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January is a boring time to be a gamer.
The same impulse took me back toFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
By any metric, I’ve put a good amount of time into this game.
When I look ahead, there’s little pulling me forward.
Thats probably why it’s taken me a year to finish it.
The open world RPG has arrived on PC in a far better state than its predecessor.
Where Are We Going And Why Should We Care?
And yet, it also is absolutely packed with stuff.
But none of those tons can replace its missing narrative urgency.
Final Fantasy 7 Remakedidn’t suffer from this problem.
That game felt like it was all building up to something.
This was largely due toSquare Enixlimiting its scope to the Midgar section of the originalFF7.
You could stop and smell the Mako, but the game was ever funneling you along.
Minigames were just a fun diversion.
But, in Rebirth, minigames feel just as important as the story.
Similarly, Sephiroth shows up so often in Clouds hallucinations that you dont ever really miss his presence.
It’s like the boy who cried wolf if he only saw the wolf in his mind.
And yet, I don’t dislike the game.
Everytime I load it up, I end up having a pretty good time.
It just feels like spending time is all the game really has to offer.
It’s a road trip where the destination doesn’t matter.
The Carnegie Hall concert made me appreciate gaming even more.
