I’m making my manner by Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth and largely having fun with my time in its huge 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 large timber, and I shortly started to remorse my plan to 100% each open-world space in FF7 Rebirth.
Just a little background about me, Zack Zwiezen. Common readers seemingly already know this, however I’m not a Ultimate Fantasy individual 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.
Nonetheless, 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, in contrast to Remake, can be a a lot larger recreation with giant open-world areas that I’d 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 huge 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 nearly the whole lot in it.
And for the primary 40-ish hours, this was high quality. I had no regrets about doing the whole lot in each area. Certain, among 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 might take care of the slop.
Then I reached Gongaga and the sport nearly 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 authentic 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 thus far. 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 time and again 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, timber, and different areas.
Now, if you happen to simply needed to climb up some ladders or yellow-painted rocks to achieve these areas, I’d not thoughts a lot. However no, as a substitute, it’s important to use large bouncy mushrooms to fling your self and your Chocobo throughout the map. This sucks.
Making it worse: The mushrooms don’t instantly let you know the place you’ll land and in contrast to the subsequent area—Cosmo Canyon—you’ve got zero capability to regulate 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 typically, simply attending to the appropriate 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 appropriate stage of this terrible place.
The map is not any assist, simply use a information
Good luck counting on the map in Gongaga. Up till this level within the recreation, Rebirth’s map had been marginally helpful more often than not. On this jungle nightmare, nevertheless, it’s borderline ineffective and typically lead me within the incorrect path. Ultimately, I gave up and simply seemed on-line to learn the way to achieve just a few closing bits of world intel as a substitute 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’ll be able to no less than have enjoyable operating across the map in your Chocobo, Gongaga’s tight pathways, infinite timber, and annoying design means you’ll be able to’t even do this. As an alternative, prepare to listen to your Chocobo cry out in ache time and again 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 foremost questline on this space loads, too, but it surely 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 folks 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 only search for some guides and movies on Gongaga so you’ll be able to restrict your time on this shithole and get to get pleasure from the remainder of Rebirth as a substitute.
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