So I Platinum'd Final Fantasy VII Rebirth...

[@Melterer]

For the Tonberrys there is an acc. called the safety bit that stops instant death. Makes it much easier.

[@Willias]

Safety Bit is one way. The other is the Karmic Cowl which also gives a bunch of defense.

[@łRedakł]

I just used the projectile shield aerith has and spammed firaga

[@BrothaJM]

I don't think it's a "cop-out" if you look for guides online on how to do certain challenges. It's just a different point of view. You earned it bro, skill is still the main issue and you sir have the skill. GGs

[@Snook1985]

I agree. I'm not particularly a fan of looking for guides but sometimes I look then up and modify them to fit my personal playstyle.

[@dannyfromtheville3613]

Absolutely. I put time into getting all the tools that make the efficient strategies work so I earned the right to be cheap. After all, the Chadley challenges are cheap af

[@phootaphan9166]

Even the cheese strats still take skill to pull off

[@nilematotle]

Agreed. Even if you have guides, you still have to execute.

[@mikerude5073]

​@@dannyfromtheville3613This. The zero-checkpoint format was an unreasonable time waster. Having to spend 6 hours repeating bosses you already beat, over and over, was the issue. I platinumed it because I loved the game, but after plat I am not looking forward to part 3, and I don't even like the game. Post story content ought to make us like like a game more, not less. Way to fumble it 10ft from the finish line Square Enix.

[@DOC_951]

Took me 220 hours… mostly because it took me almost 20 hours on bonds of friendship and like 12 hours on rulers of the over world. Didn’t struggle much on hard mode besides mythril golem, rufus, and gi nattak

[@JoeBob189]

Platinum took me 200 hrs. The brutal and legendary challenges took me way too long. Fantastic game though, can't wait for it to come out on PC so I can 100% it again

[@mikerude5073]

I might switch to PC format for the 3rd part after plat Rebirth on PS5, as the unreasonable zero-checkpoint format VR missions and frustrating minigames still have me pissed, even after beating them, as the endorphin hit of the plat wasn't enough to overcome the stress of the BS I went through to get it. On PC we can just cheat at the unfun minigames and artificially put checkpoints in the VR gauntlets. I never want to do anything like that again on the PS5. Plating Rebirth legit made me hate the game.

[@HeartlessNinny1]

@JoeBob189: you must be a masochist

[@HeartlessNinny1]

​@@mikerude5073100% agreed. The more I delved into this game, the more I hated it. If you told me this game was made by people who secretly despise FFVII and wanted its fans to be angry and miserable, I'd believe you.

[@IamKaleboy]

Great video. Also tip for the cloud legendary bout, on the white terror, you can cast sleep on him to make the fight way easier.

[@kingkazma3246]

Doesnt he wake up if you hit him?

[@yercs]

great video im surprised it doesn't have more views. I just finished the main story and I'm honestly dreading all the hard mode challenges and boss fights, maybe this shouldn't have been my first FF game lol

[@justhaku9240]

I'm curious what your perspective on the story as a first time fan, because it can be pretty meta at times Also be honest, did the end make you tear up? If yes nothing wrong with that I'll admit now I definitely did as a long time fan, but is it as impactful for new fans? Anyways that's all just had some questions I was curious about, glad you enjoyed it!

[@robertoarbizu]

@@justhaku9240my first was remake, second was 16! Then I purchased og on ios and played all the way till the end of remake ( like 5hours 😂😂😂) Now to your question. I felt a bit underwhelmed when that scene happens ( of course I like 99.9% knew about it) and I felt a bit robbed like they didn't allow me to grieve in some weird way. Edit: i mean it all happened so quickly and was very confusing at the beginning! Tbh the ending dawned on me like 2 days later and for some reason no promises to keep got stuck in my head. I liked the ending and felt it like 2 days later!

[@justhaku9240]

@@robertoarbizu thanks for the answer! And yeah im not looking at the ff7 reddit daily but im deep enough in the community to be listening to some podcasts and a lot of people feel the exact same in the "didint allow us to grieve" even in those exact words, like they didint let the emotional moments breath it was tragic, into confusing into a boss fight with 10 stages into more confusion it didint give much time to let it sink in or look back. And yeah im 2 week since finishing and still thinking about it I get it How was 16? A lot of people didint like it purely because it isn't trying to be an RPG but im guessing as a new time fan you don't have the expection of it adhering to tradition you enjoyed it a lot more? Personal I fkin love that game flaws and all its beautiful, cant wait for the dlc in a week!

[@robertoarbizu]

@@justhaku9240 yeah honestly the 2 hours of bosses after the scene! + not really knowing wtf was going Im still avoiding reviews or podcasts cause some just go into whats coming next and I have no clue! But it took me literally 48hours and doing that chapter again to actually process it. Now 16! I loved the combat, the cutscenes were freaking fantastic! Boss battles were as epic as could get. BUT I LOVED HAVING A PLAYABLE PARTY IN REMAKE. And during the demo (10/10) i got the idea that I was gonna use joshua again! Sorry for the ramble BUT my complaint is not having a playable party! Hated that cause I saw cid, jill and joshua's beautiful combat animations, they had combos and skills! And the whole time I was like I WANT to use them! And THOSE moments would've hit a lot harder! Still a strong 8 tho

[@justhaku9240]

@@robertoarbizu yep 100% with you there that woulda been awesome, maybe even see some more perspective and play some of Jill and Joshua's time alone before they reunite that woulda been beautiful, unfortunate missed opportunity

[@ectogamut]

For me I love the story and characters too much and want to “go out on a high note” instead of trying all these things beyond my skill and putting myself in a bad mood whenever I think about the game

[@SuperEkkorn]

Wish I thought that way 150hrs ago. But I've put it away for now, might want to go back later. I hope.

[@Cloudsheep93]

Hearing you say it really isn't as hard as people are saying was so nice, I'm about to start the Brutal challenges and was getting nervous. Up to this point, curls were the only thing I'd gotten frustrated with, so that makes me feel way more confident!

[@darkshdw-7118]

its hard but there are guides on youtube that will make it easier but its still difficult

[@Centrioless]

Harder because of the more action combat nature. Execution will be inherently more difficult than with tb combat

[@ltlsWhatltIs]

Its not as hard as people make it out to be. Some materia comboes are legit broken. If you struggle just look up a guide. I used a quake strat that literally obliterated the first 4 or so brutal challenges first try. Dont get me started on yuffies brumal form and how OP it is. What you unlock for the last brutal challenge will trivialize the rest of hard mode. FF7R so far is easy to me even on hard bc of 1 simple thing. And thats being able to open a command menu to slow down time. So overall, id rate ff7rebirth's platinum difficulty as a 5/10.

[@Centrioless]

Bruma wont work on bonds of friendship

[@David-nd4to]

@@Centrioless but aeroga/prime/faith does :)

[@ThatBeingCed]

I actually found Zack to be quite good, but you have to engage with his Quick Charge mechanic. High Braver is reaaaaally strong.

[@Trofun]

Yeah, I regret saying he wasn't good. I think at the time I still needed to learn how to play as him well. After eventually finishing the challenge I changed my mind and think he is good but is harder to learn than the other characters

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

High Braver demolishes Sephiroth even on Hard Mode.

[@DanBurtonCodes]

Another tip for the 10 tonberries. Have Aerith put up a lustrous shield and magnify your favorite aga spell. The shield blocks Rancor but you still gotta try to nuke em fast before they teleport behind you.

[@Willias]

Instant Death immunity makes Chef's Knife do 0 damage. So long as you have two characters that are instant death immune, that round is pretty easy.

[@marcanthony0519]

Interesting hearing what parts people had trouble on. I'm 180 hrs in and have 87/88 collectibles. Just beat Dyne on hard mode. Thought he was difficult, but it only took me one try. Just stuck fire+mp absorb and fire+magic focus and kept using firaga. ATB boost and chakra kept me from dying. I went ahead and did ch.12 on hard mode to get the Yuffie's Lovesless collectible and allow me to do Aerith's date and Loveless performance when I go through it again. Rufus on hard mode was definitely a pain in the ass. Can't wait to get the platinum!!

[@David-nd4to]

some parts of the game are absolute dogshit

[@JoeBob189]

Aerith round 1 is actually really easy if you put up her lustrial shield(?) Whatever the move is that puts up a flower shield in front of you. The humans shooting you are now completely neutered. They don't even run at you, they just keep shooting at the shield. Just take out the two robots flying at you, and this round ends pretty quickly

[@piaxerofchaos1309]

Few months after getting platinum, only hard challenge was really ponds of friendship that I remember. It took 15 runs to get it done right, everything else was pretty easy in the end. It just took time because there was so much stuff to do.

[@tubagaming1976]

Well piano and last two legendary bouts. And lat chapter hard mode I’m only 320 hours in I struggled with many things. Lol

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

Halfway through Hard Mode now, then the trophy is mine. Possibly the most painful plat I've ever done, and I have the plats for most Yakuza games.

[@kingjump2889]

Everytime I have trouble I look things up, but those of you that figure out these things on your own, that’s crazy

[@drautch]

The piano mini game is what ruined my desire to platinum the game. I don't know who's idea it was to split one joystick into 8 directions but I literally can't do any of the songs because the stick has no margin for error and I can't switch directions fastbwithiut the stick hitting the wrong direction. Haven't been able to beat a single song

[@burt117]

Use controller assist and get that person to control one stick and you the other, makes it a breeze.

[@nhlcbj]

Anyone else looking for ways to be outer worlds without having an aneurysm?

[@chrislangton4662]

I tried going for the platinum but its just not fun, so I gave up. Sad because I love this game and there is nothing left to do because they made these fights so unfun on hard.

[@darkshdw-7118]

just got my plat and the 2 bosses i struggled with are gi nattak and the final boss final phase (hard mode) for chadley's challenges the tonberry king was very annoying and the rest got easier after following some guides on youtube (yuffie cheese for brutal 6)

[@ramitamimi2943]

I got it too . Was a sensational feel upon completion !!! Now I start missing the challenges

[@unclemonkey1977]

Two Safety Bits and a Karmic Cowl made that Tonberry fight quite trivial and inconsequential

[@braddye4983]

Just beat the game a few days ago. I 100% the game before the final two chapters but did not do hard mode on anything including Chadley. Took me 102.5 hours. I did everything the same as you too, turned Gilgamesh and Tomberries to easy and pausing on the boxing. I did look up guides for Fort Condor and the Gambits protorellics as I disliked those. It’s not hard to 100% but to Platinum the game like you did I have no desire for. It’s rare for me to replay a video game but I already have a desire to do a story only replay of this game but I want to give it time, seriously thinking like 10 years from know after the whole trilogy has set well with me then doing Rebirth again.

[@jms214az]

I platted this game and I did it bcuz it was tough and also if u want to resist the ton berry instant death u can use the safety bit and just mash

[@56Tyskie]

Im happy to have the plat for this one

[@sevhoss]

Damn, you beat the G-Bike bug? Must be nice xD

[@simonruyter2455]

omg i also am in the midts of platinuming it and i found the tonberry thing very easy i used arith thoug and quakegaras alot like with yuffie on a ward with dople ganger ( alot of magic up ) and magnify so it would hit like 10 times

[@TheDavieSeal]

I beat Dyne first try. Gi Nattack on the other hand was a massive road block for me!

[@raulrojas9253]

As somone who platinum the game in 168 hours. No, this platinum was HARD In particular if you aren't good on mini games, like at all. and it seems in combat I wasn't as good as a I thought. If you think it was easy then that just mean you are a more skilled player, this is honestly way harder than REMAKE, heck remake only has 1 awful trophy and that is getting all 9 dresses because how TEDIOUS it is.

[@ltlsWhatltIs]

hard disagree. I'm casual at gaming and barely struggled on any of the mini games. thanks for the internet i guess for other ppls strats. the internet made all the vr challenges trivial. you can do almost everything in easy mode. get the gotterdammrung and make hard mode trivial. its def not a hard plat by any means, just time consuming for some if you take your time. also, the fact you can slow down time in the commands menu to plan a strat out freely is kinda op. but it went well for the style of the game.

[@watchamigos1232]

The platinum is just too grindy, like, the most grind in Remake was getting all 3 dresses for Cloud, Tifa and Aerith personally but in this game, you have to literally do every single thing alongside it's hard mode, be it mini-games, be it the Phenomenal Intel missions to the highest rank. And to top it off; the Brutal and Legendary challenges were impossible unless you're too skilled or y'know Yuffie's game breaking skill in combo with Aerith. Still, 242 hours and I plat the game. Easily one of my favorite plats

[@Ssolahtar]

The hardest part of the last boss fight was selecting the correct "try again" option from the game over menu. Went with the wrong option at least twice and had to redo the WHOLE fight... Please fix the translation SE

[@riyuphoenix4533]

I remember nwed to keep yuffies shuriken in her hand durimg windstorm on the cactuar trail as it didnt seem to work very well at all.

[@CorpoMoe]

Gg sir. I’m glad there are people like you out here to show us this. 😅 I game up so quick on a lot of the challenges and mini games when I felt my rage building up..

[@KingNazaru]

So you’re not going to include defeating Jules in a sit up contest as one of your tedious challenges?

[@Harren20]

The combats weren't that bad. What made me want to break my controller was the piano and the sit up mini game.

[@ltlsWhatltIs]

piano was easy. we didnt need the star thank goodness

[@ImpinAintEazy]

I gave up and moved on from getting the platinum on this game. It's just become too tedious and its no longer fun.

[@Tripsick]

Same here a 2nd play through doesn’t sound fun and seeing the Vr fights yeah I’m good

[@David-nd4to]

i feel RNG plays a bigger part than people realise

[@TheSangiit]

It took 190hr to platinum it, so not really easy. From my point of view the most annoying fight or part was the one with Cait Sith solo and the boxes, I hated him.

[@zildog]

I'm at 420+ hours and still not done. Mind you, about half of that is walking around and taking selfies.

[@dannyfromtheville3613]

Nothing wrong with guides. A good build's not enough, still gotta execute the game plan

[@OtkaMak]

I realy dont know why people has so much trouble with all those tomberies, i did it second try, first try i was like oh i didnt know this will happen so for try 2 i equipped Barret with accessory to nullify death and then Barret just soloed all of them with ease.

[@piotrrodzen772]

tonberry is easy tho, just put an accesory to make you immune for instant death on the character that you will be controlling. Its trivial

[@HavokStrifeX]

It's awesome to hear someone praise the game. Looking for help on some side quests, all I saw was hate for how difficult the side quests are. They really aren't that bad. Like the amount of people wildin' over gears and gambits when all you gotta do is go on circles spamming the cheap red guy. I don't think any of these people dodged 200 lightning bolts or did 0.0 seconds in the calm lands choco race. It's the fights that are hard, and again, don't think these people played Fromsoft.

[@joaolima9622]

People who complain about Rebirth minigames should try playing the X minigames. The chocobo balloon race and the butterfly catching minigames were harder than anything in Rebirth lol

[@Mukation]

I hate the damn cactuar crush mini game, i'm stuck on Aeriths 2 on hars mode in order to get to level 10

[@ovi54]

You’re not a cheat for looking at builds, you saved your sanity. Even so, like you said you have to play well… these brutal challenges are just not fair. The game forces you to use broken mechanics as the challenges themselves are broken. “Let’s just put a monster that causes instant death and round 10”… devs really trolled us with these challenges

[@JenGM24]

Well I'm trying to platinum remake and rebirth at the same time💀

[@Tonykinetic]

I'm still struggling on hard mode and feel so behind everyone else playing the game.can't seem to crack that final gauntlet and I have watched so many guides and am still coming up just losing to final sephiroth repeatedly,it makes the confidence wane for sure

[@Logylia]

Have they patched Ultimate Party Animal yet?

[@tubagaming1976]

Yes I believe that was the last patch for that

[@danieljstanley5547]

i just need to do the simulations and i just cant its just so tricky! D;

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

You can do it! (Maybe you've done it already, but still!)

[@HeartlessNinny1]

All right, here's the thing. I went from thinking this is one of the best games I've played in years to one of the worst I've ever played in my 40 years of gaming. There is _no reason whatsoever_ to make some of these challenges so crushing. I'm not a completist by nature but I like to progress as much as possible in games I love. Or... Used to love. I was so angry, frustrated, disheartened and downright offended by this game's minigames and VR missions that I wound up despising it. I adore the original game. I thought Remake was great. But this? This game is so utterly unbalanced and so wildly inconsistent with the challenge that I would not recommend it to anyone for any reason. If I was a professional, I'd score it a 2 or 3 out of 10. And I loved about 95% of it. That's how much I hated that other 5%.

[@andrewjohnson8919]

Must be nice, fuck that patch and it locked a lot of people out

[@Westyle1]

The piano will forever keep me from plat. I don't like, nor am I any good at rhythm games. The rewards aren't worth practicing for either. Also, Magnify + -aga spells make quick work of the group of tonberries.

[@benshtarker1915]

you can give me a good builds for hard mode?

[@Trofun]

All the builds I used I got from the PSNProfiles guide

[@ltlsWhatltIs]

for the tonberrys just use anti death items. make it a joke lol

[@Ty4ler]

you saying the game wasnt too hard while playing on easy for most of the challenges is redundant

[@ltlsWhatltIs]

you only have to beat the game on hard just the story. and thoss end game vr missions. you can play the rest on easy

[@xccxuy5hnhbvc]

Dawg the brutal challenges and legendary challenges are locked in hard mode... And you have to play a second playthrough on hard mode anyways lol.

[@ImmortalDraylo]

lowering the difficulty.. shame

[@neoforce]

You still have to play everything on hard to get the platinum trophy...

[@-m_ama]

Maturing is realising the ps1 version is still better than the remake

[@elwingy]

There is nothing "cheat" about whatever you do. The end game contain is absolute dogshit and whoever designed it had clear intentions of making the user suffer, not have any sort of fun. Zero respect of player's time either. If I could cheat every single VR mission or hard mode mini game bullshit I would do it in a heartbeat.

[@diegobrando5800]

i think ive never hated a game more in my entire life, everything was annoying at best and infuriating at worst story is mid, movement is plain bad, minigames are awful and open world stuff is on par with ubisoft games il give it credit on visuals, music and combat tho, stll 5/10 game at best

[@neoforce]

I don't agree with your assessment. The story is awesome. The world is fully realized and exploring it was fun. The mini games, however, are complete dogshit, along with the VR challenges. Just playing the game first run without much side content is at least 8.5 out of 10, maybe 9.0 for nostalgia

[@diegobrando5800]

but im rewieving it as a whole, dont care if its optional i didnt have a good time with it and felt very padded to me

[@neoforce]

@@diegobrando5800 Optional content is that... optional. Optional means you literally don't have to do it, so of course it's padded. I still do not agree with your assessment

[@diegobrando5800]

im not trying to change your opinion, just shared my experience with the game as someone who does everything as soon as it becomes available i didnt like it, but im glad a lot of people seem to love it

[@neoforce]

@@diegobrando5800 sounds like you didn’t grow up with FF7 the way I did. 5/10 is way too low. Story is not mid. It’s complex and has great world building and character development. Nothing is wrong with the controls because it’s balanced based on the character archetype and how they should move. And why would the now standard open world system adopted by most publishers be a bad thing? There’s objectively nothing wrong with that either. Your gripe with optional content I can agree with but holistically the game does not deserve a 5/10 just because you didn’t enjoy side content that is not required to do

[@beatchef]

If you think a member of your team is going to get caught in the way of an attack, you can use the standard synergy attacks to teleport them from wherever they are on the battlefield, to by your side. So that negates the AI getting tripped up sometimes.

[@beatchef]

Using Prime Mode with Umbral blade as Cloud is much better than Punisher mode, as it automatically counters if you're blocking, and the successful counter fills up a ton of ATB. It makes certain late game fights on hard, and some aspects of Brutal and Legendary easier.

[@Bazskua]

Isn’t prime mode a weapon ability

[@beatchef]

@@Bazskua It replaces punisher mode after you use it yes