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Mar1217 said:

curl-6 said:

Man I gotta say, while I am enjoying FF7 Rebirth as the combat, production values, music, etc are all excellent, holy moly they weren't kidding when they said it has a lot of padding.

I'm 7 hours in and despite pretty much mainlining the critical story path and avoiding side activities, apparently I'm only like 20% of the way through the story so far. They really could have cut down a bit on some of the cutscenes and minigames, I played for an hour and a half tonight and barely progressed the story just cos I spent so much of that time churning through filler.

Still a good game, but I hope Part 3 is more streamlined.

I'd argue that's because it's side content relies on mostly a padding that doesn't align with the game's themes, nor does feel primordial to the experience but it does what it needs to give a way to gateway progressions to the player, so it feels frustrating to do so for some.

I've actually been avoiding the side stuff; I just played the part where you have to march in the parade to get close to the Shinra president, and the whole process was just so insanely padded out: find a disguise, practise the marching minigame, wander around finding all the members of the 7th infantry, watch a cutscene, do the marching minigame three times, watch another cutscene, play another minigame as Yuffie... it was just just ridiculous how such a simple sequence was strectehd out into like an hour plus of busywork and time wasting.