I’m making my manner by way of Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth and principally having fun with my time in its large open worlds, even when I do miss the extra linear and guided really feel of FF7 Remake’s Midgar. However about 45 hours into my playthrough I reached Gongaga, a maze-like jungle area full of mushrooms and big bushes, and I shortly started to remorse my plan to 100% each open-world space in FF7 Rebirth.
A bit of background about me, Zack Zwiezen. Common readers probably already know this, however I’m not a Ultimate Fantasy particular person in any respect. I’ve performed and completed solely two video games within the franchise: FF7 Remake and the Disaster Core remaster. I additionally performed an hour of FF15 and about 4 hours of Stranger of Paradise. That’s it.
Nevertheless, I loved FF7 Remake and Disaster Core! I favored Aerith, Tifa, Barret, and even Cloud. So I used to be excited to play Rebirth and see what occurs subsequent to those characters.
I additionally knew that Rebirth, not like Remake, could be a a lot larger sport with giant open-world areas that I might be unable to disregard. That’s as a result of my mind is wired in such a manner that I’ve to finish all of the checklists in these large video games. Plus, I like all of the rewards and XP I get. And I additionally need to be trustworthy with myself: I’m unlikely to ever play Rebirth once more. I don’t have the time to return and play huge RPGs like this freely. So if that is my solely undergo FF7 Rebirth, I dedicated from the begin to doing virtually the whole lot in it.
And for the primary 40-ish hours, this was wonderful. I had no regrets about doing the whole lot in each area. Positive, a few of the open-world actions and mini-games weren’t nice and even actively boring, however nothing was too annoying and the nice moments have been frequent sufficient that I may take care of the slop.
Then I reached Gongaga and the sport virtually broke me and my plan to gather all of the world intel in every area.
Gongaga is terrible, annoying, and simply no enjoyable
I don’t know if Gongaga is enjoyable within the unique FF7 or if it’s hated. I don’t care. What I can let you know is that this space blows Chocobo shit. For starters, it has the worst music of any of the areas I’ve visited up to now. It’s an annoying tune that loops time and again and feels prefer it was ripped out of a menu from Civilization 3. That wouldn’t be so unhealthy if I didn’t find yourself listening to the rattling tune over and over whereas operating round a claustrophobic forest aimlessly in search of the place to go on this multi-tiered forest maze.
In contrast to the opposite open-world areas in FF7 Rebirth up till this level, Gongaga is full of overlapping pathways, trails, caves, bushes, and different areas.
Now, in case you simply needed to climb up some ladders or yellow-painted rocks to succeed in these areas, I’d not thoughts a lot. However no, as an alternative, it’s a must to use big bouncy mushrooms to fling your self and your Chocobo throughout the map. This sucks.
Making it worse: The mushrooms don’t straight let you know the place you’ll land and in contrast to the following area—Cosmo Canyon—you will have zero capability to manage your chook mid-flight. So that you land the place the sport needs you to land and that’s typically not the place you needed to be. And generally, simply attending to the correct mushroom takes far too lengthy as you run round in search of a tree-covered or vine-filled pathway or cave that may take you to the correct stage of this terrible place.
The map isn’t any assist, simply use a information
Good luck counting on the map in Gongaga. Up till this level within the sport, Rebirth’s map had been marginally helpful more often than not. On this jungle nightmare, nonetheless, it’s borderline ineffective and generally lead me within the fallacious course. Finally, I gave up and simply seemed on-line to learn the way to succeed in a number of ultimate bits of world intel as an alternative of slamming my head right into a wall for an additional hour.
Oh and in contrast to the opposite areas of Rebirth the place you may a minimum of have enjoyable operating across the map in your Chocobo, Gongaga’s tight pathways, limitless bushes, and annoying design means you may’t even do this. As an alternative, prepare to listen to your Chocobo cry out in ache over and over as you stumble upon each rattling department, bush, boulder, vine, and shrub that exists on this inexperienced hell.
Sure, I just like the reactor dungeon and most important questline on this space quite a bit, too, nevertheless it doesn’t make up for the whole lot else. Not even shut. By no means.
And I’m not alone on this hatred of Gongaga! After ending up the area and reaching Cosmo Canyon (which I get pleasure from 1000x as a lot) I seemed on-line and located many, many different individuals ranting about how annoying Gongaga is to discover.
So, let me be the primary to offer you fellow 100 percenters on the market the permission to simply lookup some guides and movies on Gongaga so you may restrict your time on this shithole and get to get pleasure from the remainder of Rebirth as an alternative.
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