Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth makes me laugh, even intentionally

As many people on dating profiles (or moms) have said on her wall art), I love a video game that makes me laugh and I’m hooked Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was so damn good at it.

In my time with the game, I was asked to do absurd things like play a game of cards against a regular dog. It features Cloud Strife, the badass protagonist with a giant sword, who carries around a small pillow to use on benches. There are guys who play acoustic guitar like the Kens Barbie, the franchise’s second homoerotic biker duel, and lots of other things I want to talk about but would probably be spoilers. I mean, Chadley???

But if you’ll indulge me, I need to talk about one thing in particular.

consider it a spoiler warning. I’m serious. I’ll embed a photo of Cloud Strife playing the piano (also funny) to save the occasional scroller, but right below there will be a YouTube video of one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in video games, so I recommend you check it out check it out for yourself if you’re interested in playing through it Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. (You can’t miss it, it’s part of the story.)

Okay, ready?

Image: Square Enix

Here it is:

There are many incredible things about this scene that takes place aboard the Shinra-8 cruise to the Costa del Sol in Chapter 5. First, how many things in RebirthIt is a gag that was taken directly from the original Final Fantasy 7but it’s been so elaborately reimagined that it becomes a completely different kind of joke, a throwaway gag made into a comedic centerpiece for no reason.

As already stated in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, the characters are more than happy to break out into the dancing, but that still doesn’t prepare you for Red the Table from Cloud. (Plus, the boy crying at the sight of him kills me every time.)

I don’t think you’ll get any of this in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth without Square Enix’s crucial development decision to never shy away from or tone down the oddity of the original game’s igamesnewsal abstraction. Under the older game’s artistic limitations, the unrealities of, say, riding a dolphin or encountering a talking cat are much easier to deal with, nor are they particularly unusual.

Rendering these moments with such a high level of realism is funny in itself, an endearing commitment to something that I can’t believe a huge studio signed up for. It’s also a necessary counterbalance to an otherwise dark and melodramatic story – yes, the heroes of Rebirth must Also Fight for a world that has room for fun and lightness – and a kind of paean to that kind of nonsense in modern big-budget games.

Sure, we get something like that every now and then Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealththe latest in a long line of games that always show players an incredibly silly time – but Final Fantasy 7The comedy is something different. It’s a relic from a time when games were a little more mysterious, a little more challenging to interpret, and a little more room for surprise. Maybe publishers will see people eagerly taking photos of Red