No luck, if you have the digital version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth you won’t be able to get the game certified Platinum!

Gaming News No luck, if you have the digital version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth you won’t be able to get the game certified Platinum!

It’s been on everyone’s lips for more than a month: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth – the second part of the remake of the famous JRPG – is still one of the best games of 2024. On the reference site Metacritic it receives a 92 / 100, which puts it ahead of Tekken 8 and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth lies. Maybe you too have tried the adventure in the company of Cloud and his friends, and if that’s the case, you might be in trouble… Indeed, as previously reported Reddit

The Square Enix title suffers from a bug that prevents players from obtaining the famous Platinum trophy and thus 100% completing the adventure.

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A bug that has not yet been fixed by Square Enix

In the well-known forum it was the Internet user “A0704” who reported the problem. The latter concerns the quest “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop”, in which Cloud has to achieve a score of more than 32,000 in expert mode and thus take another step towards platinum. In theory, if the hero meets these expectations, a cutscene will appear confirming victory. But nothing happens with A0704 and other players

… Obvious: This is an issue with patch “v1.020” released by Square Enix about two weeks ago. Several patches have been released since then, but nothing that addresses this particular issue.

A solution, but not for everyone

On Reddit, players are annoyed by the lack of news from the Japanese company | from PlayStation, which is releasing the title on PS5! “I’m stuck waiting for a patch,” one person wrote, while another person noted, “Two weeks and still nothing.” Luckily, If you own the physical version of FF7 Rebirth, you can avoid this problem

… To do this, you need to delete the game data, disconnect your console from the Internet and install version 1.0 printed on the disk (without network updates). But hey, we’re still waiting for a solution worthy of the name.