Not yet.

This is before that

@@liammcnicholas918 yeaaah ? this is nibelheim flashback normally when zack,cloud,sephy comes to nibelheim for reactor thing.

@@g-dojjo I don't really know, shouldn't Cloud *not* use the Buster Sword in that flashback? or did he go back in time to fight with Sephiroth? most plausible would be Cloud assuming Zack's place, though. I saw a Shin-Ra infantryman right at 0:16, is he Cloud, or?

​@@penebrook8330 Shinra soldier is Cloud,Cloud is Zack and yeah Sephiroth is Sephy xD But our little Cloud have some mental problems :V

So happy the dodge is no longer confined to a materia slot

and seem like AI is more offensive now, unlike before they just block while enemy is staggered!!!

i loved the parry mechanics now....

The only thing i didn’t like was the new punisher mode. I had to press triangle multiple times in order for it to activate

​@haise1884 yeah, punisher sucks this time round. Such a shame.

And this is with 2 party members. 3 members is gonna get wild.

Zack and sephiroth?

@@badrbattioui By gameplay stance point, this still is Cloud with playable Sephiroth, because “Cloud” in this flashback has present Cloud’s moveset. You need playable Zack and mod to make him be in the same party as Sephiroth for real (need to wait for PC version tho).

@@VeryNormalGuy9If we want to dig into the lore a bit more, then we can say that it is Cloud x Sephiroth in Crisis Core onward.

It seems bugged out? Like the camera work is really wonky and not fluid at all. Seems like the animation didn’t play correctly but it looks like that on everyone’s play through so idk.

@@TP-pq9xxyou need to change some camera settings, i did that and it was like a completely different game

@@Salieri01 So you agree the animation was messed up here? I want to see what it’s supposed to look like…

Gotta love how Sephiroth ends it by slashing down while cloud ends it by slashing up. They’re literally made for each other

@@ronreed4050 But that isnt…

Thing is there flying and climbing chocobos, so there will be some areas our characters can't get to.

@@kuroinova2056 True.

I thought of something funny. For the "modern audience", will they allow male+male chocobo breeding? Just for fun, resulting in a 0% success rate? 😆 Or maybe come up with a quirk that anything is possible if you pump the Chocobo full of jenova cells.

@@terrancecloverfield6791 no breeding in rebirth they said

Dude ur a wild one​@@terrancecloverfield6791

One of Cloud’s attacks in Smash is a kick

He's talking about how he can throw projectiles with his sword when you attack from far away after a roll i believe.

It is the same people after all.

Epico, great insight!

We might not get another based on how the latest dissidia went.

In his tutorial the example shows him in the simulator.

With the way Dissidia NT performed, I doubt we will get a new Dissidia game anytime soon. If only they have the balls to remake the Dissidia games from the PSP, that would be much better

@@tryinoproductions5374 I had a burst oh hope after Nomura’s latest interview saying he’d like that his to work for a new dissidia.

Just wait until it is released on PC. It wouldn't be PS5 exclusive for long.

@@Trimint123 I don’t have Pc either so that’s not really an option for me but thanks for the consideration

​@@Trimint123it'll be exclusive to PS5 for awhile just like Remake was.

No Vincent unfortunately. Not playable until the third game. Developer confirmed this recently. No Cid either. It sucks

​@@stormcutter59Vincent isn't playable at all. They will probably put him in the dlc like yuffie.

I feel wayyyy more KH inspiration here in this demo than I did in any of the original remake. Something about the way combat flows now just really makes me feel like it’s a fight out of KH3. Especially if you turn off slowdown ability menu, Tetsua Namora definitely brought his knowledge from that here into Rebirth

@@danquaza9275 Indeed! Say what you want about his storytelling (insanely intriguing to say the least), but his combat systems in all the games have been really active and fun and a spectacle

I mean Remake was the first time they experimented with this combat system so maybe

That not cloud that zack

I believe that too. They didn't gave him moves and his own synchro attacks with cloud only to make him playable for 20 minutes in a 100 hour long game

There's simply to mich work thats gone into him. For him to only be used here.

@@schwubmexx I bet they know modders gonna put their hands on him LOL.

Just VR fights probably

Spoiler alert, this was actually Zack and sephiroth that were friends before he went crazy, cloud never interacted with him until he had turned, cloud has Zacks memories and thats whats being shown

​@@Supersonicspyrodamn bro you should really edit this comment with a LONG space after "spoiler alert", its impossible for anyone to see that and not immediately see the rest. That is a pretty shit move, I would fix that asap no one should have these twists spoiled for them

@@zerosolis6664 too be fair FF7 has been out since 97 and the original crisis core that shows the real events has been out since like 2007

This has gotta be in the game. No way they fleshout his moveset and we only get to use him for 45 minutes

mods

Well, during the tutorial, you can see a clip of him fighting in the VR Room. So maybe? Or perhaps it was just something that only the devs used or whatever.

@@MariusBoss11458 literally all of their tutorial pop ups have X character in the VR simulation room. I don't think that's an indicator of anything. I hope we get to use him though

@@lifestream1689 I would love if he was playable after you beat the game in the chapter select. He shouldn't be in cutscenes tho.

That’s the point

Wonder if they’ll do something with the other one that fell with them and was never seen again Most of the time that would mean they’d return in some fashion, but that one never did

For spoiler from OG xd

My gf was saying how weird and cringey fake Cloud is in the flashback, but I replied with "Well the first time you ever play the original, you think 'oh he was only this hyper and outgoing in the past because the massacre hadn't happened, yet, and he was just a huge fan of Sephiroth lol' " Then, you see how much of a nooblet Zack is in Crisis Core.

I couldn’t get over the judgement everyone will give you if you go into Tifas room. Had me laughing for minutes😂

FFXVI performance mode is only "winning" because it had better visuals overall. But SE already addressed it and said they are putting in an update when they add the Junon portion, which will ofc carry over to the full game's day 1 updates. Its flawlessly 60fps otherwise. Don't get me wrong here XVI ended up basically one of my favorite games of all time and finally dethroned FFX in the emotional impact it had on me, feeling like I came full circle as a gamer. But Rebirth's combat is just on another level. There's so much going on even if you don't use ATB abilities.

I also agree that XVI's performance wasn't as "bad" as everyone wants to say. Sure it had drops but man it had good frame pacing which is important.

@@zerosolis6664 Yeah it is mostly visual quality, though it might also be lightning since some areas of the Demo seemed better or even worse depending on the lighting, but we'll see with the update. Personally I think Rebirth and 16 are on the same level combat wise in terms of my enjoyment. Both have completely different end goals that they both excel at. The fact that I think I spent about 40 hours worth of playtime just messing around with different builds in thr Arcade mode at my first 16 playthrough is pretty damn impressive since most games haven't gotten me to stick around too long after the story finishes. But 7R was a game I did enjoy playing through a second time because the combat (minus aerial enemeies) was great, and 16's combat actually did improve my recent playthrough of 7R since treating ATB like the Eikon cooldowns made me just obliterate most bosses. Though I would say I enjoy 16 slightly more, purely due to the boss roaster of 16. There were a couple bosses in 7R that I just did not enjoy fighting (Hell House, Eligor, Tomberry, Brain Pod) or were lackluster (I will wish Roche had a better boss fight, Rude's first fight was meh). Meanwhile there wasn't a single boss 16 I didn't have fun fighting (even the mini-bosses), and best of them are some of my favorite bosses in the franchise. But again I like both games and find them equally fun in different ways. I just feel bad for Rebirth because being unable to not interect the annoying section of the FF fandom (which I know is a minority of the fanbase, and that the FF reddit is mostly a joke and completely detached from most of the fandom) since they refuse to let a single video or comment of praise of 16 (or any post 10 FF) exist without saying people a wrong and they are the majority (despite the game being very well recieved), I am going to be very critical of Rebirth, just because I know those people are going to treat it like a godsend and try to bash every single other entree in the franchise with its mere existance.

He does. For one he's younger here, and well the other. If you know, you know.

Being impaled with a six foot katana, watching your whole village burn to the ground, and being soaked in Mako does a lot to a person's vocal chords.

@@arexualexDude, don’t spoil it!

How do we tell him?

@liammcnicholas918 i get it now haha, comment deleted so things should be gooood

In the Nibelheim flashback, yes

After some experimentation this is the first move of cloud's punisher stance

I noticed that too. It’s a great detail showing what Cloud was like “As a SOLDIER”

If you talk about a bit different combat, then it just his new moveset and new kit for Rebirth, he gonna play like in flashback through out the game. How ever if you talk about the way he act and the way he talk…then yeah Cloud act like how “he” was 5 years ago.

@@VeryNormalGuy9 I was referring to both. The dialogue was obvious, but if his in game combat style was altered for the flashback it’d be a neat touch

@@TheKpa11 Well if I remember right, he didn't even have Materia in the original's flashback, and his base stats made him hit for like 15HP damage to enemies lmao I even accidentally got him killed because I purposely ran around to get more fights so I could see how Sephiroth fights, since "Cloud's" HP is so low in the past. Though you can't control Sephiroth, Sephiroth does use Life2 on Cloud when he dies in battle. Sephiroth also replies with "..." when you try to unequip all his mastered Materia. I was like "reallyyyyyy"

@@2dheethbar “Cloud” had “preemptive strike” material in the original flashback. I’m not sure what the symbolism there could be for that though Why that materia of all things if not for deeper meaning

Perfect dodge, then attack.

Dodge then hold the attack button. You can Dodge in the air too, so technically you can keep looping this attack sequence and cloud will stay in the air until he does an ability or gets hit. Makes me wonder if there's going to be materia for aerial recovery.

Oh, I love Gex!

"Such a puppy" 😏

This is a flashback to before sephiroth had become crazy

I'm dying ahahahaha

FF16 is not a sequel tho

Wtf? Don't be stupid. You are using recency bias and nostalgia here to completely shoot down FFXVI which went for something all its own thing. Nobody got "scammed" by a video game that was never going to be anything but what it was. Rebirth is absolutely GOTY but yeah don't be dumb and ruin your whole comment like that lmao

16 doesn't need to be 7

@@kaihedgie1747 you're right it should have been better. But we got a DMC game trying to be FF, which it falls at both.

@@tristanward9937 It was better.

@@kaihedgie1747 not really but ok

@@tristanward9937had the Gone full dmc or Bayonetta with the combat, I’d probably broken a finger lmaoo

Ff7R was first tho?

Far from it

Nope 16 plays a bit more similar to DMC5

Bait used to be believable.

@@Trimint123 I know, but leave it to Nomura to make it unbelievable…

​@@MisteRRYouTuby Did Nomura shoot your dog or something?

@@pedroportela6476 Worse. He shot Final Fantasy 7 and parades the corpse worldwide…

You know the original exists