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
News 2 commentsRebirth 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
News 3 commentsI 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
News 3 commentsSo, 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
News 5 commentsUnfortunately, 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
Demo 13 commentsAt 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
Demo 9 commentsYou'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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Would it be possible to add new side-quests and towns/areas?
Possibly, but out of scope, I'm afraid.
Hello guys!
I was searching for final fantasy 7 mods and found this.Looks awesome and very promising,but is this the full version of the mod?As far as i understand,the mod is only for the first disc of the game.
Thanks in advance!
Right now it's only the first disc. It's well worth the download and patch though.
FFVII is now out on Steam! Is there any way this could be imported onto said version?
Ported easily? No. On a very fundamental level, the PC (Steam) and PS (what this mods) are very very different. However, a completely separate mod could be made for the Steam version if Yojimbo were willing to offer up a list of all the changes he's made.
I keep getting an error while fighting Motor Ball just after the highway scene where cloud is defending the truck from shinra bikers. It's in a window "in game" like when you press select and it displays info but it is at the top of the screen and it tells me to "Push L1+R1+Select for Reset" "Error. Report to jb527(AT)hotmail.co.uk" "Scene:468 Code:32"
Although I leave so many times, I often find myself coming back to FFVII. and I thought of this mod... (switched computers, FF7 didn't transfer)
I also bought the 2012 edition of ff7.
My question: Does you mod work with the remake, if not do you have plans of supporting it, if so, is there anything I can do to help?
So far, I haven't done any work to port Rebirth to the PC version. It's something I might look at later, but I'd want to release the PSX build first.
In the mean while, if you're looking for a 'hard mode' mod on PC, you might enjoy something like Armorvil's AV mod, or gjoerulv's Nightmare Edition
It's not really the "hard mode" I want. It's the Extra Materia and rebalanace that you do that I want. Lol. Not getting water until Golden Saucer, the only air spell is Choco/Mog, attacking a creature that should be weak to lightning and it is immune. Things like that. Your enhancement is amazing. lol.