Queen's Blood Confirmed for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Sequel, CCG to Be Expanded

I usually never care about card games within games (I didnt even care about Gwent in TW3) but I really liked Queens Blood so thats good to hear

They seem to care more about this minigame than ever having Rebirth run at a smooth modern framerate without suffering from low and blurry visual quality!

If they don't patch this game to take advantage of the PS5 Pro's touted upscaling features, they've lost the plot.

too much bloat in Rebirth

@trev666 You can skip most of the "Bloat"..
Yes they wen't a bit over the top with the mini games in this one.
But I personally think that Queen's Blood was a great addition.
But they could have skipped the frog game and the Tifa gym mini game (you know of which I speak).

Those were challenging while not being fun or having any significance in the story at all. And the rewards was "meh..". so it ended up just feeling frustrating

The Final Fantasy 7 remake reminds me of the Hobbit films - one game's worth of story stretched out over three games for no reason.
Heaven spare us if this is the intended strategy for the rest of their remakes.

It was a fun card game. Pretty easy but the interactions were entertaining. Hopefully we can challenge Sephiroth to a game, that would make a perfect ending to the story.

@trev666 perhaps but skip it. You didn't have to play one card game in the whole game to progress

@trev666 This is the first time i heard someone called optional mini-games in RPG as "bloated". It's weird if i'm looking at people who complaint and demands devs to put a lot of contents worth hundreds of hours every time they spend 60-70 bones for an AAA game, not just RPG. FF XVI also got this complaint that the game is "too short".

But now some people complaint that FF VII Rebirth offered contents including optional that worth 80-100 hours of playing time if they're a completionist.

Sweet news, I enjoyed Queen's Blood.

@PuppetMaster The whole negative discourse surrounding Rebirth and its optional content is incredibly weird and tiresome.

People are getting increasingly incapable of either taking their time to enjoy the smaller things in games, or simply moving on from them without getting annoyed at their mere existence. And heavens forbid they've got to engage with a secondary activity for all of five introductory minutes over the course of the critical path.

@Gaia093 It's even more frustrating when you consider that the mandatory mini games like Dolphin and Junon Parade were also mandatory in the original game too.

I'm sure in part 3 people are going to be annoyed about snowboarding as well.

I cared about Queen's blood more than I did the actual story. So bringing it back makes me happy. Hope they expand upon it a bit and have more tournaments,

@Gaia093 @PuppetMaster
Here's the thing:
Different people have different views so of course there are people complaining about too much and too little content. This is why you should never aim to please everyone.

And sorry, but I do not think that it is true that modern gamers are incapable of "enjoying the smaller things in games" when we live in a universe where Minecraft exists. There are streams with tens of thousands of viewers where someone just grinds one building material for hours and hours at a time.

@Gaia093 I think the negativity is due to some irritating and unnecessarily difficult mini games,
Personally the only one I struggled with was the stupid cactaurs, when your forced to use Aerith, i don't like her playstyle at all,.so I was mad 🤣
But it also seems people.has less and less time these days, so maybe just don't want 40hrs of mini games

Was good, but nowhere near to triple triad

I enjoyed Queen's Blood (completed the related storyline too) but I kinda feel like I had just enough of it at this point.

@PuppetMaster

Not played Rebirth yet due to the reasons in my earlier post, but no, I personally don't need silly mini games and open world mechanics padding the game out unnecessarily. Like many I have a large backlog, diminishing time for gaming and earn a living so am not interested in "value".

Intergrade was about 52 hours for me and ran a perfect length IMO. You have to think that in the future people will play all three parts as one cohesive whole game. Does anyone need the middle part hanging around that long.

Hopefully most of these games are brief or skippable. I'll find out when we finally have a clean looking 60fps version.

The combat in these games has way too much jank for them to be stressing about a card game. Maybe they could do something about that first?

Queen's Blood was pretty cool.

Killing Chadley would be even better.

@jrt87 You don't need silly mini-games in RPG then just play the main story. Simple. You don't need to finish squat challenge to finish FF VII.

@LifeGirl I don't think making side contents like mini-games means "to please everyone", especially when RPG like FF always has mini-games since the 1st game. Mini-games is pretty much a staple to FF series and a lot of people love it. The original FF VII itself has plenty of mini-games.

@Gaia093 Ikr. And people nowadays loves jumping to the hate bandwagon. They see some big influencer / youtuber yapping about "we don't need mini-games in RPG" or "FF VII Rebirth is too long because the mini-games" then they quickly agreed with that take :/

I know some people who hated Blitzball in FF X but i personally love it. Not just it is fun to the point i spent a lot of hours recruiting characters to build my ultimate team and won the league multiple times, but Blitzball makes Sphira quite unique compare to other FF worlds. I'm sad when X-2 doesn't have Blitzball which is one of many reason why i dislike X-2

@PuppetMaster who hates blitzball!!! That's like blasphemy

Cool, at least we know we will get to play QB on PS6 even if it’ it’s not backwards compatible.

Queens Blood was good, a nice step up from triple triad. I hated the card game in 9, it was like they said, "OK, how do we make triple triad too confusing and unplayable?" 😜 So I'm glad they're bringing the card game back, but hopefully it's just a game and they don't spend any time coming up w/ it's own JRPG storlyne and characters, save that for the main storyline.

Also, the protorelic minigames were all some of th eworst I've ever seen in a JRPG. Those tower defense games were almost worse than they were in the original game. And what sucks is they have one of the best side storys in the game locked being something nobody in my house wanted to slog through. We had to change it to "Easy" just to get it over with. 😩 Gilgamesh was great though. Hope they bring him back. 👍

They really need to release this on PS5, save the Complete Edition $150 remaster for PS6.

Damn, that was such a timesink. And being who I am I had to go for 100% and torture myself with all these way too many minigames.
But a lot of people seemed to like it so I guess it makes sense to include it again ><

I normally skip all the side quests and mini games (I don’t have enough gaming time to try and 100% games anymore)—but I found Queen’s Blood to be pretty engaging. I think it would do really well as a cell phone game.

@Uromastryx I had a bit of argument with those people years ago. They said Blitzball was boring and i like bruh, it is one of the best mini-games FF series ever had!

@jrt87 If you just want to go through the story then you can do that. A lot of people don't realize how many minigames can actually be skipped. I've seen a lot of people complain about being forced to play the Queensblood tournament but you can literally go to the front desk and opt out.

So I think a lot of the complaints come from people who seriously don't know what they're talking about or don't realise it's their own problem if they feel compelled to beat absolutely everything.

@Cloud39472

Good to know, cheers.

I generally cannot stand minigames in story driven action games. Machine Strike in Horizon: FW and Robotics Club in Lost Judgment come to mind.

@trev666 CUT those out and you'll whine about it like FF13.

@jrt87 I hear you. I hated the minigames that LAD:Infinite Wealth forced me to play and it distracted from the story way too many times.

Did you play the original 7? Basically any of the minigames that were part of the story in that still are so if you didn't like those then it'll basically be the same thing.

Absolutely loved queens blood. Would love more of it and would love being able to play against real people online.

Rebirth is my GOTY for now. Adored it. 120 hours

Queens Blood was addictive as crack, and rebirth was perfectly executed. Some peeps just can't be happy with anything except wining about stuff online instead of using constructive criticism for anything.

@PuppetMaster I think people want to see the game get finished. It's my almost all-time favorite on PS1 but i stopped caring ages ago and I'll get the complete package later on.

It took a while to click, but I had an absolute blast playing QB — made it all the way to the final opponent but never really took the time to try and beat them, as I was already close to the end of the main game, and well into the triple-digits, hours-wise — just wanted to see the end of it, by that point