Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth makes me giggle, on purpose even

As many individuals have stated on courting profiles (or moms on their wall artwork), I really like a online game that makes me giggle, and I’m delighted Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has been so goddamn good at it.

In my time with the sport, it has requested me to do absurd issues like play a card sport towards a regular-ass canine. It has featured Cloud Strife, the badass protagonist with a large sword, carrying a little bit cushion round for him to make use of on benches. It’s acquired dudes who play acoustic guitar at you just like the Kens in Barbie, the franchise’s second homoerotic biker duel, and a whole lot of different issues I need to speak about however would most likely be spoilers. I imply, Chadley???

But in the event you’ll permit me the indulgence, I want to speak about one particularly.

Consider this a spoiler warning. I’m severe. I’m going to embed a photograph of Cloud Strife enjoying the piano (additionally humorous) to attempt to spare informal scrollers, however proper beneath it, there will likely be a YouTube video of one of many funniest issues I’ve ever seen in video video games, one which I like to recommend seeing for your self in the event you’re serious about enjoying by Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. (You can’t miss it, it’s a part of the story.)

Okay, prepared?

Image: Square Enix

Here it’s:

There are a whole lot of unbelievable issues about this scene, which takes place in Chapter 5 aboard the Shinra-8 cruise to Costa del Sol. First, like a whole lot of issues in Rebirth, it’s a gag lifted straight from the unique Final Fantasy 7, however it’s been given such a lavish reinterpretation that it turns into a wholly completely different sort of humorous, a throwaway gag made right into a comedic centerpiece for no purpose in any respect.

As beforehand established in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, the characters are more than pleased to interrupt out into dance, however that also doesn’t put together you for seeing Red XIII do a Michael Jackson impression, or the (smaller however funnier) sight gag of the canine warrior attempting to cross his legs throughout the desk from Cloud. (Also the child crying on the sight of him kills me each time.)

I don’t assume you get any of this in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth with out Square Enix’s essential growth determination to by no means draw back from or soften the oddity of the unique sport’s polygonal abstraction. Under the older sport’s artwork constraints, the unrealities of, say, using a dolphin or assembly a speaking cat are a lot simpler to roll with, and never significantly uncommon.

Recreating these moments with such a excessive diploma of realism is in itself humorous, an endearing dedication to a bit I can’t imagine an enormous studio signed up for. It’s additionally each a essential counterbalance to an in any other case dire and melodramatic story — sure, the heroes of Rebirth should additionally battle for a world that has room for enjoyable and levity — and a little bit of a eulogy for this type of goofballery in fashionable big-budget video games.

Sure, each infrequently we get one thing like Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the most recent in a protracted line of video games that at all times present gamers a tremendously goofy time — however Final Fantasy 7’s comedy is one thing completely different. It’s a relic from a time when video games had been a little bit extra mysterious, a little bit more difficult to interpret, with a little bit extra room to shock. Maybe publishers will see individuals eagerly sharing pictures of Red XIII using a chocobo and assume, hey, these things can be good to have in video video games once more.