Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has no right being this funny

As many individuals have stated on relationship profiles (or moms on their wall artwork), I like a online game that makes me chuckle, and I’m delighted Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth has been so goddamn good at it.

In my time with the sport, it has requested me to do absurd issues like play a card recreation towards a regular-ass canine. It has featured Cloud Strife, the badass protagonist with a large sword, carrying a bit cushion round for him to make use of on benches. It’s received dudes who play acoustic guitar at you just like the Kens in Barbie, the franchise’s second homoerotic biker duel, and lots of different issues I wish to speak about however would most likely be spoilers. I imply, Chadley???

However for those who’ll enable me the indulgence, I want to speak about one particularly.

Contemplate this a spoiler warning. I’m severe. I’m going to embed a photograph of Cloud Strife enjoying the piano (additionally humorous) to try to spare informal scrollers, however proper beneath it, there will likely be a YouTube video of one of many funniest issues I’ve ever seen in video video games, one which I like to recommend seeing for your self for those who’re all in favour of enjoying via Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth. (You’ll be able to’t miss it, it’s a part of the story.)

Okay, prepared?

Picture: Sq. Enix

Right here it’s:

There are lots of unbelievable issues about this scene, which takes place in Chapter 5 aboard the Shinra-8 cruise to Costa del Sol. First, like lots of issues in Rebirth, it’s a gag lifted immediately from the unique Closing Fantasy 7, nevertheless it’s been given such a lavish reinterpretation that it turns into a completely totally different sort of humorous, a throwaway gag made right into a comedic centerpiece for no cause in any respect.

As beforehand established in Closing Fantasy 7 Remake, the characters are more than pleased to interrupt out into dance, however that also doesn’t put together you for seeing Pink XIII do a Michael Jackson impression, or the (smaller however funnier) sight gag of the canine warrior attempting to cross his legs throughout the desk from Cloud. (Additionally the child crying on the sight of him kills me each time.)

I don’t suppose you get any of this in Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth with out Sq. Enix’s essential improvement choice to by no means draw back from or soften the oddity of the unique recreation’s polygonal abstraction. Beneath the older recreation’s artwork constraints, the unrealities of, say, driving a dolphin or assembly a speaking cat are a lot simpler to roll with, and never notably uncommon.

Recreating these moments with such a excessive diploma of realism is in itself humorous, an endearing dedication to a bit I can’t consider an enormous studio signed up for. It’s additionally each a vital counterbalance to an in any other case dire and melodramatic story — sure, the heroes of Rebirth should additionally combat for a world that has room for enjoyable and levity — and a little bit of a eulogy for this type of goofballery in fashionable big-budget video games.

Certain, each occasionally we get one thing like Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the most recent in an extended line of video games that all the time present gamers a tremendously goofy time — however Closing Fantasy 7’s comedy is one thing totally different. It’s a relic from a time when video games have been a bit extra mysterious, a bit more difficult to interpret, with a bit extra room to shock. Possibly publishers will see folks eagerly sharing pictures of Pink XIII driving a chocobo and suppose, hey, these things could be good to have in video video games once more.