The authors of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth were inspired by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt when creating additional content
Square Enix proudly stated that the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a big game that offers 40 hours of the main plot and 100 hours of gameplay for lovers to complete the game. However, a team of developers also focused on side content, which is about 80 percent of the gameplay based on research.
In a recent conversation with Game Informer, the co -director Motomom Toriyam assured that this is not just content to increase playing time.
When we look at big games in which there is a more extensive world with a large number of side content, some players may seem that they have a lot of side content, but perhaps in fact the experience is not so diverse. For Rebirth, we made sure that we had a certain amount of side content, which we really carefully worked out. We paid great attention to players to experience various forms of gameplay through side content. Thus, I believe that we were able to achieve a distinctive zest among such games.
The gamedector Naoki Hamaguchi said that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is his favorite role -playing game (not counting the Final Fantasy series). The game is known for its side content, which is also recognized by the developer. Hamaguchi even called her "basic" For the content of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, having previously discussed with her and the Horizon series.
As for games such as The Witcher 3, in which there is a role -playing game with the open world, we conducted an extensive study of these games and considered them as a basis on which Rebirth should stand next to them and have the type of content that will satisfy the players.
While you will explore the world and meet the quests, such as Cadli, the source of new summons, there will also be the events of World Intel, which need to be explored. They offer worthy awards, but Square Enix focuses on the plot (in each of them, Claud is accompanied by a secondary hero). For this, the affinity system was expanded: side tasks improve affinity with the character and explore their relationship.
We wanted to give players the freedom of choice so that they could decide whether they want to devote themselves exclusively to the main storyline and not to complete any side tasks. Or there are people who want to plunge into side content and very deeply immerse themselves in the relations of the characters and to more understand the story, or just find a balance between these two options. We wanted to give them such freedom.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is released on February 29, 2024 for PS5. Read more about "completely new settlements", Such as Crow’s Nest, read here.