SPOILER WARNING.
Absolutely incredible. I am so glad I played Final Fantasy 7 Remake years ago. It was my first Final Fantasy experience ever. I always heard from family and friends about how great the series was and I always thought it was just some super anime fantasy game that looked depressing to me and never expected it to be what it was when I finally played FF7 remake.
Given how much I loved Remake, I had high expectations for Rebirth but Square Enix absolutely blew my expectations out of the water completely. I was not expecting this game to be absolutely jam packed with so much detail and content to engage in. I spent over 100 hours playing this game and spent so much time just doing side quests which is something I NEVER do in a single player game. I usually will do some side content stuff but after a while I stick to main story and completely ignore side quests because they are usually boring, but in Rebirth, the side content is just as amazing and enjoyable as the main story.
Mini games galore! So many mini games that are so well thought out and fun to play. Queensblood had me addicted. Any time I entered a new region, I was looking for Queensblood. I was like a drug addict looking for some QB constantly. I couldn't get enough of it and who ever came up with this mini game is an absolute genius.
Aside from the side content being amazing, the main story blew me away with each chapter. It was like the TV show Breaking Bad, it got better and better and better and never seemed to dwindle down like most big story games tend to do. I will say though that one criticism of the story I have is the multi verse concept they are introducing here. Multi verse stories usually don't end well and tend to collapse on itself once it starts to unfold and the ending was a bit confusing with Aerith dying and coming back multiple times, I felt it took away from the emotion of her death because you weren't actually sure what was happening. But I will say so far, the multi verse concept they are introducing isn't bad and I think they've handled it somewhat clearly so far but we'll have to wait for part 3 to know for sure.
The gameplay is just on another level in this game. The combat has been enhanced in almost every way from Remake and the introduction of Synergy attacks and being able to pick your team you go into battle with is just genius.
The visuals are mindblowing. The set pieces, the different regions and areas are SO INCREDIBLY MASSIVE and so beautiful that it just takes your breath away sometimes. I loved all of the dark cave areas. Add on great performance with both the 30 and 60 fps options. Truly amazing how they are able to do this with such a Titan of a game.
The music is just the cherry on top. The music gives you goosebumps and makes the game 10 times better. The music in this game is so unique and different from anything else I've ever heard from a video game or really any other form of entertainment.
I recommend this game to anyone who wants an amazing story loaded with side content and incredible graphics.