I’ve seen a lot of wood in my life (hey, no giggling at the back). It’s a very common material, so much so that as I look around my office I see a desk made of wood, shelves made of wood, and a door made of wood. It’s everywhere, in my house and in the world. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a large wooden box before. Thanks to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, next time I do, I will smash it open.
I’ve seen box-shaped things made of wood before, you understand. I know that if you take six wooden panels and place them together you will get a cube, known in the common vernacular when it exists to have things placed inside it as a ‘box’. But I’ve never seen a box the size you get in video games. I know they’re real, used for storing machine parts for long haul shipping journeys and the like, but seeing as my job writing about video games doesn’t involve a lot of industrial 🌠machinery shipments, I’ve never actually bore witness in real life.
These boxes fascinate me. I don’t think I had given it much thought until Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Perhaps I did around the time Remake launched, and then forgot about this passing obsession until the sequel rekindled my curios🌳ity. Here’s the thing - there are so many boxes, and they’re so breakable. Just one almighty swing of the Buster Sword and they shatter into ti🅺ny little pieces.
The Legacy of the Humble Box
Breakable boxes have long been part of video games. Not just boxes, either - it wouldn’t be The Legend of Zelda without some pots to smash, right? The🐽y’re not quite ‘exploding red barrel’ levels of iconic, but it’s a well established trope to put breakable containers (sometimes full of minor rewards but often completely empty) in the hero’s path. I know many other games have done it previously, I just find something uniquely compelling about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s way of doing❀ it.
These l🎐ittle things are often crucial in our love of a game. We’ve all played games where the graphics have been great, the combat has been smooth, and no bugs have disrupted the journey, but it just doesn’t click. You can’t describe why you don’t like it, you just ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚknow you don’t. Little things like this make it easier to feel a game’s vibes.
That’s not to say that without these boxes I’d hate Rebirth. Remake was my 2020 GOTY, despite heavy competition from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yakuza: Like a Dragon, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and a dozen other fantastic games in that all-timer of a year. So I’m playing Rebirth already feeling quite fond of it. But in the opening exchanges when the action is slow and it’s heavy on exp꧟osition that assumes you’ve both forgotten Remake and didn’t play the original, smashing boxes lets you get into the thick of things.
I agree with the decision not to assume much knowledge of the original artistically, but as a player who just wants to jump straight into things, an extended tutorial and catch up ꦜdrags.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s combat can be divisive, blending action combat and turn-based battling in a way that risks disappointing purists of either form, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I have always loved the depth to it. With the boxes though⛎, all the complexity is stripped back and you get the simplicity of smashy smashy. I like smashy smashy.
I didn’t play the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo, not wanting to start the game then have to put it down for weeks, so I’m just making my way through the early section for the first time now. I ha🐟ven’t reached any of the open world po♋rtions where minigames or side quests open up, and so the only freedom I have is smashing boxes. Maybe it’s catharsis, maybe it’s a sense of completionism that I might find a health potion inside. Whatever it is, I can’t allow a box to go unsmashed on my watch.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Top Critic Avg: 92/100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- February 29, 2024
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Blood, Language, Mild Sugge🃏stive Themes, Use of Alcoh🍎ol and Tobacco, Violence
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
Final Fantasy Rebirth is the second part of the FF7 Remake project. It continues the story of Cloud Strife, a former SOLDIER turned mercenary who joins Avalanche, a group of eco-terrorists seeking to save the planet from the malevolent Sephiroth. As the party pushes out of Miဣdgar🅷, leaving the Shinra Corporation devastated, where will their paths take them?
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 5, PC
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