[STEAM] Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth review: imperfect, uneven, unfocused, unmissable

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This review contains some story spoilers for the original FF7 and subsequently some elements of Rebirth, but doesn't spoil how Rebirth ultimately reinterprets these elements. I argued with myself for several weeks in university about whether to go to a seminar discussing T.S. Eliot's

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. The poem meant enough to me that I didn't want to dissect it with a class. I wanted to keep for myself. I went in the end, and though I hesitated, I talked because I had things to say. It didn't kill the poem for me, but it does have a slightly awkward gait now, having never quite recovered from the incisions.

I now have to etherise

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. Cait Sith is splayed upon a table. It's all scalpels, forceps, and oversized novelty dice. It's a strange way to treat art you love. The feeling I remember most from Rebirth on release is how grateful I felt to be alive to play it. Acute, active awareness of my own mortality with thoughts like "it would be properly ***** if I died right now because I'd really like to see how this pans out". A personal '

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' moment months before the meme gave voice, as the best often do, to an obscure and precious feeling.

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where your character sometimes knocks on doors before opening them? What a time to be alive.

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