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Fort Condor is SOOO much better in Intergrade. - You can build and customize your layout - If time runs out, as long as you have more towers than your opponent, you win. You dont have to beat the boss within the time limit. - You have spells instead of hero units which you can deploy at any time. This version was a HUGE step backwards.
Agreed 100%, though I will correct you in that intergrade fort comdor on hard mode did require you to beat the enemy's headquarters. So it's like they made the rebirth version the same as intergrade's hard mode without the customization or user friendliness of the spells.
@@silvesta5027 In Integrade, there's a lot more customization regarding your pieces, boards and loadouts which you also had to either beat other players or collect throughout the game. Integrade was a short DLC so it made sense for them to go all in on that. My guess is they made some concessions to keep the game more simple and self contained. They already placed most of their minigame focus in Queens Blood so they probably didn't want to make Fort Condor such a large focus in an already extremely long game.
WOW! this video really convinced me to buy Final Fantasy and Isekai Slow Life! man, Captain Astronaut is my favorite youtuber, in fact because he made a video inclouding these games I bought them again, I now have 13 copies of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Isekai Slow Life. Man if only Captain Astronaut was sponserd to do another video about a game I would buy it in a heartbeat 😔 boy I sure do hope Publishers came to Captain Astronaut first.
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@@EisArrow yeah. I tried my buff deck after. Even included the witch card the game wanted you to use. Took me 5 tries to beat her with that which is weird because you would think that would be the counter to her weaken deck
There is a trick to the piano game Set the note speed to the same number as the difficulty note number This makes the notes only appear one at a time so it will cause less confusion and fewer missed notes
@@dannyfromtheville3613 Yes This game uses an inaccurate way to play the piano and if more than one note is on the piano display they could get labeled as missed or bad if hit way too early Also this creates less confusion with lots of notes on screen instead of just one at a time
12:54 or you could use THE WARP STAFF 27:00 For the Aerith solo Colosseum fight against the Bombs, I entered it, saw the enemy, then just retried and cheesed it with Elemental - Fire on an armor slot. If you have Elemental level 2, only their physical attacks will hurt you, which makes it a breeze
@@darrenmacqueen9884 haha, on one hand it can be kind of annoying with how fiddly the materia menu is, but on the other I absolutely love the 'puzzle' approach, where knowing what's coming and a few gear/materia changes can completely shut down encounters that were previously difficult. I also love that you can cheese some of the minigames - I hated Cactaur Crush until I realized that you could break it with stuff like the Hermes Shoes accessory + certain passive materia like First Strike and damage-boosting stuff
@AnimaLepton I didn't spend much time on Cactuar Crush. Just did good enough to proceed the protomateria quest. I really wanted to get Red's weapon in that soccer mini game though. But I found it so frustrating. I was surprised to see it referred to as easy in this video. I got the highest scores with not much difficulty in all the mini games for that party animal quest in late game, but that soccer game's controls were just so bad. (3D brawler was hard until I learned about the pausing trick.)
14:38 I hate to be the joke police but you could already explore Junon in 3D in og FF7 because, you know, it's also in 3D. Also on the solo Aerith fight you could just use elemental + fire to trivialize the fight
My problem with the crunch off was the haptic feedback (that I only learned I could turn off after I beat the game) was messing with my hand and causing pain.
I had the same issue. It was really making my hands hurt. I knew I could turn it off, but then I found it impossible because there's one command where you have to push the trigger only part way down, which is incredibly difficult with the haptic feedback turned off. In the end I just reduced the trigger strength and vibration to 'weak', which allowed me to get through it without too much pain.
Classic FF7 mini games felt more intrinsic in a way. I needed to grind currency for the arena so I jumped between G-Bike, Sub & Snowboarding to keep the grind fresh-ish. Most of the late game rewards in Rebirth are locked behind perfect scores of each mini game. I’m not actually for removing that challenge but I would love the addition of some super high value items in the Gold Saucer store and Moogle Emporium (for the overworld games, they could reward coins). I think that would be a nice way to get the same replay value out of them as in classic FF7. We could cycle between them without the need of a perfect score every time and actually enjoy the mini game. If they added a bunch of alternate costumes, this could be quite a fun way of unlocking them.
"Chocobo racing, or Kentucky Fried Mario Kart". Dude KILLED me. I laughed way too damn hard. And as someone who never played the OG FFVII, I could NOT figure out why there was a vacancy in one side wing in Gold Saucer with a HUGE wall painting of snowboarding, only to NOT have snowboarding as a mini game. Then this video informs me that the OG DID have snowboarding of all the mini games to not include, they chose snowboarding? I'd play the HELL out of that! Come on, Squenix!
IIRC OG 7 had the snowboarding game on display but was out of order until you completed that portion in game later on compared to where we are right now at the end of rebirth. Since we haven't passed that point yet I'm pretty sure they are saving it for part 3
Ikr S? S?! No higher than a C for me. The game is broken. Consecutive notes close to each other forces frustratingly pinpoint accuracy. Whereas on an actual piano close notes aren't harder, but easier because you don't have to move your hand as far.
Love the subtle joke at 39:46, that you play ff7 for the plot, but showing the scene from costa del sol with tifa and aerith half naked. And again later, that tifa is well known in Italy...
Funnily enough, that Chcoobo racing (I think) track select, or bird select background music uses a few sound cues that sound a lot like that old Bird Land song!
Glad to find someone else who liked that mini game. I've seen another mini game tier list video that ranked it last, so I was beginning to think I was an outlier in enjoying it.
I think it’s less the minigame and more how cringe it is to play it as an adult. If my sister caught me playing that I’d be embarrassed. Moogles worked in the older games just fine but realism moogles are cringe and make it seem like a game for babies. The same game with becks business could have been hilarious.
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as far as the discussion of "should games have all of these" go i just want to say that I didnt know what half of these were and i finished the game and I feel like thats the best argument towards sure why not.
Look I hate Cactuar Crush almost as much as you. I luckily didn't have to retry that much thanks to windstorm cheesing and soul drain dps-ing. However, it's really funny hearing "this minigame's not fun" while seeing Aerith, the magic user, pelting a Magic Cactuar that's explicitly weak to magic, with physical attacks lmao
The chocobo gliding minigame has a flaw in the controls The L stick is used for movement, but L-3 toggles on and off motion controls which are just awful I think that the shoot out minigame has the same thing In both it is way too easy to accidentally toggle the motion controls It really should've just been an option in the pause menu
I basically agree. Id give flight de chocobo, cactuar whatever, 3D brawler all Fs. Fort condor, i had more fun with in intermission id give it a C in rebirth.
The box breaking minigame is best because of the heavy metal version of the final fantasy prelude theme, also helps that I’m biased towards that kind of music.
I pretty much agree with you on card games, but I really did enjoy queens blood. It was fun to make game breaking destroy decks that just swept the floor with everyone you faced. I liked the puzzle ones too at costa del sol, they were just fun enough
Yes. These remakes are doing a great job in making you feel and care for the characters. Their interactions between and after the side quests are soo good.
The Piano minigame has a hidden song. If you fill the entire hotel quest the blocked chest is unlocked and you obtain the Hardest song in the game : One Winged Angel.
I spent so many hours on the chocobo race game. Also queens blood is amazing. I really wish they had an online version like what the witcher series does with gwent
Or just send all your army down and quickly wipeout all enemy. If there is no enemy on the map, you win instantly without even fight enemy general. If you do samething in 13:42, you will miss some unique item or equipments
It’s funny that they didn’t bring back the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mini game from the original. Guess they thought there might be implications pricklier than a cactus.
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If you ask 100 different people, they’d give you 100 different tier lists. That’s what I love about the minigames in Rebirth; even if I don’t like a minigame, I know there’s people out there that do, and vice versa. People complain about the sheer number of minigames in Rebirth, but there is something for everybody, in my opinion.
My favorite minigames were definitely Queen's Blood and Fort Condor. I also love strategy games and my favorite thing ever is absolutely WRECKING my opponents in QB. Like, 75 points to 0. Man, it's fantastic. Meanwhile, I REALLY hated the crunch-off, 3D brawler, and cactuar crush. And, I guess, if it counts, the Can't Stop, Won't Stop sidequest on hard mode.
The Fort Condor and Gears and Gambits in hard mode would’ve been more fun if there were other strategies to beat them. There’s pretty much only one strategy for all the levels that work. Unless you get lucky or look up a strategy, you’ll just be trying over and over For the Aerith solo vs the bomb, it is easy if you equip Fire to Elemental material in your defensive slots. You become take less damage/gain immunity/absorb their attacks Also for Cactuar Rush, Aerith with Transcendence and Yuffie with Doppelgänger make it a lot easier
To me, the pole frog one was the hardest. Took me like 2 hours. Yet the rolling one took me like 3 tries. Weird to call the coliseum a mini game… it’s literally just fighting enemies, sometimes with a specific party…. which is exactly like the rest of the game. That being said, the Aerith challenge isn’t hard. Just equip elemental + fire on armor and she’s invincible. Literally couldn’t be easier!
A bit sad you didn't draw the connections between the Moogle Minigame and the Moogle Minigame of the Original FF7, which was a small game in Gold Saucer, and I'm pretty sure the Gold Saucer Minigame was the only mention of moogles in the entirety of FF7
Pretty amazing that rebirth had a great story, but also legit 2 dozen mini games of which I would say 4-5 were awesome and 10-15 were actually good. The ones I hated really would have been fine if you didn’t have to do the some many times. The moogle game made me laugh the first time but by the third I was way over it same with cactar crush and the one I legit didn’t care for was the little robot mini game
i like many of the side content- a nice throw back to 8 making one of the last queensblood players a surprising party member. i see why theyre exhausting i definitely bashed my head againstt he difficulty randomness on a few of these. but ultimately i come away thinking the game is a near masterpiece, i think theyve done alot to tie all the compilation pieces in seeing cissnei and a tad more intimate and close perspective really puts the psychological in sephiroths horrifying talents. some people are way too overthinking the changes made- its very simple were close enough to be subject to sephiroths gaslighting. remember in the og we didnt have as much clue what was going on here either. we know the end and we get to the beginings mostly in the same ways- so in order to keep us surprised they have to mess with that middle part. i think theyll wrap this up nicely- and at the end of the day- holy stops meteor and sephiroth is defeated. thered be no point in changing that, so how they get there- i honestly cant wait- maybe that makes me a masochist with how often they throw these characters i grew up with trauma right into yourface XD walking around as baby girl aerith truly was no fair my tear ducts had no chance.
I liked the lore scene with the googles turning Cloud into one, but I think they've lived out their use. And since they could be just as easily be made of magic as they could be organic... let's get some T rated violence. Hey, Scarlet, those stupid creatures have had it good long enough. Burn their mushrooms, and absorb their life energy into your Crimson Mare. Go on, teach Avalanche a lesson lol
It took me some time even with the pause cheat, because if you press pause too early or too late you just block instead of dodge. And I didn’t know then so I would block too often and eat an octoslash and die.
In the original game, Cloud teaches some of the Shinra troopers he drills with how to do his victory sword twirl. Way later on disc 2, when you come barging into their submarine, they do it again to intimidate you (not knowing you're the one that taught it to them). You actually have the option to say "....Look, you're just official prisoners of war now, so I don't have to kill you." And they roll with it. So what I'm saying is, the 7th won't be your airship crew, but your submarine crew. Also, having spent hours mastering the hard mode version of Cactuar Crush, I agree: F*** That Cactus.
Wait, they haven't already? There were tons of songs being played on it when the demo was first released. Though maybe you'd have to play a much simplified version since the minigame is rather simple.
Honestly, the biggest problem I had with the crunch-off was that the R1 L1 and R2 L2 buttons were upside down. I mean, when you hold a controller normally the 1 buttons are above the 2 buttons, but on the screen they showed them the opposite way. It just kept throwing me off. Otherwise it was just like the squats/pull-ups minigame from Remake, which had the buttons layed out sensibly like they are on the controller.
What? What are you talking about? When you face the buttons to you, L1 and R1 are below L2 and R2, and that’s how every controller layout screen in existence shows them.
@@LeeorVardi You mean when you turn the controller upside-down? That's not how you hold the controller while you play. Or if you just tilt the controller so you can look down on it and see all buttons, like a lot of (not every as you claim) controller layout screens do, it's the same as looking down a hill. Something closer to you is in fact higher up, even if you have to tilt your view down.
ive only played ff7 og but i think the yakuza-fication approach to minigames is kinda cool (by the way you should play Super Lesbian Animal RPG because one of the characters is a talking cactus)
I really like this list. Gears and Gambits is by far my least favorite one. Its like fort condor but waaay more underwhelming because u cannot place the robots on the map except all the way back to one of the 3 crystals. At least in fort condor u can push the respawn line up to the enemy base and placing units waaay closer to the enemy. Cactuar Rush is also another one, with yuffie is ok at best but with aerith is kinda frustating ngl. Rebirth minigames overall are really good or good at first playthrough.
Are many of these mini games mandatory? I grew up hating the mini games in both the Sly Cooper Trilogy and Jak and Daxter Trilogy because I kept losing a lot of times.
Yes, a lot are forced in sections of the story. They are often short or you can immediately skip them, but they become very invasive imo. And some just interrupt the pacing, cut scenes or emotional moments. But, in fairness, I know a lot of ppl were able to look past them, or even liked them. I was not, and it pretty much ruined my enjoyment. Your milage may vary.
Switch the piano mini-game (I'm a rhythm game player so my issues with it are nitpicky) with Queen's Blood (skill issue my guy) and we have the exact same tier list. I didn't even actually hate the moogle look all THAT much, I didn't like it but it was whatever, but by the end of the game I never wanted to see a Moogle ever again
Hated the Red mini game. Maybe I just suck, but I found it among the hardest mini games in the game. And I hated that one of his weapons was a reward. I couldn't get the weapon and just found the game frustrating. And did you say you couldn't fight Gilgamesh until post game? You can fight him before going to the Temple of the Ancients. What couldn't you do until post game? Not naming part 3 Reunion would be a huge missed opportunity. I don't care if Crisis Core took it, the final part needs to be titled Reunion.
Only thing I can realistically disagree with is the crunch off minigame, that one to me was physically painful due to the haptic feedback, I sweat it's going to be to blame for my carpal tunnel in a few years, on top of that I swear the hold down green peompt is just bugged an refuses to work half the time... I did enjoy the version of this game in Remake with the squats and push ups but this one reeerally just hurt my hand... :( Great video though, really funny and entertaining
Here's what I did to beat it, if you haven't yet: 1. Go to the ps5 settings and turn off the haptic feedback so the L2 and R2 buttons don't get harder to press. That will hopefully help with the hand pain, because struggled with that to. 2. Turn down the volume. Tifa's visual feedback was better for me than the auditory feedback, and eventually the sounds of Jules and the others in the background had me GENUINELY enraged. 3. Learn one pattern and restart until you get it. Once I got three rounds in a row starting with L1, I got so thrown off starting with R1 that I failed horribly. Again, I don't know if you've beat it or not, but I hope this helped if you haven't!
@@wizrad1277 I honestly gave up on it and went on to finish the game, I definitely appreciate the feedback though if any other games in the future get me struggling like that because of the hardened buttons, since I don't really see myself replaying Rebirth any time soon, nor trying that minigame in particular if I were to replay it...
How was it hard? It’s the easiest exercise game out of remake, crisis core, and rebirth. I couldn’t beat pull ups or squats, but I beat sit ups my third try within like 3 minutes.
I don’t think it was bait. Judging by this comment section, people have wildly different opinions on these minigames. I luckily beat the crunches against Jules 2nd try so I found it ok. But if I had to re-try it a dozen times I’d probably hate it. I’ve read comments here saying cactuar crush was easy, but I found it so annoying. Someone else said the piano minigame is F tier, but it’s literally MY favourite one! I think the main factor is whether retrying the minigame a dozen times fills you with rage or not 😭
the sit-up minigame was fine until they decided that trigger mashing was alright. mashing a trigger with your index or middle finger fuckin HURTS. mario party level of pain
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Didn't even give the man a unique passcode, shaking my smh
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I think mostly nice ones because at least they are willing to show a little bit of respect.
The Hypocracy is more funny than insulting😂
Fort Condor is SOOO much better in Intergrade.
- You can build and customize your layout
- If time runs out, as long as you have more towers than your opponent, you win. You dont have to beat the boss within the time limit.
- You have spells instead of hero units which you can deploy at any time.
This version was a HUGE step backwards.
Agreed 100%, though I will correct you in that intergrade fort comdor on hard mode did require you to beat the enemy's headquarters. So it's like they made the rebirth version the same as intergrade's hard mode without the customization or user friendliness of the spells.
@@Wolfqueen007 oh ok lol didn't know that
I wonder why they didn’t just port that version’s fort condor straight over. I remember having so much fun with it in the Yuffie DLC
Wouldnt be surprised if supercell came at square enix telling them to adjust the game because it plays too close to clash royale
@@silvesta5027 In Integrade, there's a lot more customization regarding your pieces, boards and loadouts which you also had to either beat other players or collect throughout the game. Integrade was a short DLC so it made sense for them to go all in on that. My guess is they made some concessions to keep the game more simple and self contained. They already placed most of their minigame focus in Queens Blood so they probably didn't want to make Fort Condor such a large focus in an already extremely long game.
WOW! this video really convinced me to buy Final Fantasy and Isekai Slow Life! man, Captain Astronaut is my favorite youtuber, in fact because he made a video inclouding these games I bought them again, I now have 13 copies of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Isekai Slow Life. Man if only Captain Astronaut was sponserd to do another video about a game I would buy it in a heartbeat 😔 boy I sure do hope Publishers came to Captain Astronaut first.
ugh same i bought both like 12 times. Ever since I saw this video ive been addicted to buying these over and over
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7:57 I personally love queen's blood, except for the final boss who straight up breaks the rules (no joke)
took me almost an hour to beat them
That's funny because I was disappointed I easily beat her in one try. Destroy decks counters her.
@@Murf181 that explains a lot, was running a buff deck with joker as backup. comepletly steamrolled every match before her
@@EisArrow yeah. I tried my buff deck after. Even included the witch card the game wanted you to use. Took me 5 tries to beat her with that which is weird because you would think that would be the counter to her weaken deck
I used the Tonberry King + Skee Skee + Mindflayer deck, and she folded like a wet paper bag.
@@baraness24 cards that get stronger if other cards get destroyed are her hardcounter it seems. Wich is against the lore but whatever xD
Me: I think Rebirth might be one of my favorite games of all time!
Also me: I hate all these mini games
Real
There is a trick to the piano game
Set the note speed to the same number as the difficulty note number
This makes the notes only appear one at a time so it will cause less confusion and fewer missed notes
200 hrs in and I didnt know this was a thing. Going to try that to take a break from the other mind numbing stuff. Thank you!
For real🤔?
@@dannyfromtheville3613
Yes
This game uses an inaccurate way to play the piano and if more than one note is on the piano display they could get labeled as missed or bad if hit way too early
Also this creates less confusion with lots of notes on screen instead of just one at a time
@@tRaInWrEcK4751
No problem
@@NateRune I'll give it a shot🤔👍🏻
12:54 or you could use THE WARP STAFF
27:00 For the Aerith solo Colosseum fight against the Bombs, I entered it, saw the enemy, then just retried and cheesed it with Elemental - Fire on an armor slot. If you have Elemental level 2, only their physical attacks will hurt you, which makes it a breeze
Damn, wish I thought of that. lol
@@darrenmacqueen9884 haha, on one hand it can be kind of annoying with how fiddly the materia menu is, but on the other I absolutely love the 'puzzle' approach, where knowing what's coming and a few gear/materia changes can completely shut down encounters that were previously difficult.
I also love that you can cheese some of the minigames - I hated Cactaur Crush until I realized that you could break it with stuff like the Hermes Shoes accessory + certain passive materia like First Strike and damage-boosting stuff
@AnimaLepton I didn't spend much time on Cactuar Crush. Just did good enough to proceed the protomateria quest. I really wanted to get Red's weapon in that soccer mini game though. But I found it so frustrating. I was surprised to see it referred to as easy in this video. I got the highest scores with not much difficulty in all the mini games for that party animal quest in late game, but that soccer game's controls were just so bad. (3D brawler was hard until I learned about the pausing trick.)
That one cactus minigame had more stuff on screen then Genshin Impact, no wonder you didn't like it lol
14:38 I hate to be the joke police but you could already explore Junon in 3D in og FF7 because, you know, it's also in 3D. Also on the solo Aerith fight you could just use elemental + fire to trivialize the fight
The backgrounds aren't in 3D though. They're just images.
another banger video by captain astro, I will be sure to download (and buy several microtransactions) in Isekai: Slow Life.
the fact that we got so many different minigames that we can make a tier list makes Rebirth even better!
Somehow, this video made me appreciate the game even more, and I already got the 100% crown completion! Thank you for this!
Damn you’re that guy
@@silvesta5027 what guy? 💀
@@DarthPew THAT guy dude. You’re THAT guy
HIM
@@josiah9084 Me?
My problem with the crunch off was the haptic feedback (that I only learned I could turn off after I beat the game) was messing with my hand and causing pain.
YOU CAN TURN IT OFF??
I had the same issue. It was really making my hands hurt. I knew I could turn it off, but then I found it impossible because there's one command where you have to push the trigger only part way down, which is incredibly difficult with the haptic feedback turned off. In the end I just reduced the trigger strength and vibration to 'weak', which allowed me to get through it without too much pain.
Classic FF7 mini games felt more intrinsic in a way.
I needed to grind currency for the arena so I jumped between G-Bike, Sub & Snowboarding to keep the grind fresh-ish.
Most of the late game rewards in Rebirth are locked behind perfect scores of each mini game.
I’m not actually for removing that challenge but I would love the addition of some super high value items in the Gold Saucer store and Moogle Emporium (for the overworld games, they could reward coins).
I think that would be a nice way to get the same replay value out of them as in classic FF7. We could cycle between them without the need of a perfect score every time and actually enjoy the mini game.
If they added a bunch of alternate costumes, this could be quite a fun way of unlocking them.
"Chocobo racing, or Kentucky Fried Mario Kart". Dude KILLED me. I laughed way too damn hard.
And as someone who never played the OG FFVII, I could NOT figure out why there was a vacancy in one side wing in Gold Saucer with a HUGE wall painting of snowboarding, only to NOT have snowboarding as a mini game. Then this video informs me that the OG DID have snowboarding of all the mini games to not include, they chose snowboarding? I'd play the HELL out of that! Come on, Squenix!
IIRC OG 7 had the snowboarding game on display but was out of order until you completed that portion in game later on compared to where we are right now at the end of rebirth. Since we haven't passed that point yet I'm pretty sure they are saving it for part 3
Cant wait for the snowbording in the 3rd game
You can see a construction section for that mini game in the gold saucer (in the same area as the 3D Brawler
Aint no fkn way the piano is better than Queen's Blood 😆🤦🏻♂️
Ikr S? S?! No higher than a C for me. The game is broken. Consecutive notes close to each other forces frustratingly pinpoint accuracy. Whereas on an actual piano close notes aren't harder, but easier because you don't have to move your hand as far.
Piano is D tier gents
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Love the subtle joke at 39:46, that you play ff7 for the plot, but showing the scene from costa del sol with tifa and aerith half naked. And again later, that tifa is well known in Italy...
Funnily enough, that Chcoobo racing (I think) track select, or bird select background music uses a few sound cues that sound a lot like that old Bird Land song!
Awwww I liked moogle mischief! It was a nice relaxing change of pace for, I could kinda just wind down and chill
Glad to find someone else who liked that mini game. I've seen another mini game tier list video that ranked it last, so I was beginning to think I was an outlier in enjoying it.
I think it’s less the minigame and more how cringe it is to play it as an adult. If my sister caught me playing that I’d be embarrassed. Moogles worked in the older games just fine but realism moogles are cringe and make it seem like a game for babies. The same game with becks business could have been hilarious.
Nah I was ready to strangle a moogle
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as far as the discussion of "should games have all of these" go i just want to say that I didnt know what half of these were and i finished the game and I feel like thats the best argument towards sure why not.
Look I hate Cactuar Crush almost as much as you. I luckily didn't have to retry that much thanks to windstorm cheesing and soul drain dps-ing.
However, it's really funny hearing "this minigame's not fun" while seeing Aerith, the magic user, pelting a Magic Cactuar that's explicitly weak to magic, with physical attacks lmao
Regarding moogle
Mischief, you can dodgeroll every attack, even through their projectiles. It raised it from F tier to D for me
I absolutely loved the original fort Condor so I was looking forward to it in this.
The chocobo gliding minigame has a flaw in the controls
The L stick is used for movement, but L-3 toggles on and off motion controls which are just awful
I think that the shoot out minigame has the same thing
In both it is way too easy to accidentally toggle the motion controls
It really should've just been an option in the pause menu
I basically agree. Id give flight de chocobo, cactuar whatever, 3D brawler all Fs. Fort condor, i had more fun with in intermission id give it a C in rebirth.
The box breaking minigame is best because of the heavy metal version of the final fantasy prelude theme, also helps that I’m biased towards that kind of music.
I pretty much agree with you on card games, but I really did enjoy queens blood. It was fun to make game breaking destroy decks that just swept the floor with everyone you faced. I liked the puzzle ones too at costa del sol, they were just fun enough
Thank you having F tier be “I don’t like this” rather than just “it sucks”
27:00 Use elemental fire on the solo Aerith fight. You can nullify all their attacks 😂
Or just get good and beat them?
@@jaybee4288 Using elemental fire IS getting good. No reason to make the fight harder by not using what the game gives you.
@@jaybee4288Utilizing materia to beat enemies more efficiently is the name of the game.
That’s if you have level 2 elemental, I was unfortunate to not have any of my elemental level 2 when I did it
Another extrinsic value is the story payoff. A solid cutscene can really reward the effort. Rebirth excels at this i think.
Yes. These remakes are doing a great job in making you feel and care for the characters. Their interactions between and after the side quests are soo good.
The Piano minigame has a hidden song. If you fill the entire hotel quest the blocked chest is unlocked and you obtain the Hardest song in the game : One Winged Angel.
I spent so many hours on the chocobo race game. Also queens blood is amazing. I really wish they had an online version like what the witcher series does with gwent
13:42 WHAT THE FUCK YOU CAN DO THAT? WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME I WOULDVE ACTUALLY DONE THE QUEST THEN.
Or just send all your army down and quickly wipeout all enemy. If there is no enemy on the map, you win instantly without even fight enemy general.
If you do samething in 13:42, you will miss some unique item or equipments
A moment of silence for the speed roller coaster shooter mini game that was replaced for a generic space shooter.
putting the piano from hell above queen's blood? oof
27:05
Tip for this box breaking minigame
Switch equipment and materia to ATB speed focused and weapon ability damage bonuses
It’s funny that they didn’t bring back the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mini game from the original. Guess they thought there might be implications pricklier than a cactus.
Hey, cool video and all, but all I'm really thinking about is that cable-knit turtleneck you're rocking. I need that. Any chance you can point me in the right direction?
If you ask 100 different people, they’d give you 100 different tier lists.
That’s what I love about the minigames in Rebirth; even if I don’t like a minigame, I know there’s people out there that do, and vice versa.
People complain about the sheer number of minigames in Rebirth, but there is something for everybody, in my opinion.
Except Queens Blood and the Box Tossing are the best and worst respectively, I think that’s generally accepted as correct
Queens Blood in A and Chocobo Racing in S is insane
My favorite minigames were definitely Queen's Blood and Fort Condor. I also love strategy games and my favorite thing ever is absolutely WRECKING my opponents in QB. Like, 75 points to 0. Man, it's fantastic.
Meanwhile, I REALLY hated the crunch-off, 3D brawler, and cactuar crush. And, I guess, if it counts, the Can't Stop, Won't Stop sidequest on hard mode.
gears and gambit was the only annoying one for me but made it worth it with the backstory told. still never again square pls
Another great video from captainastro
They need The Price of Freedom sheet music
I actually really liked the sit up (and Remake Squat/Pull up) challenges.
The problem with the sit-ups minigame is that the tutorial window does nothing to explain the green or yellow rings properly
The Fort Condor and Gears and Gambits in hard mode would’ve been more fun if there were other strategies to beat them. There’s pretty much only one strategy for all the levels that work. Unless you get lucky or look up a strategy, you’ll just be trying over and over
For the Aerith solo vs the bomb, it is easy if you equip Fire to Elemental material in your defensive slots. You become take less damage/gain immunity/absorb their attacks
Also for Cactuar Rush, Aerith with Transcendence and Yuffie with Doppelgänger make it a lot easier
I have the same F tiers, Cactuar crush gets a G from me I hated it so much I want to put it in a spaceship shoot it out to space and nuke it to hell.
To me, the pole frog one was the hardest. Took me like 2 hours. Yet the rolling one took me like 3 tries.
Weird to call the coliseum a mini game… it’s literally just fighting enemies, sometimes with a specific party…. which is exactly like the rest of the game.
That being said, the Aerith challenge isn’t hard. Just equip elemental + fire on armor and she’s invincible. Literally couldn’t be easier!
Fort Condor is way better in Yuffie DLC IMO. It gives you alot more freedom to build your units.
I swear i feel like they spent all their money on chocobo racing, that the rest of the mini games _and_ chocobo gp suffered from it
Les go new vid!
A bit sad you didn't draw the connections between the Moogle Minigame and the Moogle Minigame of the Original FF7, which was a small game in Gold Saucer, and I'm pretty sure the Gold Saucer Minigame was the only mention of moogles in the entirety of FF7
Great vid!
I just finished clearing all the mini games, I’m so glad to have these rancid mini games behind me. Frog guys was maddening
It was nice to play waverace 64 again. They should have scrapped all the bad games and given us more levels of that.
Pretty amazing that rebirth had a great story, but also legit 2 dozen mini games of which I would say 4-5 were awesome and 10-15 were actually good. The ones I hated really would have been fine if you didn’t have to do the some many times. The moogle game made me laugh the first time but by the third I was way over it same with cactar crush and the one I legit didn’t care for was the little robot mini game
i like many of the side content- a nice throw back to 8 making one of the last queensblood players a surprising party member. i see why theyre exhausting i definitely bashed my head againstt he difficulty randomness on a few of these. but ultimately i come away thinking the game is a near masterpiece, i think theyve done alot to tie all the compilation pieces in seeing cissnei and a tad more intimate and close perspective really puts the psychological in sephiroths horrifying talents. some people are way too overthinking the changes made- its very simple were close enough to be subject to sephiroths gaslighting. remember in the og we didnt have as much clue what was going on here either. we know the end and we get to the beginings mostly in the same ways- so in order to keep us surprised they have to mess with that middle part. i think theyll wrap this up nicely- and at the end of the day- holy stops meteor and sephiroth is defeated. thered be no point in changing that, so how they get there- i honestly cant wait- maybe that makes me a masochist with how often they throw these characters i grew up with trauma right into yourface XD walking around as baby girl aerith truly was no fair my tear ducts had no chance.
Yo I gotta tell you your get up is so good it got me to click AND sub. Stay wild internet
3d brawler gets very fun
I liked the lore scene with the googles turning Cloud into one, but I think they've lived out their use. And since they could be just as easily be made of magic as they could be organic... let's get some T rated violence. Hey, Scarlet, those stupid creatures have had it good long enough. Burn their mushrooms, and absorb their life energy into your Crimson Mare. Go on, teach Avalanche a lesson lol
I did not know you could cheat in 3D brawler. It took me an hour and thirty minutes to beat Sephiroth. Someone give a cactus to sit on
It took me some time even with the pause cheat, because if you press pause too early or too late you just block instead of dodge. And I didn’t know then so I would block too often and eat an octoslash and die.
In the original game, Cloud teaches some of the Shinra troopers he drills with how to do his victory sword twirl. Way later on disc 2, when you come barging into their submarine, they do it again to intimidate you (not knowing you're the one that taught it to them). You actually have the option to say "....Look, you're just official prisoners of war now, so I don't have to kill you." And they roll with it. So what I'm saying is, the 7th won't be your airship crew, but your submarine crew. Also, having spent hours mastering the hard mode version of Cactuar Crush, I agree: F*** That Cactus.
In the original Aerith straight up died. This isn’t tha original.
@@jaybee4288 Aerith died in Rebirth as well.
Surf's Up for skateboarding? lol
How long till somebody plays Rush E in the piano mini game?
Wait, they haven't already? There were tons of songs being played on it when the demo was first released. Though maybe you'd have to play a much simplified version since the minigame is rather simple.
I'm still waitin for that xenoblade 2 part 3 review.
If only we could play Queen's Blood on motorcycles
Cactus was the name of my high school's principal
Hey, at 31:00 mark your closed captions stop showing up for some reason, I had to switch to Auto-generated to finish the video at that point.
Honestly, the biggest problem I had with the crunch-off was that the R1 L1 and R2 L2 buttons were upside down. I mean, when you hold a controller normally the 1 buttons are above the 2 buttons, but on the screen they showed them the opposite way. It just kept throwing me off. Otherwise it was just like the squats/pull-ups minigame from Remake, which had the buttons layed out sensibly like they are on the controller.
What? What are you talking about? When you face the buttons to you, L1 and R1 are below L2 and R2, and that’s how every controller layout screen in existence shows them.
What? lol???
@@LeeorVardi You mean when you turn the controller upside-down? That's not how you hold the controller while you play.
Or if you just tilt the controller so you can look down on it and see all buttons, like a lot of (not every as you claim) controller layout screens do, it's the same as looking down a hill. Something closer to you is in fact higher up, even if you have to tilt your view down.
@@DOC_951 Put the controller on a table. Look at which buttons are above which buttons.
Cactus Astronaut out here talking bout the real shit
ive only played ff7 og but i think the yakuza-fication approach to minigames is kinda cool (by the way you should play Super Lesbian Animal RPG because one of the characters is a talking cactus)
8:08 Wait was that a uno zelda deck
I really like this list.
Gears and Gambits is by far my least favorite one. Its like fort condor but waaay more underwhelming because u cannot place the robots on the map except all the way back to one of the 3 crystals.
At least in fort condor u can push the respawn line up to the enemy base and placing units waaay closer to the enemy.
Cactuar Rush is also another one, with yuffie is ok at best but with aerith is kinda frustating ngl.
Rebirth minigames overall are really good or good at first playthrough.
Yeah, this is a genius video idea.
I’m 30 seconds in, loving this and subbed but my brother if you put the chicken game anything other than bottom tier we gonna have issues.
I was so mad during the chicken mini game, even though I know the dev was trolling. Levidon became my favorite monster at the end of that.
Oh yes, that card game that comes with sn RPG! They put a very good game around Queens Blood.
Are many of these mini games mandatory? I grew up hating the mini games in both the Sly Cooper Trilogy and Jak and Daxter Trilogy because I kept losing a lot of times.
Yes, a lot are forced in sections of the story. They are often short or you can immediately skip them, but they become very invasive imo. And some just interrupt the pacing, cut scenes or emotional moments. But, in fairness, I know a lot of ppl were able to look past them, or even liked them. I was not, and it pretty much ruined my enjoyment. Your milage may vary.
Wait are u a psychologist? Wasn't expecting that motivation theory reference near the end
My main grudge against Fort Condor is how they whitewashed Barret
Switch the piano mini-game (I'm a rhythm game player so my issues with it are nitpicky) with Queen's Blood (skill issue my guy) and we have the exact same tier list. I didn't even actually hate the moogle look all THAT much, I didn't like it but it was whatever, but by the end of the game I never wanted to see a Moogle ever again
3:56 NOOOO NOT HOT JOE BIDEN
Engagement Metrics Cactus
"But we all gotta admit that new fort condor is a huge improvement over the original"
I will do no such thing
I miss your MonHun videos Mr Spaceman
Hated the Red mini game. Maybe I just suck, but I found it among the hardest mini games in the game. And I hated that one of his weapons was a reward. I couldn't get the weapon and just found the game frustrating.
And did you say you couldn't fight Gilgamesh until post game? You can fight him before going to the Temple of the Ancients. What couldn't you do until post game?
Not naming part 3 Reunion would be a huge missed opportunity. I don't care if Crisis Core took it, the final part needs to be titled Reunion.
CACTUS 🌵 🌵 🌵
Good review 👍
Only thing I can realistically disagree with is the crunch off minigame, that one to me was physically painful due to the haptic feedback, I sweat it's going to be to blame for my carpal tunnel in a few years, on top of that I swear the hold down green peompt is just bugged an refuses to work half the time... I did enjoy the version of this game in Remake with the squats and push ups but this one reeerally just hurt my hand... :(
Great video though, really funny and entertaining
Here's what I did to beat it, if you haven't yet:
1. Go to the ps5 settings and turn off the haptic feedback so the L2 and R2 buttons don't get harder to press. That will hopefully help with the hand pain, because struggled with that to.
2. Turn down the volume. Tifa's visual feedback was better for me than the auditory feedback, and eventually the sounds of Jules and the others in the background had me GENUINELY enraged.
3. Learn one pattern and restart until you get it. Once I got three rounds in a row starting with L1, I got so thrown off starting with R1 that I failed horribly.
Again, I don't know if you've beat it or not, but I hope this helped if you haven't!
@@wizrad1277 I honestly gave up on it and went on to finish the game, I definitely appreciate the feedback though if any other games in the future get me struggling like that because of the hardened buttons, since I don't really see myself replaying Rebirth any time soon, nor trying that minigame in particular if I were to replay it...
You saying that the crunch minigame against Jules is easy is S tier engagement bait.
And I guess I fell for it.
How was it hard? It’s the easiest exercise game out of remake, crisis core, and rebirth.
I couldn’t beat pull ups or squats, but I beat sit ups my third try within like 3 minutes.
@@DOC_951 Lucky you. Most people seem to find it way more annoying than the others, myself included.
I don’t think it was bait. Judging by this comment section, people have wildly different opinions on these minigames. I luckily beat the crunches against Jules 2nd try so I found it ok. But if I had to re-try it a dozen times I’d probably hate it.
I’ve read comments here saying cactuar crush was easy, but I found it so annoying. Someone else said the piano minigame is F tier, but it’s literally MY favourite one!
I think the main factor is whether retrying the minigame a dozen times fills you with rage or not 😭
Every time I look at the rebirth Moogle design I feel like I just sat on a cactus 🌵🌵🌵
Other final fantasy moogles: small baby puffballs or maybe with some rabbit like features.
FF7 rebirth moogles: soulless Koalas
8:45 it’s me
#CallingItNow: The third game will be called FFVII: Reunion.
Fort Condor is slightly different in Intergrade. Its better in my opinion and different.
Nice use of boi-oing sfx all around here
Push timeline push 🥵
Cactus 😎🌵
the sit-up minigame was fine until they decided that trigger mashing was alright. mashing a trigger with your index or middle finger fuckin HURTS. mario party level of pain