I Just Can't Seem to Gel with "Final Fantasy VII Rebirth"
This blog contains heavy spoilers for Remake, Rebirth, and the original Final Fantasy VII. You have been warned. I actually really wanted to like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth . No, really, I did. I did not particularly enjoy its predecessor, Final Fantasy VII Remake . And that was for many reasons. Sure, part of that was because I didn't think it was ever really necessary to remake Final Fantasy VII . Before the first installment in the remake project, all I'd ever really wanted was a retranslation of the original game. I'd felt like, with every time Square Enix re-released the 1997 original title on a newer platform, they missed the opportunity to clean up the original translation, which had been riddled with spelling errors, grammatical errors, and in some cases downright mistranslations entirely. For that reason, I've always been grateful to fans from years ago who had created a retranslation patch for the game and fixed some o...