Yep, there's a lot of stuff that's actually locked behind some serious walls many are going to have an insurmountable trouble with.
There’s a high level fight in the battle arena where you fight a dragon and King Zu, and you can barely go two seconds without being hit or air juggled due to King Zu’s move set, which means it’s a massive struggle to build ATB to heal or counter them with magic to pressure them. The battle system and the way ATB works, just isn’t designed for fights this chaotic. It’s made even worse that you can’t practice on the fights you’re stuck at, without going through the previous fights in the gauntlet first.
You may need to progress the story.
Madflavor
described in his subsequent post.
I think it's more this in terms of what I was saying. The width of the gate blocking platinum in Rebirth is much larger than in Remake, so many people simply won't be able to achieve platinum due to this. The variety of skills and patience needed is just larger, not that the game is inherently harder (I think it's easier in terms of combat etc).I’m somewhere between average and hardcore: I love the game same as I loved the original, yet even I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’m not getting close to Platinum. I have zero desire to bang my head against the wall for “Cant Stop, Won’t Stop” or the increasingly ludicrous VR missions and Musclehead Colosseum fights. Hell, I’ve even hit my limit with Chocobo Racing after finishing all the gold races. I’m not even sure I’m going to bother grinding to max level because it feels pointless knowing it’s not going to mean anything for Part 3.
There’s strategically challenging late/post game bosses like the original Emerald and Ruby Weapons in OG FF7 and then there’s cheap, chaotic “difficulty” like the VR mission bosses, such as the Dragon/Zu fight
That’s kind of point of trophies, going extra mile to get them….for me as much as I LOVE this game, I don’t care about platinum enough to spend crazy amount of time get it.I think that’s a fair way to put it. So many of the trophies for Rebirth require mastery of respective elements to earn. Mastery of multiple mini games, mastery of the combat system, etc. Most people, myself included, are likely to burn out before earning them.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about not getting Platinum and it makes my respect for those who do earn it much higher. It’s just… it’s not 1997 where I could spend countless hours grinding Chocobo races to get Knights of the Round because I only had to worry about going to class.
Remake wasn't all that difficult, aside from Chapter 17 with how you had to manage your mana for such long periods between boss battles.
That’s a power of your brain my dear student.
I will say this, first time I booted up the game the intro FMV was choppy as hell, like so totally fucked it looked like it was trying to display 18 fps or something weird. When I restarted the game and started another new game it worked fine. It's possible that there is some bug at the start that has a chance to occur? I originally started my game before the download was fully finished, so I wonder if that had something to do with it.
From what I read, we can replay the chapter and hardpick the date after finishing the game. Just roll with it maybe
Yes.
Wasn't it about the same thing for the higher levels of VR simulator in remake? I remember the Shiva + Chocobo + Leviathan + Bahamut gauntlet being pretty tough…
he turns into a little frog prince with a red cape and crown
Interesting. I double-platinumed remake and was planning on getting platinum with this one. Sounds like I’ll need to skip in favor of making progress on the 2024 backlog.
