Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s Gongaga Area Sucks

I’m making my method by Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth and principally having fun with my time in its massive 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 stuffed with mushrooms and large timber, and I rapidly started to remorse my plan to 100% each open-world space in FF7 Rebirth.

A little bit background about me, Zack Zwiezen. Common readers possible already know this, however I’m not a Closing 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.

Nevertheless, I loved FF7 Remake and Disaster Core! I appreciated 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, not like Remake, can be a a lot larger recreation with giant open-world areas that I might be unable to disregard. That’s as a result of my mind is wired in such a method that I’ve to finish all of the checklists in these massive video games. Plus, I like all of the rewards and XP I get. And I additionally must be sincere with myself: I’m unlikely to ever play Rebirth once more. I don’t have the time to return and play large RPGs like this freely. So if that is my solely undergo FF7 Rebirth, I dedicated from the begin to doing nearly every part in it.

And for the primary 40-ish hours, this was nice. I had no regrets about doing every part in each area. Certain, a few of the open-world actions and mini-games weren’t nice and even actively boring, however nothing was too annoying and the great 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 do not know if Gongaga is enjoyable within the unique FF7 or if it’s hated. I don’t care. What I can inform you is that this space blows Chocobo shit. For starters, it has the worst music of any of the areas I’ve visited up to now. It’s an annoying music that loops again and again and feels prefer it was ripped out of a menu from Civilization 3. That wouldn’t be so dangerous if I didn’t find yourself listening to the rattling music time and again whereas operating round a claustrophobic forest aimlessly searching for the place to go on this multi-tiered forest maze.

Not like the opposite open-world areas in FF7 Rebirth up till this level, Gongaga is stuffed with overlapping pathways, trails, caves, timber, and different areas.

Now, for those who simply needed to climb up some ladders or yellow-painted rocks to succeed in these areas, I’d not thoughts a lot. However no, as a substitute, it’s a must to use large bouncy mushrooms to fling your self and your Chocobo throughout the map. This sucks.

Making it worse: The mushrooms don’t immediately inform you the place you’ll land and in contrast to the following area—Cosmo Canyon—you’ve gotten zero skill to manage your hen mid-flight. So that you land the place the sport desires you to land and that’s typically not the place you needed to be. And typically, simply attending to the correct mushroom takes far too lengthy as you run round searching for a tree-covered or vine-filled pathway or cave that may take you to the correct degree 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 course. Ultimately, I gave up and simply seemed on-line to learn the way to succeed in just a few remaining 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 possibly can not less than have enjoyable operating across the map in your Chocobo, Gongaga’s tight pathways, limitless timber, and annoying design means you possibly can’t even try this. As a substitute, 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 major questline on this space loads, too, but it surely doesn’t make up for every part 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 take pleasure in 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 present you fellow 100 percenters on the market the permission to only lookup some guides and movies on Gongaga so you possibly can restrict your time on this shithole and get to take pleasure in the remainder of Rebirth as a substitute.

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