This platinum just drained me. I usually get a sense of accomplishment and finality when I get a platinum, but this one just left me bitter, deflated, irritated, and hopeless.
2 chapters left to complete in hard to get the platinum. Hardest part was Chadley's VR missions. A big thank you to the youtube channels providing strategies :)
Yeah… I have around 9 platinums and I think I’m going to cut my losses on this one… I would really like it but… forget that noise. I would like to think I’m close but I am not going to grind another 100 hours of my life to do the remaining odds and ends. I was going to do it but it completely ruined the fun for me…
Game is so good that even feeling very annoyed sometimes by minigames or hard battles, there's something that brings me back to the game to suffer again but feel good after every little portion of improvment I get. Really satisfying (not all the minigames or hard battle itself, but the outcome).
Bonds of Friendship is the one that nearly broke me. I tried it for 2+ weeks off and on. Got to Odin several times and got within a spell or two only to lose. Took 4 days off for my sanity. First night back it at finally got it on the 5th try that night. Platinum complete and sanity retained.
I did JUST that in antecipation of Part lll release as i considered rebirth one of the greatest games of all time! Even tho i despise turn based combat i ended up loving every goddamn second of original FF7, so much so that i also got the plat for it 💯🙏 truly original the G.O.A.T
@daesong1378 yeah that's true, but if you think about there aren't many ff games with a good ending. And Rebirth's final 2 chapters took a huge turnaround and made the story too convoluted as if the writers didn't know anymore. It felt just like the ending of Lost.
This was definitely harder to platinum than Remake. The hardest VR in Remake only took me something like 10 tries. The Bonds of Friendship in Rebirth took me 3 days of attempts. Bahamut and Odin just crushed my soul.
Fortunately, Weiss wasn't needed for the platinum trophy because he was also a pain to defeat. I think I had more trouble clearing that fight than the ones in Rebirth
@@vansta93I've also done both, and at least with Weiss we didn't have to go 10 zero-checkpoint rounds first. That lack of checkpoint format is my main issue, as most of the time is being forced to repeat stuff we've already beaten. Imagine being stuck having to watch a half hour unskippable cutscene between attempts where you need practice. The hardness of the bosses was reasonable, but the zero-checkpoint format was not. After getting the platinum I am not even looking forward to part 3. Post story content ought to make players appreciate a game more not less. The minigames also were much more frustrating than fun. I do agree, its a fun game if you ignore the optional content. But, liking the game is what made me interact with it, and afterward it lost me.
I personally enjoyed the Plat. It's a game I enjoyed a lot and spending more time with it was even better. Yes, it's a long one, but the activities are so varied that it didn't feel repetitive
I think that's definitely fair. Rebirth does have a ton of variety in its minigames. Even though I didn't necessarily enjoy all of them, there were some that were pretty great. And they all did feel pretty unique from each other, which I can definitely respect. And Rebirth's story was amazing. It was more so the world intel that felt repetitive to me. Most of the world intel aside from the phenomenon intel felt like a lot of the same. Go activate this tower, find this crystal to get more history of the region, go dig up these transmuter chips so on and so forth. But that was the only part of the game that felt repetitive to me. Overall, Rebirth is an amazing game that I also really enjoyed. As of right now, I do think it's my game of the year because I enjoyed it that much. I just personally didn't enjoy the back half of the platinum.
Remake's wasn't an easy plat but it was a fair difficult plat. Rebirth is the kind that feels like a bullshit difficult plat. the simulator brutal and legendary fights are like doing Darksouls or Elden ring without the quick heal potions available and needing atb to do anything. It wasnt any of the minigames for me. its the brutal and legendary fights in the simulator and i loathe them with every fiber of my being. My play style has never been defensive combat or parry or blocking. i am not good at that in any game ever made. I build to work around that. But this simulator forces it. And there is no way to work around it in the legendary fights. Certain builds work for the first 5 brutal challenges and the yuffie brummal form spam works on rulers of outer worlds which still took me forever to beat even with that because of Gilgamesh and Sephiroths rng garbage. I still have not beat one of the legendary fights. And it has become so annoying that i go days without touching the game now. Because i am not having fun anymore. It is a bullshit mode the way they designed it.
@@NoctLightCloud I did all the stuff in 10 back in ps2 era. The only thing i never finished was blitzball as i hated it and just quit. The only ones i struggled to do in 10 was the 200 lightning bolt dodges in the thunder plains and getting 0.00 time on the chocobo minigame with the balloons. in ff9 the only thing i never did was beat ozma. nothing else in 9 ever gave me issues like the simulator in rebirth.
@@TheTez1990 i don't have a issue with difficulty in general. As i played Elden ring and dark souls trilogy. but there is a difference in real fair difficulty and artificial bs difficulty. And the simulator endgame stuff in rebirth falls more into the artificial bs kind. Its not balanced properly and the enemies are over turned for a battle system that requires atb to use heals or do anything. Its like trying to play Dark souls without healing potions that you can just use when needed. Rulers of outer world is so over turned that you pretty much have to cheese it with yuffie unless you are some kind of gamer nerd parry god that never gets hit. I got plat on elden ring and never complained once about any of the fights in that game. But the balance of the brutal and legendary simulator fights is busted unless you are a parry god game guru. Its like they tried to make it like Dark souls and Elden ring without the balance to the system that those games have for such difficult fights.
I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Got a quarter of the way through the platinum journey and couldn’t go through with it. Massive respect to you for this. It’s fucking brutal.
@@GingerGiantGaming Thankfully they said there will be no DLC for rebirth. I DO however wonder if they'll add one more VR mission like they did with Remake (the Weiss fight) so you can obtain 2 additional Gotterdammerungs.
I finished the platinum last week and, yes, this was so much more of a challenge than finishing Remake's platinum. The "To Be a Hero" mission where you have Cloud & Sephiroth was my biggest roadblock mostly because I was relying on Seph as the damage dealer, but the dude doesn't have a traditional block; so I'd take a lot of damage when I got hit. After getting through "To Be a Hero", "Bonds of Friendship" was almost a breeze - took me a couple of hours to get through it and Odin felt almost insignificant by that point because I faced him so many times before in the previous challenge. Alexander was more of a menace in both challenges than Odin for me. After doing all the VR missions, Hard Mode was almost relaxing beyond the Rufus fight in Chapter 12 and Jenova during the final chapter. I will say that after doing everything in Rebirth, I feel like I'm a much better gamer at this version of Final Fantasy than I ever was coming off of getting the plat in Remake.
That's very interesting because I thought the sephiroth one was a breeze because of how good sephiroths dodge is. I mostly used sephiroth in the fights and beat the challenge on my very first attempt with my own build, but I'm struggling on the bonds of friendship one right now 😭
@@ItzMeItzMe_ I definitely attribute my poor dodging with Seph from just being burned out after doing all the other challenges. I know if I can do the Bonds, you can too! Good luck.
@fasjab holy crap I just did it by the skin of my teeth. Cloud died and Zack was low health but I summoned Odin right before cloud died and when he died it autocasted zantetsuken which was just enough to finish off Odin 😭 shaking and sweating
There's a small part of my that wishes I didn't do the cheese strat for Outer Worlds, but I think if I had tried to do it without that method that I would have lost my sanity. Mad respect for doing it without using the Yuffie strat and congrats on getting the platinum!
@@GingerGiantGaming thing is is that the cheese has to be executed quickly. You would have to play it out quickly, mainly against Virtual Sephiroth (which was where I struggled the most on). I didn’t really did it legit but I just wanted to get it done anyways .
I feel like if I hadn't used the Yuffie strat it would have also been my hardest challenge too since I had such little experience with the Gilgamesh fight on top of having to deal with Sephiroth's shadowy chain attack. Kudos to you doing it before the strats were discovered!
I do not often relate to videos this hard, but MAN. I did everything this game told me to do. Everything except the last 2 VR missions, with Sephiroth and Zach . Loss after loss after loss after loss after loss, guide after guide after guide, getting to the last fricking fight, and I just can’t. 200 hours in and no plat, and it taunted me enough to just delete the game. Good on you for fighting through that yourself, it was brutal
Do you need help? The sephiroth one is easy, you can spam dodge and triangle wherever you are to build up his limit in seconds infinitely. For Zack i recommend watching solestro for the build and tips, you can make an aeroga build where you deal big damage with mp and hp absorb without worrying about your mp or hp
Don’t give up man ! You did so much. I’m 200 hrs in and still on chapter 13 ! I haven’t even thought of hard mode yet ! There are great strats I’ve seen on here. You gotta give it another shot. You’re sooo close ! I totally relate to this vid, but I’m determined to see it through !
I'm currently 3 Chadley VR missions away from platinum. It'll be my first (and probably only) platinum. I just love this game so much, I want to do all the possible content I could. I managed to beat all of the hard mode chapters with my own strategies, but I am relying heavily on Optinoob for the Chadley missions. Otherwise I would rage quit 😅 I totally agree about QB being amazing. The worst minigames for me were Jules's crunch-off and the 3D fighter. Oh, and the Can't Stop Won't Stop was a literal garbage heap of a challenge and the worst thing I have ever done. I despise the Shinra Middle Manager.
I'm close enough to the plat that your video has convinced me to relax on it. I can't beat Gi Nattack and the brutal and legendary Chadley missions are unholy. Although I loved both the hard mode cactuar battles and glide de chocobo 🤣
Yeah, I totally agree with you. The only part of platinum that I enjoyed, was that I had to use a lot of game mechanics that I tottally ignored during the first playthrough. Because most part of the first playthrough I hack 'n slashed the game. The strategy really shine on the hard mode and in VR missions, because I had to use many equips and materias that I busted my ass to obtain with the awful minigames that I tortured myself playing. But the overral felling after getting the platinum today is: "I'm free!!!" Maybe I will play again to play One winged Angel hahaha
Not sure if nostalgia clouds your brain, But the minigames in Rebirth are mostly better than the ones in the OG. Those were meh at best in the saucer and the 3d brawler in the og was so bad i didn't ever hit anything in it lol. They improved the Gold saucer in almost every way. Chadley himself doesn't bother me. The Simulator however does.
@@zeromagnum2811 You are right they are meh for a 1997 game on ps1. The whole game was so meh that S-E decided to make 3 games of it. Money talks. meh meh meh
@@GingerGiantGaming The og in its time was the best game made in my opinion at that point of 1997. But now it is way outdated due to many factors. I still love it. But the remake helps newer players with the experience playing it first because it offers the experience in mostly the same way with the modern graphics and honestly better handled certain character plot lines than the original did in how they did some of the scenes. Like Cait sith is a way better character in the remake than in the OG. As is Yuffie. Even though Yuffie was still ok in the OG. she got way more depth in the remakes.
@@GingerGiantGaming i love the og, its actually a game, Yesterday i was playing rebirth in a friends house and he told me : why every time i turn around to see you play you are playing bullshit and not the game?, then his comment made click in my mind, this is a mini game simulator not a jrpg.
I platinumed in 188 hours. Hard mode was a breeze. Cactuar crush with Aerith, Glide de chocobo 3 and the final VR battle were the only things i got stuck on. The platinum wasnt that bad.
You're a much better player than me, the challenge 5 in brutal challenges took me more than 24 hours total. I'm more than 400 hours into my playthrough... I beat the Sephiroth and Cloud challenge and I have to admit yes I think the Zack and Cloud challenge is hardest combat challenge(Killing Cactuars might be harder but that's a minigame).
Loved the game. Loved the platinum grind. Would not recommend to anybody else to go for it if they aren’t committed to “the gaming lifestyle”. IMO, Platinums should be hard to get, but every mechanic in the game should work as intended (I’m looking at you, Flight de Chocobo👀)
I totally agree with you. I do think platinums should be hard to get. That's the fun of them (at least in my opinion anyway). I'm actually prepping myself to go for Crypt of the Necrodancer in the future
Dude, I feel the pain because I’m trying to grit my teeth and push past it but I’ve been like sheesh I don’t want to keep pulling out hairs but one day! I’m going to keep trying! Got yourself a sub!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I wish you the best of luck on getting the Rebirth platinum whenever you do go back to it! The pay off is definitely worth it
This game is incredible, I love it to death and it’s one of my favourite games ever. This platinum pains me, I’m close to getting it, but those damn brutal & legendary bouts are truly cruel 😅 I completely understand making a platinum hard to get so not everyone can do it, but I’ve genuinely had to step away from Rebirth and I’m mixed feelings on returning to it soon, cuz when I was playing it everyday, completing side quests & certain specific challenges, I felt accomplished but also, once I unlocked those brutal/legendary ones I realized how fuqed I was 😅 I do think I’ll eventually get the Plat, like with Remake I only ended up getting that one at the beginning of the year despite having Remake since the end of 2020, so using that timeline (heh) of events I’m already further in completion than compared to Remake so 🤷♂️ Anyways great video and I feel like I’m the only person who didn’t wanna yeet myself off a cliff with Rufus in hard mode 😂 normal mode, definitely, I didn’t know he was gonna be like that, but to be fair, none of us did, but since I already knew how he moved I found him readable, and I love to spam blade beams at enemies in this game which helped in that fight. Also, I found out from a guide that you can zip to him when he uses certain attacks which pressure him immediately using triple slash!
When you said it took you 200 hours to plat, my first thought was 'wow, bro, that was quick'. I'm at 300 hours and still haven't got there yet. Yesterday I managed to beat 'To Be a Hero', after what must have been at least 12 hours/30 attempts. I haven't attempted 'Bonds of Friendship' yet, but knowing that it is more difficult than 'To Be a Hero' has me full of dread. I'm leaving it for a bit because I want to go into it with Cloud's weapon at level 9, for which I need to complete Hard mode. I've just started chapter 13, so it will give me a little break before I drive myself insane again.
@@Kean_Bean I've been using Optinoob's guides for most the VR challenges, and they have been really helpful. Never would got as far as I have without them. There are, however, a few challenges where his guides just weren't working for me, and I either had to slightly modify them or come up with something completely different. To Be a Hero was one of those. For that, I looked up numerous guides to get some idea, and then put together my own unique build.
@@Bastion90 cool, the knowledge you gained from that should really help with bonds of friendship. What really worked for me was building Red out as similar to Zack as possible, then I drilled against each enemy individually in the sim and on the World map on hard mode. About 4 or 5 rounds on each enemy left me confident with each strat and that I could clear them with little to no incident. (Alexander did nearly end my To be a Hero run).
@@Kean_Bean Red? Aren't we playing as Cloud? Alexander took me out a couple of times. My jaw dropped the first time it happened as I'd never lost the Alexander in any VR challenge before. I was in a state of shock. He's not the bad really, but the same can be said of each of the opponents. It's the endurance of ten in a row that's the real problem. Having to start all over again for the umpteenth time after half an hour of intense battling is soul destroying. I don't know how useful my build will be for Bonds of Friendship as I used Cloud as very much a support player for To Be a Hero. I don't think I'll get away with that with Zack in the party. Your training method sounds like a good idea though, thanks for the tip.
@@Bastion90 Cloud has main build. I replicate Zack’s build on Red (same spells + first strike). Enfeeblement Ring on 3rd character. You need a character with Zack’s support spells to practice properly. I found I didn’t fully understand Prime mode until I had run a couple of fights. I thought I had to refresh it if Cloud switched stances, kept wasting ATB re-using it. The drilling really worked for me. I knew my opponents so well that I got through both bouts on the first run. Was a touch over prepared. The Hueylacottle and Brineborn Demon can be wiped without them even getting off a proper attack. Alexander surprised me too. Got me with that shockwave/tracking beam combo, wiped Cloud. Killer Cloud twice in that round I think. Must have got him moments before he was due to cast Judgement. Best of Luck! Keep at it!
I think if you dropped the legendary and brutal Chadley VR challenges then it would have been a tough but rewarding and enjoyable platinum, but with those included this just became painful!
Currently going for the platnium rn on rebirth, just finished all the normal combat simulations and now am mentally preparing myself for the brutal and legendary challenges
Oh dang well I wish you the best of luck during the brutal and legendary challenges. There are some really great guides out there for every challenge. I definitely used a couple of them myself
Chadley's sorry ass mouth that never shuts is going to make you sick when you exit the Combat simulator to go rethink your builds/teams after getting trounced 50 gazillion times by the bummy AI in some of those challenges... Godspeed 🫡
@@GingerGiantGaming Lil update cause I forgot I commented this, I did end up platting the game, it took me about 189 hours to do. I finished the game around the 100 hour marker and the last 89 hours were spent doing the combat simulator challenges, hard mode minigames, and finally the hard mode playthrough. Spent 7 hours on the very last sephiroth boss fight cause I was so underprepared and literally had 0 MP xD.
The third chocobo mini is actually the easiest. The key is that you can actually fly in perpetuity because you can go backwards on the map to recollect all the rings. There’s no timer, so if you have decent control, you can just stay in the air forever due to the boosters the stage provide. At the same time you can set yourself up to get the last two rings as many times as you need.
I never bothered even trying for the platinum. I was exhausted just completing the game. And Chadley interrupting me every 5 seconds of exploration on the overworld just made me want to bash my head on the table not to mention his challenges. They took arguably my least favourite part from Remake and made it worse.
This game is so hard! I wish I could give up but for me personally, failure is not an option on this one. I'll keep going until the platinum is in my trophy cabinet.
I bought game when it was released and it took little less than 2 months to get platinum. For me getting platinum was best part of the game, because minigames and Chadley missions were so annoying, but it just felt so good to finally beat them. Bonds of friendship took 15 runs, but I have never felt so much adrenaline running trough my vein playing any game ever as I felt when I finally beat Odin. It was good feeling and platinum felt like you actually earn it.
I am a completionist at heart so not only the platinum but 100% game log in 280 hours of rebirth it's insane i know but i got my value out of it Great video 👍🏼
Achieving the Platinum trophy pushes you further into the combat system, requiring you to think strategically for those insanely challenging fights in the VR simulation. It's intended for hardcore players, but if you're one of them, you'll enjoy the game even more. I earned the Platinum with 200 hours of gameplay, including all handbooks from side quests and other content.
Honestly, I play a lot of character actions games like Devil May Cry, so the combat challenges for me weren't really that bad, i had to learn them, but in the end it's about your build and your skill is secondary. After playing it when it released i left it wthout doing the legendary Bouts. I came back few days ago, and still while being rusty i did manage to do bonds of friendship in about 7 attemtps, mostly dying to ironically 2nd stage and To be hero on 3rd attempt (it's way easier and knowledge/tactics about bosses transfers from bond of friendship). All the characters have something broken about them, you just need to learn what. (Cloud - Prime mode, Tifa - trinity strike, Yffie -brumal form etc) But yeah, my gamplay style for the story was to basically do all sidecontent first and then do main story so i didn't really felt burned out because every time i was feeling exhausted by the minigames i turned to the main story that slaps. I'm yet to start the hard mode run but i got literally everything you can get in the first playthrough and chadley's combat simulator. If it's anything like remake and CCS, then most bosses can be taken down in minutes if not seconds, it's all about the build, especially Magic with genji glove is ridiculous
We got minimum 3 years for the next game. I'm going to take my sweet time to go for plat... I noticed ppl who went directly for it got burned out, witch is what I avoided since the get go. The moment I started to feel the burn was around Gongaga going to Cosmo Canyon, I decided to do only main story at that point and got to fully enjoy the rest of the game, and now i enjoy even more just going back & revisite spots to complete things without the pressure. I'm 180H in completing Johnny's quest and after that, ill do HArd mode next year...To me it's like...I got 3 years soo I will milk all within those 3 years I also love/hate that some minigames are hard. Reminds me of actual hard games in the 90s & early 00s. EARN IT BOYS!!!
I lost my sh!t like 5 times during the Chapter 14 final fight against Sephiroth. I had played it through the first time on normal, I knew it was a multi-phase fight, but I guess I didn't remember it was like 9 phases long or whatnot. After beating like the 5th phase, I was ecstatic, thinking I beat the final chapter on hard, and then was like "crap, there's another phase". This process then repeated after phase 6, phase 7, and phase 8, until finally I got to the last damn fight with Cloud at 4 mana. Sephiroth on hard mode, where Cloud can is allowed to cast only 1 spell the entire fight, should be in achievo in its own right.
100% spot on man. It's not a very fun Plat. Many of the challenges require cheese to get thru like Aerith/Yuffie's "Brumal Form" ATB trick, which just sucks the fun out of any fight. IF one were to go for the Plat, it is important to use the Chapter 12 "White-Haired Angel" quest exploit to max level 70 by not killing the Queen Bee on first play-thru.Then do Gilgamesh Island, then beat the game on Normal/Easy, then Brutal/Legendary VR challenges, then Hard Mode. This will make your Hard Mode more of a victory lap as the video says. Make sure you Triple Slash Rufus and use the Yuffie ATB trick on the Red Dragon and you'll be Plat-ed up. It's a lot of work, not worth it IMO either.
I'm actually not aware of that quest cheese. I'm very curious to learn more about it. But that does sound like a sure fire way to easy the grind of getting the platinum
For me, it was a perfect-ish plantinum, I mean I got frustrated sooooooooo many times but I think its all part of the process. Taking all that frustation and hopelessness to that moment when you actually got the trophy Imean, is incredible that dopamine hit. If PART 3 is gonna be as hard as this one, I will lose myself in it no question asked lol
This game taking people 200 hours to plat is insane to me. I’m at 120 right now and I only have 3 challenges left til the plat. This is with me getting stuck on several parts for a decently long time. I died on Clouds solo challenge for like 2 hours straight for some reason lmao. If you’re actually good at games (unlike me) you should be able to plat FF7 rebirth in 120 hours or less (not that 120 isn’t a lot). I feel like people say 200 hours and it scares others away. It’s alot, but it’s not that much.
I think it depends how you play the game. I've seen people clear the game in 140 hours or 150. It just personally took me 200 since I took my time with things.
I finally got the platinum. Some of these VR Rounds of 10 battles were not enjoyable in all honesty. The mini games were annoying, but at peast they were doable. Just time consuming.
This platinum was probably the hardest thing I was ever committed to, and I work in the fucking oil and gas industry.. Even all of Miyazaki’s platinums pale in comparison to the difficulty of this game’s platinum.. Loved the game and adored the masochistic demented pain I got from getting that platinum. I need help.
when i finished the game i was about to plat it then i was soo annoyed i stopped or 2 months i think then i remembered that this game is very special to me and couldnt stop thinking about it and now i just have the legendary bout two of them to get the plat i think this game is my fav game i will never forget this game laughed a lot cried a lot enjoyed it and cant wait for part3 im just sad i cant use my fav character in part 3 which is aerith
I am and I will😊 Only Chapter 14 Hard Mode to go. By the way, even with the Yuffie "cheat" Rulers of The Outer Worlds was my last Chadley VR Challenge, it took me a few weeks to complete it.
Last two chapters left to do in hard mode... still trying to finish Chadley's and the Collisseum missions with over 260 hours... I'm really thinking if I DO need that platinum trophy 😂😂
glad to see this video. been spending the past few days battering my head against the wall, and I just deleted the game from my ps5. loved rebirth, but the platinum kinda degrades my experience. I'm pretty good at video games and have platinum trophies for souls games. Rebirth was too much. I loved the minigames, but the combat challenges were a bridge too far. the 10 round challenges were too much. to me, the way to balance this is just let us retry the round we failed at. would still require us to be good, it just doesn't waste our time starting over because you made one mistake against odin or bahamut.
One of my hates about the game is getting one character to heal and as I go back to my tank the one I have healing has cancelled the move and decides to do something else.
I’m up to the last trophy which in the Johnny mission. I told myself I’d stop at the VR missions but need to bring it home. I can confirm this has not been enjoyable and I’m simply giving in to my OCD
Beating the platinum has ruined my ability to judge difficulty. GOW2018 on hard mode just doesn't hit the same. Taking 20 tries to beat a Valkyrie feels quaint. After laying them low it's like, you're no Odin.
I’m almost 90 hrs in and am in chapter 12. I agree about the chocobo gliding challenge. I also hate the Moogle mini games. I couldn’t beat #4 and just skipped the last few lol. Congrats!
I completely agree. I did not buy dark souls or Elden ring and Rebirth doesn’t even have the balancing mechanics that souls games have to overcome the BS difficult fights they introduce. And that’s ignoring the insane number of mini games that all require different skill sets. PS: Don’t get me started on the clunky ATB system and how you lose your ATB AND MP if the enemy attacks you during a spell. The system was not designed for the crazy difficulty they designed in the simulator fights. Either you shouldn’t lose ANYTHING, you shouldn’t be able to be interrupted, or you should do it again with the original cost the moment you hop back up (with the original charge time retained) Pick one.
I think I'm one of the few that walked away liking it more, but I also kept hearing about how hard it was, so I just used Optinoob's guides for the brutal/legendaries and then it was a cake walk. I'm actually struggling much more on the last few chapters of hard mode tbh. But crunches actually took me the most time to do, it was like 3 hours for me lol
A lot of the "difficulties" you had with Chadley's missions can be fixed by equipping the HP MP swap materia and just spam limit breaks and reraise because you have 6000 mp. Odin is very easy when Cloud and Zack both have reraise always on them.
@@pongknuckle8933 Enhanced Expeditionary Medal. I never got to the point where I could CONSTANTLY spam reraise after I died, but it's still very useful. Loadout: Fire/Ice and Wind/Lightning attached to two elemental materia depending on what I'm fighting, HP MP Swap, Precision defense, Revive and Reraise, any other magic or stat boosting materia (eg first strike, steadfast block, comet, etc.) I would also HIGHLY recommend Enemy Skill to use Sonic Boom because it's a free Bravery and Faith buff, and that materia can give you other useful skills. It's a lot of blocking and dying, but as long as you perfect block an attack 3 times, you get your limit break. Also, throughout the Limit Break duration all attacks are considered perfectly blocked, so Clouds long startup on lv 3 Limit is actually a good thing, as it gives you more time to get hit before you interrupt their attacks. It also gives HUGE stagger, so if you're fighting more than 2 enemies you can chain limits off of stagger alone (eg, chapter 13 or the first phase of the 2 man colosseum battles). Reraise gives you a buffer for if you make a mistake, but note that there's a little bit of time AFTER you have been resurrected but BEFORE you gain control where you can take damage. OF course, this becomes less of an issue when there are two other party members who have been tanking hits and getting aggro. Those two boss rounds on Rulers of the Outer Worlds are trivially easy because of this. I never could get past Gilgamesh, but that's cuz I never got enough practice and can only fight him ONCE outside of RotOW. This build also makes the Solo Legendary battles easy, because you tend to one or two shot most things.
Duly noted. I didn't end up using reraise that much since it required so much MP, but with your build that wouldn't really matter. I also never really messed around with the HP-MP Swap materia and I feel like I should have. Reading your explanation makes me want to mess around with it and see how bust it is. So if I ever pick up Rebirth again, that's the first thing I'll do
@@GingerGiantGaminghe’s speaking as someone who hasn’t suffered struggled and raged to the point your blood vessels are gonna pop out 😂 this plat mini games made me truly hate myself at points
The longest challenge I spent on combat sim was legendary bout Cloud, but I was using a glass canon build with only shock passive healing. When I changed to a magic hp absorb build it was actually kind of easy. But I enjoyed going back and doing the fight, even No damaged white death with Perfect block. NGL I find the fights more enjoyable after already getting the trophy. Magic build on cloud also makes Odin pretty easy, I only died the first couple times because of being split up in that dimension slash or whatever it’s called. But again, I used guides, I really gotta give a hats off to the guys that completed combat sim with no guides.
I would of agreed with you on Dyne hard fight, if not for me coming to realisation that i was doing the fight wrong, after about 20 or more fails i changed up my strategy and with new strategy beat it in 2nd attempt, what shocked me more was watching few live streams afterwards where people beat it in only few tries just because their playstyle. I agree that the chocobo gliding minigame was really rough, i played it pre patch and it had major camera issues back then, but afterwards i saw few people beat it in like under 5 attempts which just made me realise i was just bad at it. Cactor crush was looking impossible until i found out that certain materia can actually give you an advantage which made it go from near impossible to somewhat hard.
I’m almost done with the platinum ! The most difficult platinum trophy to date! I’ve platinum all the souls games but this one is in a different level.
im so confused when people say "get the platinum"...are you really getting anything? or is it just a virtual sticker that says you beat all the sidequests and mini games? That's crazy...unless those are worth some kind of money, idk why would you spend an extra 50ish hours just to earn a virtual sticker? unless its the best game you've ever played, but just to do it, ill never understand. why ruin a good game by having to do every little, tiny task.
Rebirth is my favourite game so far this year, but I need like 3 trophies for the plat (Hard mode, Chadley challenges, 7 star hotel) and decided to take a break from getting them because it was souring my love for the game lol.
@@dadillonful "Pro" tip for the muscle bouts. You can go back and do them on easy mode to make them a lot easier to deal with. I did the first few on hard mode and was wondering why no one was talking about how brutal these challenges were only to find out that they scale based off what difficult you play on
Yeah that was not an easy fight to get through. There's a pretty good guide from Optinoob on how to deal with that fight. Would definitely check out his guide if you're still having issues with that fight
Wait…so did you do the Chadley brutal VR missions before doing hard mode? If so, that’s even more savage! Through your hard mode run you get a ton of manuscripts that finish leveling up your weapons, which I always felt would be necessary for the VR missions.
I finished them before going to hard mode too, the manuscripts just slightly did a bit of upgrades, you would also need to finish the side quests on hard to get the rest of the scripts, and some in chadley’s vr.
I just passed 250 hours and I still have 7 of the Brutal & Legendary battles to do. Most of the mini games weren’t too bad, even the ones that I was dreading to do. The worst mini games for me were the same, Cactuar Crush and that Chocobo gliding mini game
I think because I spread out the plat over 3 months, it's been a lot more bearable. I don't understand how so many people struggle on the piano challenges specifically, I found them all pretty easy
I did everything except the Brutal and Legendary VR combat challenges. It took me 3 months to beat Helions Intonement. I tried The Seventh Seal for 2 weeks and just gave up. I did everything else. I have 87/88 of Johnny's Inn collection. All I have are the Brutal and Legendary VR stuff, which I gave up. This platinum I will not be getting.
Pretty much everyone that gets the platinum says the game is great but the platinum sucks.
sums it up.
I guess it kinda sucked but for me, personally, it was so much better than Remake that I found myself enjoying 90% of it
Eazy freazy cheesy peazay@@luisburgos7365
Tbh i hate the Plats for FF7 Crisis Core, FF7 Remake and FF7 Rebirth for there stupid (hard) squatting trophies.
I'm 1 trophy away from platinum and I loved absolutely everything about it
This platinum just drained me. I usually get a sense of accomplishment and finality when I get a platinum, but this one just left me bitter, deflated, irritated, and hopeless.
2 chapters left to complete in hard to get the platinum. Hardest part was Chadley's VR missions. A big thank you to the youtube channels providing strategies :)
Enjoyed the game so much that I had no problem going to the extra mile to platinum. Really the best game in the last 10 years for me.
Same here. There was hard parts like bonds of friendship or some minigames, but I really enjoyed getting platinum from it.
Same. I think it raised the bar for how FF games SHOULD be
Yeah… I have around 9 platinums and I think I’m going to cut my losses on this one… I would really like it but… forget that noise. I would like to think I’m close but I am not going to grind another 100 hours of my life to do the remaining odds and ends. I was going to do it but it completely ruined the fun for me…
I got the platinum but it was misery doing some of that! Chadley is the true enemy of this game with his VR missions!
Lol. He is. And he should be fired 😂
Game is so good that even feeling very annoyed sometimes by minigames or hard battles, there's something that brings me back to the game to suffer again but feel good after every little portion of improvment I get. Really satisfying (not all the minigames or hard battle itself, but the outcome).
Just sometimes? Bruh
Bonds of Friendship is the one that nearly broke me. I tried it for 2+ weeks off and on. Got to Odin several times and got within a spell or two only to lose. Took 4 days off for my sanity. First night back it at finally got it on the 5th try that night. Platinum complete and sanity retained.
Nice!
FF7 original will always be the greatest game of all time.
I still need to play it myself. I plan on doing so once all three parts are out
I did JUST that in antecipation of Part lll release as i considered rebirth one of the greatest games of all time! Even tho i despise turn based combat i ended up loving every goddamn second of original FF7, so much so that i also got the plat for it 💯🙏 truly original the G.O.A.T
It was for me as well, but Rebirth tops it in so many ways. We need to get rid of those nostalgia goggles and accept reality lol.
@@IsraTheBlackI hope they give it a proper ending because the OG ending was garbage. I loved the game but it’s just facts.
@daesong1378 yeah that's true, but if you think about there aren't many ff games with a good ending. And Rebirth's final 2 chapters took a huge turnaround and made the story too convoluted as if the writers didn't know anymore. It felt just like the ending of Lost.
This was definitely harder to platinum than Remake. The hardest VR in Remake only took me something like 10 tries. The Bonds of Friendship in Rebirth took me 3 days of attempts. Bahamut and Odin just crushed my soul.
Fortunately, Weiss wasn't needed for the platinum trophy because he was also a pain to defeat. I think I had more trouble clearing that fight than the ones in Rebirth
@@vansta93I've also done both, and at least with Weiss we didn't have to go 10 zero-checkpoint rounds first. That lack of checkpoint format is my main issue, as most of the time is being forced to repeat stuff we've already beaten. Imagine being stuck having to watch a half hour unskippable cutscene between attempts where you need practice. The hardness of the bosses was reasonable, but the zero-checkpoint format was not. After getting the platinum I am not even looking forward to part 3. Post story content ought to make players appreciate a game more not less. The minigames also were much more frustrating than fun. I do agree, its a fun game if you ignore the optional content. But, liking the game is what made me interact with it, and afterward it lost me.
Rulers of the outer worlds was harder for me
I personally enjoyed the Plat.
It's a game I enjoyed a lot and spending more time with it was even better.
Yes, it's a long one, but the activities are so varied that it didn't feel repetitive
I think that's definitely fair. Rebirth does have a ton of variety in its minigames. Even though I didn't necessarily enjoy all of them, there were some that were pretty great. And they all did feel pretty unique from each other, which I can definitely respect. And Rebirth's story was amazing. It was more so the world intel that felt repetitive to me. Most of the world intel aside from the phenomenon intel felt like a lot of the same. Go activate this tower, find this crystal to get more history of the region, go dig up these transmuter chips so on and so forth. But that was the only part of the game that felt repetitive to me. Overall, Rebirth is an amazing game that I also really enjoyed. As of right now, I do think it's my game of the year because I enjoyed it that much. I just personally didn't enjoy the back half of the platinum.
I'm actually happy it's not an easy plat.
Remake's wasn't an easy plat but it was a fair difficult plat. Rebirth is the kind that feels like a bullshit difficult plat. the simulator brutal and legendary fights are like doing Darksouls or Elden ring without the quick heal potions available and needing atb to do anything. It wasnt any of the minigames for me. its the brutal and legendary fights in the simulator and i loathe them with every fiber of my being. My play style has never been defensive combat or parry or blocking. i am not good at that in any game ever made. I build to work around that. But this simulator forces it. And there is no way to work around it in the legendary fights. Certain builds work for the first 5 brutal challenges and the yuffie brummal form spam works on rulers of outer worlds which still took me forever to beat even with that because of Gilgamesh and Sephiroths rng garbage. I still have not beat one of the legendary fights. And it has become so annoying that i go days without touching the game now. Because i am not having fun anymore. It is a bullshit mode the way they designed it.
@@zeromagnum2811reminds me of the good old ff9 and ff10 challenges😅
@@NoctLightCloud I did all the stuff in 10 back in ps2 era. The only thing i never finished was blitzball as i hated it and just quit. The only ones i struggled to do in 10 was the 200 lightning bolt dodges in the thunder plains and getting 0.00 time on the chocobo minigame with the balloons. in ff9 the only thing i never did was beat ozma. nothing else in 9 ever gave me issues like the simulator in rebirth.
@@zeromagnum2811 remake was easier. I enjoy the much more difficult nature of rebirth
@@TheTez1990 i don't have a issue with difficulty in general. As i played Elden ring and dark souls trilogy. but there is a difference in real fair difficulty and artificial bs difficulty. And the simulator endgame stuff in rebirth falls more into the artificial bs kind. Its not balanced properly and the enemies are over turned for a battle system that requires atb to use heals or do anything. Its like trying to play Dark souls without healing potions that you can just use when needed. Rulers of outer world is so over turned that you pretty much have to cheese it with yuffie unless you are some kind of gamer nerd parry god that never gets hit. I got plat on elden ring and never complained once about any of the fights in that game. But the balance of the brutal and legendary simulator fights is busted unless you are a parry god game guru. Its like they tried to make it like Dark souls and Elden ring without the balance to the system that those games have for such difficult fights.
I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Got a quarter of the way through the platinum journey and couldn’t go through with it. Massive respect to you for this. It’s fucking brutal.
"Holy shit Odin.. I never have to fight you sorry ass again" Untill part 3 🤣
Or the eventual DLC they'll release; adding more Chadley VR Missions 🤣
@@GingerGiantGaming Thankfully they said there will be no DLC for rebirth. I DO however wonder if they'll add one more VR mission like they did with Remake (the Weiss fight) so you can obtain 2 additional Gotterdammerungs.
I finished the platinum last week and, yes, this was so much more of a challenge than finishing Remake's platinum. The "To Be a Hero" mission where you have Cloud & Sephiroth was my biggest roadblock mostly because I was relying on Seph as the damage dealer, but the dude doesn't have a traditional block; so I'd take a lot of damage when I got hit. After getting through "To Be a Hero", "Bonds of Friendship" was almost a breeze - took me a couple of hours to get through it and Odin felt almost insignificant by that point because I faced him so many times before in the previous challenge. Alexander was more of a menace in both challenges than Odin for me.
After doing all the VR missions, Hard Mode was almost relaxing beyond the Rufus fight in Chapter 12 and Jenova during the final chapter. I will say that after doing everything in Rebirth, I feel like I'm a much better gamer at this version of Final Fantasy than I ever was coming off of getting the plat in Remake.
That's very interesting because I thought the sephiroth one was a breeze because of how good sephiroths dodge is. I mostly used sephiroth in the fights and beat the challenge on my very first attempt with my own build, but I'm struggling on the bonds of friendship one right now 😭
@@ItzMeItzMe_ I definitely attribute my poor dodging with Seph from just being burned out after doing all the other challenges. I know if I can do the Bonds, you can too! Good luck.
@fasjab holy crap I just did it by the skin of my teeth. Cloud died and Zack was low health but I summoned Odin right before cloud died and when he died it autocasted zantetsuken which was just enough to finish off Odin 😭 shaking and sweating
@@ItzMeItzMe_ Big congrats! I was acting like I won the Superbowl or something when Odin died, 😂
My Seph was only there to buff Cloud and assist with an offensive spell a handful of times. I basically soloed Odin with Cloud.
I also platted. Definitely a tough plat. Spent like 10 hours on rulers of outer worlds alone.
There's a small part of my that wishes I didn't do the cheese strat for Outer Worlds, but I think if I had tried to do it without that method that I would have lost my sanity. Mad respect for doing it without using the Yuffie strat and congrats on getting the platinum!
@@GingerGiantGaming thing is is that the cheese has to be executed quickly. You would have to play it out quickly, mainly against Virtual Sephiroth (which was where I struggled the most on). I didn’t really did it legit but I just wanted to get it done anyways .
You need to be a blocking master and learn each enemies moves .. it would take 300 hours without cheesing it
@@kratos.8151naah it doesn’t, stop exaggerating 😂. The enemies barely have much movesets except Gilgamesh
For me rulers of outer worlds was the hardest challenge because I did it before all the crazy cheese starts were discovered
I feel like if I hadn't used the Yuffie strat it would have also been my hardest challenge too since I had such little experience with the Gilgamesh fight on top of having to deal with Sephiroth's shadowy chain attack. Kudos to you doing it before the strats were discovered!
I do not often relate to videos this hard, but MAN. I did everything this game told me to do. Everything except the last 2 VR missions, with Sephiroth and Zach . Loss after loss after loss after loss after loss, guide after guide after guide, getting to the last fricking fight, and I just can’t. 200 hours in and no plat, and it taunted me enough to just delete the game. Good on you for fighting through that yourself, it was brutal
Do you need help? The sephiroth one is easy, you can spam dodge and triangle wherever you are to build up his limit in seconds infinitely. For Zack i recommend watching solestro for the build and tips, you can make an aeroga build where you deal big damage with mp and hp absorb without worrying about your mp or hp
Don’t give up man ! You did so much. I’m 200 hrs in and still on chapter 13 ! I haven’t even thought of hard mode yet ! There are great strats I’ve seen on here. You gotta give it another shot. You’re sooo close ! I totally relate to this vid, but I’m determined to see it through !
@@rapidfire9999 listen to my advice then
@@soku330 Too late, I beat the Bonds of Friendship. 😁
@@markoliver2877 Hey, dude! I beat the Bonds of Friendship.
I'm pretty sure you can do that, too. Don't lose your *MOTIVATION* and *DETERMINATION* ♥️
Vincent on hard mode was really tough! He kicked my ass so many times.
I'm currently 3 Chadley VR missions away from platinum. It'll be my first (and probably only) platinum. I just love this game so much, I want to do all the possible content I could. I managed to beat all of the hard mode chapters with my own strategies, but I am relying heavily on Optinoob for the Chadley missions. Otherwise I would rage quit 😅
I totally agree about QB being amazing. The worst minigames for me were Jules's crunch-off and the 3D fighter. Oh, and the Can't Stop Won't Stop was a literal garbage heap of a challenge and the worst thing I have ever done. I despise the Shinra Middle Manager.
I'm close enough to the plat that your video has convinced me to relax on it. I can't beat Gi Nattack and the brutal and legendary Chadley missions are unholy. Although I loved both the hard mode cactuar battles and glide de chocobo 🤣
Yeah, I totally agree with you. The only part of platinum that I enjoyed, was that I had to use a lot of game mechanics that I tottally ignored during the first playthrough. Because most part of the first playthrough I hack 'n slashed the game. The strategy really shine on the hard mode and in VR missions, because I had to use many equips and materias that I busted my ass to obtain with the awful minigames that I tortured myself playing. But the overral felling after getting the platinum today is: "I'm free!!!" Maybe I will play again to play One winged Angel hahaha
I used to play and enjoy the OG FF7, almost 200 hours. And it was fun, a huge great game. No stupid Chadley, nor boring mini games. So disapointed.
Not sure if nostalgia clouds your brain, But the minigames in Rebirth are mostly better than the ones in the OG. Those were meh at best in the saucer and the 3d brawler in the og was so bad i didn't ever hit anything in it lol. They improved the Gold saucer in almost every way. Chadley himself doesn't bother me. The Simulator however does.
@@zeromagnum2811 You are right they are meh for a 1997 game on ps1. The whole game was so meh that S-E decided to make 3 games of it. Money talks. meh meh meh
I really need to play OG FFVII. I'm waiting till all three parts of Remake are out before doing so
@@GingerGiantGaming The og in its time was the best game made in my opinion at that point of 1997. But now it is way outdated due to many factors. I still love it. But the remake helps newer players with the experience playing it first because it offers the experience in mostly the same way with the modern graphics and honestly better handled certain character plot lines than the original did in how they did some of the scenes. Like Cait sith is a way better character in the remake than in the OG. As is Yuffie. Even though Yuffie was still ok in the OG. she got way more depth in the remakes.
@@GingerGiantGaming i love the og, its actually a game, Yesterday i was playing rebirth in a friends house and he told me : why every time i turn around to see you play you are playing bullshit and not the game?, then his comment made click in my mind, this is a mini game simulator not a jrpg.
I platinumed in 188 hours. Hard mode was a breeze. Cactuar crush with Aerith, Glide de chocobo 3 and the final VR battle were the only things i got stuck on. The platinum wasnt that bad.
You're a much better player than me, the challenge 5 in brutal challenges took me more than 24 hours total. I'm more than 400 hours into my playthrough... I beat the Sephiroth and Cloud challenge and I have to admit yes I think the Zack and Cloud challenge is hardest combat challenge(Killing Cactuars might be harder but that's a minigame).
Thank you! I wish you the best of luck getting the platinum. You more than deserve it at this point!
Loved the game. Loved the platinum grind. Would not recommend to anybody else to go for it if they aren’t committed to “the gaming lifestyle”. IMO, Platinums should be hard to get, but every mechanic in the game should work as intended (I’m looking at you, Flight de Chocobo👀)
I totally agree with you. I do think platinums should be hard to get. That's the fun of them (at least in my opinion anyway). I'm actually prepping myself to go for Crypt of the Necrodancer in the future
Dude, I feel the pain because I’m trying to grit my teeth and push past it but I’ve been like sheesh I don’t want to keep pulling out hairs but one day! I’m going to keep trying! Got yourself a sub!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I wish you the best of luck on getting the Rebirth platinum whenever you do go back to it! The pay off is definitely worth it
This game is incredible, I love it to death and it’s one of my favourite games ever.
This platinum pains me, I’m close to getting it, but those damn brutal & legendary bouts are truly cruel 😅
I completely understand making a platinum hard to get so not everyone can do it, but I’ve genuinely had to step away from Rebirth and I’m mixed feelings on returning to it soon, cuz when I was playing it everyday, completing side quests & certain specific challenges, I felt accomplished but also, once I unlocked those brutal/legendary ones I realized how fuqed I was 😅
I do think I’ll eventually get the Plat, like with Remake I only ended up getting that one at the beginning of the year despite having Remake since the end of 2020, so using that timeline (heh) of events I’m already further in completion than compared to Remake so 🤷♂️
Anyways great video and I feel like I’m the only person who didn’t wanna yeet myself off a cliff with Rufus in hard mode 😂 normal mode, definitely, I didn’t know he was gonna be like that, but to be fair, none of us did, but since I already knew how he moved I found him readable, and I love to spam blade beams at enemies in this game which helped in that fight. Also, I found out from a guide that you can zip to him when he uses certain attacks which pressure him immediately using triple slash!
When you said it took you 200 hours to plat, my first thought was 'wow, bro, that was quick'. I'm at 300 hours and still haven't got there yet. Yesterday I managed to beat 'To Be a Hero', after what must have been at least 12 hours/30 attempts. I haven't attempted 'Bonds of Friendship' yet, but knowing that it is more difficult than 'To Be a Hero' has me full of dread. I'm leaving it for a bit because I want to go into it with Cloud's weapon at level 9, for which I need to complete Hard mode. I've just started chapter 13, so it will give me a little break before I drive myself insane again.
Have you watched Optinoobs easy strat vid? Or are you trying to do it without guides?
@@Kean_Bean I've been using Optinoob's guides for most the VR challenges, and they have been really helpful. Never would got as far as I have without them. There are, however, a few challenges where his guides just weren't working for me, and I either had to slightly modify them or come up with something completely different. To Be a Hero was one of those. For that, I looked up numerous guides to get some idea, and then put together my own unique build.
@@Bastion90 cool, the knowledge you gained from that should really help with bonds of friendship.
What really worked for me was building Red out as similar to Zack as possible, then I drilled against each enemy individually in the sim and on the World map on hard mode.
About 4 or 5 rounds on each enemy left me confident with each strat and that I could clear them with little to no incident.
(Alexander did nearly end my To be a Hero run).
@@Kean_Bean Red? Aren't we playing as Cloud?
Alexander took me out a couple of times. My jaw dropped the first time it happened as I'd never lost the Alexander in any VR challenge before. I was in a state of shock. He's not the bad really, but the same can be said of each of the opponents. It's the endurance of ten in a row that's the real problem. Having to start all over again for the umpteenth time after half an hour of intense battling is soul destroying.
I don't know how useful my build will be for Bonds of Friendship as I used Cloud as very much a support player for To Be a Hero. I don't think I'll get away with that with Zack in the party. Your training method sounds like a good idea though, thanks for the tip.
@@Bastion90 Cloud has main build. I replicate Zack’s build on Red (same spells + first strike). Enfeeblement Ring on 3rd character.
You need a character with Zack’s support spells to practice properly.
I found I didn’t fully understand Prime mode until I had run a couple of fights. I thought I had to refresh it if Cloud switched stances, kept wasting ATB re-using it.
The drilling really worked for me. I knew my opponents so well that I got through both bouts on the first run. Was a touch over prepared.
The Hueylacottle and Brineborn Demon can be wiped without them even getting off a proper attack.
Alexander surprised me too. Got me with that shockwave/tracking beam combo, wiped Cloud. Killer Cloud twice in that round I think. Must have got him moments before he was due to cast Judgement.
Best of Luck! Keep at it!
I finally got the platinum last weekend, my gosh. But also, I’m here for the Powdered Toast Man shirt 🔥
You're the first person who's noticed! I'm glad there's another Ren and Stimpy fan out there
I think if you dropped the legendary and brutal Chadley VR challenges then it would have been a tough but rewarding and enjoyable platinum, but with those included this just became painful!
I am 1000% sure the mini games that you mention.... is a total nightmare to me.
Currently going for the platnium rn on rebirth, just finished all the normal combat simulations and now am mentally preparing myself for the brutal and legendary challenges
Oh dang well I wish you the best of luck during the brutal and legendary challenges. There are some really great guides out there for every challenge. I definitely used a couple of them myself
Chadley's sorry ass mouth that never shuts is going to make you sick when you exit the Combat simulator to go rethink your builds/teams after getting trounced 50 gazillion times by the bummy AI in some of those challenges... Godspeed 🫡
@@GingerGiantGaming Lil update cause I forgot I commented this, I did end up platting the game, it took me about 189 hours to do. I finished the game around the 100 hour marker and the last 89 hours were spent doing the combat simulator challenges, hard mode minigames, and finally the hard mode playthrough. Spent 7 hours on the very last sephiroth boss fight cause I was so underprepared and literally had 0 MP xD.
The third chocobo mini is actually the easiest. The key is that you can actually fly in perpetuity because you can go backwards on the map to recollect all the rings. There’s no timer, so if you have decent control, you can just stay in the air forever due to the boosters the stage provide. At the same time you can set yourself up to get the last two rings as many times as you need.
I feel your pain. I’m going through it now. 279 hrs into it and got like 3 trophies left to go.
I wish you the best of luck getting those last three trophies!
Same here
I never bothered even trying for the platinum. I was exhausted just completing the game. And Chadley interrupting me every 5 seconds of exploration on the overworld just made me want to bash my head on the table not to mention his challenges. They took arguably my least favourite part from Remake and made it worse.
This game is so hard! I wish I could give up but for me personally, failure is not an option on this one. I'll keep going until the platinum is in my trophy cabinet.
I bought game when it was released and it took little less than 2 months to get platinum. For me getting platinum was best part of the game, because minigames and Chadley missions were so annoying, but it just felt so good to finally beat them. Bonds of friendship took 15 runs, but I have never felt so much adrenaline running trough my vein playing any game ever as I felt when I finally beat Odin. It was good feeling and platinum felt like you actually earn it.
yeah they shouldn't make you do the mini games on hard to platinum. either that or improve all of them
I haven’t heard one person say something bad about Queens Blood, we need a real table top game of Queens Blood
I am a completionist at heart so not only the platinum but 100% game log in 280 hours of rebirth it's insane i know but i got my value out of it
Great video 👍🏼
Achieving the Platinum trophy pushes you further into the combat system, requiring you to think strategically for those insanely challenging fights in the VR simulation. It's intended for hardcore players, but if you're one of them, you'll enjoy the game even more. I earned the Platinum with 200 hours of gameplay, including all handbooks from side quests and other content.
Just got the platinum 30 minutes ago. I’m so happy to finally be done😭😭
Congrats on getting the platinum!
Honestly, I play a lot of character actions games like Devil May Cry, so the combat challenges for me weren't really that bad, i had to learn them, but in the end it's about your build and your skill is secondary. After playing it when it released i left it wthout doing the legendary Bouts. I came back few days ago, and still while being rusty i did manage to do bonds of friendship in about 7 attemtps, mostly dying to ironically 2nd stage and To be hero on 3rd attempt (it's way easier and knowledge/tactics about bosses transfers from bond of friendship). All the characters have something broken about them, you just need to learn what. (Cloud - Prime mode, Tifa - trinity strike, Yffie -brumal form etc)
But yeah, my gamplay style for the story was to basically do all sidecontent first and then do main story so i didn't really felt burned out because every time i was feeling exhausted by the minigames i turned to the main story that slaps. I'm yet to start the hard mode run but i got literally everything you can get in the first playthrough and chadley's combat simulator. If it's anything like remake and CCS, then most bosses can be taken down in minutes if not seconds, it's all about the build, especially Magic with genji glove is ridiculous
Share the same feeling about Rufus fight. He is one big moda foca.
We got minimum 3 years for the next game. I'm going to take my sweet time to go for plat... I noticed ppl who went directly for it got burned out, witch is what I avoided since the get go. The moment I started to feel the burn was around Gongaga going to Cosmo Canyon, I decided to do only main story at that point and got to fully enjoy the rest of the game, and now i enjoy even more just going back & revisite spots to complete things without the pressure. I'm 180H in completing Johnny's quest and after that, ill do HArd mode next year...To me it's like...I got 3 years soo I will milk all within those 3 years
I also love/hate that some minigames are hard. Reminds me of actual hard games in the 90s & early 00s.
EARN IT BOYS!!!
That’s what I’m doing, I’m going little by little enjoying the game. Once I stopped pursuing platinum quickly it turned into a much better experience.
I lost my sh!t like 5 times during the Chapter 14 final fight against Sephiroth. I had played it through the first time on normal, I knew it was a multi-phase fight, but I guess I didn't remember it was like 9 phases long or whatnot. After beating like the 5th phase, I was ecstatic, thinking I beat the final chapter on hard, and then was like "crap, there's another phase". This process then repeated after phase 6, phase 7, and phase 8, until finally I got to the last damn fight with Cloud at 4 mana. Sephiroth on hard mode, where Cloud can is allowed to cast only 1 spell the entire fight, should be in achievo in its own right.
100% spot on man. It's not a very fun Plat. Many of the challenges require cheese to get thru like Aerith/Yuffie's "Brumal Form" ATB trick, which just sucks the fun out of any fight.
IF one were to go for the Plat, it is important to use the Chapter 12 "White-Haired Angel" quest exploit to max level 70 by not killing the Queen Bee on first play-thru.Then do Gilgamesh Island, then beat the game on Normal/Easy, then Brutal/Legendary VR challenges, then Hard Mode. This will make your Hard Mode more of a victory lap as the video says. Make sure you Triple Slash Rufus and use the Yuffie ATB trick on the Red Dragon and you'll be Plat-ed up. It's a lot of work, not worth it IMO either.
I'm actually not aware of that quest cheese. I'm very curious to learn more about it. But that does sound like a sure fire way to easy the grind of getting the platinum
For me, it was a perfect-ish plantinum, I mean I got frustrated sooooooooo many times but I think its all part of the process. Taking all that frustation and hopelessness to that moment when you actually got the trophy Imean, is incredible that dopamine hit. If PART 3 is gonna be as hard as this one, I will lose myself in it no question asked lol
Just got the plat today. Best 300 hours of my life.
This game taking people 200 hours to plat is insane to me. I’m at 120 right now and I only have 3 challenges left til the plat. This is with me getting stuck on several parts for a decently long time. I died on Clouds solo challenge for like 2 hours straight for some reason lmao. If you’re actually good at games (unlike me) you should be able to plat FF7 rebirth in 120 hours or less (not that 120 isn’t a lot). I feel like people say 200 hours and it scares others away. It’s alot, but it’s not that much.
I think it depends how you play the game. I've seen people clear the game in 140 hours or 150. It just personally took me 200 since I took my time with things.
No way, piano and the robot mini games were the two worst ever.
Four stupid minigames.
I spent so much time on this stupid friggin trophy. It was painful, but it's finally over. For now....
I finally got the platinum. Some of these VR Rounds of 10 battles were not enjoyable in all honesty.
The mini games were annoying, but at peast they were doable. Just time consuming.
This platinum was probably the hardest thing I was ever committed to, and I work in the fucking oil and gas industry.. Even all of Miyazaki’s platinums pale in comparison to the difficulty of this game’s platinum.. Loved the game and adored the masochistic demented pain I got from getting that platinum. I need help.
when i finished the game i was about to plat it then i was soo annoyed i stopped or 2 months i think then i remembered that this game is very special to me and couldnt stop thinking about it and now i just have the legendary bout two of them to get the plat i think this game is my fav game i will never forget this game laughed a lot cried a lot enjoyed it and cant wait for part3 im just sad i cant use my fav character in part 3 which is aerith
Haven't platinumed it yet. Too busy with life, but when i do 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The music in the whole game is tremendous
FF7 remakes platinum was daycare compared to FF7 rebirth.
The one mini game I had the most problem with was crunches with Jewels.
Almost to platinum. 3 more trophies. If you think this was bad, you should see bloodbourne
lol i thought i was having a mental breakdown but seems it was a normal reaction to the platinum 🤣
I am and I will😊
Only Chapter 14 Hard Mode to go.
By the way, even with the Yuffie "cheat" Rulers of The Outer Worlds was my last Chadley VR Challenge, it took me a few weeks to complete it.
Last two chapters left to do in hard mode... still trying to finish Chadley's and the Collisseum missions with over 260 hours... I'm really thinking if I DO need that platinum trophy 😂😂
I am feeling your pain right now. 87% now. All I have left is Chadley fights and gather All Johnny's collection.
"I thought this was an RPG! What role am I playing, the victim?! Jesus fucking christ!"
I swear the I got war flashbacks from all the damn minigames 🤣
some parts of this plat were ridiculous but i had so much fun doing it
glad to see this video. been spending the past few days battering my head against the wall, and I just deleted the game from my ps5. loved rebirth, but the platinum kinda degrades my experience. I'm pretty good at video games and have platinum trophies for souls games. Rebirth was too much. I loved the minigames, but the combat challenges were a bridge too far. the 10 round challenges were too much. to me, the way to balance this is just let us retry the round we failed at. would still require us to be good, it just doesn't waste our time starting over because you made one mistake against odin or bahamut.
One of my hates about the game is getting one character to heal and as I go back to my tank the one I have healing has cancelled the move and decides to do something else.
You have no idea how often this would happen to me. This is honestly one of my least favorite things about the combat in Rebirth
@@GingerGiantGaming oh I can as it happened to me plenty. And now it’s like they know it’s a hard run and decide to do it more 😩
I hate that. It’s so annoying
Currently trying to finish the Chocobo races. These minigames are a chore. The OG had fun minigames. Rebirth does not.
I’m up to the last trophy which in the Johnny mission. I told myself I’d stop at the VR missions but need to bring it home. I can confirm this has not been enjoyable and I’m simply giving in to my OCD
I thank the Lord everyday I remember that you didn’t have to fulfill all the combat objectives to get full sync on a region
Beating the platinum has ruined my ability to judge difficulty. GOW2018 on hard mode just doesn't hit the same. Taking 20 tries to beat a Valkyrie feels quaint. After laying them low it's like, you're no Odin.
Theres 1 materia thats requiere for 2 or the vr battles if you dont want them to feel imposible
Precision defense to be exact for Sephiroth
I’m almost 90 hrs in and am in chapter 12. I agree about the chocobo gliding challenge. I also hate the Moogle mini games. I couldn’t beat #4 and just skipped the last few lol. Congrats!
I completely agree. I did not buy dark souls or Elden ring and Rebirth doesn’t even have the balancing mechanics that souls games have to overcome the BS difficult fights they introduce.
And that’s ignoring the insane number of mini games that all require different skill sets.
PS: Don’t get me started on the clunky ATB system and how you lose your ATB AND MP if the enemy attacks you during a spell. The system was not designed for the crazy difficulty they designed in the simulator fights. Either you shouldn’t lose ANYTHING, you shouldn’t be able to be interrupted, or you should do it again with the original cost the moment you hop back up (with the original charge time retained) Pick one.
I think I'm one of the few that walked away liking it more, but I also kept hearing about how hard it was, so I just used Optinoob's guides for the brutal/legendaries and then it was a cake walk. I'm actually struggling much more on the last few chapters of hard mode tbh. But crunches actually took me the most time to do, it was like 3 hours for me lol
A lot of the "difficulties" you had with Chadley's missions can be fixed by equipping the HP MP swap materia and just spam limit breaks and reraise because you have 6000 mp. Odin is very easy when Cloud and Zack both have reraise always on them.
Lol I’ll have to retry it with this. So the only thing is keeping ATB up, does that mean Speed Demon Keychain is the best in slot accessory for this?
Or Enhanced Expeditionary Medal?
@@pongknuckle8933 Enhanced Expeditionary Medal. I never got to the point where I could CONSTANTLY spam reraise after I died, but it's still very useful.
Loadout:
Fire/Ice and Wind/Lightning attached to two elemental materia depending on what I'm fighting, HP MP Swap, Precision defense, Revive and Reraise, any other magic or stat boosting materia (eg first strike, steadfast block, comet, etc.) I would also HIGHLY recommend Enemy Skill to use Sonic Boom because it's a free Bravery and Faith buff, and that materia can give you other useful skills.
It's a lot of blocking and dying, but as long as you perfect block an attack 3 times, you get your limit break. Also, throughout the Limit Break duration all attacks are considered perfectly blocked, so Clouds long startup on lv 3 Limit is actually a good thing, as it gives you more time to get hit before you interrupt their attacks. It also gives HUGE stagger, so if you're fighting more than 2 enemies you can chain limits off of stagger alone (eg, chapter 13 or the first phase of the 2 man colosseum battles). Reraise gives you a buffer for if you make a mistake, but note that there's a little bit of time AFTER you have been resurrected but BEFORE you gain control where you can take damage. OF course, this becomes less of an issue when there are two other party members who have been tanking hits and getting aggro. Those two boss rounds on Rulers of the Outer Worlds are trivially easy because of this. I never could get past Gilgamesh, but that's cuz I never got enough practice and can only fight him ONCE outside of RotOW. This build also makes the Solo Legendary battles easy, because you tend to one or two shot most things.
Duly noted. I didn't end up using reraise that much since it required so much MP, but with your build that wouldn't really matter. I also never really messed around with the HP-MP Swap materia and I feel like I should have. Reading your explanation makes me want to mess around with it and see how bust it is. So if I ever pick up Rebirth again, that's the first thing I'll do
Now that is an interesting setup.
Already platinumed it. I was just like you screaming at the screen 😆
My wife is starting to get concerned 😂
@@eyeinsee 😆 🤣 😂
Loved it. Those legendary hero bouts were the problem for me along with 2-3 of the mini games. I got tired of playing cards bro but I got it.
Great video 😄 For some reason, I'm still playing Rebirth, even though I said I wouldn't go for the platinum. I honestly think it's a sickness...
You have to do everything in hard mode?! I am going to cry… I really wanted the platinum for it… now i’m second guessing 😢
what saved me on both remake and rebirth so far is counterstance
I will now Plat this game just out of spite for your anger.
I wish you the best of luck with the plat! lmk once you've got it
@@GingerGiantGaminghe’s speaking as someone who hasn’t suffered struggled and raged to the point your blood vessels are gonna pop out 😂 this plat mini games made me truly hate myself at points
The longest challenge I spent on combat sim was legendary bout Cloud, but I was using a glass canon build with only shock passive healing. When I changed to a magic hp absorb build it was actually kind of easy. But I enjoyed going back and doing the fight, even No damaged white death with Perfect block. NGL I find the fights more enjoyable after already getting the trophy. Magic build on cloud also makes Odin pretty easy, I only died the first couple times because of being split up in that dimension slash or whatever it’s called. But again, I used guides, I really gotta give a hats off to the guys that completed combat sim with no guides.
Good Work man, I still haven't beaten this game yet
I would of agreed with you on Dyne hard fight, if not for me coming to realisation that i was doing the fight wrong, after about 20 or more fails i changed up my strategy and with new strategy beat it in 2nd attempt, what shocked me more was watching few live streams afterwards where people beat it in only few tries just because their playstyle.
I agree that the chocobo gliding minigame was really rough, i played it pre patch and it had major camera issues back then, but afterwards i saw few people beat it in like under 5 attempts which just made me realise i was just bad at it.
Cactor crush was looking impossible until i found out that certain materia can actually give you an advantage which made it go from near impossible to somewhat hard.
"How is that fair?"
If I had a dollar for every time I've asked that while playing this game...
Just hard mode left now.
FF7 Rebirth is a 9/10 game in reviews. Getting the platinum makes it a 7/10 game. It's such a huge ass pain to plat this game.
I’m almost done with the platinum ! The most difficult platinum trophy to date! I’ve platinum all the souls games but this one is in a different level.
I gave up on the plat for this for now. Way too frustrating with the way you are forced to do the final VR missions.
I'm 4 trophies off of platinum. Can't wait!
im so confused when people say "get the platinum"...are you really getting anything? or is it just a virtual sticker that says you beat all the sidequests and mini games? That's crazy...unless those are worth some kind of money, idk why would you spend an extra 50ish hours just to earn a virtual sticker? unless its the best game you've ever played, but just to do it, ill never understand. why ruin a good game by having to do every little, tiny task.
Rebirth is my favourite game so far this year, but I need like 3 trophies for the plat (Hard mode, Chadley challenges, 7 star hotel) and decided to take a break from getting them because it was souring my love for the game lol.
Lmao I’m literally on the same boat, plus the muscle bouts at saucer
That's a great idea honestly. I wish I had done that myself lol
@@dadillonful "Pro" tip for the muscle bouts. You can go back and do them on easy mode to make them a lot easier to deal with. I did the first few on hard mode and was wondering why no one was talking about how brutal these challenges were only to find out that they scale based off what difficult you play on
@@GingerGiantGaming yeppp, I’m stuck doing the chadley brutal bouts, hardest part of the game
hp>mp on aerith is craazzzy
Currently chasing the plat. Stuck on Gi Nattak on hard mode. Brutal fight
Yeah that was not an easy fight to get through. There's a pretty good guide from Optinoob on how to deal with that fight. Would definitely check out his guide if you're still having issues with that fight
@@GingerGiantGaming I like optinoob’s guides but his didn’t work for me in this fight. I used powerpyx’s and got it!
Wait…so did you do the Chadley brutal VR missions before doing hard mode? If so, that’s even more savage! Through your hard mode run you get a ton of manuscripts that finish leveling up your weapons, which I always felt would be necessary for the VR missions.
I finished them before going to hard mode too, the manuscripts just slightly did a bit of upgrades, you would also need to finish the side quests on hard to get the rest of the scripts, and some in chadley’s vr.
I just passed 250 hours and I still have 7 of the Brutal & Legendary battles to do. Most of the mini games weren’t too bad, even the ones that I was dreading to do. The worst mini games for me were the same, Cactuar Crush and that Chocobo gliding mini game
I think because I spread out the plat over 3 months, it's been a lot more bearable. I don't understand how so many people struggle on the piano challenges specifically, I found them all pretty easy
How did you do for the sit up mini game? I thought that one was harder for people
You look like asmongold if he had a brother
I don't know how to process this comment lol
Aerith's hard mode cactuars is sooo much easier if you use Chrono Aegis.
I did everything except the Brutal and Legendary VR combat challenges. It took me 3 months to beat Helions Intonement. I tried The Seventh Seal for 2 weeks and just gave up. I did everything else. I have 87/88 of Johnny's Inn collection. All I have are the Brutal and Legendary VR stuff, which I gave up. This platinum I will not be getting.