiences. Their best trailer was used at probably the least watched event: the PlayStation State of Play in September. A ton of action, debuted the mini games, chocobos, etc ... but again, just likely didn't reach anyone outside of the core PlayStation fanbase. Also, a tip on audio. I don't know what editing software you use or anything but a good starting place is just looking up "how to get audio right for youtube" just here on youtube and there are a bunch of videos that can help. It's what I used after finding some of my videos coming in too low. I would've never figured it out otherwise. I'd also suggest playing with OBS filters to get your mic even better. Mine sounds so much better after messing with those settings. This was the most helpful video I found about it: ua-cam.com/video/3rcAPp_8WkU/v-deo.html
I agree with everything you said man, rebirth had so many cool and funny moments but I believe it’s trailers and marketing 100% sold it short and it’s their game of the year contender to. Hopefully for part 3 and 17 they get it right. Also I appreciate the video recommendation for the audio,I for sure need to adjust my OBS settings, it’s for sure gonna help in the future, thanks.
"kinda sappy" FFS you guys like to shit on the franchise whenever you guys like it just because. Can't appreciate greatness. Shove that sappiness up your arse
The problem is they're trying to sell new rival fantasy to their old fans. Most of those people will automatically write off any final fantasy that isn't turn based. 15 didn't do that which is why it sold pretty good but the game was not well received on launch so those potential new fans have been switched off
Rebirth combat, action combat takes away from what they can do with multiple characters and focusing on the story quality. If they keep going down this route it's not going to end well.
Lol that FF XV tagline is obnoxious. Imagine saying that and then not being able to even control party members. You couldn't even control your own car!!! FF XV was the most misleading game of all time
vii's combat is on point and and fighting literal mountain sized gods in xv was epic but the rest of the combat is kinda meh and ends in just spaming warp
Really good point about marketing - i didn't think of that. I am a millennial and played the OG when I was 12-13. I always thought FF was popular only to realize I am wrong. I saw a lot of sentiment that FF is "that boomer game." Makes me so sad because it's so good, but that's how it be i guess :-(. Glad there are younger players like you who found it and love it. My gut reaction is that whoever is marketing for Rebirth went for the nostalgia bait and trying to let the environments speak for "themselves" vibes. It's just wrong.
honestly they just need to make final fantasy an rpg again instead of a hack and slash, i love turn based games too, but i feel ff is falling short in the rpg aspect of the game and the story centering around the main character with the remaining cast getting little attention. most ppl who play ff games are veteran players so by square continuing to go far away from its roots they keep selling themselves short.
@YTwcher you're right I dont consider elden ring an rpg I consider it a hack n slash game. But ive never played ff7 rebirth so I wasnt even talking about that game since I consider it a side game outside the main continuity of ff7
Your analysis of the combat systems, I think is more of the issue. Agreed there. Having a more iterative combat system that they can improve form game to game rather than doing something different every single game will give core fans a better Idea of what to expect and not bring in new fans of a particular genre that will just leave the game once the new one comes out and isn't a genre of game they enjoy. HOWEVER, Comparing one of the final trailers for XV to the teaser trailer for Rebirth is one of the most disingenuous thing I've ever seen. XV, XVI, and Rebirth all had multiple high action trailers and trailers with story intrigue. The marketing is not the problem. This is an okay video, you can do better in terms of comparisons.
I mentioned that XVI and rebirth had better trailers later on, the issue i had was that was the first trailer of rebirth they decided to show to the public, also the XV trailer i showed was the e3 reveal trailer. The first trailer of any game trying to grab new audiences should intrigue not only fans of the series but new audiences which I feel the reveal trailer didn’t do.
@Just__Clouud Well you said it yourself you're a relatively new fan so you may not know this. If you do I apologize if this comes off as pretentious. However, XV was Versus XIII and had trailers long before the name change. Now if you wanna compare the Versus XIII reveal trailer to Rebirth's reveal fair enough but that's still doesn't change the fact that all 3 games had several Trailers show casing both story elements, action and game play in various ways. When it comes to FFXVI Creative Business Unit 3 went on a massive media tour, inviting various Content creators to come and play AND stream the game to their audience. Marketing wasn't the issue with any of these games. Final Fantasy's current issue is the fact that for 18 years since FF12 they have released a game with vastly different gameplay and at less frequency and quality. What we currently have is a fan base that is put off by titles that aren't an iterative take on Turnbased combat as well as being a fan base that are fans of SPECIFIC FF games because the genre they are in. The reason XVI "didn't sell well" is because it's a straight up ARPG/Character action game that doesn't feature staples from the series such as a Playable ensemble cast of characters, strategizing, and in depth character builds. Rebirth "didn't sell well" because it's the sequel in a Remake trilogy that pissed a non-trivial number of the fanbase that wanted a 1 to 1 remake off. Remake sold like 7 million copies where Rebirth only sold around 3 million. I put didn't sell well in quotes because the industry thinks 3 million sales is a failure because they dump all their money IN MARKETING and graphics that they don't need. Rebirth is the ideal modernization of a classic FF game. I think that if they had it's world system, combat mechanics, and gameplay systems in a NEW numbered Final Fantasy it would have gone over better. But again, because these systems are in a game that is a Remake Sequel to another game that pissed people off with its seemingly changing of the story, people didn't show up. It has nothing to do with Marketing.
Do people consider FFXV’s and FF versus xii’s trailers to be apart of the same marketing? When doing research I ran into conflicting opinions on this so I just assumed they were two different marketing campaigns, that could have been a mishap on my part as a relatively newer fan.
@@Just__Clouud I'm not sure if Square considers it to be the same campaign but in that very same trailer The Versus XII logo explodes and swaps to the XV logo. At the very least they acknowledge it. I think that there's an argument that it's not due to the fact that they reworked a chunk of the game's story and lore but as far as fans go a non-trivial number of us consider them to be the same thing.
Agreed, but the FF7 marketing and hype campaign has not yet begun. Rebirth was already a spectacular game (that will win many awards) but wait until the developers outshine everything else with part 3. Compared to the story parts of part 3, Rebirth will look very pale and I suspect that after that it will really start with trilogy boxes including porting to all platforms over the next decade. This trilogy will not only bring in billions in profits, it will also go down in history as the biggest and most ambitious remake project, for sure.
This will not bring in billions for the simple fact it's a worse, inferior retelling of FF7. It's not even a "remake". it's quite literally a sequel/soft reboot. The Sephiroth plaguing and stalking Cloud for the last two games is the Advent Children Sephiroth. And even worse, Aerith and Cloud have both somehow retained their memories all the way to Advent Children as well. This trilogy is quite literally a what if. "What if Advent Children Sephiroth tried going back to the past to stop Cloud from defeating him in the first place?". That's why this will fail, or at least only sell moderately. It is not a faithful remake of the OG game, it is a hack writer who has an obsession with "subverting expectations" because a better writer showed him up in the OG FF7 and then left the company. Zack's death I could overlook for now, but they ruined Aerith' death and I, personally, won't forgive them for that. A blatant showing that they never understood the actual FF7.
@ no, you're talking complete nonsense, this is neither a sequel nor is it fan fiction as you describe. It's a reinterpretation of the OG and the developers have confirmed several times that they want to connect the events with Advent Children. ; The game expands the plot fundamentally within the framework of its trilogy format and everything that relates to Rebirth will be explained by the lifestream lore in Part 3, this was also recently confirmed;; in any case, since the remake the game has taught us that Cloud's brain is disintegrating, this literally runs like a thread through Rebirth, it's practically the central element in the remake trilogy as well as in OG but the threads are only brought together in Part 3;; And the fact that you believe that this trilogy will not make billions in profits when it is completed is highly doubtful. Remake and Rebirth have already sold over 10 million units together. Rebirth is the favorite for the GOTY title, which will possibly ensure that the games remain in the conversation until part 3. And what do you think will happen when this trilogy is ported to the Switch 2 in 2028?
@@jase276 I think that it's people like you that never understood FF7. Because Nojima wrote FF7 and he wrote FF7 Remake and Rebirth. You don't even know what you're talking about
In fairness, a lot of the footage you showed us was from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, not Final Fantasy XV. Those games might have the same creative origin, but they were two completely different animals. Plus a lot of the XV trailer footage never actually made it into the game. Too many delays and too many broken promises was what caused sales for FFXV to be disappointing.
@@Just__Clouud I suppose not. It's been years since I saw those clips. The fact remains that much of that footage never made it into the final release, which doubtless turned off many people who had been following things from the start. That I was mistaking XV footage for Versus XIII footage is a microcosm of the whole problem. Even back then no one knew what was what, and that impacted the final release. Just to be clear, I liked FFXV as a whole, and wished they had finished the remaining planned DLC to give the game its true ending. But the whole project had been so badly mismanaged during its decade-long development that many people just gave up on it, including Square-Enix itself. The "Final Fantasy Problem", as I see it, can be traced back to the leadership that greenlit Versus XIII, then gave up on it, and then greenlit and produced FFXV only to give up on that too. Up until this year's Ubisoft collapse, I had never seen such administrative incompetence from a major game developer. It worries me because bad decision making processes tend not to get corrected in big corporations, but rather amplified to the corporation's eventual destruction.
FFXV has sold over 10 million units and is considered one of the highest selling games in the series. I’m not sure how that’s disappoint in terms of sales.
The versus xiii arguments always blow me cus for versus, xii the trailer was made before anything. That’s the main reason they couldn’t deliver on promises. Ppl forget that and act like square enix didnt over hype 15 for 9 yrs
I’m not implying that turn based games aren’t good/profitable, which is why I mentioned games from Atlus and the baulders gate series (I should have mentioned Dragon Quest I admit), my main reason was that’s currently not what the FF devs want to do and every interview they have says as much, if they were to do another turn based game I’d want the devs who work on it to actually really want to make a game like that, which I haven’t seen.
@@bennyrentschler4212 hey genius ik that already. I only put SQEX in so that i don’t have to put more words into my comment potentially creating a vague and potentially confusing sentence.
I actually just bought FF 15 Royal Edition on PS4 (Black Friday sale I think, 13.99 US) to finally give it a try. My favorite FF is 12 although Ive played 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13 as well. And the combat in 15 LOOKS similar to 12 so Im hoping I like it as well. If you haven't played 12 I recommend it 👍 A warning: it does start slow but the story-building and voice acting helps you get into it and it's 🤌 The hunts are awesome, the gambit system is superb, and you can play in Real Time or like "turn based" depending on your preference.
Agreed, but the FF7 marketing and hype campaign has not yet begun. Rebirth was already a spectacular game (that will win many awards) but wait until the developers outshine everything else with part 3. Compared to the story parts of part 3, Rebirth will look very pale and I suspect that after that it will really start with trilogy boxes including porting to all platforms over the next decade. This trilogy will not only bring in billions in profits, it will also go down in history as the biggest and most ambitious remake project, for sure.
I noticed the audio came out a little low for some reason so you may have to turn up the volume a bit, sorry about that. Thanks for watching!
Square confirmed that Final Fantasy XVI was played mostly by new players. The numbering system isn't an obstacle to the sells. It actually makes the games sell more. Numbered FFs always sell more than the FFs with undertitles.
The reason why the games don't sell as much as they used to is because old fans don't like the new direction Square is going with the franchise and decided not to support tge games.
But numbered FFs can still sell well.
New fans also didn't like FF XVI, it was a divisive game. Not a masterpiece
@YTwcher Yes maybe, but my point was, the numbering system didn't avoid new players to try it.
Thats bc old fans think ff is turn based when its not. Very few FF are turn-based and even 15 still had atb
Im 38. I still like the newer FF. Except 16...
@@YTwcher i know lots of people who enojoyed just look at asmom gold walktrough and the commentd section
Man, speaking of the marketing, I was SO PERPLEXED by how they chose to use the Game Awards slot last year. That was an event watched by 118 million people and what did they do? A live performance of No Promises -- a kinda sappy, even if good, song that doesn't really mean anything to anyone that isn't super into the game with a whole bunch of out-of-context cutscenes that also don't mean anything to anyone who doesn't care about the game already. There wasn't an ounce of gameplay at the damn Game Awards.
Put that stuff on your own UA-cam where fans will find it, but use THE GAME AWARDS for the average gamer. They even had the FINAL headline trailer at Summer Games Fest and once again, it was mostly just the characters running around the different world areas with only a LITTLE bit of combat that didn't happen until a full two minutes into the trailer. Hype for us, but not these more general audiences.
Their best trailer was used at probably the least watched event: the PlayStation State of Play in September. A ton of action, debuted the mini games, chocobos, etc ... but again, just likely didn't reach anyone outside of the core PlayStation fanbase.
Also, a tip on audio. I don't know what editing software you use or anything but a good starting place is just looking up "how to get audio right for youtube" just here on youtube and there are a bunch of videos that can help. It's what I used after finding some of my videos coming in too low. I would've never figured it out otherwise. I'd also suggest playing with OBS filters to get your mic even better. Mine sounds so much better after messing with those settings. This was the most helpful video I found about it: ua-cam.com/video/3rcAPp_8WkU/v-deo.html
I agree with everything you said man, rebirth had so many cool and funny moments but I believe it’s trailers and marketing 100% sold it short and it’s their game of the year contender to. Hopefully for part 3 and 17 they get it right.
Also I appreciate the video recommendation for the audio,I for sure need to adjust my OBS settings, it’s for sure gonna help in the future, thanks.
"kinda sappy" FFS you guys like to shit on the franchise whenever you guys like it just because.
Can't appreciate greatness.
Shove that sappiness up your arse
The problem is they're trying to sell new rival fantasy to their old fans. Most of those people will automatically write off any final fantasy that isn't turn based.
15 didn't do that which is why it sold pretty good but the game was not well received on launch so those potential new fans have been switched off
Rebirth combat, action combat takes away from what they can do with multiple characters and focusing on the story quality. If they keep going down this route it's not going to end well.
Spot on. SQEX really need to revamp their marketing, and they really need to bring back the tagline “A Final Fantasy for fans and first timers”.
Lol that FF XV tagline is obnoxious.
Imagine saying that and then not being able to even control party members. You couldn't even control your own car!!! FF XV was the most misleading game of all time
@ I agree. But it worked 🤷♂️
@@YTwcher you can control your party members I dont know what you are on about
vii's combat is on point and and fighting literal mountain sized gods in xv was epic but the rest of the combat is kinda meh and ends in just spaming warp
Crazy that it will probably be 2030 or later before we get FF17.
Really good point about marketing - i didn't think of that. I am a millennial and played the OG when I was 12-13. I always thought FF was popular only to realize I am wrong. I saw a lot of sentiment that FF is "that boomer game." Makes me so sad because it's so good, but that's how it be i guess :-(. Glad there are younger players like you who found it and love it.
My gut reaction is that whoever is marketing for Rebirth went for the nostalgia bait and trying to let the environments speak for "themselves" vibes. It's just wrong.
honestly they just need to make final fantasy an rpg again instead of a hack and slash, i love turn based games too, but i feel ff is falling short in the rpg aspect of the game and the story centering around the main character with the remaining cast getting little attention. most ppl who play ff games are veteran players so by square continuing to go far away from its roots they keep selling themselves short.
They could easily add a toggle, like Dragon Quest does.
FF7R is an RPG. If you can't see that then maybe Elden Ring is a hack and slash to you too. Only FF16 is hack and slash
@YTwcher you're right I dont consider elden ring an rpg I consider it a hack n slash game. But ive never played ff7 rebirth so I wasnt even talking about that game since I consider it a side game outside the main continuity of ff7
Your analysis of the combat systems, I think is more of the issue. Agreed there. Having a more iterative combat system that they can improve form game to game rather than doing something different every single game will give core fans a better Idea of what to expect and not bring in new fans of a particular genre that will just leave the game once the new one comes out and isn't a genre of game they enjoy. HOWEVER, Comparing one of the final trailers for XV to the teaser trailer for Rebirth is one of the most disingenuous thing I've ever seen. XV, XVI, and Rebirth all had multiple high action trailers and trailers with story intrigue. The marketing is not the problem. This is an okay video, you can do better in terms of comparisons.
I mentioned that XVI and rebirth had better trailers later on, the issue i had was that was the first trailer of rebirth they decided to show to the public, also the XV trailer i showed was the e3 reveal trailer. The first trailer of any game trying to grab new audiences should intrigue not only fans of the series but new audiences which I feel the reveal trailer didn’t do.
@Just__Clouud Well you said it yourself you're a relatively new fan so you may not know this. If you do I apologize if this comes off as pretentious. However, XV was Versus XIII and had trailers long before the name change. Now if you wanna compare the Versus XIII reveal trailer to Rebirth's reveal fair enough but that's still doesn't change the fact that all 3 games had several Trailers show casing both story elements, action and game play in various ways.
When it comes to FFXVI Creative Business Unit 3 went on a massive media tour, inviting various Content creators to come and play AND stream the game to their audience. Marketing wasn't the issue with any of these games.
Final Fantasy's current issue is the fact that for 18 years since FF12 they have released a game with vastly different gameplay and at less frequency and quality. What we currently have is a fan base that is put off by titles that aren't an iterative take on Turnbased combat as well as being a fan base that are fans of SPECIFIC FF games because the genre they are in. The reason XVI "didn't sell well" is because it's a straight up ARPG/Character action game that doesn't feature staples from the series such as a Playable ensemble cast of characters, strategizing, and in depth character builds.
Rebirth "didn't sell well" because it's the sequel in a Remake trilogy that pissed a non-trivial number of the fanbase that wanted a 1 to 1 remake off. Remake sold like 7 million copies where Rebirth only sold around 3 million.
I put didn't sell well in quotes because the industry thinks 3 million sales is a failure because they dump all their money IN MARKETING and graphics that they don't need.
Rebirth is the ideal modernization of a classic FF game. I think that if they had it's world system, combat mechanics, and gameplay systems in a NEW numbered Final Fantasy it would have gone over better. But again, because these systems are in a game that is a Remake Sequel to another game that pissed people off with its seemingly changing of the story, people didn't show up.
It has nothing to do with Marketing.
Do people consider FFXV’s and FF versus xii’s trailers to be apart of the same marketing? When doing research I ran into conflicting opinions on this so I just assumed they were two different marketing campaigns, that could have been a mishap on my part as a relatively newer fan.
@@Just__Clouud I'm not sure if Square considers it to be the same campaign but in that very same trailer The Versus XII logo explodes and swaps to the XV logo. At the very least they acknowledge it. I think that there's an argument that it's not due to the fact that they reworked a chunk of the game's story and lore but as far as fans go a non-trivial number of us consider them to be the same thing.
Agreed, but the FF7 marketing and hype campaign has not yet begun. Rebirth was already a spectacular game (that will win many awards) but wait until the developers outshine everything else with part 3. Compared to the story parts of part 3, Rebirth will look very pale and I suspect that after that it will really start with trilogy boxes including porting to all platforms over the next decade. This trilogy will not only bring in billions in profits, it will also go down in history as the biggest and most ambitious remake project, for sure.
This will not bring in billions for the simple fact it's a worse, inferior retelling of FF7. It's not even a "remake". it's quite literally a sequel/soft reboot. The Sephiroth plaguing and stalking Cloud for the last two games is the Advent Children Sephiroth. And even worse, Aerith and Cloud have both somehow retained their memories all the way to Advent Children as well. This trilogy is quite literally a what if. "What if Advent Children Sephiroth tried going back to the past to stop Cloud from defeating him in the first place?". That's why this will fail, or at least only sell moderately. It is not a faithful remake of the OG game, it is a hack writer who has an obsession with "subverting expectations" because a better writer showed him up in the OG FF7 and then left the company. Zack's death I could overlook for now, but they ruined Aerith' death and I, personally, won't forgive them for that. A blatant showing that they never understood the actual FF7.
@ no, you're talking complete nonsense, this is neither a sequel nor is it fan fiction as you describe. It's a reinterpretation of the OG and the developers have confirmed several times that they want to connect the events with Advent Children. ; The game expands the plot fundamentally within the framework of its trilogy format and everything that relates to Rebirth will be explained by the lifestream lore in Part 3, this was also recently confirmed;; in any case, since the remake the game has taught us that Cloud's brain is disintegrating, this literally runs like a thread through Rebirth, it's practically the central element in the remake trilogy as well as in OG but the threads are only brought together in Part 3;; And the fact that you believe that this trilogy will not make billions in profits when it is completed is highly doubtful. Remake and Rebirth have already sold over 10 million units together. Rebirth is the favorite for the GOTY title, which will possibly ensure that the games remain in the conversation until part 3. And what do you think will happen when this trilogy is ported to the Switch 2 in 2028?
@@jase276 I think that it's people like you that never understood FF7.
Because Nojima wrote FF7 and he wrote FF7 Remake and Rebirth.
You don't even know what you're talking about
I definitely agree with your takes@@jase276
I'll say that ff need to give abilitys to us or go turn base combat I'm tired of ass cambat in the last 2 main games
Na 15 was good but I didn't play it tell the royal addition
In fairness, a lot of the footage you showed us was from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, not Final Fantasy XV. Those games might have the same creative origin, but they were two completely different animals. Plus a lot of the XV trailer footage never actually made it into the game. Too many delays and too many broken promises was what caused sales for FFXV to be disappointing.
Oh, the footage I showed was from the e3 reveal where they said it wasn’t going to be 13 anymore. Was that still considered 13 footage at that point?
@@Just__Clouud I suppose not. It's been years since I saw those clips. The fact remains that much of that footage never made it into the final release, which doubtless turned off many people who had been following things from the start. That I was mistaking XV footage for Versus XIII footage is a microcosm of the whole problem. Even back then no one knew what was what, and that impacted the final release.
Just to be clear, I liked FFXV as a whole, and wished they had finished the remaining planned DLC to give the game its true ending. But the whole project had been so badly mismanaged during its decade-long development that many people just gave up on it, including Square-Enix itself. The "Final Fantasy Problem", as I see it, can be traced back to the leadership that greenlit Versus XIII, then gave up on it, and then greenlit and produced FFXV only to give up on that too. Up until this year's Ubisoft collapse, I had never seen such administrative incompetence from a major game developer. It worries me because bad decision making processes tend not to get corrected in big corporations, but rather amplified to the corporation's eventual destruction.
FFXV has sold over 10 million units and is considered one of the highest selling games in the series. I’m not sure how that’s disappoint in terms of sales.
The versus xiii arguments always blow me cus for versus, xii the trailer was made before anything. That’s the main reason they couldn’t deliver on promises. Ppl forget that and act like square enix didnt over hype 15 for 9 yrs
XVI is a mediocre game in every aspect.
Lol you never knew about Dragon Quest one of SQEX’s biggest franchise (98 million copies sold) and its TB.
I’m not implying that turn based games aren’t good/profitable, which is why I mentioned games from Atlus and the baulders gate series (I should have mentioned Dragon Quest I admit), my main reason was that’s currently not what the FF devs want to do and every interview they have says as much, if they were to do another turn based game I’d want the devs who work on it to actually really want to make a game like that, which I haven’t seen.
It's one of the Square's franchises because they bought Enix. I will always see the DQ series as a Enix game series, and not a Square franchise.
@@bennyrentschler4212 hey genius ik that already. I only put SQEX in so that i don’t have to put more words into my comment potentially creating a vague and potentially confusing sentence.
I actually just bought FF 15 Royal Edition on PS4 (Black Friday sale I think, 13.99 US) to finally give it a try. My favorite FF is 12 although Ive played 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13 as well. And the combat in 15 LOOKS similar to 12 so Im hoping I like it as well. If you haven't played 12 I recommend it 👍 A warning: it does start slow but the story-building and voice acting helps you get into it and it's 🤌 The hunts are awesome, the gambit system is superb, and you can play in Real Time or like "turn based" depending on your preference.
Agreed, but the FF7 marketing and hype campaign has not yet begun. Rebirth was already a spectacular game (that will win many awards) but wait until the developers outshine everything else with part 3. Compared to the story parts of part 3, Rebirth will look very pale and I suspect that after that it will really start with trilogy boxes including porting to all platforms over the next decade. This trilogy will not only bring in billions in profits, it will also go down in history as the biggest and most ambitious remake project, for sure.