Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has a lot going for it, but its bloated scope embodies ongoing problems with modern AAA game development.
You might be tired of hearing this by now if you follow videogames closely, but the game industry is not doing well at the moment. Every month, we reach a grim new milestone for the number of developers laid off so far this year; the current total is well over 11,000, which already eclipses last year’s similarly disastrous count of around 10,000.
, triple the cost of its predecessor. With these massive price tags, an already volatile industry becomes even more unstable, and many AAAs need to sell several million units to break even. As a result, big-budget titles are coming out less frequently, and when they do, they tend to fall into a small group of market-tested templates.
As for how each of these locations is expanded, the additional time spent in many of these places helps strengthen the narrative’s themes, particularly around how Shinra has wronged and exploited these communities in pursuit of profit. We learn how the company dismantled the Republic of Junon, leaving its citizens disenfranchised and under the boot heel of natural resource-guzzling sociopaths.
Given how much work was put into Rebirth’s other elements, like its cutscenes or combat, I understand why the open world is filled with so much recycled material. Instead, though, I wish they had delivered a much smaller space designed around unique situations instead of blowing up the scope of the setting to such titanic proportions.
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