Final Fantasy 7. The perfect game?

Proving popular with countless generations of gamers, despite its age, inspiring fanart, fiction, a series of spinoff games and even a full-budget movie, it's tempting to fit Final Fantasy VII with the title 'Greatest. Game. Ever'.

And I'll agree, it's an awesome game - but, as much as I love FF7, as much I enjoy playing through it over, and over, there's always been a nagging suspicion: could it be... better?


Let's be honest. The battles can get a little too samey, there's little incentive to experiment with materia, and the game can all to easily be bested by simply attacking and spamming Cure-All. We've all heard horror stories about players who have managed to push themselves to the Northern Crater without even grasping the basics of the materia system.

This mod - this rebalance - seeks to address these issues, altering enemy statistics and AI, nerfing overpowered skills whilst promoting others that have been neglected, introducing new tactics, creating cunning and entertaining creatures, and overall making battles far more exciting and engaging.

So, what exactly will the rebirth mod feature? Work is still in progress, and I intent to keep certain features secret until release, so as not to spoil matters, but the mod has the following broad aim in mind: to promote a more strategic mode of gameplay. You won't be able to mash attack to get through REBIRTH. You'll have to keep your wits as sharp as your sword, and think carefully about every choice you make through the entire game.

I think you'll love it.

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Contrary to popular opinion, Rebirth didn't die, it just got put on the back burner for a while. Since Christmas 2011, I've been working on a PSX Disc One beta to be released as a demo / early version sometime around the end of next month / May 2012.
As proof, here's a video of me fighting the Materia Keeper, here called a Hexadragon to hint at his ice-weak, fire-absorbing elemental affinities. Rebirth's enemies are divided up into a small number of memorable classes with particular weaknesses and resistances, and often renamed to hint at those classes. It's just one of the things that (I hope) will make Rebirth a fun mod to play.

The disc one demo will include

  • New materia and magic, including the much-desired water, wind and holy spells
  • Rebalanced limit breaks
  • Completely new equipment, with an emphasis on double-edged 'sidegrades' rather than 'upgrades'
  • Enemies with more intuitive status and elemental vulnerabilities
  • Stronger creatures and a noticeably increased difficulty
  • More steals and higher steal-rates, finally making steal useful.
  • The new 'disease' status, where Poison stops creatures from healing
  • The 'defence break' mechanic
Update: 2011

Update: 2011

News 2 comments

Rebirth isn't dead! The comprehensive rebalance for Final Fantasy VII is undergoing some changes, but *all* aim to take the mod back to its original vision...

Upcoming release: Alpha Demo

Upcoming release: Alpha Demo

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I intend to release an alpha demo before the new year. This demo will showcase Rebirth up to the Kalm Flashback, before allowing you to play the remainder...

Recent Progress

Recent Progress

News 3 comments

So, what's been going on with REBIRTH? Lots of behind-the-scenes coding, for a start - a new program I've written from scratch for the project, new AI...

Release Deferred

Release Deferred

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Unfortunately, REBIRTH will not be making the February 2010 release we hoped for. However, I am confident that a Beta-version demo for the first disc...

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Rebirth v1 - Disc One

Rebirth v1 - Disc One

Demo 13 comments

At last! Rebirth v1 / Disc One has been released! This download includes a PPF patch for the NTSC PSX release.

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - Midgar Demo

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - Midgar Demo

Demo 9 comments

You've waited and waited, so it's high time you got something in return! Here's a patch for the NTSC (American) PSOne version of Final Fantasy VII. The...

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petrosavraam
petrosavraam

12 years later and it seems you have predicted the name of the second remake haha

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0ov0vo0
0ov0vo0

Confirmed! You CAN! play trough the whole game, all there discs using this mod. Rebirth v1 - Disc One can be used to patch disc 2 and disc 3 as well. You can get all the new modified weapons and materia even past disc one, the game rebalance is still there of course. Except for few minor issues, this mod works flawlessly for all there disc, tested. I highly recommend it.

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drummersoulz
drummersoulz

any update on disc 2 and 3? / full game?

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jack5881
jack5881

I like this mod,thanks for the sharing,lets hope the full version will be release soon!

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Guest
Guest

It got me wonder... actually the discs only differ in video data... maybe this works for all discs... will check on monday

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mrgame131
mrgame131

Is this officially dead? I really hope not, as I'd love to play through the entire game with this.

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Guest
Guest

Did anyone manage to run this on PSP? I tried, but only get black screen after starting eboot.

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thats_so_gaben
thats_so_gaben

looks pretty awesome, cant wait to play the full version

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Guest
Guest

Yojimbo_Beta você pode me dizer se tu ja terminou de fazer o mod nos outros 2 cds do final fantasy 7? eu preciso muito obrigado pela vizualizaçao do comentario!!

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